Read Omega’s Possession by Jessica Hall
Chapter 46: Thane POV
My heart nearly stopped as I turned and saw Harlow stagger toward me. She was drenched in blood. It was spurting out of her as she clutched her neck. Her l!ps parted as she tried to speak when I watched her body turn limp.
Her hand drops from her neck, and I see the huge gaping wound. My eyes widen, and I feel the blood drain from my body as I force myself to shift back. Her body falls in a heap, spilling her blood across the floor as she hits the ground with a thud.
I ran toward her collapsed body. Her neck spurted blood, and I clamped my hand down on the wound, trying to stem the bleeding as she stared up at me almost dazedly.
Her blinking slows, and I try to get her to stay awake, yet the light is fading from her eyes as she continues to stare. It sounded like she tried to speak, yet the words were lost over the frantic beating of my heart as fear, so cold, moved through every atom in my body.
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“I’m right here. Stay with me, Lowe.” I plead with her before looking for my mates.
“Leon!” I scream, the sounds broken as she begins to gasp, her eyes widening, and each thud of her heart sounds thick, and forced. The length between each one stretches out further. “Leon!” I scream, seeing her face drain of life, she was dying in my hands when Leon smashed through one of the few remaining windows along with the others.
“No! Rhen gasps, my eyes dart to him as he collapses on his knees just as her heartbeat stops, the sound is deafening, as I wait for it to come, but it doesn’t. So I start CPR. How could she die not once but twice on us? What were our chances of pulling her back from a fate that seemed relentless to take her from us?
A snarl rips out behind me, yet I can’t force my attention away from whoever it is, but I see Rhen and Raidon take off to finish off whoever it is. Leon is forcing his blood down her throat while I try to pump what little blood she has left around her body.
Her wounds on her neck painfully slowly closing, yet she felt dead beneath my hands, yet my mark wasn’t burning, and I wasn’t in agony, so I knew she was still here.
She had to be. I couldn’t lose her. I needed her.
Scarlet needed her. We all did, and this couldn’t be the end for us. I wouldn’t accept it. Leon slaps her face gently. “Come on baby, wake up for me.” He murmurs his pain coursing through me as if he failed her, as if he blamed himself. But this was all my fault, it got to this because I failed to keep her safe from everyone else, including myself.
A loud howl rips through the air, the sound soul- crushing, and I know it’s Leo because he made the same sound when I killed Corbin. The sound is exactly what it feels like to lose a mate. It screams despair, agony, and coldness that floods through you. Yet, that feeling I refused to let settle on me.
Harlow would not die, for if she did, I know I would lay down and die beside her.
Leon’s mouth covers hers as he breathes for her between each set, each time we wait a few half seconds, listening for signs of life before I continue.
Raidon drops down next to me, his shoulders sagged, and he is drenched in blood. Not seeing Rhen, I glance over my shoulder to spot him where he sits next to Slater’s dead body, his head in his hands as he rocked back and forth, wailing for our mate. It was all for nothing, we were too late, and they all feel it.
Yet my hands refused to stop, and I refused to give up hope. If anyone could tempt fate, refuse it twice in one lifetime, it was Harlow. Leon slaps my hands away, his ear tilted toward her ch3st. Listening intently. I go to shove him away to continue when I feel it, the zing through my bloodstream. Then one soft thud. Thump…
Thump…
Thump…Thump… Thump. My heart jolts in my ch3st as hers picks up in tempo. Gradually growing stronger and I break. My body collapses onto hers and I clutch her to me, smoothing her hair back, her limp body crushed to my ch3st as I pull her onto my la*p. I sink my teeth into her neck, rocking her as I feel my bond force into place, strengthening her, and it picks up more.
Rhen collides with my back as he tugs her head back.
Her eyes flutter and roll into the back of her head, and she mumbles but crashes again as her body absorbs the bond, letting it heal her. Taking the strength it can give her. The others were eager to mark her too, but we couldn’t risk her losing more blood while her body tries to regenerate itself.
“Good girl,” I whisper, rocking her and clutching her tighter, my heartbeat falling in sync with hers as the warmth of her body returns. We’ve got you, you’re safe,” I tell her, k!ssing the side of her head and fingers tangling in her hair. I could smell them all over her, wanted to rid their scents, reclaim what was mine, show her how much we need and love her.
Ambulances sound in the distance as they come up the driveway, and Leon darts out to flag them down.
Within minutes the entire mansion is flooded with officials and law enforcement. Paramedics tend to her and Leo, who, when I glanced back, stared off vacantly.
He must have felt my gaze on him because his eyes move from his dead mate to mine. I nod my head to him, and he nods back. The movement looked like it took every ounce of energy he had left as he clutched his ch3st. How he was still alive was beyond me. It must be torture feeling the pain he was going through, but he kept his promise, so for that, I owe him.
So I would do as promised and keep his daughter safe, knowing I would never be able to make it up to him. Leo and I have too much that conflicted. He sacrificed his life for hers and saved my daughter’s while trying to save his from a fate he knew he couldn’t protect her from if she was left in Corbin’s hands.
As much as he has done and despite the fact I forgive him, he was old enough to be my father, not one of my mates. He also would not accept bowing down to someone younger than him. Corbin was one thing.
They had a deal made out of desperation. And I knew he would not make another.
I also would never share her with anyone else. She was ours. He knew that and knew what he signed up for when he gave her my serum. I could smell it on her, smell it over all the other scents I wanted to rid her of.