Her Freezing Heart novel Chapter 17

“See” she sighed. “I didn’t want to tell you this but you need to know what a mate cheating on you does to you to understand it better. When a supernatural or a vampire, werewolf or so cheats on their human mate, the human dies immediately after the first shock as they can’t heal like us. That’s how I found out that you are not human. If the mates are both super naturals then the one that is cheated on gets chest pains like the ones you got and their heart starts to be inflicted with poison. Not literal poison but it starts to blacken which you can say acts like a poison killing you bit by bit. Eventually they either go mad or die. In most cases they die but the ones who don’t live with a feeling of emptiness in them that never goes away. The only way to survive is move on but the poison spreading in your heart makes it really difficult. You got to keep your head straight and try to move on.”

Poison? Blacking of heart?

“How do you know all this?” I asked.

“Well Steven went through the same thing and Austin too. But Steven was way too in worse than Austin.” She replied.

“Does that mean…?”

“Yeah he uses sex as a get away from that emptiness.” She replied looking at her hands.

“And Austin?”

“His case is a little different. His mate was a human and she chose someone else over him so he kept away from everything to keep her alive. She would have died if he had chosen then same path as Steven.”

“Oh my God! What am I going to do?” I asked. “If I die papa dies with me. I don’t want him to die. Why would you tell him to be my wolf?”

“You will survive and so will your father. Grayson and I will help you through it and Steven and Austin will too.”

“Okay.” I said. “Just one more thing. Don’t tell anyone else. I don’t want any problems in the pack because of me. I will tell Leo myself. No one other than him, not even Aaron.”

“Why?” Carter said confused and a little angry.

“I don’t want anyone to suffer with me.” I replied smiling at him.

He hesitated for a moment but then nodded.

“But he deserves to be punished.” Caleb said outraged. “He knew the consequences of cheating already. We are told about it from the very beginning. I can’t believe he would do such thing after knowing that it would kill you.”

He looked disgusted.

“Maybe I wasn’t good enough for him.” I said chuckling despite myself.

That must be the case if he didn’t mind me dying.

“Oh no. Don’t you dare blame yourself. You are perfect. He is just a cheating asshole.” Caleb spat.

“Thanks guys.” I said looking at the now illuminating sky.

The morning sunlight bathed the clearing with its golden rays. I should go see him for one last time. Maybe I can get some answers from him.

“I am going to meet him today.” I said to no one in particular. “And then I will talk to Leo.”

“You should.” Grayson said. “That will help you to begin a new life when you will see with your own eyes that there is nothing left in the old one.”

“Yeah.”

“We will come with you.” The twins said. “We will wait outside his house. I don’t want you to go there alone knowing what lays ahead.”