My Hunted Mate novel Chapter 30

Corinna

My eyes groggily open, adjusting to the darkness of Malakai's room around me. The covers wrapped around my body are damp with sweat, I quickly toss them off my body but the warmth doesn't go away.

Careful not to wake Kai who is sound asleep next to me, I crawl out of the bed. The sun dress I had been too tired to replace when we got home after hours of happily running through the woods, clung to my body like a second skin and I wanted nothing more to tear it to pieces in hopes of cooling myself down.

Instead I find myself wandering through the house until I'm in the kitchen, I swing open a press, grabbing a glass and filling it with cold water that seems warm when it hits my lips. Irritated, I open the freezer, taking a handful of ice that melts in my hand before I can toss it into the glass.

A whimper escapes me as my temperature only seems to climb, gaining the attention of a few vampires around me, including Olive who is in front of me in a flash. " Corinna? Are you okay? "

I shake my head. " I don't know, I don't think so. "

" What's wrong? You don't look well, you're dripping with sweat. " She says, the worry in her eyes is clear.

" I feel too warm. " I whisper, feeling my temperature spike again.

Olive reaches out, pressing her palm against my forehead but she immediately withdraws it, flinching slightly. " That.. " A look of confusion crosses her face. " That burned. "

I cry out as my temperature once again spikes, Olive quickly moves to lift me but hisses loudly when my skin touches hers. Her eyes dart around the room, she mutters something to me that I don't hear before disappearing out of the room.

She returns moments later with an orange blanket in her hands, she tosses it around me and gathers me into her arms, taking off through the house until we're upstairs in the bathroom connected to my room.

The entire time I protest, begging her to take the blanket that seemed to be suffocating me away, she ignores me until she places my body into the bathtub. As soon as she puts me down, I rip the blanket off of me, along with my dress tossing it across the bathroom in a panic.

" What the hell is wrong with me? " I sob, as Olive leans over to plug the bath.

She turns the blue tap all the way up, the water gushes out and starts to fill the tub, steam rises from my body when the cold water connects with it but it brings me no relief.

My sobs get louder and louder as the heat in my body continues to boil, the bathroom door flies open but I barely register it until Kai's scent hits me. I breathe in his scent deeply over and over again, something inside me snaps and I can feel my canines extending, I'm sure my eyes are turning their glowing purple to accompany them.

" What the fuck is going on? " Malaki questions.

Olive says something in reply to him but her voice seems a million miles away, by now the tub is full to the brim with water and the tap has been turned off but I'm still burning. The two continue to panic between them until I intervene.

" Kai. " I call out. " I think I know what's wrong with me. "