When You Were My Mate (Demetra and Emris) novel Chapter 34

Chapter 34

Demetra.

Every time those barghests sank their teeth into him, I felt it.

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In my heart. In my chest. In every single mark he’s ever left on my body. I can’t sleep. How is this normal? This isn’t normal… there’s no way something like this could happen to my mate and I’m supposed to just pretend it didn’t.

I hate it. I hate it so much.

Seeing him frozen like that. Damaged. There were tears coming out of his eyes. Blood too…from his eyes, his ears, his nose. Emris has feelings. Emris can hurt like everyone else. And for a long time, I’ve known that he hates when people see him as a monster, as something indestructible. I know he’s insecure about that.

But what could I have done? Slade already knew his weakness and he did it to protect himself. I begged Slade to stop the whistling. I couldn’t watch those animals do that to Emris while he couldn’t even move.

I open my eyes in the middle of the night, pressing my hand over them because my brain keeps showing me Emris’s face the moment the whistling died down. It was me he was looking at and that look spelled revenge.

The Lion Pride pack came back celebrating…it started with bragging but from all packs who obviously hate the Black covenant pack…videos were uploaded online. On the car ride home, Tiffany was running commentary on everything while I sat there shaking. Especially after being intimate with him again his wolf… his wolf was calling out to me to save him. And I couldn’t.

I can’t sleep.

I turn on my lamp in the corner of my room and check my phone. 2 AM. The pack house still isn’t silent. Slade brought back numerous Alphas with him, so they’re having a party somewhere on the field. I can still hear them from here, but that’s not what’s keeping me awake. It’s worse.

I leave my room and I can hear my own flip-flops slapping against the floor as I head toward the kitchen downstairs. All the housekeepers have left already…Slade knows better than to bring the party that can bring noise to Amira’s room. Little things wake her up.

I drink water, shut the fridge, take a deep breath, and decide to head back to my room.

Halfway there, every hair on my body stands up at once because a scent catches and finds its way in my throat.

Emris.

I refuse to believe it! There’s no way he’s here. There’s no way…my heart shoots up so high I can barely breathe. I press my hand over my nose, over my ear where I can hear my own pulse hundering. No. It’s not real. I’m just thinking about him too much, so I’m imagining his scent. It makes no sense. How would he even enter the Lion Pride pack again?

But wait…he has entered before. So how is it impossible now?

I start walking, faster now, but sooner than later I see a structure staring right at me from the end of the kitchen hallway. A large male. Ten times my height. Arrogant just in the way Emris stands and by all means, he is radiating disaster.

It’s him. But I know he’s not real. He can’t be real.

I get out of the kitchen hallway and start taking the stairs as fasts I can, trying to outrun the memory. As I’m running up, I pause for a moment and look back down…just to be sure it’s my imagination fooling me.

Instead, the gothic shadow looms closer!

No. No! I run all the way up until I reach the hallway of my bedroom. Instead of going in, I wait. I need to see if this damn

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imagination will follow me here. I wait. And wait.

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And sure enough, the shadow looms again. But my hallway is well-lit, so I want to see the face of this person. I know it’s Emris, but I still need to challenge my own eyes. I squeeze my hands tight until he walks into the hallway and proves to be Emris in the flesh. Not in the tattered clothes from the barghests but in something worse. His claws are out which means he’s here for vengeance and I just happened to cross his path.

Emris starts chuckling darkly…then licks his bared fangs. I’ve only seen them when he’s marking, but tonight? Tonight the length is extra high which makes it clear they’re meant to hurt.

Is he here to hurt Slade?

Or me first!?

I back away.

My slippers catch on the hem of my oversized sleep robe and I stumble, catching myself on the doorframe before scrambling backward into my room. Emris follows and I keep moving back. My knees hit the edge of something and I squeal, scrambling sideways instead. He’s done with the chase.

His hand shoots out and grabs my neck.

Rough. Possessive. With that Alpha dominance that makes my hands fly up to clamp around his wrist on instinct. But Emris doesn’t squeeze. He doesn’t have to. He just holds me there, showing me if he wanted to take my life, he could. So easily.

“Emris, please.” My voice cracks.

He rips the robe off my shoulder down in a filthy way and his eyes lock onto the bare skin of my neck. I feel exposed in a way that has nothing to do with clothing.

“Emris, please.”

“You gave him my weakness.” His prowls but when I look into his eyes, above the prowl, there’s something else. A sound of pain that cuts through everything. “How could you do this to me Me, Demetra. Your mate.”

“My mate?” I whisper back, because I can’t help it. The words provoke out before I can stop them. “Where were you my mate when your mother stripped me? When your mother’s Gamma dagged me by my hair in front of the whole house? When you sent me away with a threat… I was an orphan who didn’t have anyone? You threw me to the wolfs too, Emris.”

The moment I say it, his grip loosens.

He lets go of my neck and just… looks at me. Emotions flicker across his face but it’s too fast, too complicated for me to read. He just stares like I’m not even worth punishing anymore. Then he starts backing away.

And I know immediately that the person he’s saving the punishment for is Slade.

I knew he’d come back. I just didn’t think tonight. I thought ever as a hybrid, he’d need time to recover but now I’m seeing the extent of his powers. He’s not just going to take a wrist off of blade… Emris is going in for more. Worse. Is he going to end my brother?

What do I do? What do I do?

He’s already turned, heading back toward the door.

“Emris.” His name falls from my lips before I can think.

He turns his neck just slightly.

“Don’t.” I beg like I have any right to tell him anything.

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He chuckles again. Even darker than before, like he can already picture himself doing it.

I take a step closer. “If you hurt him-”

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“If I hurt him, what?” He spins to face me, closing the space between us so fast I gasp and stumble back. I almost fall against the edge of some table but his hand shoots out and grabs me.

Emris roughly crushes me against his chest.

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