"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
Zaraphine's POV
Hearing that voice had me freeze on the spot. 'No.. He can't be here. Why is he here?' I thought internally. "Zaraphine stop!" He screamed. I quickly turned around to face him with a snarl. "I understand that I am the last person you want to see but you don't want to do this. That is your mother Zara. No matter what is going on in that pretty little head of yours I know that if you hurt her, it would kill you." He said with his hands raised in a surrendering motion. I took a threatening step toward him ready to tear him to pieces. I couldn't see anything except him. Everything else around me was blurred. "Thats it Zara come to me. Come after me. Nobody else. Keep your eyes on me." He said in almost a whisper. Letting a low snarl leave my lips I lunged forward feeling my canines graze his skin ignited something inside me. I felt a rush of emotions. Anger, sadness, fear, hopelessness, and weirdly enough love. Who's emotions am I feeling? 'Zaraphine please relax. You're okay. Nobody is taking you away. Just calm down. Jaime is gonna give you an injection okay. Don't fight it.' I heard Lane in my head. I heard Jaime making slow and easy steps behind me, her heart beat quickening with each step she took closer to me. "Thats it hun. You got this okay.' She said as she stood right behind me. As soon as I heard her raise her arm I spun quickly only to be wrapped in strong arms that has brought me comfort over these past few months and Jaime shoved the syringe into the nape of my neck. "Lane, I'm sorry.. I never meant to hurt you." I whispered before everything went black.
Atticus' POV
"What's going on, Selene? Why is she black?" I questioned her as soon as Zaraphine was laid in her bed. 'The better question is why was that man touching what's ours.' My wolf growled. "She took in another wolf. I don't know how or why but she is carrying two separate souls. In which one of them doesn't seem to like you very much Atticus." She explained. "I don't understand. How does a wolf take in another wolf? This doesn't make any sense." I huff in annoyance. "I don't know Atticus. Thats why I was trying to get her to come with me. You weren't supposed to show up. I had it handled." She snarled. "That's what you call handled? She was going to attack you! How would you have stopped her? Please enlighten me." I asked her. "You forget who I am Atticus. No matter how upset her wolves are they still know who I am. They recognize me as their mother. Before she shifted, her wolf warned me not to push her and I did anyway. I was only trying to see how bad her condition was. Her wolves wouldn't have hurt me but you I'm pretty sure her black wolf doesn't care whether your alive or not. Her white wolf still cares for you but her black wolf is a lot stronger. Her emotions full her wolves and she has a lot more anger than she does love right now. Her black wolf feeds off of that, and you showing up only made those feelings stronger." She explained.
"Listen if you both care for her the way you claim then you will leave her alone. She hasn't had an incident this bad since we met. I understand that you as her mate you wish for her to come home but you as an Alpha should be able to see that she isn't stable. Especially with you around. With her being away from you she can control it better. No, everyday isn't perfect but we handle it day by day. She's happy Atticus." The women I have learned to be Jaime states. "She wouldn't be in this condition if she wouldn't have left! I can help her!" I snarl. "NO. She is this way because of you! She gained this other side of her when she felt your happiness Alpha! She would've been fine if you would have just accepted her rejection when you cheated on her!" Lane growls lowly.
My gaze drops to the floor immediately. My wolf cowers to the back of my head whining in the process. 'I didn't mean to. I didn't know..' He cries. "We didn't know.. You have to believe me. Even if she doesn't you, as her friends have to know. The she wolf was using black magic. She cloned herself as Zara. I didn't know it wasn't her until my brother came in holding her." I whispered. "Atticus whatever the case may be that brought you two to this point you have to understand that a part of her hates you. I don't think she will ever be stable enough to be around you. The first time she lost control was because her wolf smelt you near by. There was only fifteen of us at the time. You were too close for her wolfs comfort. We never picked up on your scent but she did. Marcus ran 100 miles out and still never caught your scent. You can't be near her without this happening. That night she killed three of our own because they tried to stop her from running to you." Upon hearing this I let out a low growl to which she raised her hand and continued, "We would've let her if she didn't warn us to stay back because she was going to kill an Alpha. We didn't know what she meant but we knew that we couldn't let her start a war like that. She wasn't running to her mate Atticus. She was running to her downfall. Yes she loves you. As hard as that is to admit to some of us, she does. But she also hates you. You destroyed her without even knowing it. I know that, that wasn't entirely your fault but her wolves don't. They don't want to." She explained with a hint of sadness in her tone.
"So what? I'm just supposed to leave my mate? I can't go back to my pack without her. Everyday my wolf and I have searched for her. We need our mate. Even with the relations she has made in your group," I scowl towards Lane. "I would let you all come to my pack if it meant that I got my mate back. At least if she was in our pack I would know that she was safe." I explain to everyone in the room. "She's not going to like this Jaime. Neither of them will. White may be okay with it to some extent but she's not happy with him either. Black wants to tear him to pieces, and Zara… Zara is confused with the two wolves inside of her that she doesn't know what to feel anymore." Lane says. "Lane I know that she won't like it but what choice do we have. It's either we all go with her and protect her the best that we can or he takes her and we are all left wondering if our Luna is okay." She tells him sadly as a single tear rolls down her cheek.