Kaizen POV
Standing in the shower this morning remembering how Taila looked in bed when I checked in on her when I returned home from the bar last night. She must have been hot because she had pushed the covers off of her body down to where they bunched up at her feet. She was wearing baby pink lace panties and a black tank top that had risen up just slightly showing her plump breast. Her honey-colored skin just begging for my touch, to be caressed by my fingers. I had to fight Knox about going over to her bed to be near her.
'Our mate is beautiful' Knox booms in my head.
'Yes, she is, and she is the only woman we will ever need.' Know nods his head in agreement.
Knowing that I need to quickly change my train of thought, I quickly wash my body with freezing water. After getting dressed in my suit for today's meeting I have scheduled I head down to find me something to eat for breakfast. As I turn the corner to enter the kitchen, I smell my brother and my mate.
'Our mate dipstick'
'Yes, our mate'
I quickly scoot across the doorway while Taila had her back towards me. I stand at the corner and just listen to Taila as she talks to Christian like she's known him for weeks now, praying to the moon goddess that he doesn't upset her. I watch her as she leans in and gives him a kiss and surprisingly, he passionately kisses her back. That's when I decide to just go to the dinner and grab breakfast letting them have their time together.
'But I want to stay with her' My beast begs in my head.
'I do to, but he needs this time with her to let the bond form, he is still denying her as his mate.'
'He can't deny her' he says as he laughs in my head 'Calix has threatened to leave him if he does not accept her.' I laugh to myself internally. 'Well now, that changes things for him now.'
'Well, I guess we shall see how he feels later today then.' And with that my beast nods his head and then retreats for a nap. I swear that is all he does nowadays.
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I have been sitting quietly in the impromptu meeting that my brother has call us to and that Reggie completely invited herself too. I do not plan on saying anything as Christian is pretty much ripping Bryson a new hole and I do not want to be on the other end of that at all. Been there and done that.
"Looks like our big brother is coming around to the fact that we have a mate, and she is human." I tell Christian with a wicked grin on my face that earned me growl, I must have hit a nerve. Whoops, he will get over it soon enough.
Reggie lets out a laugh and we all snap our heads to look at her. "She is going to rip all three of you a new one, especially Bryson." She looks over at Bryson and shakes her head with a glare of pity she continues "She trusted you and she is going to feel like you have been lying to her. She will feel betrayed and the three of you are going to play hell to get her to forgive you. I do not know how you are going to fix this, but you need to do it fast because she loves Bryson and with her past this may break her if you screw this up." Reggie starts to stand and leave when Christian stops her in her tracks.
"Are you willing to help us?" Christion asks her. "I think all three of us have screwed this up and I agree we all need to fix it and fix it fast." She does not answer right away, but she starts to get a mind link from someone. Suddenly the look of shock and fear hit her face.
"We need to get to the clinic now! Something happened to Taila." With that she darts out of the office with me and Bryson hot on her trail.
It took us a few minutes to get the clinic where we found Gamma crying sitting on the floor of the stock room next to Taila. I push past my sister and kneel down next to her and wipe a stray tear from Taila's eye, letting the spark of electricity flow through me. I listen to her heart, it is strong and steady. I take my time to scan over her body to see if there is any notable injury, seeing none I turn to Gemma, "What do we need to do?"
"We need to get her to a bed so I can check her over better and make sure both her and the baby are okay." I nod my head and go to pick her up and Bryson puts his hand on my shoulder, and I growl at him.
"Be careful brother we do not know if she has any broken bones." I just nod my head and gently pick her up and start walking towards one of the rooms with a comfortable bed. Gemma rushes in front of me to get ready. I follow her into a well-lit room with an ultrasound machine in it.
"Put her on the bed and let me check on the baby first. It would be what she would have wanted." I nod once again not knowing what words would come out of my mouth if I were to open it. Gemma pulls her shirt up and puts some gel on her abdomen. Then this uses the ultrasound machine to look for the baby. I had come to accept this child because it was a part of Taila and would treat it as my own kit. Gemma stops and lets out a gasp and pushes the machine back. She cleans her abdomen and tears start to flow from her eyes.
"Gemma" I look at her questioning what she seen.
"There was no heartbeat. She....she lost...." That's all she needed to say, and then she turned and ran out the room.
Christian walks in the room looking furious, Calix is in control. I look at him and slide over so that he can see is mate. Our beast can be very territorial in situations where the force themselves to the front.
"Calix," his head jerks to me as if he wants to take my head off my shoulders, "Talia is okay, but"
'But what!" Calix demands
"Calix calm down you will scare her. Taila is fine but Gemma could not find a heartbeat on the kit"
"I know, that is why I push Christian to the back. I felt her pain. But she is no longer in pain. She is at peace. We must protect her at all costs."
"We will Calix"
"No, you do not understand. The moon goddess had blessed her. She is extremely special and that will make her a target."
"Then one of us will stay by her side at all times" Bryson speaks up. "She will never be alone until we know what is going on." I nod in agreement.
We all sit there for a few moments, and I notice that Calix has given control back to Christian. So, I place my hand on his shoulder and get up to make a few preparations for our mate.
"I should have told you both about our mate." Christian says as he shakes his head in disbelief at what is happening. "The moon goddess came to me a while back and told me that our mate was incredibly special and extraordinarily strong, and we would need to protect her at all costs."