*It's the hardest thing sometimes.... Loving someone that refuses to love back, but everyone wants to be loved, and that's good enough reason to keep fighting*
*
He felt her hand on his face, caressing...
So soft, and slender and....
"Open your eyes my love"
And so not Ravenna.
He jerked first, out of the person's way as he looked around "Where... Where am I?"
The female infront of him chuckled "With me silly, come back and lay with me"
"Like hell" He snapped "Stay the fuck away from me Misha"
Misha Alistair with her ever cat like face and small pout put a finger on her lips, her satin dress so transparent and obvious to his member below as she snaked forward "Now, what did I do this time Axel?"
What sort of bloody dream was this?!
She caught his bare ankle before he could move out of her grasp and kissed it.
Just the way she used to when she was....
"You still like that, don't you?"
Her voice was low as he suddenly felt his resolve to get away from her weaken as she got closer.
Now crawling into him, her scent so strong...
So potent...
Was she bewitching him?
Her green eyes, like wisps of powerful magic stared at him as she entwined her fingers with his as she said, ever so quietly "You belong with me"
Her lips moved to his, not resting on it but breathing....
As of to remind him that she wasn't dead.
That she was very much alive at the moment.
"You always will be"
Axel woke with a start, turning to the other side of the mat that he was laying on, realizing that Raven was gone.
How had he not...
The sleep already gone from his eyes, he took up the jacket she had given him to use when they first got out and wore it, walking out of the tent.
He sniffed the air for a while, and found nothing.
Nothing on Raven.
How was that possible?
Rin!
Axel had never seen the need to mind link with Rin, because the male seemed to always be so busy, taking care of a child that Axel strongly believed needed more than one wolf on her.
But he had never been worried before.
As Rin replied, he sounded extremely tired, Yes?
Where's Raven?
Raven? I... I don't know. I thought you both had been on Night duty together.
He had not noticed her leave, that was the part that worried him.
He should have felt her.
He always felt her.
I woke up and she was gone, and I am extremely worried.
She would be okay, I am sure, she usually does this sort of disappearing act.
I am her Mate Rin, I cannot even get a scent on her. At all.
There was a slight pause as Axel heard him curse, before he said Elle has a very perfect sense of smell, as a new born, both of us would look for her and report to you immediately.
Thank you.
Axel sighed, raking a hand in his hair.
Did.... Did someone possibly use a spell on him to get him distracted as he dreamt of Misha instead?
But that sort of Magic.....
It wasn't....
Fuck!
He would kill the bastard or anyone who dared even lay a hand on her.
*
The training room, she's in the training room.
After approximately four hours of searching for just one female that shouldn't have lasted that long, Elle found her first.
They had searched the whole Hall but not the training one.
Possibly because Raven never went there, except of course her Father decreed it and Axel had mind linked the Alpha who had said he had no idea where Raven was and that she had possibly run off and would be back when she felt like it.
However, Axel did not think it was something to joke about.
"The flipping fuck?!"
He burst into the hall as the others there froze, except the love of his life that was still punching the bag infront of her.
As he stormed to her, the people in the hall got the hint from Rin.
Leave, he would possibly kill anyone within a five mile radius.
When he reached her, the hall was already empty by then "What the fuck is wrong with you?!"
She didn't answer.
"Ravenna...."
"You're not my Dad Axel" She cut in, throwing another punch on the bag "And last I checked, I'm allowed to go wherever I want"
The brat....
"You left me, outside, without even a word of warning and I couldn't even smell you and...."
"You were worried cause what? You are in imminent danger and you know being around me puts me in absolute danger 24/7?"
He paused his breathing hard.
She slowly turned and he noticed that her black hair as packed now, first time he had seen it, with his name showing quite clearly as sweat drizzled all over her face as she panted "Then what the fuck are you doing here?"
"Excuse me?"
"You are a potential danger to me and to everyone I love and it doesn't sit right with me" She said, her face without emotion "So I think you should leave, now"
She sounded....
Serious.
But he wasn't taking that.
"You're... You're joking....."
"You don't take a fucking hint" She scoffed "I've been trying to be nice, even pretending to like you...."
"That wasn't pretense"
"And you still don't get it" She continued like he had not said a word "Obviously, I know you shouldn't be here, I'm not stupid, but I tried to at least make you happy by saying thay absolute shit and making you happy so you can go"
"Shut up"
He had never felt so angry before.
He could swear he was even changing to his wolf form but for her sake, he did not.
"You're not making any fucking sense" He said "And you were honest, I know it, I...."
"Read my mind?" She asked with a chuckle "You couldn't before, could you? It was the hardest thing? Blocking you out, but I did and when I finally let you in, I let you read what I wanted you to read"
No...
"Or you don't believe me?"
She was walking to him now, her face back to the sad one it made yesterday, as she said sadly "I like you Axel, really" Then her tone changed to something extremely gut wrenching "Cause you're pathetic"
"Stop it...."
Her face made a snarl "I told you, I don't want a Mate, don't make me sound like the bad person here"
"You... You don't mean that"
She rolled her eyes "As I said, pathetic, for you to think that for one second you were getting through to me proved how desperate you are. In light of being nice, I decided to give you what you wanted yesterday"
He felt tears sting his eyes, because he could read her mind.
She wasn't lying "Stop it"
"You knew I was going to hurt you, why you acting like you're shocked?"
"Because you love me!" He suddenly snapped, grabbing her "You do, you're just not giving yourself a chance to...."
"I let you have sex with me again so you'd leave me the fuck alone. Be grateful and fuck off"
"It wasn't just sex"
"Making love? You're sick"
"What? So you open your legs for some random person to prove a fucking point?"
The punch came before he could even block her and he could swear this time.
She broke his goddamn nose.
"Leave Crescent Park Axel, the next time I tell you, I won't let you leave with your bones intact, I swear it"
And she was gone.