My Hunted Mate
Chapter Fourty Nine

Corinna

As I slowly begin to gain back some consciousness, a sharp ringingnoise pierces my ears causing me to cup them with weak hands, tryingsome how to protect myself against the noise, but I quickly realise theringing is due to the effects of the wolfsbane, not a genuine noise fromaround me.

My senses are dulled and hazy as I take in my surroundings, makingeverything spin, blur and distort. My hair feels damp from the sweatthat pumps from my body, that is doing it's very best to fight off thepoison in my system.

An uncontrollable cough escapes past my lips, a splatter of deep red,almost black blood lands on the mattress under me, adding to theendless amounts of stains that already coat the material.

Trying my best to force myself into a sitting position, everything onceagain begins to spin but I can barely pay attention to that as my eyesfall on the blood seeping through the grey sweatpants covering mylegs, my heart clenches with pain and anxiety.

This is not happening.

This cannot be happening.

My own loud, heart broken sobs are far away to my ears as Idesperately crawl off of the mattress and toward the staircase. When Ireach the bottom of the stairs, my weak arms collapse from under meand I pant heavily but still continue to try and shake off the exhaustion.Darting my hand out in front of me, I clench my fingers around thebanister as tightly as I can for support and start to pull myself up thestairs. After what feels like hours, I finally make it to the top.

Pushing myself to sit up, I lean against the door as I reach for thehandle to swing the door open, once I do, I collapse again but this timeonto the dark hardwood floor in the hallway of the house.

My breathing by now is uncontrollable and my clothes cling to mybody uncomfortably due to the amount of sweat my body is producing.My eyes start to feel heavy as I lay on the cool wood of the floor, but Iblink roughly trying to force them to stay open.

Another loud sob escapes my lips, as I hear the echo of footstepscoming toward me. I lift my eyes just as the witch who took my giftsstops in front of me, he sends me a mocking grin as he squats downbeside me.

As he opens his mouth to speak, a stick comes flying through the airand impales him right through his throat. Blood gushes from thewound and his mouth, his eyes are wide and looking behind me wherethe front door is.

His hands fly up to touch the stick of wood that is embedded in hisneck, in a matter of seconds, the life drains from his face and eyes andhe falls to the floor. Half of his body lands on top of mine and I usewhat little strength I have to push him off of me and turn my head inthe direction of the front door.

Kai's bright blue eyes land on mine and he rushes into the house,heading straight for me. I exhale huge breath of relief as I take him in.Just beyond the threshold Dahlia stands with a sick smile on her faceand a stick in her hand, which she drops to the floor when Kai turns andsays something back to her.

When he turns back to me, he places a hand on my cheek softly. " I'vegot you, my darling. Are you okay? " His voice sounds very far away butthankfully I manage to make out his words, I just nod in response to hisquestion

In a matter of seconds, Kai has scooped me up into his arms and isstarting to carry me out of the house. " Wait. * I call to him, my voice islow and weak.

" What's wrong? " He asks, his voice again sounds a million miles awaybut I hear him nonetheless

" The.. The witch he took my gifts, che-check his body for a crystal. " Isay, my breathing is uneven and my words are forced.

Kai relays my request to Sabine who is standing outside the housealong with Phoenix, Lila, Darius, Mateo, an unknown tall, tanned,tattooed, muscular man with bright golden brown eyes, deep stubbleon his sharp jawline and thick red dreadlocks.

Sabine instantly marches off into the house, Phoenix, Darius and theunknown man follow her in. In under a minute Sabine returns, with thefamiliar crystal in one hand, while her other hand is tightly securedaround Olive's throat, who is kicking and screaming in an attempt toget away. It also doesn't take long for the three men to come back witha struggling Josephine.

Kai gently places me down into the back seat of his car, planting a kisson my head. " I called Jen when you went missing, she’s at the house, Iwanted a doctor there for when we found you, just in case. * He informsme as he straps my seat beat, briefly pausing his movements when henotices the blood on my pants.

" The doctor was definitely the right call. * I mumble to him.

He flexes his jaw, his eyes never breaking away from the blood betweenmy legs until he is storming off toward the two sisters, in the blink of aneye he has snapped both of their necks and is telling Phoenix to bringthem back to the house for questioning.

After that is done, he slides into the back seat of the car beside me andwe are joined by Dahlia and Lila moments later. Dahlia turns in her seatto place a hand on my knee, giving it a comforting squeeze.

"It's good to have you back. " She whispers, giving me a brief smilebefore turning back to start the engine.