My Hunted Mate
Sixty Six

Corinna

Rushing through the house, I grab a blanket that was thrown across thearm of the sofa, wrapping it around me while making my way throughthe house and upstairs.

Along the way, we pass Sabine, Lila and Dahlia who fall silent at thesight of me speed walking past them in a panic and Phoenix followingquickly a few steps behind.

* Corinna? What's wrong? " Lila's soft, feminine voice calls out, theconcern is clear in her tone, but I replace myself unable to answer her, Itake note of their footsteps joining along side Phoenix's as I movequicker throughout the different floors of the house.

After what feels like hours, I finally reach the bedroom door but as Ipush it open my senses are overwhelmed with a mouth watering scentand that hunger is back without sparing a second.

With each breath I breathe, my fangs extend further, I feel my eyeschange and the veins return and in a flash I'm across the room, tacklingJack to the ground and sinking my teeth into the veins on his neck,gulping down mouthfuls of his blood, I barely process Gia's loudhorrified scream echoing off the bedroom walls.

Phoenix shouts something from behind me but it is completelydrowned out by the sound of Jack's slowing heart rate, the briefsubconscious thought that I am taking his life sounds in my mind, but Iam unable to stop, each time I take a mouthful of blood, I promise it'sthe last only to take another.

Suddenly I am being tackled and pulled away from Jack by multiplehands, I struggle against them, blood running down my face anddripping from my fangs. " Corinna! You need to listen to me! * Dahliashouts, but her voice only angers me and gives me the strength to pushthe people restraining me off.

As I charge across the room back to my food source, I hear Sabine pipeup, my movements falter * Corinna, you have control over this. Youneed to take a step back and remember that you are feeding on aperson, an innocent person.

" He's not innocent! " I growl. " He trapped my mother, experimentedon her for years and then called Cain on me! *

" Well what about Gia, she's innocent and this is her mate. Don't allowher to lose her other half as you did. " She argues, this brings me to acomplete stop, I glance over at Gia who is sobbing uncontrollably andpressing herself up against the wall.

" You don't want to do this in front of your little boy, look at him, lookat your son Cori. " Sabine continues, my eyes snap from Gia to thebassinet next to her.

My feet move cautiously toward where my son lays, the moment myeyes meet his blue-grey ones, my face returns to normal and tearscloud my eyes. I turn back toward where I dropped the blanket on thefloor, gently retrieving it and wrapping it around me again.

Sniffling lightly, I hesitatingly pad across the room to Elias. Gia shufflesfurther away with the closer I get, until finally she sprints across theroom to her mate. In the background I can hear Phoenix feeding Jackhis blood to heal him and Gia crying.

But all I can focus on his the tiny person in front of me, as I lean overand gently take him into my arms. Tears pour out of my eyes as I watchhim look up at me and gives me a smile, kicking his legs out as he takesa hold of one of my fingers and brings it to his mouth to use as adummy.

Eventually I turn back around to everyone, they watch me cautiously asI take a step toward Gia and Jack. " I'm so sorry. " I whisper. * I don'tknow what happened, I'm so sorry. "

I go to move closer, but freeze when Gia begins to scream at me. * No!No! You stay away!

" Gia, she didn't know what she was doing. She hasn't even been turnedan hour, she needs to learn. * Phoenix tries.

"No! " Gia growls

" Control is hard, even I couldn't- " Lila starts, but she gets cut off.

"1 said No! " Gia growls much more furiously. " We are going home andI never want to see your fucking demon faces again! *

" G- " Jack goes to speak but has the same luck as everyone else.

* Jack, don't you fucking dare. " She glares at her mate, wrapping herarms around herself as she walks toward the door, shooting all of ushateful looks as she exits the room.

Jack turns to me. " 1 won't hold it against you, I never did apologise forwhat I did to you and your mother, so I guess in a way I had it coming.He sends me a weak smile, following after Gia without letting me replyto him.

My thoughts begin to spiral as soon as the bedroom door shuts behindthem, my brain sending me into negative and self hateful headspacefaster than anyone could blink. I always had a thing about takinginnocent lives, it's why I couldn't leave Gia to be killed, the same withLila and the other humans she had been captive with, but now, I was nobetter than Maria, her brother, Cain or my father.

"1 know what you are thinking right now. " Lila whispers, snapping meaway from my negative thoughts, her shy nature still present as shespeaks. " You think you're just as bad as anyone else who has noproblem taking someone's life, the people who would have taken yoursbut that's not true, the difference is that you didn't take a life and moreimportantly you feel remorseful about nearly doing it. *

Not replying, I take a couple of minutes to allow her words to processand I repeat them over and over again trying to convince myself oftheir truth. The silence that had taken over the room is cut short whenDarius knocks on the door at the same time as he pokes his head insidethe room.

"1 really hate to do this right now, but we have a situation in thebasement.