~Mordikai~

It all happened suddenly. The nurses, the surgery equipment, the nurses and doctors trying to hold me back from barging into the room. I needed to see her. I needed to make sure she was okay. I did this to her, now I have to make it up to her.

"Alpha! Come to your senses! If you go into that operating room, you could risk hurting her more! You will get overprotective when we get close to her with operating tools! You need to leave!" The doctor tried convincing me to leave. I roared in his face and barged out of the hospital. I shifted and ran around for a while. This is all my fault. I need to see Zinniah and ask her how I can make it up to her. But before I do that, I need to run and cool off.

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I ran for hours on end until nightfall. By the end of the run, I was panting hard and sweating bullets. I went to my room and took a shower. All I could smell when I entered my room was Amorelli. It calmed me and allowed me to not destroy my room because she wasn't here. My shower was quick and when I got out I was surprised to see someone sitting on my bed, waiting for my arrival.

"Zinniah?" I asked and she looked up and immediately covered her eyes.

I was in only a towel.

"P-please put on some cl-clothes." She stuttered and I went to my closet and put on some sweats and a t-shirt. I walked back out and she peeked through her fingers to make sure I was dressed.

"Better." She then moved to a chair in my room and I sat across from her.

"Zinniah, I-"

"No. You almost killed my sister. The only person in my life that actually cared about me. I can't ever forgive you for this." She started crying. I really fucked up.

"I know. I want to fix things and make them right. Do you know what she likes? Like flowers and food and movies?"

"What's a movie?" She looked confused.

"Oh god. Okay, I'll explain that one later. But you guys know different kinds of flowers right?" She nodded. Good.

"Okay, what's her favorite?" She looked like she was thinking very hard. I started drinking water that was close to me while she thought. She finally came to a conclusion after a few minutes.

"Middlemist red and Jade vines." I spit out my water and started coughing cause I also choked.

"There are only two Middlemist red's in the world, and they are on different sides of it. And the other is in the Philippines. It would take a lot of money to get my hands on those." I stated calmly after I stopped dying.

"You wanna make it up to her?" I sighed and nodded.

"Then you'll get the flowers if you truly love her." She kept this flat tone that clearly said 'I'm not taking no for an answer.'

"Alright. I'll get it done. What else does she like?"

"Well, we don't have favorite foods. But I'm assuming she'll like anything. We were mainly given soup and bread. So that's all we know. Sometimes crackers and some other little things for snacks." I frowned. That was the worst thing I've ever heard.

"I'm so sorry..." She shrugged and held her legs close to her.

"Amorelli loves to read. She taught me to read and write and taught me old English as well. Like old, old English. Like Macbeth old English." I groaned in agony.

"I remember that book. As well as other books and sonnets by Shakespeare. Great writer." She nodded.

"She also likes other flowers like orchids and lilies and roses. But her favorite rare ones I've already told you about." I nodded, thanking the moon goddess that I can still get flowers that she'll like.

"Okay. Thank you Zinniah." She nodded and got up and made her way to the door.

"Oh, and Zinniah?" I turned back and she looked confused but a little scared.

"Y-yes?"

"A movie is made from a book, but people act out the lines. There is one about Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet. Would you and Amorelli like to watch them sometime?" I questioned and she nodded softly.

You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version.

"Yes please." She smiled softly and left. I looked at the time.

10:46.

I need to see Amorelli and make sure she is okay as well as that the surgery was successful. I made my way down the stairs and outside. The guards nodded to me and a valet brought out my car. I took the keys and muttered a good night. I sped to the hospital and made it there in record time. Ten minutes.

I made my way inside and all of the nurses that were whores were trying to gain my attention. I growled at them and they fled immediately. God, I love scaring them. I walked up to the receptionist and she nodded and got up before I even reached the desk.

"Right this way Alpha." I followed her to Amorelli's room. When we walked in, my mother was in there, as well as a nurse checking her vital signs.

"Mordikai. Are you allowed to be in here?" My mother questioned softly.

"I hope so." I looked at the nurse and she thought about it for a moment.

"Your mate is currently unconscious, and she only wanted to be away from you earlier. Which was a great time to do the surgery? I suppose you can be here, but she won't wake up until tomorrow. She only woke up periodically after the surgery and she went right back to sleep afterward. You may stay Alpha." She went back to writing things down on a clipboard and proceeded to leave the room. I sat in a chair next to her bed and sighed.

"What is troubling you, Kai?" She looked sympathetic and curious. I was always able to talk to her about things growing up, and I still can.

"I feel terrible for what I've down to her. I shouldn't have gotten angry. However, she shouldn't have yelled at me and slapped me the way she did. We could have talked this over like adults. And her birthday is in two months. If she doesn't reach the ocean before her eighteenth birthday, then she will never be able to return to her home to her family. And she will not be able to shift into her mermaid and could possibly lose her powers because of this. I want her to see her family and I love the idea of her being a mermaid and all, but what if she won't come back? What if she doesn't want to come back to me? I'll be forced to mate with that damn excuse for a beta's daughter and that will please father. I do not want him pleased with that situation if it were to occur. I want him gone. Your mate could have been chosen better, mother." I sighed and gripped my hair. My mother came up to me and rubbed my back soothingly. She then kissed the top of my head and sat down next to me.

"She has to go home at some point. But first, we need to figure out where Atlantis is located. We can take her to the saltwater above Russia, but we would need to take her back here after the transformation and figure out the correct location of her home. And whether she comes back to you is up to her. However, you need to treat her right in order for that to happen. You just need to expect her to stay with her family for a while. Maybe a few days to a week or two. She needs to know her family and tell them everything that's happened. Also, Zinniah might join her if she shifts from being one animal to another. But she would need to come back up and be a human once again and regain her strength. But if you miss her too much while she is gone, we will attempt to contact her family to tell her to come to the surface for a while. But whether she wants to come back to you is all up to her. Not you. So don't force her to do anything she doesn't want to do. Yes, you did mark her, but I'm one hundred percent sure that she does not love you just yet. Especially with what you did today. You need to regain her trust. Make her feel loved and safe. Try not to get too angry with her unless you have a great reason. And, most importantly, don't ever tell her you are higher in rank than her. You both are equal in rank. You are going to be Alpha of the pack, and she will be Luna of the pack. Granted you both have somewhat different roles, but you both give out orders to others and you both have to talk out major decisions, especially about prisoners and what their punishments should be, if you shall go to war with a certain area or not, and how to train the troops and how to defend against rouges. There are a lot of different things you guys can do and a lot of similar things you both can do. But what you guys have to do especially is to love one another and be there for the other. Please remember that Kai. I lost your father because all of the things I told you just now, he failed to do. I don't want you losing your mate too." She finally got up and left the room. I looked at my beautiful mate, hoping she can forgive me and we can start again. My beautiful mate. My everything. The love of my life. I found her, and I've already broken her. A nurse then came in and I looked at the time.

11:58.

"When will she be expected to wake up?" I asked the nurse and she made a disgusting look towards her and looked at me seductively and talked in an annoying voice.

"Oh, I don't know Alpha. But, if she doesn't... I was thinking maybe you and I could meet up somewhere? We could have some fun." She winked at me and I growled in anger.

"I will never want scum like you. How dare you talk to your future Alpha like that? And how dare you talk about your future Luna like that?" I stood up and towered her small, weak frame.

"I will never want a Luna who is not a werewolf. She is a disgrace!"

"Then call yourself a Rouge now. You are banned from the pack." I felt her connection from the pack snap and I smiled while she cried. She now had the stench of a Rouge.

And you know what we do to Rouges.

"Now, you know what we do to Rouges, don't you?" I asked her, my eyes going black, signaling that I was about to kill her.

"No... Please..." She begged. I found it so satisfying to hear. The fear, the desperateness in her voice. It only made me want to kill her more. I quickly linked a guard of mine to enter the room.

"You called Alpha?" He took one sniff and his eyes also went black.

"Take her to the dungeons. I'll deal with her later. For now, I have much more important matters to deal with." I smirked as she was dragged away, crying and begging for him to stop and to rethink this. That it was a mistake.

No.

The mistake was me hurting my mate. The one I am supposed to love. The one I am supposed to spend the rest of my life with, I broke her. Literally. I sat in the chair next to her bed and slowly and gently let my finger trace her face. Her skin was as soft as silk.She looked somewhat pale while she was sleeping. I felt her forehead and she was a bit cold. I took my jacket and laid it on her. She seemed to sigh in her sleep and snuggled into it. I kissed the top of her head and sat down in the chair to go to sleep.

"Spokoynoy nochi, lyubov' moya." (Goodnight, my love in Russian)

I closed my eyes and soon after, I was sound asleep.