Alpha's Ballet Mate novel Chapter 23

"Abbie it's yours. I heard you screaming and ran in here. There was a blade in your hand and you made cuts on your arm. Don't you remember this?" When I looked down it was the same as in my dream. Blood flowed down my arms in streams. Theo took my arms and put them under the faucet. As the blood washed down the drain the cuts became more visible.

"Why did it take you a year to find me? I went through hell and you left me there for a year." Theo avoided my eyes as he put bandages on my arms. "Why didn't you find me Theo? Why did you leave me there?"

"I didn't leave you there!" He basically yelled. What do you call not finding your mate for a year while she was in Hell then? "When they took you I tried to track the van. The trail went cold when it lead me to open road. After that we had no idea where to start looking. At first we tried the old location of the hunters that took you, but no one was there. Our next move was to look into the other group of hunters near here. They knew nothing."

Of course they didn't. Most groups of hunters didn't share information to each other. It wasn't because they didn't trust one another or were at war with each other. It was because they realize that each group had their own score to settle with the packs that caused catastrophe in their lives. It was a respect thing.

"Then a week after you were taken a body was strung up in the center of your old pack, without a head. No one knew who it was. There was nothing to identify who it was. A couple days after that your brother got a package." Before he even said what was in it something told me I know what was in it. "Please, I don't need to hear this."

"Actually you do Abbie. In the package was your fathers head. That was how they identified the body. Both your pack and mine tried to trace the package back but ended up at dead ends. Over the next few months we were getting less and less clues to where you were. I was nearly always drinking and rarely slept. I almost give up at one point.

About a week before we found you, a hunter was seen close to the pack so we got them. He couldn't have been more then 16. He said he would trade information for his life. Of course we accepted those terms. He even helped us formulate the plan to save you."

"Abbie." The voice rang as a light earthquake started shaking everything. Stuff started falling of shelves and breaking. Eric wasn't phased by this. Slowly he walked over and placed his hand on my shoulder. There was something off about it once he touched my shoulder. It was way too soft for those to be his hands. As I looked up Eric morphed into Theo. "Abbie." And just like that I woke up like in one of those movies.

I have been home for a month now. Ever since that night in the bathroom Theo has insisted that I sleep with my arms around him. He just wanted to make sure nothing like that night ever happened again. Most of the time nightmares plague my nights. Theo was always there and awake to clam me down. I asked him once how he knew but he just said that it didn't matter.

"You alright?" He asked me that all the time. Some nights I didn't have an honest answer for him. I don't know if I'll ever be okay again. Most nights I told him I was but he always can tell when I'm lying. He never said anything about it. He never pushed me to talk about it if I didn't want to. He just held me close until I fell back to sleep.