Alexia Eden

by Sophie Summers

  “We can’t lose her Alex, we just got her! We can’t lose her!” Johnny yells.

  “I’m calling Noelle!” I announce as I get up and search for the phone.

  “What! No! I don’t want her working her witchcraft on Angel!” Johnny barks.

  “Alpha, I think that’s the only way we might be able to help her.” The doctor says.

  “Please Johnny. We need to at least try! I don’t want to lose her either but I have to do something!” I tell him and he nods and lowers his head.

  I finally get the phone and contact Noelle. Noelle and I have been friends since we were in school before I even knew Johnny was my mate but Johnny as a full blooded wolf has a thing against witches and even though Noelle was my best friend growing up, our friendship became distant when I fully mated with Johnny. Noelle is a very powerful witch and the wolves and other supernaturals tend to stay away from her.

  Noelle quickly agrees and says she will be over shortly.

  Ten minutes later I hear a car outside and I run out to give Noelle a hug. Noelle is about the same height as me, she tends to wear darker makeup and clothes with neutral earth colours, she has long red wavy hair and her arms are covered in bracelets that chime when she walks. I show her where Angel is and she follows me with her large bag in tow.

  “I need you two to put these candles around her, I see she’s stopped bleeding, that’s great but I can feel her pulse is slowing, I can help her if you want me too.” She says as she gives the boys candles to light and she asks Johnny and I if we want to let her help. We know using magic can have terrible side effects but at this point we just want her to stay alive. We both nod.

  “If you all are going to stand in the room I need you as far away from the table as possible and whatever happens while I’m performing on her, DON’T intervene! She may look like she’s in pain but I’ll make sure she won’t feel a thing. If you want me to help you then I need you to follow what I ask of you.” Noelle tells all of us.

  “Yes, anything! Just help her!” Johnny begs.

  Noelle asks me to put the lights off and she tells everyone to be quite.

  The room is lit by the candles all around and the only noise you can hear is Noelle chanting something in another language as she sprinkles a sand like substance around Lexi whom is lying still on the metal hospital bed as well as the sound of her bracelets jingling as she moves her hands.

  Noelle stands behind Lexi once her circle is complete and puts her hands on either side of our little Angel’s head. She closes her eyes and starts chanting louder. Lex’s body starts shaking on the table and I can feel Johnny move from next to me, I hold his arm and make him stand still.

  “I just want to hold her and make her pain go away…” Johnny cries through our mind link.

  “I know baby but we need to be still so Noelle can concentrate and help her…” I squeeze his hand. I look over to the twins who look distraught with tears running down their face.

  About twenty minutes go by and Noelle is still chanting the strange words, Noelle’s face looks as if she’s in pain and she’s struggling to get the words out her mouth fast enough. Angel’s body stops moving, silver light starts flickering where Noelle’s hands are and then suddenly her entire body is engulfed by silver light. The candles that surround us flicker with some even going out.

  I hear gasps from the others in the room. Then the blinding light goes out completely as quick as it came and Angel’s eyes open. She gasps sitting up suddenly, taking in a deep breath with her hand on her chest over her heart.

  Noelle starts smiling and we take that as our cue to come closer.

  “H…her eyes…th..they’re different.” Tyler stutters as he gets closer to where she is now sitting up with a shocked look in his eyes. Noelle whispers something into her ear and weirdly enough not even our wolf hearing hears what she said.

  Johnny and I step closer to where Angel is sitting with a confused look on her face.

  I take her hand and she looks at me, my mouth drops open in shock and my eyes widen when I look into her eyes. Her eyes are a striking grey colour and she has silver like flames within the greyness, it’s the most beautiful breathtaking thing I have ever seen.

  “Wh…why are her eyes like that? What did you do to her?” Johnny roars from beside me. Noelle doesn’t even flinch by his loud angry voice.

  “You see Alpha, while I was performing a ritual on her using my Black magic to heal her, somehow the magic altered from Black to a purer White Magic. She was consuming my magic and altering it. This has never happened before and I don’t know how but her body fought against the magic converting the dark magic I was channeling from my ancestors. Angel here is very powerful, but she is not wolf?” Noelle asks raising an eyebrow.

  “No we are not sure if she will turn, her mother was human before she turned and her father was a full blooded wolf.” I tell Noelle.

  She raises her eyebrows once again in disbelief as she says, “That is not possible Alex. Human mates cannot reproduce with wolves, even I know this.”

  “I can assure you it’s the truth.” Johnny says raising his voice.

  “When she turns eighteen, we will be able to find out whether she will turn or stay human. Her power most probably comes from her father’s bloodline.” Noelle looks shocked as she tries to comprehend what we are saying as the truth.

  I look over to Johnny who is now looking down at a sleeping Angel with a fulfilled smile on his face.

  “She needs to rest, her body has been through a lot, she may be out for a couple of days but don’t worry it’s just her body trying get its strength back.” She turns toward David.

  “Doc, I suggest you put a drip in her while she’s out so she can get enough nourishment. I will be back tomorrow and check on her.” Noelle says looking tired and drained; she packs her bag and heads out the door as if she can’t get out of here fast enough. I run after her.

  “Noelle! Wait up!” I catch up with her and give her a hug. “Thank you so much! I can’t thank you enough for saving my niece, are you okay?”

  “Angel took more energy than I anticipated, I’ve never experienced such a thing.” She says looking exhausted then she raises her head and looks me dead in the eye.

  “Alex we both very well know that she is not your niece. You forget I know about your bother being bitten by a Rogue and how he turned into a half breed. So it is highly unlikely that your brother could produce such a powerful young girl, even if her mother was fully blooded wolf – the child would still hold weak human blood from the changed father and the baby would never survive the wolf gene. You said her father was a full blooded wolf and her mother human? And THAT only leaves two people…” she trails off walking backwards towards her car.

  CHAPTER 24

  CHLOE POV

  It’s been two weeks since Lexi’s disappearance …Everyone has taken it really hard. Drake has been taking it the hardest because he feels this is entirely his fault, he’s been skipping school and he’s always out looking for her. He wanted leave our territory to search for her but his Alpha forbid him. The once happy and cheerful Drake is no longer and all that’s left behind is this shell of what used to be.

  Jax has been keeping to himself, but also constantly looking for Lexi, Ronny told me about the other male scents they picked up. They all have a feeling someone took her.

  Jax and Ronny wouldn’t talk to Drake for a couple of days after it happened but then they saw how Drake was handling everything and decided that it will be best if they stuck together and find Lexi.

  Lexi is the one that brought us all closer together, she is a little spitfire that could light up any room but now that she is no longer here everything seems dull and all of us are drifting apart.

  Ronny hasn’t been herself either, she won’t leave my side. I think she believes that if she doesn’t keep me close, I might just disappear too. I don’t go to the pack house anymore, everyone is miserable and mourning for Lexi’s return and the Alpha has
been more angry than usual.

  Lexi and I aren’t as close as she is with Ron and Jax but she still is my friend and we always got along well. She is one of the kindest and most caring people you will ever meet, her heart is so big and I suppose that’s why this is really hard on all of us to lose that. We just hope she comes back to us as the same girl she was before she left.

  I know how Lexi must have felt when she found out they were werewolves, I mean, when I found out about them I fainted and even after a few days later I didn’t believe them until Ronny actually turned in front of me and introduced me to her wolf, Star.

  They introduced me to this wolf world gradually but they messed up with Lexi, they turned in front of her and they were fighting. I’ve seen wolves fight before and it’s the scariest thing you will ever see but imagine the soon to be Alpha and a Beta fighting, the two strongest and largest wolves in the pack – she must have been terrified.

  I pray for all our sakes that she is safe…even if it’s not with us.

  LEXI POV

  I wake up to see that I’m in my bed, at Alex’s house. I see Talon on my right, sleeping near me with his hand gently in mine. I pull my hand slowly from under his large one and cringe as I pull the drip that is in my other arm out. I slide the blanket off my stomach and move my shirt up to look at my stomach because I can’t feel the pain I had before.

  Lifting my shirt I see that there’s only a pinkish line of a scar where the cut was, it’s healed.

  That’s not possible…

  The door on my left near my bed opens to Tyler with no shirt and loose jeans, he's towel drying his hair, he walks until he notices I’m awake. His eyes widen with surprise and he runs and jumps on the bed pulling me to his chest.

  “You don’t know how scared we were that you weren’t going to wake up! We missed you so much.” He says out loud waking Talon that was next to me.

  “Lexi? We were so worried! Don’t hurt her Tyler!” Talon shouts at his brother then tugs me from Tyler’s arms to squish between his. Then I hear a door open and Alex and Johnny come running before pulling me into their arms.

  “It’s okay Talon, I actually don’t hurt at all I’m just a bit stiff, I think I just slept funny last night.”

  Johnny wipes the hair from my face and kisses my forehead then holds me tightly against his broad warm chest again.

  “Lexi, you’ve been asleep for a couple of days…not just a night.” Alex says sitting next to me.

  “How many days are we talking about here?” I ask wearily.

  “Just over two and a half weeks.” Talon says from behind me.

  “What! What happened?” I ask them.

  “Hey look! Her eyes are normal again.” Tyler says smiling at me and looking into my eyes.

  They explain to me what happened, how they got Alex’s friend whose a witch to heal me and how my eyes turned a grey or silver sparkly colour, they also explain that my body needed to rest and heal and it took two weeks for it to do that.

  After showering and dressing I walk downstairs in search for food. I’m starved…I find Alex preparing chicken in the kitchen with salads and different side dishes.

  “What’re you making?” I startle Alex, she doesn’t see me come down from the stairs and she drops a plate on the floor. I rush around the table to see blood on the floor by her shoeless feet.

  “Oh my god Alex, I’m so sorry!” I apologize to her but she says its fine and that she will heal quickly but I still panic.

  “Let me look how bad it is.” I tell her as I bend down and move the glass that’s on the floor beside her feet. Her one foot has a long gash that’s bleeding.

  As soon as my hand gently lifts her foot, I see a small silver orb-like light flickering from my fingers and it dances around my hand till it’s over the cut. I freeze and so does Alex, I look closer and Alex leans down to look too. It’s healing her wound until it’s just a small white scar on her tanned skin.

  I suddenly drop her foot and move away from her, sliding my ass on the floor till my back is against the cabinets on the other side of the kitchen. Alex’s face is white as a ghost as she stares back and forth from my hand to her foot. I’m in shock and confused, I don’t understand what just happened and where the light came from, I stare at the hand where the little silver orbs appeared from a minute ago.

  “You ladies ready to barbe-?” Johnny walks in all cheerfully until he sees Alex’s face and me sitting on the floor looking at my hand.

  He rushes to where I’m sitting and lifts me up sitting me on the counter and starts looking me over for injuries.

  “What’s wrong Alex? Is she hurt? Are you hurt Angel? Can SOMEONE tell me what happened?” Johnny starts to yell.

  “Sh…sh…she h..healed me…” Alex stammers still in shock.

  I’m still staring at my hand in shock, I shake my head and put my hand down and they both just stare at me.

  “How did I do that?” I whisper to myself but Johnny and Alex hear me.

  “Jon it was the same silver light we saw when Noelle healed her!”

  “Are you okay Angel?” Johnny asks me with concern.

  “I’m fine...I'm feeling great actually. Just starving but I …don’t know…what…how THAT happened.” I say and look to where Alex is standing. Her colour is coming back to her face and she is now able to form whole sentences.

  “Don’t worry Hun, I will phone Noelle now and find out what I can.” She says as she reaches for her phone and then mumbles softly to herself unaware we can hear her, “…that was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen…”

  Johnny chuckles beside me, and takes my hand helping me off the counter.

  “Let’s get you fed, what do you say?” Johnny says and my stomach growls in agreement and we both laugh at the good timing.

  “Johnny, I don’t think we should tell anyone about what just happened.” I say as he puts the chicken on the grill outside.

  “I was about to suggest the same thing to you baby girl, we need to find out all we can and what this means exactly.” he replies.

  I see the boys throwing a ball down in the garden so I run down to meet them. I’m about five feet away from Tyler when I get a slicing pain in my right foot; I grab it and realize it’s the same foot I healed on Alex. I look at my foot but there’s no cut or nothing there, I can only feel the pain, the twins come running towards me all worried.

  “What happened?” Talon yells trying to pick me up ignoring my objections.

  “I’m fine! Calm yourselves down! I just tripped.” I lie, I can see how their body have taken strain over worrying about me these past few weeks and I’m not going to put them through anymore if I can help it.

  “Okay okay!” Tyler and Talon put their hands up in defeat. I play ball with the boys and I can see they still a bit weary and handle me with care.

  Alex, Johnny, the twins and I are all sitting by the table that is covered with food and we’re all digging in. Jacob would usually be with us but he is out on guard duty this afternoon.

  “Angel?” I look up to see Johnny calling me, “Will you be able to tell us what happened that night we found you and where all your injuries came from.” He asks me with such sincerity in his voice. I can’t help but tell him the truth and all of it even though inside my heart is beating rapidly as all the memories of what happened come rushing in.

  “Well, remember I told you I was in an accident? I wasn’t. I just got home and decided I would take a nap. Georgina walked into my room and we started having an argument about how my friends are too good for me.” As I say this I notice Alex’s face flaring with hatred at the mention of Georgina’s name.

  “She made me angry and I said some really cruel things to her, she slapped me so hard I kinda flew across the room and fell into my bedside table. A frame that was on the table shattered and a large piece of glass cut me.”

  Everyone at the table has looks of hate and disgust on their faces but I know it’s not aimed at me, even though it ma
kes me uneasy I continue. I notice the twins holding their arm rests of the chairs so tight their knuckles are white. I’ve never seen Talon look so angry before but I continue.

  “Somehow my friends found me and took me to a doctor, they cleaned me up and their whole family took good care of me.” Their faces start to relax.

  “I have three best friends; Jax and Ronny and then my boyfriend Drake.” I hear the boys beside me growl and I pat both of their hands calming them.

  “They are basically my family back home like you guys are here. So on Friday night we were watching movies when Jax and Drake got into a fight.” I’m not mentioning the fact that it was about me because I know if I do they will never let me see them again.

  “All of a sudden Jax turns into the huge black wolf and then Drake, followed by Ronny’s smaller wolf. I didn’t know what to do it was so scary because they were all fighting and growling. I could hear teeth snapping, I was so frightened and I think I was in shock. I don’t know why but I just had to get out of there, I needed to get somewhere safe, I was just so afraid. I’m not sure why I reacted the way I did because I knew wolves existed since all of you but I couldn’t believe that THEY were keeping it from me, it felt like I didn’t know them and couldn’t trust them so I ran and ran until I couldn’t force my body to push forward any longer.”

  Alex has tears running down her face at this point, she is an emotional woman and Johnny comes over to me and pulls me into a hug. They don’t say anything for a while until Johnny says.

  “You know you ran pretty far, you were a few kilometers from our territory's border. That’s unusual for a human to run that fast or to have even gotten that far in the state you were in. You definitely have our blood in you. I’ve got a feeling that you are going to turn on your eighteenth birthday and you are going to be one very strong she-wolf!” he says proudly.

  “I agree, she is already such a strong human, imagine her as a wolf! You are going to be very powerful my love!” Alex says.