Nina POV
18 Years ago
“Push! Push!” Wyatt was holding my hand as I tried to focus on pushing. Beads of sweat had slid down my face as I did partial crunches to get this child out of me. Twenty hours I have been in labor and for nineteen of them I wanted to kill someone. People kept touching my body, touching my stomach and trying to keep my powers at bay. Since I could electrocute people like a human taser, it felt it was pretty brave of them to piss me off. The waves of electricity were right at the surface, with the vibrations to blast everyone off me. So, not only did I have to focus on pushing the baby out of me, I had to focus on not killing the hospital staff at the same time.
“Come on, Nina! You are doing great!” Wyatt, my husband, my mate and my king and has been my biggest supporter and my biggest pain in my ass during this whole labor.
“I’m trying!” my vision got cloudy with the salty tears that threatened to fall.
Wyatt put his head against me as he stroked my hair. I had collapsed back against the four pillows behind me. “You have survived being tortured, branded, and kidnapped. You are the bravest person I know. If anyone can do this, it is you. Your baby boy needs to get out. His heart rate is dropping, and he is in distress. Nina, either you push him out or we will have to do an emergency c-section.”
“Heart rate is dropping to 76!” The nurse was practically yelling at the doctor.”
“We are out of time! I’m sorry my king and queen. We are doing a c-section. I refuse to put the future king’s life in any more danger!” The doctor walked over and came back with a syringe. He held it up and pushed it a little. Clear liquid shot up and out, showing there was no air bubbles in it.
“What are you doing?” I asked nervously. My own heart rate was spiking.
“Putting you under. You do not want to feel what I am about to do!” The doctor grabbed my IV. Just as he was about to insert the needle, I grabbed his hand and shocked the shit out of him.
“AHH!” The doctor dropped the anesthetic and looked at me, appalled.
“You will not put me under! Get my baby out now! I can handle it!” My adrenaline was pumping as I have realized my worst fear. My baby is in distress and needs to get out now!
The doctor looked at Wyatt for help. Since I am an Empath, I knew he was torn between what to do. “Get my baby out now.” He said dangerously calm. Looking at me, “You better know what you are doing. I swear, Nina, if you die…” He couldn’t finish his sentence as the pain in his heart grew. Tears welled up in his eyes as he shook his head.“I got thisssssss” The doctor made the incision when I was distracted in one swift moment. The sharp sting of the blade opened my stomach, revealing my intestines. But he didn’t stop there. He kept cutting deeper into me. Blood was trickling down my sides and pooling under me as he hacked away.
Clenching my teeth together so I couldn’t cry out as he worked to get to my baby. Everything started to feel a little fuzzy and the sounds were like listening to a distant alarm. I could barely make out the words.
“…. blood O+…”
“…. clamp…”
“Nina! Stay with me!” Wyatt was the clearest as it came directly into my head. My eyes were glowing green as everything had a hue around it. Every slice he made, my body worked at healing it. So much that it made the doctor work harder to keep me open to find my baby.
The sounds slowly started coming back to me. Looking around, I saw a bag of red liquid entering my arm. The cries of a baby filled the room as a huge weight was taken off my pelvis. My baby was born. I looked up in enough time to see a nurse grabbed the baby and rushed him to the side of the room where two other nurses were working quickly on him.“Wyatt…” it was all I could say as I looked helplessly from the side.
He didn’t say anything as he looked between the gaping hole that was my stomach and the baby that was starting to cry more clearly now. The doctor was quickly putting stitches in as my body kept healing itself.“Go.” I said as I weakly pushed Wyatt towards the baby. Slowly, he approached the nurses that had calmed down and were making cooing sounds at him. I didn’t miss the worry that passed through Wyatt as he stared at our child. “What’s wrong?” I asked as I laid helplessly on the table in my own blood.
Wyatt opened his mouth to speak, but nothing came out. He wasn’t afraid or concerned, but completely shocked into silence. He looked between me and the baby before finally picking up the baby and coming over to me. “Our baby is healthy and perfect. 8lbs 8oz and 21 inches long!” Wyatt said. His voice still told me he wasn’t telling me everything.
Wyatt placed our baby in my arms. Brown hair coated its head with matching emerald green eyes that stared a hole into me. “Ah, my big boy!” I cooed to him.
“No, Nina.” Wyatt said, looking lovingly at the baby.
“No?” No what?
“It’s a girl.”
“WHAT?” I yelled.
“WHAT?” Raven yelled equally loud.
“You had a baby girl.” Wyatt repeated. I didn’t believe him. Unwrapping the baby, I pulled the diaper off to the side and he was correct. I just gave birth to a little baby girl.
“My Queen, you are all stitched up. You will be on bedrest for the next three weeks and light duty after that. Since you are healing extremely fast, you may not need all that time, but we will see how you are doing in a week. Once you feel up to it, you can shower.”
I looked at the doctor like he grew three heads. No words were forming on my tongue as I just stared at him and my baby girl. We were dead set that we were having a boy that I didn’t even think about having a girl. The doctor smiled before walking out of the room with the nurses.
“We have a daughter.” Wyatt smiled as he gently rubbed the cheek of our little girl. Her eyes glowed green as her little hand grabbed his finger and held onto it.
“What do we call her?” My mind was still blown away.
“Sarah, after your mother.” Wyatt said sweetly. My heart instantly broke as I thought of my mother and how she wasn’t here for me. Looking at Wyatt through my tears, I nodded in agreement.
“Hello, my little Sarah.”
Present Day Today is the day that they will finally name me Queen in waiting. I can’t take over the position as Queen fully until I have a mate, but by getting this title, I will take over the day-to-day practices. My mother, Nina and father, Wyatt, are still technically king and queen, but this will be the first step in the transition of power to me. For the last 24 years, my parents have groomed me to be the perfect queen. They raised me to be the strong independent woman type that takes no shit from a man. Since I am built more like my father, it isn’t too hard. I am taller at 5’9” with waist long brown wavy hair from my mother’s side. My body was tall and muscular, but not completely ripped. I still have a womanly shape to me. The biggest thing, my eyes are green like my mother. I inherited her gift of empathy, but nothing else. I have my own abilities. I can manipulate energy. Turn stuff super hot or super cold, bend mental or move the wind, stuff like that. I wish I could elect
“Not particulary.” I responded with. I wanted to figure out my own feelings first. “Nothing major.” “He is the second most powerful Alpha and our neighbor. We don’t want to piss him off.” Dad warned me. Awesome. My mate, the man who doesn’t want me is the second most powerful Alpha behind my dad. And our neighbor! I should have remembered that. Mentally kicking myself for that one. “Got it.” I said as I cut the link. Dad looked at me but dropped it. He knew something was wrong but didn’t say anything. Looking over, I could tell he was talking to my mom and I just knew it was about me. Somehow, I felt like I was five years old again. The rest of the meal went as expected. More and more people came up to me and introduced themselves to me. I felt the disappointment when the men figured out I wasn’t their mate and the jealously in women’s eyes when their man looked disappointed. I didnt want their man but how do you tell someone that? My dad stood up, “Since Sara has not found he
"Sarah?” I heard my mother call for me. Alpha Dax just got out of eye sight as she walked out from behind a tree. “You okay?” “HA, yeah, sure, just peachy.” I shook my head as I slowly started walking back to the palace to go to bed. “I’m not talking about Molly…” Even if my mother wasn’t an empath, leave it to her to know exactly what’s going on. She always said it was a mother’s intuition, but it was a little scary. “I figured, but my answer hasn’t changed.” “He’s your mate?” like she didn’t already know.“Yup.” popping the last P. We had reached the garden. There was a bench that sat in the middle of it. As a little girl, I loved to come here and watch the stars and moon. Something refreshing about being in the moon’s light. “Don’t give up on him yet. Not everyone meets their mate and they are instantly in love.” “Did you and dad have a rough start?” “Oh, yes and no. I met your dad about a week before he turned 18. I had people after me, even though we didn’t know it at that
“Go clean that mess up.” I ordered the guards. They nodded, as that is their usual duties unless I assign someone to do it for them as a punishment. “I will tell you under one condition.” “That is?” I was starting to get really pissed off at him. “Take me with you.”“Excuse me?” “Take me with you. I want to go on this… manhunt.” I looked at Jason for his input, but he was just pitching the bridge of his nose. He was exhausted and lacked caring. “Why the fuck would I take you?” “I have knowledge of witches.”“So does my mother.” Everyone knew of her story was it wasn’t really a secret.“Yes, but I KNOW them. They own me favors.” “Ah, so you slept with them and now they are at your beck-in call for whatever you need in exchange for your… services.” I said pointedly as I looked down at his dick and back up into his eyes. “I don’t apologize for my methods. They got me what I needed.”“I bet they did…” turning I left without a second look. Fuck men. I walked back by myself to the
“Oh, this old thing? HAHA, I just love crystals and believe in their healing powers!” Lie. “How lovely! Thank you for the room!” I said as I waved and walked out. We were in room 103, which looks like we already parked in front of it. Perfect. Walking to the trunk and pulling out the luggage, I managed to get mine to the room before the guys jumped out and got the message. “Only one room?” Ben said, annoyed.“It’s all they had. Go ask for extra blankets if you want to make a bed on the floor.” I wasn’t their mother and to wolves. This wasn’t a big deal. “Naw, I’m good. I brought my own blanket and pillow.” Ben pulled out a small pillow that was big enough for just his head and a small toddler blanket. The thing barely covered his arms, but he laid down and didn’t move again. Samuel didn’t complain, as he did the same. Jason sat down on his bed and I sat on mine. Alpha Dax looked around before he settled between Jason and I’s bed in the middle. I kept my shoes on as I waited for th
It did not prepare me for the burning feeling that scolded my lips. I closed my eyes and pinched my lips together as I turned away from their embrace. My hand acted on its own as it covered my mouth to make the burning feeling go away. I felt Jason’s hand on my shoulder as he squeezed it. Slowly, the burn went away, and I had to blink back the tears that had formed. Not because I was sad, but because of how badly it hurt. “I never expected to see you here, Daxxy!” her black hair was pixie cut with jean shorts and a black flowy tank top. I could see her tattoo down her arm. It was a crest moon shaped dream catcher with lines down that ended into shapes of birds. If my education is correct, this should be the Black Hawk Coven.“I never figured I would be down here, but I am on business.” I heard Dax say before I turned around. “This is Ben, Samuel, Duke Jason and Pr-”“Warrior Princess Sara…” she finished for him. She kept her eyes on me as she walked up to me. “Nice to finally meet y
It was like I was watching my actions from above. My body moved of its own accord. The burning was growing deep within me. It wasn’t until I put on my hand on the handrail of the stairs that I noticed red lines developing on my skin. It was like a tattoo but red on my wrist and it was like a bird. I didn’t have time to really understand what it meant because the basement door opened up. Standing twenty feet in front of me was a vampire. I looked at him and he looked at me. Walking up the stairs to him, I let my aura out. His eyes opened wide as he realized who I was before he ran off. I didn’t even care. Everyone will soon be dead here. The pain in my body was overwhelming. Walking to the livingroom, I saw five vampires and a little girl that looked like Lilith’s twin. “Rose” “My sister sent you, did she?” She had a smirk on her face as she watched my movements.“Give me the necklace and I will leave you all alive.” All the vampires laughed, and Rose looked bored. She took her knee-
“We put a spell on the house. If we do not invite you, you basically get confused and turn around. If you want up on the house, it looks abandoned and if we invite you, you get to see the actual house.”“Well, a witch put the spell up for us. Don’t ask what we had to pay for that…” Gabrial laughed as Vincent shook his head. “That is unnerving…” Samuel said. “It takes some getting used to.” Vincent agreed. We walked in silence to the front of the house. The porch was massive, with five white columns fifty feet high. There was a seating area on the right that Vincent led us to. “I suppose I owe you a thank you.” Vincent started after we all took a seat. I was sitting in a single chair. Vincent and Gabrial took the love seat, Ben and Claudia took the porch swing, and Samuel and Dax took the couch. “Why’s that?” I asked. “You eliminated Rose. Well, you eliminated both sisters, so you really did us two favors.” “Continue…” I hated repeating myself.“Rose and Lilith have been trying