My Second Chance Alpha Mate
Chapter 33

(Yashira)

I’m hurting all over my body. I try to move, but I realize I’m still chained to the ceiling. Earlier, I felt my powers awakening again so I tried to escape before they injected me again, but it was no use. Just because I felt my powers awakening, it didn’t mean that they were all there and when I tried to use them it wasn’t enough. I received one hell of a beating and now I feel like s**t. I close my eyes again, feeling all the exhaustion and pain taking over me.

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“Yashira”, I heard a familiar female voice calling me. I try opening my eyes, but I feel too exhausted.

“Yashira, open your eyes”. I could hear the soft famine voice, yet there was a command behind it. I tried again and forced my eyes to open. In front of me stood Lacey and Malik was behind her giving me a sad smile. I’m not hanging from the ceiling, I’m actually by the waterfall where I decided to leave with the hunters to save my family.

“Lacey? Why am I here?” I asked her.

“I brought you here to give your body a rest. Your body, mind, and soul have been through so much these past six months” she said sadly. My eyes widened at the time she said I had been away from my family and friends.

“Six- six months?” I stuttered.

“Unfortunately, yes, but Gabriel and everyone has been trying hard to replace you, but your location is not exactly above ground” I sighed, looking down at the ground.

“Don’t lose hope, Yashira. They are looking and I know Gabriel will not stop looking for his mate”. Lacey then takes my hand and gives me a genuine smile.

“I want to thank you for taking care of my son and loving him as your own. You two have a special bond and he loves you” she says, and I can hear the sincerity in her voice.

“I’m honored to be able to give him the love he deserves, and I will never take your place. He will always know that you are his mother, and I will always let him know how much you love him- how much you both love him”, I said, looking at Malik, who’s eyes widened.

“I know he’s not your biological son, but I have a feeling you also love him because he is part of the woman that you love” I said to Malik, earning a huge smile from him and a nod letting me know that I was right.

“Thank you” Malik says, and Lacey takes his hand with a smile on her face.

“I know you will do all that for us and I thank you, Yashira. Our son and your daughter love you very much and they need their mother. But I need you to do something for me” she says.

“What’s that?” I asked.

“Keep fighting. Don’t give up, because if you give up… they win. I need you to fight for your mate, for your pack, for your family, for your friends, but most importantly, you need to fight for yourself”, she said.

“I won’t give up. I would die before I do what they want me to do”, I said.

“Don’t let it come to that… just keep fighting” Lacey looked away as if thinking about something.

“You need to rest now. Thank you again for loving our son” she smiles and puts two fingers on my forehead, and everything goes black. I feel like I’m floating when suddenly I feel a familiar presence. I looked around but it was so dark that I couldn’t even see my hand in front of me.

“Mommy” I heard Tristan’s voice. It’s full of sadness yet determination. Why is he sad? Did someone hurt him? Is Raguel hurt? Is my mate hurt? My pack? Family? Friends? The thought of them being hurt sends this familiar pain to my chest and my eyes snap open. I look around to see I’m still hanging from the ceiling, but my mind and eyes are looking for my kids and the danger. I could feel a small electricity currents throughout my body. My powers were awakening, which means they haven’t come back to inject me yet. Suddenly, the door to the room I’m in burst open and one of the assassins runs in. He looks at me and his eyes widen.

“You’re still alive” he says more to himself, but I heard him. He rummages around for something before he runs to where I was hanging. He plays with the chains and locks before they open. He drapes my arm over his shoulder, trying to hold me up. I see another assassin coming my way and grabs my other arm, draping it around his shoulder.

“I can’t believe she’s still alive, but we need to get to that antidote or none of us are going to see our families again” the second assassin said, and that’s when I realized they were here because they wanted to keep their families safe.

“What’s your name, 409?” the first assassin asked. 409 is the number I was given when I first arrived.

“Ya-shi-ra”, I managed to get out.

“Nice to meet you Yashira. I’m Edwin, this is Marcel, and the third guy who you’ll see soon is Drake”, Edwin says. Just like Edwin said, the third assassin showed up holding two .45 semi-automatics. On his waist he had four .9mm also semi-automatics. His eyes widened when he saw me. Did I look that bad?

“We don’t have long until the others show up” Drake says.

“The lab is around the corner” Marcel says. Not being able to keep my head up much, I let it fall and watched as the guys dragged me to God knows where. Suddenly, I’m seated on a chair, and I see Marcel kneeling in front of me.

“Yashira, as you know, they have been injecting you with a serum to stop you from using your powers. Drake is going to inject you with the antidote, so you can use your powers, but you are also weak from lack of food. You have been in that room for two days, so Edwin is going to inject you with a little Epinephrine. Epinephrine is like liquid adrenaline. I nodded my head in understanding. I felt a needle being injected into my neck. I close my eyes tightly when I begin to feel a warmth starting from my head moving down to my chest, stomach, legs, and to my toes. Next, I feel another injection and the electricity I felt earlier, which is my powers, intensified. My eyes snapped open, and the three guys took a step back and gasped.

“That is awesome, but we need to leave” Drake says and hands out the .9mm to Edwin and Marcel. He hands me one of his .45 but I shake my head. I became extremely good with all types of weapons, yet my special and most favorite weapons has always been the bow and arrow. As if reading my mind, he handed me a bow and arrows. With a smirk, I take the bow and arrows and we leave the room, but not before Marcel drops something in there. A couple of seconds later, the room we were just in exploded.

“We won’t let them do what they did to us, to other people”, Marcel says.

“They have used our families against us to keep us here or they will kill them”, Drake says.

“They killed our wolves, but they made us into assassins”, Edwin says.

“We thought this was it for us. We were going to become what they wanted us to become for their own selfish reasons”, Drake says, then lets out a shot as a guard comes into view.

“But then you showed up. There was something in your eyes that was telling us to hang on”, Marcel says, before he shot another guard.

“We watched as they beat you trying to break you, but instead you learned and waited for your time to strike. When you tried to use your powers you had a small window to run through, and we saw the look in your eyes when you looked at us”, Edwin says. We turn left as Edwin droops another grenade into another room and it explodes. We walk a few yards and Marcel leaves our group, followed by Drake. Edwin and I looked around for more guards when I spotted one behind a pillar. I readied my bow and let go of the arrow and watched as it pierced the guard’s chest right through his heart. He dropped to the ground. A few seconds later, Marcel and Drake came back but they weren’t alone. A pregnant woman rushed towards Edwin and k!ssed him.

“This is why you didn’t move” I said.

“We couldn’t leave our families behind. While we trained, we also studied everything and found a way to leave. But we weren’t going to leave you behind either”, Edwin says. I waved my hand, putting a shield over their families. We continued to walk a few more yards and made another turn where we found ourselves in an open space.

“Stay here, you are all safe as long as you stay together” I told their families. I stood beside Edwin, Drake, and Marcel. Drake now hands me a .45. I take it knowing that I didn’t have that many arrows. I tuck it in my pants and look at the guys. They nod and all hell breaks loose. Arrows and bullets are flying all around us. Once I run out of arrows, I grab the .45 and start to shoot, making every bullet count. Once I run out of bullets, I use my powers. I threw black balls towards the other guard, hitting my target, but it felt like the more we took out the more came.

“Fall back” I shouted to the guys. The guards looked at us knowing that we were outnumbered, but what they seemed to forget was that we are trained assassins and I had innocents to keep safe. I saw one of the guards smirk. I looked up and smirked right back and twirled my index finger once and watched as the ceiling caved in on top of them.

“We need to get out of here now” I told the guys. They grab their mates, and two kids hold on to my left hand. I followed the guys to a door, and I saw them trying what looked like a card, but the door wasn’t opening.

“Let me try” I said. I put my hand on the door and imagined the door exploding while being contained in a bubble so it wouldn’t hurt anyone. I opened my eyes and saw the pieces of the door floating in a bubble. I dropped my hand and the guys ran up the stairs with their families. I ushered the little kids up the stairs, and I looked back only to see the three hunters running towards me with a huge group behind them. I brought my hands up, pushing a strong gust of wind towards them which sent them flying backwards.

“Yashira”, I heard Edwin scream. I ran up the stairs, but I felt myself getting weaker, which meant the adrenaline was wearing off. Halfway up the stairs I could hear more explosions happening. Not able to hold myself up anymore, I lay on the stairs. Pain was taking over my body and the exhaustion was just too much. My eyes were closing on their own. I felt a hand on my shoulder, followed by sparks. I opened my eyes slightly to see beautiful golden eyes looking at me. Am I dreaming?

“I got you my love” I heard Gabriel say before everything around him went black.