My Second Chance Alpha Mate
Chapter 41

(Gabriel)

A growl leaves my lips as I see Ashley. The feeling I got from wanting to tear her to pieces was strong. But as soon as I saw her mate closer, the feeling of knowing him was stronger than before. A growl beside me made me look and I saw my father. His eyes were trained on Ashley’s mate.

“Kyle” my father snarled. Why does that name sound so familiar?

“I’m touched you could remember me, old man” Kyle, the Alpha rogue, smirked.

“I could never forget the man who killed my brother” my father snarled and that’s when I remembered it. When I was ten there was a rogue attack. Kyle was part of our pack with his parents, Samantha and Antonio. Antonio was Jeffrey’s brother. Jeffrey and Antonio were like brothers to my father. Kyle killed his parents because he wanted to so-called “be free”.

“He wasn’t your brother, but he was my father” Kyle then looked at Jeffrey and smiled evilly “Hello uncle.” This made Jeffrey snarl at him. The once starry night began to get covered with storm clouds. I looked around to see the dark warlocks and witches set their evil eyes on my mate. I looked at my mate as thunder boomed above us and my mate smiled, showing off her sharp teeth. Her eyes were already glowing. My mate began to chant something in another language before her hand darted out to the rogues who were being forced to fight. My mate’s hand darted out and a silver ball dashed out to the rogues and twenty bodies dropped like flies. Ashley’s eyes widened as another rogue checked on those who dropped.

“My Luna, they are dead” the other rogue said, which caused Ashley to growl towards my mate.

“You’ll pay for that” Ashley roared, but my mate only smirked, which irked Ashley even more. My mate’s magic rippled when I noticed another group moving closer to Ashley. My mate’s eyes widened for a second before all I could see was anger. Edwin, Marcel, and Drake growled before moving closer to my mate. I remembered the bald guy. He was one of the hunters who took my mate.

“It’s good to see you four again. Now it’s time to see what you took from my training” the bald guy smirked.

‘Dad?’ I called through the link.

‘I know son. You take the bald guy. I’ll take Kyle’, dad said. I nodded. The earth turned to mud under our feet as rain started to pour down on us. I looked at my mate and she looked sexy as hell under the rain, but I knew this was not the time for this. A bolt of lightning struck right between both packs and, as if telling us to charge, we did. I shifted my hands to claws as I ran towards the bald hunter. He had no idea I was coming, since he was only looking towards Marcel, Edwin, Drake, and my mate. When he saw me coming, he grabbed a silver knife, but it was too late. I ripped his throat out before he could even move again. I see Joel, Andy, Donovan, and Mitch move the other rogues that my mate was helping. Dark Witches were fighting with my mate’s coven, my mate, and Blair. I see a red bolt come out of one of the witch’s hands towards my mate’s chest, but my mate crosses her arms in front of her, stopping the red bolt from hitting her in the chest.

I see Blair throw a white ball before hitting the dark witch right in the face, making her go flying towards a nearby tree when I am punched and a rogue jumps on my back. An explosion booms behind me, but I am preoccupied trying to get one rogue off my back while fighting the one who punched me as he tears into my side. I turned quickly, using his momentum against the rogue and tear into his throat. I don’t have time to watch the life leave his eyes as Shadow drops his front legs, tossing the rogue over our shoulders before pouncing on the rogue and ripping his neck out.

Sara howls in pain when a rogue bites her shoulder, making Jake and me look towards her. Jake is fighting two rogues, so I tackled the wolf down just in time to see Ashley walking with a porpuse towards the bunkers, but before she could get any further, I saw a soft blue, pink, silver, and purple-like whip wrap around her neck.

“And where the f**k do you think you’re going, mutt” my mate snarls. She’s in full high priestess mode and I replace it hot as hell. My wolf growls in agreement. Another lightning booms over us, distracting me momentarily. I look at the c*****e around us.

‘Duck’ I heared my mate say and I ducked just in time for Ashley to go flying by me and hit the tree behind me. Ashley whimpers in pain, but her mate, Kyle, roars and with his claws, he claws at my father’s chest. My father howls in pain before he drops to the floor and that’s when I feel the teether snap. I looked at Kyle to see he was holding my father’s heart in his hand. He looks at me and smiles evilly before dropping my father’s heart right beside him. A howl of pure agony and pain came from somewhere in the bunkers and I knew it was my mother.

The roar that left Shadow and I was so powerful that it made the earth underneath us shake. I look back at my mate fighting more dark warlocks and witches. Blair and my mate’s coven are the only ones in human form, since they can’t shift. Suddenly, I see all the dark warlocks and witches bring their powers together before throwing a massive black ball of energy towards my mate. My mate tosses her arm out trying to deflect the magic, but the dark witch still hits her, launching her backwards into a tree and managing to break the tree. For a second or two my heart stopped, and I looked at where my mate had been thrown. I feared the worst, but when I saw a figure merge from the black smoke, the dark warlock and witches gasped.

“Impossible, that should have killed her” I heard Blair say. I felt more teether snap, which meant we were losing warriors left and right. I hear something that sounds like a low whistle and that’s when I see something shinning heading towards my mate. I jumped in front of her just in time to take the silver arrow.

“Gabriel”, my mate’s sweet voice reached my ears. I forcefully shift back, and I know it’s because we are dying.

“I believe… in you. You can… end this” I coughed out. Whatever this was in my system, it was strong.

“You’re going to be okay” she says as someone rips the arrow out of me, making me g***n. I looked to see it was Edwin.

“Stay with us, Alpha”, Edwin says, but I don’t have the energy to keep my eyes open. Suddenly, I feel a warmth all over my body and it’s getting stronger and stronger. I didn’t feel pain anymore and I wondered if I was dead, but the thought went away when I heard my mate say, “stay with him. This ends now.” I hear thunder. I slowly opened my eyes to see lightning flash across the sky. The wind around me picks up. Edwin looks at me with wide eyes.

“Alpha” he says, surprised that my eyes are open. He scans my body before turning me and looking at my wound. When he turns me back he nods.

“You’ll be okay, Alpha. Luna Yashira healed you” he says. Is that how Andy felt when she and Tristan healed him? I’m snapped out of my thoughts when I hear Edwin say, “Oh my goddess.”

“What? What is it?” I asked. He helps me sit up before Jake comes towards me with a pair of shorts and helps me put them on. Suddenly, I hear a roar and I look to see Ashley on her knees panting and looking beyond pissed off. I followed her gaze to see my mate holding Kyles’ head by the hair.

“Give. Him. To. Me” Ashley roared, and my mate cackled.

“But I’m not done playing” my mate cackles again, making a chill run down my spine and not the good kind.

“You want him? Come and get him” my mate snarled. I looked around to see that some dark warlocks and witches were dead but those that were alive were kneeling along with the rogues. Ashley charged towards my mate, who side stepped Ashley before bringing her hand up making Ashley freezes where she stood.

“You have caused so much trouble” my mate says before ever so slowly moving a finger, ripping a thin layer of skin from Ashley’s body. The scream that left Ashley’s mouth was one that made everyone cringe, but no one felt sorry for her.

“You threaten innocent families just so you can try to take over” my mate moved her finger again and another thin layer of skin was ripped off, making Ashley scream in agony.

“Someone like you doesn’t deserve to live” I could hear the anger in my mate’s voice as another thin layer of skin was ripped out of Ashley’s body.

“Alpha, you have to stop her. If she continues, the dark magic will start to take over her and it would be impossible to bring her back”, Blair says. I could see the fear in her eyes. I looked at the other witches and I could also see their fear.

“If she goes dark, it would be the end of everything that we know” Blair added. I gathered all the strength I could muster and made my way towards my mate. As I get closer, Ashley’s screams get louder and louder. I wrap my arms around my mate and feel her stiffen in my arms.

“Babe, let her go” I said, trying to catch my breath. My mate turns her head and looks at me. I saw her sclera was black and it was starting to bleed into her irises.

“You want me to let her go?” my mate’s teeth elongated and sharpened.

“Kill her if you want, but torturing people… is not you. Don’t let her turn you to the dark side. Remember who you are. Remember who loves you. Remember our kids… your parents. They wouldn’t want you to turn to the darkness”, I tell her truthfully. I felt bad for using her parents.

“He’s right, sis. Mom and dad wouldn’t want this. We’ve already had enough deaths in our pack tonight. We can’t lose you to the darkness, as well” Joel said, coming closer to her. Ashley drops to the ground with a thud. My mate turns and looks around before her eyes landed on my father. The rain stopped and the storm clouds disappeared.

“Bring me all our fallen warriors” my mate’s voice booms before she turns and looks at me. My mate reaches a hand and caresses my face. Her eyes glowed a bright blue, pink, silver and purple. Suddenly, I see Ashley talking to hunters not far from our borders. I realized that these hunters were the ones I killed for killing Lacey.

“You’ll have the money wired to your account as soon as she’s dead along with her pup” I heard Ashley say. Suddenly, I’m standing beside Ashley as she looks somewhere with a satisfied smile on her face. I follow her line of sight only to see Lacey lying on the ground as I hover over her. I’m brought out of the vision.

“The woman you were once going to choose as your chosen mate was the one who sent hunters to kill the mother of your son and was close, and almost killed Tristan”, my mate says. I couldn’t hold back the growl that left me. I stalked towards Ashley. I wrapped my clawed hand around her throat before slitting her throat and I watched as she chocked on her own b***d. As soon as the life left her eyes, I turned towards my mate only to see her in the middle of our fallen warriors who were laid all around her. She kneeled and placed her hands flat on the ground.

She took a deep breath and closed her eyes. My eyes widen when I see light like veins in her body. The light was coming out of her hands and going onto the ground. The light spread out, making it look like live vines or roots going towards each of our fallen warriors. I looked at my father to see his heart was inside his chest.

“She put his heart in his chest before kneeling in the middle of them”, Joel whispered next to me. I watched the glow from my mate get brighter and brighter. It seemed like hours had passed, but it was only minutes when the warriors sat up gasping for air one by one. The warriors started looking around confused before standing up and looking down at my mate. All her energy was focused now on my father. I watched as the whole on my father’s chest began to close. Everyone was now looking at my mate in awe. I noticed my mate was turning pale and I moved to stop her, but before I could do anything, my father sat up gasping for air.

My mate slowly stands, and I grab her hand. She looks very pale. She walks towards the dark warlocks and witches that were still alive. The dark warlocks and witches snarl at my mate.

“You hate me without even knowing me and hurt plenty of my people and for that… I sentence you to death” my mate says before slowly fisting her hand, which was slowly breaking the dark warlocks and witches’ necks. All five of them dropped to the ground… dead. She then looks at the rogues, but then she turns to me. Her eyes flashed to those of her priestess before her eyes rolled to the back of her head. I caught her before she hit the ground. Fear griped me as I looked around before I darted to the pack clinic. I knew that Jake would deal with all this. I still couldn’t believe what I saw. My mate had brought back my father and fallen warriors back from the dead.

I reach the pack clinic and see Doctor Jena gestured for me to follow her. I followed her to the Luna’s room and put my mate on the bed.

“What’s happened to our Luna, Alpha?” Jena asked as she checked on my mate.

“She brought back nine warriors and my father from the dead” I said, making Jena stop what she was doing and look at me before looking at my mate and continuing checking on my mate. I noticed she was checking her eyes before doing some test.

“Alpha, I need you to step outside please” Doctor Jena said. I didn’t want to, but I knew she needed the space, so I stepped out of the room reluctantly. I don’t know how long I paced up and down the hallway, but soon Joel, Andy, Jeffrey, Lita, and my parents walked into the pack clinic.

“Son, how is she?” Lita was the first to ask.

“I… I don’t know. I’m waiting for Doctor Jena to come out” I said truthfully. I sat down on one of the chairs when Blair walked in. Joel filled her in, and I could see she wanted to go inside the room, but not as much as I wanted to. When Doctor Jena walked out of my mate’s room, I was the first one in front of her.

“Is she okay? When is she going to wake up?” I asked her.

“I’m sorry Alpha, but the Luna has slipped into a coma. The energy that she used to bring the warriors and your father back from the dead must have taken a toll on her body”, Doctor Jena said, and I felt like a knife had been plunged into my heart.

“May I see her?” Blair asks.

“Sure” Doctor Jena says with a nod. We walk in and Blair hovers her hands over my mate’s body. Her eyes glowed white and for a second, just for a second, I let myself hope. When Blair’s eyes turn back to their original color. When Blair looked at me, I saw disappointment in her eyes. Disappointed in herself.

“I’m sorry, Alpha, but I can’t do anything” she said, looking down.

“Wait! The young Alpha. He can probably help our Luna. After all, he has the moonlight”, she says. I know what she was saying. Since my son could bring back the dead within ten minutes of their passing, he could help bring back Yashira since she was in a coma, but I knew that Yashira wouldn’t want him to do something like that, especially if we didn’t know what the outcome would be if Tristan tried to bring her out of her coma.

“I can’t do that. I don’t know what would happen if he helped her. I, more than anyone, want to bring her back, but I know that if anything happens to Tristan because he tried to help his Yashira, she would never forgive herself or me. We’re just going to have to wait until she wakes up on her own” my voice broke at the end, but I know that what I just said was the right thing. Doctor Jena enters the room and starts to put an IV on my mate’s arm. My father places a hand on my shoulder, making me look up at him.

“I’m sorry son. But have faith. She’s a strong young woman and I know she’ll pull through”, dad says, and I give him a nod. I pulled up a chair and sat next to my mate. Joel comes up and k****s his sister’s forehead, followed by Donovan and Mitch.

“Link us if you need anything, Alpha”, Andy says, before they all left the room. I couldn’t hold back the tears. I felt like I’d failed her and now she was in a coma, but I believed in her. I believe that she’ll pull through and I need to keep it together, not just for the pack, but for our kids and her. I know she wouldn’t want to see me in tears, but I can’t help her. If I could trade places with her, I would. I took her hand in mine and kissed her palm.

“I love you baby. Please, wake up soon” I said to her. I gave her palm another k**s before laying my head on the bed.