The Elemental Mate
Chapter 4

Aurora POV

All I feel is pain.

Every inch of my body was screaming at me, but I couldn’t move. I knew what my body wanted, what it knew was about to happen.

I was dying.

I was dying and there was nothing I could do to stop it.

I felt the clouds roll over themselves as the thunder shook the now frozen dirt. I could hear the thump of the earth beneath my broken body. A soft drum, working so hard, trying to keep alive, but it was slowing down. It was slowly becoming silent.

I forced my eyes to stay open, struggling against the darkness that begged me to come with it. I stared up at the sky as the downpour soaked the forest. Lightning streaked across the sky and thunder clapped with it.

I just continued to focus my hearing on the soft thumping. As long as the beating continued, I was still alive. I could still hope to live.

I was so focused on my heartbeat, I almost missed another sound. I could hear it through the earth. A soft rumbling as if something was rolling across the ground.

I couldn’t move but I could feel a hard-light start to approach me as the rumbling got louder.

It was a car.

But it wasn’t stopping.

It was raining too hard. The storm was too loud. They couldn’t see me. My mind screamed in agony as I realized that it didn’t matter. No one could save my life. I felt my magic scream within me as lightning crashed next to me.

The rumbling stopped as light swept through the pouring rain and over my eyes. I could hear doors slam as pounding footsteps came towards me, but I couldn’t look that way. I just continued to stare into the storm.

I felt a hand press to my leg and I nearly jerked upwards in agony as I coughed up more blood. Pain exploded again as the weight on my leg increased. I heard a low growl as I felt my eyes start to close.

Then I became numb.

Not because the pain was too much, or I was finally being swept into the darkness, but from warmth. An electric feeling rushed through my body as a soft hand caressed my neck and cheek.

I peeled my eyelids open more to focus on who it was when I was met with sparkling green eyes. The green depths ran for miles as I saw love and want and concern all swimming through those eyes. It was like I had become tied to them. I didn’t want to let the sight go.

I felt myself be lifted slightly off the ground as the warmth those green eyes gave me spread through my entire body. I could hear voices and yell around me, but I couldn’t focus on any of it. I just stared into those green eyes, hoping they would be the last thing I saw before I finally succumbed to the darkness.

A new wave of pain soared through me as a weight was pressed against my side and ribs. Another growl broke through the sound of the heavy rainfall.

I could hear the voices speak to each other as I focused on those bright green eyes. Everything else became a mumble.

I felt my heartbeat slow to almost silent before my voice broke in a small whisper, “I don’t want to die.”

Each breath, each beat of my heart felt like an eternity as my death grew closer.

The warmth pulled me tighter as the green eyes moved. I felt my eyelids close as the darkness extended its hand for me to take. I felt a light breathe against my ear before an angelic whisper, “Forgive me.”

The last thing I felt before my death was a pain in my neck as the darkness took me.