Welcome Home Mate
Chapter 58

ROXIE

I tried to move, but everything hurt.

My whole body feels like I have been in twenty rounds with bears. I felt every muscle and every wound that Naomi conflicted with me.

I must have passed out more after she woke me up again and tortured me.

I still couldn't feel Bex.

I was on my own.

As it hurt so much, I opened my eyes without moving my body but was met with blurriness.

I blinked a few times, and after a few times, my vision came back.

I stared ahead, but there was a movement to the side. I was in too much pain to look, but whoever came into the room, came into my line of sight, making my stomach drop. Naomi.

Naomi stared at me and c****d her head to the side, not saying anything.

I stared at her, but there was something off about her. What the hell?

Her eyes scanned over my body, and she met my eyes, but the eyes I was looking back at were not Naomi's; they were a different color.

Her wolf, it had to be.

I wished for Bex to return to me, but I didn't know how much wolfsbane Naomi gave me.

"You look like death," Naomi said, only it wasn't her voice which confirmed her wolf was forward and not her.

I stared at her, confused.

Naomi's wolf c****d her head to the other side. "You don't know what's going on, do you?" she said.

I didn't say or do anything.

My body was hurting.

"Well, I'm Elle," she said as she stared at me. "My human did one hell of a number on you. I knew she had it in for you, but I never thought she would be like this."

I stared at her and moved my mouth, clearing my throat. "What do you mean?" I rasped. "Why are you on the surface?"

Elle stared at me but moved away for a moment.

What the hell was she doing?

After a few seconds, Elle stepped in front of me again and placed a bottle of water on my lips, tipping it into my mouth. "Drink," she said.

I sipped the water, which made my throat stink slightly, which made me make a face.

"Ah, it's working," she says as she pulls back, turning the cap on the bottle of water.

"What's working?" I asked as I cleared my throat again.

Elle looked at me and smiled. "I gave you something that will take away the wolfsbane," she said. "Help bring your wolf back."

I looked at her, confused again.

Elle sighed. "I know my human was a b***h to you," she said. "But I don't have much time, I need to talk to you, and I need your help."

I looked at her. My head was hurting, but I stared at Elle as she continued. "My human fell asleep after what she did to you," she said. "I took over her body as she slept and even placed a block on her, so she won't know what I was doing." My eyes widened.

"The thing is, this is not the first time I have done this," she said and sighed.

Elle looked at me. "I need you to kill my human," she said. "And me too."

My eyes would have fallen out of their sockets if they widened anymore. "What?" I whispered. "Why?"

Elle stared at me.

"I hate what my human has become," she said. "I can't forgive her for what she did to our mate, what she has caused between you and your mate, her brother's plan. Everything."

I watched as she carried on.

I watched her movements as her eyes kept going to the doorway. She was clearly making sure no one overheard her or was coming.

"My human wanted your mate," she said, pulling me from my thoughts and looking back at her. "I knew what she did to you. I had no part in it; I was always blocked out when she did something. She never placed the block down until she was ready for me to learn about what she did."

I felt my stomach drop slightly. Elle carried on as if her life depended on it.

"When we found our mate, I thought it would change her," she said as she huffed slightly. "But no, she was going to reject him, but when your mate told her that you were his mate, it was like hell had taken over. I tried to reason with her, and we both came up with something."

"At the time, I found out about her alpha brother only by chance when his voice echoed in our head," she said. "I didn't even know we joined his pack, which is ruined due to the alpha's rein on them. They all suffer back there."

I could feel sadness wash over me as she looked at me. Her eyes went back to the door. "I never thought an alpha could be so cruel," she said and looked back at me. "My human didn't tell me anything, but I pleaded with her for me to have some alone time with our mate before she did anything untoward, and she agreed."

I stared at her; this didn't sound like Naomi. "She agreed?" I asked, sounding more like a question than a statement.

Elle frowned. "Not at first," she said. "I made a deal with her."

Elle stopped and looked at me before she continued to speak again. "The deal was I would be human and spend time with our mate while she went into the darkness," she said.

I frowned. "How is that possible?" I asked.

Elle gave me a small smile. "I told her I would ask the moon goddess to take me away if she didn't," she said. "She was reluctant at first, but she agreed. I told her I wouldn't mate or mark him till she was close by or ready for our mate. But she never came close by; she left me with him."

"You never marked your mate?" I asked.

Sadness washed over her as she shook her head. "No," she said. "As much as I should have, my human needed to be there with me."

Elle looked back toward the doorway again.

"How long were you, Naomi?" I asked. "Did you shift? How did it work?"

"You have too many questions," she muttered as she looked over to me with another small smile. "I shifted whenever I needed to, and I didn't have anyone to answer to anyone, not even Naomi. Naomi stayed away, which was unheard of, and for how long, five years. I was sent back into her mind when she learned about you being back on the training ground."

I stared at her. Five years! That's a long time for a human to be in darkness.

Wait, Naomi came back when she found out about me. "Why when I came back home?" I asked.

"Naomi never told me anything about her plan with her brother," she said, but sighed. "She must have been in the darkness for too long with her own thoughts. She let me watch everything she had planned for when you would return. I was sickened to think Naomi would be that evil, but her father was the same. I had to learn everything about him too, which made me want to vomit in her head."

I gulped.

Elle looked at me. "I'm telling you all this as I need you to help me," she said. "I want you to kill Naomi and me." My eyes widened.

"I can't do that to you," I said. "You don't deserve that. Naomi might deserve it, but you don't."

Elle gave me a small smile. "Thank you for all that," she said. "It's nice to know that some decent humans are around."

"Elle," I whispered, but she shook her head. "I know what you are going to say, but I have made my choice. I would rather be with our moon goddess than witness all this pain, all because my human and her brother want to be more powerful and want what they can't have."

I stared at her.

My mind was racing; I couldn't kill Elle. Naomi, yes, but her wolf, no. She never did anything to me.

"I can't do it," I said. "I can't kill you."

Elle looked at me, but her face hardened. "You may not have a choice," she said as she walked toward me, twisting the cap off the water bottle again. "Drink," she muttered as she placed the water to my mouth and let me drink.

I gulped as the water slid down my throat and burned.

As I finished the last drop of water, she threw the water bottle on the ground and made me look at her. "I can give you a chance to kill her," she said. "She wants me to play with you as a chew toy. But I won't. I will stay back. You must replace your strength and take her down, even in human form."

I stared at her.

Could I kill Naomi?

I never fought back. She never gave me a chance to fight her back. But I know I can take her; I took on stronger competitors than her in the ring.

I could use my injuries to my advantage; my mind was filled with ideas on how to take her down.

"I need to go," Elle said, pulling me from my thoughts and looking back at her. "Someone will try to replace her as she fell asleep in one of the tents. I needed to make sure no one noticed it wasn't me, only her."

I nodded.

Elle looked at me and smiled. She turned away and walked toward the gate entrance.

I turned to look at her, not caring about my pain.

"Elle," I called out, making her stop and look over her shoulder toward me.

I smile.

"I will try my best," I said. "I don't know if I can kill her, though."

Elle smiled.

"I know you can, little wolf," she said. "I have seen you fight in the ring. I watched it with Naomi. That's why I know you can do it. Naomi thinks she has you at your weakest because of all the t*****e she conflicted on you, but she didn't count on one thing." "What's that?" I asked, frowning.

"Me," she said as a slow smirk formed. "I love my human, but I can't stand by everything she has done and plans to do. Her brother has his own agenda, but Naomi has hers. They both have been using one another to get what they want, but if one is taken down, the other will follow."

I stared at her, but she continued.

"That Alpha wants you and the other Luna," she said. "I think he wants to take you to the pack to prove that you are with him. He wants to kill your mate before you, to make you submit to him. Naomi is supposed to take you there; killing Naomi will mess up the alpha's plans."

I felt my heart break at the thought of him killing Lex, but I nodded, trying to recover from what she said.

Elle smiled again and moved. She opened the gate and walked through, but her eyes landed on me. "Your wolf should come back to you soon," she said, and I watched as she walked through the doorway and was out of sight.

I turned back toward the front and stared.

My mind was racing with everything.

I needed to plan, and I needed one fast.

An image came to my mind of Lex.

I hope he was looking or trying to prepare the pack members for what was to come.

Knowing Alpha Trevor, he must have slipped up somewhere.

Part of me wanted to think Lex was missing me, but I needed to stay focused.

I can replace all that out when I see him, but first, I must kill Naomi.

I heard some noise outside where they were keeping me.

I needed to come up with something and fast, I thought.