Chapter 20

―Yves―

I woke up in the morning with a hangover. I look at my mate who is still sleeping on the bed. I fall from the couch and I rubbed my head. Jeez, I will not go to drink with Dustin again. For now, it is time for me to go to school. I take a few subjects and then I take a tutorial from my teacher. Since I had missed a lot in school, my sister hired a tutor for me then I sometimes play soccer but most of my time is to my mate.

'Get up now, Yves!' Dina yelps at me. I wonder how long she was there. 'I have to sponge bath her.'

'Okay! Okay!' she sponges bath her every day. Sometimes I did that when she's gone to the Blue Moon. I wanted my mate to feel fresh though she's sleeping.

I run to my room, Keynes's former room. Then I take a bath to lessen the hangover. After that, I eat granola and drink coffee. I texted Terence about his mate that she is killing me again. He would just laugh at me.

'Hey!' someone slapped the back of my head. Zoë took the coffee and sipped on it. 'Jeez! No sugar?'

'It was for me not for you!' I told her and grabbed the coffee from her.

She and Nathan had their personal professor in the palace for them to continue studying. They are busy in their Kingdom and ruling around the territory. Electra had been well and she's remembering about the place where Helena and Seferis are hiding. But she still needs time about it.

'Hey, there will be a celebration for the birthday of my father next week. Are you going or you will stay here?' she asked.

'I will just stay here and wait for her to wake up.' I told her. 'Sorry, Zoë.'

'No, it's okay.' She slapped my arm and I almost throw my coffee. 'Sorry...' she murmurs and laughs.

'Hey, there asshole!' Nathan shouts around the house.

'Keep your voice down!' I yelp at him. He just laughs and slapped my back. Ouch! They are torturing me much. They are so brutal. Now, I understand how the two become wild in bed.

'Zoë!' Dina screams from upstairs.

We immediately run and we saw her standing looking down at Minerva whose nose is bleeding. Zoë pushes me aside and knelt beside Minerva. I was puzzled about what happened. Why is she bleeding?

'What's happening to her?!' I asked them worried.

'I don't know.' Zoë murmurs.

She heals her and it gets worse. Her nose keeps on bleeding.

'What are you doing to her, Athena?' She murmurs. Athena? How did Athena get involved here? Dina keeps wiping her nose as they sat up Minerva's body. I feel weak and I can't even move from my position.

I sat beside Minerva while they are busy making some potions. I hold her cold hand and kissed the back of it.

Please wake up, I need you. What should I do just for you to come back? I will do everything just wake up.

I didn't go to school and I just sulk there beside her keep on telling her that I love her and begs her to come back. I kiss her dry lips and I breathe on her neck while I was lying beside her. I need to give her warmth. She was cold as dead but her heart is still pumping.

Seconds pass, a minute passes, time passes, day's passes, week's passes still she was sleeping. Tonight will be the first New Moon in spring. I wish her to wake up. It will make me strong if she only did. Isn't this long is enough punishment for me? Goddess Athena, please give my mate back. I need her, we need her.

'Minerva, tonight will be the ritual and I will be the Alpha of New Moon. Please wake up and be our Luna.' I keep talking to her every day and if I got time every minute. 'Keynes and Natasha are getting married. We are also detecting where Helena's coven is. The witch who gives a love spell on me died from drinking poison.'

I got no response. I always asked Athena to give my mate back. I also had prayed to the Goddess of Love and God of Love not to take her away from me. I love her and it will kill me if she died. I kiss her palm and put it on my cheek.

'Yves!' Terence knocks on the open door. He cocks his head to the right telling me that it is time for the ritual.

'Will Dina be here to look over her?' I asked him.

'Haney will be here... and hey, the King and Queen are here too. They will be the ones to do the ritual.'

'Lucky me!' I kiss my mate's lips. 'I will be back, boss.' I whispered to her.

We went to the ritual forest where every-one is gathered. The King and Queen are there smiling at me. I bow at them. Then they started the ritual. It didn't take long because when the New Moon had to peek from the mountains they declare me as the new Alpha of the New Moon pack. There is a small party and everyone is calling me Alpha including our former Alpha's, Robert and Nathan. I shifted to my wolf form and Gray felt free when I release him.

Nathan and Zoë shifted too. Zoë's wolf is amazing. It was glowing with sparks fly and her three tails are caressing Nathan to seduce him. They are so cute together. Then they disappear into the forest to be alone. I knew them, they always disappear.

'Alpha Yves.' Marcus nods. He is the new Gama or Third in Command in the pack.

'Marcus,' I greet him formally.

The party goes on and people seem happy playing around in their wolf form. Because the King and Queen are here it was a big celebration. It was the first time in history that the King himself had passed his recent Alpha position to the Beta.

It was getting late and I need to be with my mate. I shifted to my human form when I was already at the door of the house. I open it and walk to my room. After I had taken a bath and put my clothes on. I walk to my mate's room. She's still asleep.

'Boss,' I smiled at her though she can't see me. 'You are already the Luna.' I sat beside her and I kiss her forehead. 'I am expecting you to wake up now.'

I hold her hand and kissed it. It was cold but I can feel on her palm that there's a hint of heat. I lay beside her sideways and stare at her Goddess's face. I fall asleep holding her hand.

The last thing I know is that I was dreaming.

I was in the dark woods and I saw white clothing that a girl was wearing. I know that it was her, my mate.

'Minerva!' I feel alive seeing her. She turned to look at me with a smile on her lips.

'Yes?' I run to her and hugged her tight. 'What's wrong with you?'

'You are alive.'

'Of course, I am...' there, she's still cool and sometimes cold. I face her and hold her arms tight.

'Can I kiss you... or kiss me instead,' I asked her playfully. 'Just to make sure that you are real.' She rolled her eyes and pulls my cheek to her. She kissed me playfully.

'There...' she said wiping her thumb on my lips.

'What about we—' I pull her waist to me I nuzzle my nose on her ear that makes her giggles.

'We what?' she asked brushing her fingers on my hair.

'Do something fun...?' I told her and kiss her cheek.

'Like?' she breathes when I nibble her neck.

'Hmm...' she giggles.

'Wait!' she pushed me. She looks around like searching for something. 'You hear that?'

'Hear what?' I asked her looking around. There's nothing so I keep flirting with her. I started kissing her neck. She smelled enticing and lovable. 'I miss you, boss.'

'I miss you too...' she moans.

'You're not going to leave me, right?' I face her scooping her cheek. She smiled at me. But her smiles disappear. I hold her tight before she falls. Blood runs from her mouth and I just realized that she has been attacked. Someone had stabbed her from the back. 'Minerva!' I glare at the lady who stabbed her.

'Well, well, well...' it was Rica holding my golden dagger. She licks Minerva's blood and my mate falls in my arms. I kneel on one knee still holding her.

'Minerva... please, stay with me.' I tapped her cheek.

'I—' she tried to speak. I don't know what to do. I need help but there's no help here.

'Hush... I will ask for help. Don't worry, my love...' I carried her. Rica just disappears. I run around the forest shouting from my lungs. 'Help!'

'V-es...' I look down at her and she tried to reach my face. 'I-la-love you...'

'I know, I love you too. Don't die on me, okay? Stay with me.'

She slowly closed her eyes. No! This is not happening. I am not losing her again.

'Minerva, please! Don't sleep!'

I gasped and sat up. I look down at her and I hold her pulse to look for hope that she was still alive. She got a pulse and it was beating normal. I wiped the sweat from my forehead and breathe.

'I thought I lost you.' I lean my forehead to hers. 'Please wake up.' I kiss her lips and it was warm and pinkish also her cheek. Is it a good sign? Her hair is glowing too not dull. 'Minerva?' I hold her hand placing it on my cheek. I waited for her to wake up.

I feel alive when her hand moves. I look at her hand. It feels warm in my hand. I look at her and her eyes slowly open. Her hazelnut eyes are shinning. I move closer to her, caressing her cheek.

'Minerva?' I chuckled and kissed her lips. 'You're awake!' I can't help but cry in happiness. She stared at me like I was no one. Then she suddenly sat up like she's never been in a coma. 'Are you feeling fine? What do you want?'

'Speak your name, human.' She demands.

She doesn't sound like Minerva. She's different. She doesn't know who I am. What happened to my mate?