Stella POV.
Pain, I was abandoned, I feel abandoned, no actually it feels like I lost a big part of me, but he’s not even the best part of me, but I lost him, he’s no longer here with me, and I feel like shit, no I feel pain, I feel sick, and I need Milo and James right now.
“Are you okay? What’s going on?” Dad says walking into my room, I was on the ground crying from pain.
“Stella,” he says picking me off the ground and placing me on the bed.
“Dad,” I say with tears going down my face.
“What’s wrong?” dad asks me.
“It hurts,” I say crying.
“Do we need to get to the hospital? What hurts?” he asks me as mom and Finn joined us in my room, I saw them whisper to each other, and then mom came toward me, she hugged me tight.
“I know baby,” she whispers to me.
“What’s wrong with her? We should take her to the hospital,” Dad says refusing to let me cry it out.
“It’s that time of the month, she’s just in pain, you know cramps in our family are bad,” Mom says, whispering sweet nonsense into my ears.
“We could still get her to the hospital, I heard some girls need to have painkiller shots to help them with the pain,” dad says, maybe we should take his offer, and get the shot, the pain was too much.
“If she doesn’t get better, we’ll tell you, take Finn and go out, she just needs her mama,” mom says, Finn and dad finally left my room, and she turned to me with a sigh.
“Tell me which one of your idiots hurt you so I could beat their ass?” mom asks me.
“Theo…Theo…he…” I say with tears going down my face, how do I explain what Theo did, he hurt me, Theo abandoned me.
“Your phone,” mom says getting my phone and answering whoever is calling me, I wasn’t paying attention to her conversation, but she told whoever was on the other side to get over here quickly.
“I need you to calm down, I’ll get your father busy and your wolf can come in,” Mom promises me.
“Thank you for helping,” I say, if she didn’t know about the wolf’s part, she wouldn’t be okay with everything that’s going on with me right now.
“You’re my baby, it’s my job to help you,” she assures me.
“Thank you,” I say again, the tears have stopped, but the pain is still there, it took Milo five minutes to get over here, he brought James with him.
“What’s up with James?” Mom asks as they both jump through my window.
“Good new auntie, James is her mate too,” Milo says happily, looking at mom with a big smile on his face.
“Milo,” both me and James groaned at him, that wasn’t funny nor cute.
“What? She needs to know,” Milo says with a shrug.
“And I’m guessing you two aren’t sexual with my daughter?” Mom asks James.
“If it helps you, I’m gay,” James answered her with a big smile on his face.
“Approved, keep it down, if my husband finds you here, he’s burning this house over our heads,” Mom says leaving my room, and closing the door behind her.
“You’re with two alphas, we’ll hear if anyone comes near your room,” James assures me, as Milo takes his turn hugging me, they boxed me in the middle the pain was a lot worse than what it was earlier today.
“What happened?” James asked me, he looked confused, he’d only been here two days and all he saw was me having a mental breakdown.
“Theo came by,” I start making Milo growl.
“What did he do to you?” James asks me.
“He…he…” I say with tears going down my face, I don’t know what to say or how to say it.
“He left us,” Milo says for me, and he’s right, Theo has left us, he doesn’t want to be around me, around us? He sold me off?
“We can hunt him down,” James offers.
“He hates it, he hates that he has to share me with you two,” I say, with tears going down my face, the last words he said to me, You are, my whole world, and still I mean nothing to you.
He thinks that he doesn’t mean anything to me, he thinks that I don’t like him, but I always had a thing toward him, from day one, but he was a jerk all along, and he pushed me off, he made me take a step back from him, he pushed me toward Milo and he hates me for it, he hates me for being with my other wolf.
“I could tell he doesn’t do sharing well,” James says in a sad voice.
“What did he do to you Lil-Star? We need to know to be able to help you,” Milo asks me, he needs to know, but he knows what happened, but he wants to be sure, he wants to hear it from me, to hear me saying it out loud.
“You know,” I say sadly, laying my head over James’ chest, closing my eyes, trying to get back to sleep, trying to rest.
“I don’t know princess, can you tell me?” James asked me, as he petted my head, and my back, and he landed kisses all over the top of my head, their presence was helping the pain that was going on through my heart, their presence was good, and I enjoyed it.
“Theo doesn’t want to share, Theo hates me,” I say with tears going down my face.
“He can’t hate you, none of us can hate our souls, you’re our one and only,” James says but he doesn’t understand.
“You don’t understand,” I say back to him, there’s a lot more than they know, there’s more to it.
“Help me understand, tell me what’s going on,” James says in a soft voice, the way he talks to me, it’s different from Milo, he’s firmer, but he makes me feel safer when he talks, and he makes me feel heard and safe.
“Theo’s soul feels different, heavier, it feels like pressure like it’s just too much inside of me, maybe it’s because I hold more than just one soul, I don’t know what’s the logic and science behind any of this, but I know that Theo’s soul is a dark one, black one,” I explain to James who understood me, he nodded his head yes.
“We’re killers, we’re bloodthirsty monsters, and our souls, they aren’t always light and clean, they are heavy, they are dark, that’s why we need our humans, our souls, you do half of the job for us, you make us better people, you take off all the anger that’s inside of us,” James says.
“I did a bad job for Theo then,” I say, I failed him, if I didn’t fail him he wouldn’t be that angry.
“You didn’t do a bad job, his anger was too much for him to handle, for anyone to handle,” James promises me.
“But you don’t know him, you can’t say that,” I say, he doesn’t know Theo, how would he know if I failed him or not?
“I’ve known him enough, from the day he came to save me, he should have come alone, he didn’t need to bring you along, but he did, he put you in danger when he shouldn’t have done that,” James says sounding disappointed.
“I wanted to come along to save you, I wouldn’t have taken no for an answer,” I say to him, he should know that I’m not going to let it go, saving James was my dream as well.
“Why did you want to save me?” James asks me.
“For Milo, he was sad that you died,” I answer him, I did it for him, I want my wolf to be happy.
“And so, why did Theo bring you along? He could leave you where it’s safe, and bring me back here, but he didn’t do it for Milo, he did it for you. That’s nice and all, but it’s also very reckless, it’s stupid, the vampires would have sucked your blood and eaten your heart, taking you out of the pack territory without telling the alpha and getting you out of his protection would put you in danger, what if your body gave up? Maybe it’s because you were with him, and I’m your third wolf you were able to leave the pack land, it’s cute but it’s dangerous, there are easier ways to win your heart,” James explains to me.
“Where is he?” I say, not liking the explanation I just got, it wasn’t dangerous, it was the two of us spending time together.
“He left the pack land,” Milo says.
“He left me?” I ask them with tears going down my face, it feels like his dark soul has left my body, but it’s still there, and he’s still having an effect on me.
“He didn’t leave you, we’re still here with you sweetie,” Milo assures me, but it’s too late, Theo is gone, and it hurts, I kept wanting to give him his soul back, I wanted to get rid of him, but he having him gone hurts even more than having him around with me.
“It’s his loss, give him some time, and he’ll run back begging for forgiveness,” James assures me.
“I want to sleep,” I whined, I was tired and in pain, all I wanted to do right now was get some sleep.
“Okay baby, you should get some sleep, we’ll be right here,” James says helping me lay down in the bed and fall asleep.
“Milo,” I whined wanting him to be close too, and so he did, we all fell asleep in my small bed, they had me sandwiched in the middle between the two, I couldn’t move or even breathe too deeply, but I felt safe sleeping between them, and I loved every second of it.