Chapter 50 - Darkness Took Over

Two weeks later...

Mystery Girl's POV

My fingers slowly went across the folded page before me. It was a letter from him. This could change everything. The last time I got one of his letters, my mother and I were captured. I was too terrified to open it though. It would mean I would have to leave. My new family. My new home. My mate. I'd end up having to leave because he would kill them all.

"You can do this," I breathed out then opened the letter.

My Hazel Eyed Beauty,

I have taken the time to write this letter for you to inform you that your mother is safe. Well, for the time being. She is going to die slowly, painfully but you have the chance to save her life, just as long as you follow my carefully planned out instructions. You hear that beautiful, carefully planned out so don't even think about bringing anyone else with you. I require information that only you can give me. In exactly three days, you will come to the abandoned furniture factory, exactly four blocks from the pack house, at six p.m. sharp. I will know if you are to bring anyone, love, and if you do...

Your mother will have her dying breath in my arms.

See you soon

- C

By the time I was finish reading, tears welled up in my eyes. I can't believe he would do something like this. I would tell my mate, but things would end badly for my mother. I shoved the letter in my back pocket and ran to the bathroom.

'Baby, are you ok?' my loving mate's voice came through the mind link. I froze and thought over the simple words that I was going to tell him. I really hate lying to him but...

'I'm fine, baby. Just watching a movie and it made me sad,'

'You're so silly. Ok baby,'

I really hate doing this but I know in the end, I would have ended up saving them both. I couldn't bear to let anything happen to either of them.

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Zara's POV

I don't know whether to be happy or sad that Hayden hasn't tried anything sexual with me in the last two weeks. From that moment that I freaked out, he's been keeping his distance. Sure he would smile and laugh with me and the others, but it didn't reach his eyes. I knew his wolf was suffering from me not wanting to continue the mating process but...I...I don't know, I just can't get over him. He scarred me for life.

"What's up?" Natalya asked as she sat beside me at the cafeteria table. Hayden and Bryon had gone to the front to get some food for us. The Midnight Shadows pack wasn't in today because they were officially going to sign in Maddison as Luna of the pack.

I sighed, "Nothing Natalya."

"You really expect me to believe that?" she asked me quietly.

"I don't know, it's just...Hayden and I can't complete the mating process but I know he wants to," I told her.

"Don't you want that?"

"Well, yeah I do, but considering what happened to me in the past--" I said but cut myself off. I shouldn't have said that. Shit, I really shouldn't have said that.

"What happened in the past?" she asked me. I was frozen. Tense.

"Nothing, forget I said anything," I said bluntly. She narrowed her eyes at me.

"Come on, tell me,"

"Nothing Natalya, just forget it," I snapped at her. She shrunk back at my sudden tone and went back to her original seat without another word. Bryon and Hayden returned at that moment and Hayden placed a tray before me but I just lost my appetite.

"Babe, what's wrong?" Bryon asked Natalya. I glanced at her and saw her hands folded across her chest but tears were falling from her eyes. Guilt took me over as I looked at her.

"Nat, I'm so---"

She cut me off by standing up and shaking her head, "Don't. Just don't." Then she angrily ran through the doors. I stood up and was about to go after her but my path was blocked.

"What did you do?" Bryon growled at me.

"Bryon," Hayden growled back, "watch how you talk to my mate." They had a stare down then Bryon's eyes flicked to me. He didn't speak though; he just looked at me then walked away. I sighed and followed behind him. Sadly after I went through the front doors of the school, I didn't see anyone in the parking lot. I looked around the entire place and saw nothing. Wait...I caught a glimpse of blonde hair walking through the woods. I ran through the parking lot before I was stopped by none other than Miley herself.

"Move it, I'm not in the mood," I sneered at her. She looked at me with fake sympathy.

"Aww and why is that? Natalya finally realized that you’re worth nothing and you don't belong here?" she asked rhetorically. I glared at her and stepped up to her.

"Not the time to be a b!tch to me. I'm not in the mood,"

"You are completely and utterly useless. I'm actually surprised Hayden keeps you around," she continued. Oh, I don't have time for this. I shoved her out of my way and continued to walk across the parking lot.

"It quite amusing watching the both of you, though. He seems to not want you anymore, isn't that right?" she ranted on but I continued to ignore her.

"And to think that you actually thought he was your mate. B!tch, he wouldn't want you if you were the last piece of ass on Earth. No wonder he came to me." Now when she said that, I stopped dead in my tracks. What did she mean 'he came to me'.

"He was so disgusted with your body that he turned up at my doorstep, practically begging for sex," she continued and by her tone of voice, I knew she was smirking. I turned around slowly to look at her as she continued, "it was quite sad to watch actually. I did the best I could, but it was just a moment of time before he realized who his true mate was." By the time she was to finish that sentence, I was standing in front of her. Her smirk got wider when she realized she got to me. Believe me, she did. My wolf was burning with fury. She wanted nothing but to kill Miley right here, right now.

"And the sex was soo good. Like we never stopped. If only you knew. Oh and the things he can do with his hands---" she didn't get to finish that statement because my fist came in contact with her face. She screamed in agony and crouched slightly while pinching her nose. Her broken nose. By this time, I noticed that we had drawn a crowd. Boys and girls were standing around us silently watching the exchange.

"Zara!" a male voice called out. My heart instantly beat faster by the sound of his voice, "what the hell is going on?"

"She told me that--"

Miley interrupted me with her whining, "Oh Hayden, it hurts!"

"Come on, let's get you up," he said softly to her. What the f*ck? My jaw fell to the ground when I saw her wrapped up so closely with him. He...oh gosh...didn't he hear those things that she said to me.

"I'm carrying you to the nurse," he told Miley then looked around him, "alright, everyone can leave now." Was he kidding me right now? Hayden glanced at me and without a word, he walked in the building with Miley.

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The last class of the day. No sign of Natalya. No sign of Bryon. And I certainly wasn't looking for Hayden, after what he did at lunch. Everyone was looking at me with pity and sympathy since then and I ignored it. I didn't want it because I knew what she said wasn't true. It couldn't be.

I decided to confront Hayden about it after school but he wasn't around. I waited around Conner and James for him, and he arrived ten minutes later. I was about to greet him but he beat me to it.

"What the hell was that at lunch?" he asked. I raised my eyebrow at him.

"Excuse me?"

"You heard me, Zara. That is no way for an Alpha Female to act around---"

"Oh, is it now? So I should just let her walk all over me? Is that the behaviour of an Alpha Female Hayden?"

"What is the problem with you Zara?"

"What's my problem?" I shouted at him, "what the f*ck is your problem?" I growled at him. He narrowed his eyes at me and stepped up.

"Don't growl at me. I am your Alpha," he ordered me. I found myself gapping at him.

"You know what Hayden, f*ck off! After all I've told you about...everything, you are really going to pull that card on me?!"

"Zara," he said warningly. I was about to say something but I saw Miley come to view.

"Oh look, your mate is over there. Since you have never batted an eye at me since she's been here maybe she'll be happy to be your mate. After all, she has wanted me out of the picture since day one."

"What am I suppose to do, Zara? You've been distant since two weeks ago! All I wanted was--"

"Yeah, I know. All you want is sex, right? You don't take into consideration what I've been through but all you want is sex."

"Don't speak to me like that, Zara."

"Once again I say Hayden, f*ck off!" I screamed at him, "and while you're at it, you can probably screw Miley again like all the other times you have."

He stared at me with anger in his eyes, "Fine, you know what," then he mumbled something incoherent then stepped to his car, "Miley, get in the car." While she walked to the car, she looked over at me smirking.

'Told you,' she mouthed to me. I growled at her angrily which made her strides longer. Once she was in the car, Hayden drove away leaving me glowering at the car till it disappeared.

I was forced to walk home that afternoon. I still couldn't believe Hayden was being like this. Miley was the first class b!tch and he just took her side, not mine. That's what upset me the most. He chose her over his mate. James and Logan were walking behind me to ensure that I 'got home safely'.

When I called Lucas the moment Hayden left, he went crazy. He was ready to kick Hayden's ass...though he didn't say those exact words. I ensured him that I was fine and that I would just walk home with the boys. Once Lucas spoke to both of them, threatening that if they didn't keep me safe all hell would break loose, we were on our 'merry' way.

I walked silently, hearing the wind pass my ears and the boys talking silently from behind me. If only I had my IPod with me right now, I could be listening to music to pass the time. The only thing I had doing right now was to stare at trees as I walked pass, which was pretty boring. Not that trees are dull and boring but it's just...sigh. I'm getting crazy. Here I am, arguing to myself about the enjoyments of staring at trees.

Don't judge me!

Alright, before we continue to argue about trees, because I can't bring myself to talk to the guys right now, we have to talk about flowers. Yeah bright flowers too. Sigh, flowers are boring. How about street signs? Yeah, I guess that could work. They are pretty lame though, telling people where to go and what street it is. Like name tags, get it.

Ha ha...

Well, they all have green and the writings are all in white so. Oh! Plus the pole is grey, you know...like how a normal pole would look. Minding its own business by sticking itself into the ground. It would be pretty cool to be a pole though. I mean just look at---

"Ahh!" I screamed out. My hand instantly went to the pain. My chest. I felt as if my heart was being ripped out. There was a burning sensation there, as if it were on fire; as if someone had just thrown a bunch of burnt rocks there.

"Zara!" one of the guys behind me called out but I couldn't identify them. The pain was too unbearable that I couldn't even focus on the source of the voice. I didn't realize when my bag slipped from my arm but it was on the ground beside my right foot. My feet gave out and my head hit someplace hard before I felt myself falling to the cemented sidewalk. Tears were falling down my cheeks as I clenched at my blouse, trying to get the pain to stop.

"Zara!"

That was the last thing I heard.

That was the last thing I heard before everything went black.

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I finally updated you guys!!! :D

Oh no! What happened to Zara?! Is she going to be ok? And why is Hayden being a jackass? They were so happy before Miley showed up with all her jealousy and whatnot.

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Au revoir! ;)