Chapter 37: It'll be Okay

Zak’s POV

It’s late. Real late, when I suddenly feel Tori move to jump within the bed. Having stayed the night within my room that it was my job as Tori’s mate to make sure he was fine.

My arms still circling his waist as I continued to hold him close. Jake and Alex both deeply asleep within each of their rooms. Both oblivious to what just happened with Tori.

A situation I would have to tell them about come morning. A situation I would have slept through myself if I hadn’t felt Tori’s pain. His distress of whatever it was that was happening to him during that very second.

The need to know what happened to him rising.

“Little mate, do you care to talk about what just happened?”

Waiting for a reply back does Tori move to speak up. “No.”

Frowning at the answer do I move to try again. “Why not? What happened?” Tori still refusing to tell me let alone answer me.

“Because I don’t want to. It was just a bad dream, that’s all. So please, just drop it”

Resisting the urge to pull rank over Tori do I move to try a different approach. A part of me knowing that if I pushed to hard with Tori then Tori would just shut down completely. A piece of me hoping that by trying this method that Tori would open up to me as mates didn’t hide things from mates no matter what it was.

“Tori, please. Whatever it was it’ll be okay, I promise you. Now please… talk to me”

Sniffling slowly does Tori finally move to sigh. His tears now stopping long enough for him to mull over my words. Tori eventually moving to tell me exactly what happened to him.

“I had a bad dream. A really bad dream”

“About what?”

“I was standing within the middle of a field. A huge field. The sky was completely dark and without any stars except a moon. Except the moon wasn’t white, it was read. Like the color of blood.”

Tensing at the words do I wait for Tori to continue. Ash listening to Tori’s words as well. ‘I think he’s talking about the blood moon.’

‘Blood Moon?’ I move to ask Ash, my attention still on Tori while I do.

‘Yes. It’s a rare moment in time when the moon turns red. Which means a blood moon is coming our way.’

‘Great’ I groan. Tori’s voice soon drawing my attention back to him.

“There were also wolves. Lots and lots of wolves. Lycan too. I was also able to smell rotting eggs and torn flesh, which meant we were also dealing with Rogues.”

“Rogues?”

“Yes”

“Then what Tori?”

“I saw four huge wolves and one massive looking one”

“Did anything stand out among the wolves? Like color?”

Nodding his head does Tori move to speak again. “Yeah. The wolves in question looked a lot like you, Jake and Alex.”

“Me?” I ask, wanting to make sure that I heard him correctly.

Nodding his head again does Tori move to continue. “Yeah. As one of the wolves was completely black. Kind of like Vox. Another wolf was reddish brown which reminded me of Ash and the third one was gray like Volt. The only wolf I couldn’t pinpoint among the four was the one that was black and had white paws.”

At the mention of black fur and white paws do I move to tense again. For there was only one wolf like that and he was the Alpha of another pack. The Shadowridge Pack. Aaron. Aaron Duncan. But why would Tori be dreaming of Aaron. Was Aaron one of the wolves we were fighting or was he one of the wolves helping us?

My mind now quick to think of Jake and how Jake was going to handle the news.

Jake’s not going to like that, I silently muse. A part of me knowing that once I told Jake and Alex about Tori’s dream especially about Aaron that they would instantly be mad. Ash already upset by that little known fact. Neither of us willing to share if we could help it unless it was with each other.

Tori still telling me more about his dream.

“But that’s not what scared me Zak. It was the massive looking wolf. The wolf in question had Alex within his mouth and you, Jake and the unknown wolf was trying to free him”

“Free him?”

“Yeah”

Pausing slightly do I move to consider everything given to me by Tori thus far. “Is there anything else I should know little mate?”

Now moving to chew along his bottom lip does Tori move to nod his head yet again. “Yeah. I also saw the Elders too. They were off within the distance of the battle. Each of them watching the scene unfold without lifting a finger.”

At the mention of the Elders does Ash and I move to growl. Of course. Those fucking idiots would be the cause of a war. A war that sounded like it was coming during the next blood moon.

Great. Just fucking great.

Tori now whispering his last statement which causes me to freeze. “The last thing I remembered before finally waking up was a voice. A voice of an unknown person as they moved to yell my name.”

Tori now clinging to me as I continued to hold him within my arms. My mind still trying to process every little thing that Tori had said to me. Ash pacing within my mind as we continued to comfort Tori.

Author’s Note: Hey guys, just a quick thing before I end the chapter with another cliffhanger. But any who, not sure if anyone managed to catch it or not, but when I was in the middle of writing Chapter 16 and Chapter 29 I had accidentally mixed up Alex’s scent with Tori. I had given Alex one scent that was supposed to go to another and in chapter 29 corrected the scent and gave Alex the correct one.

Either way, I just wanted to let you all know that I did go ahead and correct that going forward and Alex’s scent will remain as Clove, Orange and Cinnamon. The other scent, the one that was Sage, Cedarwood and Lemon that one is rightfully dedicated to someone else and you will not know who until Chapter 40. But again if you’d like to guess please go ahead and do so but otherwise there was a clue given to you in 36 and 37. But that is all, until I post tomorrow. Bye.