Chapter 300

“Yes, my husband and child are ill-” “I suspect that they are suffering from being bitten and the poison from that bite is doing to them what it does to anyone whom has been bitten by someone unable to change a human into a shifter. Their symptoms – the obvious ones – are fever, pale skin, weakness, they both have a weakened pulse and the blood they are spitting up, plus the seeping from their nail beds, eyes, ears…” I fingered towards the two Hellmanns on the ground, watching as Teresa’s face flushed, her eyes darkened, who does he think he is? She thought. Still not wanting to give away that Chelsea and I were able to hear them, I kept my face blank, “Chelsea took away their wolves and you thought yourself the Alpha Female here and decided to bite them, and you want Chelsea to what? Fix your mistake?” the people in the room all gazed at me, flickering their eyes back and forth between Teresa and I. “You went against what the Luna wanted and you want her to fix your mistake… These two people could have lived two long lives as humans, and maybe then the Luna would have changed her mind changing them back,” I shrugged sweetening the pot despite knowing Chelsea would have never changed them back. “As for the rest of you in here, I’d probably leave, since when they finally begin to lose their mental lucidity they’ll bite you all without a second thought,” I chuckled, turning back to Teresa, “As for you, you are going to kill them before they can hurt anyone, if not, I’m going to burn you alive Mrs. Hellmann,” I held my hand out, watching the slow burn of fire lift from my palms turning back to her, I eyed her face, the color draining, and the fear rolling off her body, the flame reflected in her glassy eyes. One by one I watched as the people that were crowding the room left without meeting her eyes, apologizing under their breathes, the Claudia Rykos was drug out by her parents, leaving Theo Rykos holding Jenny Hellmann – his mate. Hector was standing next to his brother Owen, their mother on the ground between Lynn and Greg, weeping. Just wouldn’t listen to me, now everyone is going to look down on us, the thought caught my attention, I continued listening, how am I supposed to get close to the Luna when she won’t be able to trust my family? Keeping my head down I listened to the thoughts, narrowing it down to Jax Hellmann, I wanted to believe that this could be completely unrelated, his name and the name of Chelsea’s half brother Jaxon, especially since I couldn’t place Jax Hellmann but I was starting to learn that nothing was coincidental these days and we should always keep our guards up. “I’m so sorry-” Teresa continued mumbling on the ground, weeping, Gabriel you need to come to the beach – the one near Rainella and Chris’ place – right now! Chelsea is attacking a human man, Nonno shouted in my head. Stiffening I opened up my mind, taking in the scene, “If they kill anyone, your death will be right after theirs,” I barked at Teresa, putting a hand on Lux, I teleported us to that beach, the scene chaotic. Nonno, Violet and Lukas were holding back Logan, from attacking the man, his two young men were hitting Chelsea, and Rainy was naked, whimpering, her mate – Chris – holding her completely unclothed on the sand. . . Chelsea POV Family. I never had the right mentality for it, wondering where I fit in, if I was meant to fit in and then I saw the pictures Leo would use to train me. I had hit that age where I knew that the similarities probably meant that they were related to me, then the added words pointed it right out until I ended up with Jason. Then family took on a new meaning, and I could distinctly categorize individuals into two groups. The first was family that I wouldn’t be able to put up with, or see for any period of time, the memories associated with them so thoroughly ingrained couldn’t be changed and I had suffered enough. That group included my biological father and half siblings – Ames, Madeline, Maggie, Jayda and Jaxon. The second group, I decided could be people I thought of as family, Jack, Dad, Casey… the people you aren’t given but choose to welcome into your heart.