I left guards to watch over Mia as she slept. I have to go tell Xander. I marched up the stairs and banged on his door.

"WHAT!?!?" He yelled in anger.

"We need to talk."

"Later." He growled.

"This involves your mate." I said. I heard some rumbling and then the door opened. Xander opened the door with unzipped jeans, t shirt and messy hair, "What about my mate?" He asked.

***

"She said that he said something." I said. I was explaining the events that had just occurred.

"What did he say?" Xander growled. He was standing next to a very heavily pregnant Izzy. She looked very tired and drained. Her hair was in a bun while she was wearing one of Xander's hoodies and sweatpants. And has a big thick blanket placed over her lap...while next to the fire. All of Xander's doing of course.

"Sangui el sanguis krono esmersa fitabella Elizabetha Nightwalker."

Xander's eyes widen in fright. Izzy looks between us two and frowns, "What is it? What does that mean?"

Xander looks down at his mate, "It's a dead language, an ancient form of Wolfish Dialect."

"So a wolf language? I didn't know we even had a language."

"The ancients started it so than the Hunters couldn't understand us. But it died off thousands of years ago. Almost no wolf uses it, let alone knows about it."

"Well how do we know what it means?"

Xander's eyes land on me, "Because Noah speaks it."

I clench my jaw. I hated when brings up that side of me.

Lizzy's eyes widen, "How do you know it?"

I shrug, "I don't know. I could speak it, ever since I was a child."

"So what does it mean?" She asks.

I sigh, "It means blood for blood will satisfy the thirst for vengeance. The table evens by the death of Elizabeth Nightwalker."

I could feel the fear radiating from Lizzy

"In other words, they want us to be even. I killed their leader, Matheseus and so they want to kill you." Xander says.

"There is more." I said, "There is also a warning. If she isn't given to the rogues soon...someone will die."

Xander walks back and forth...growling in anger. He snarls loudly, "Why can't they just leave us alone? Don't they have anything better to do than this?"

"Xander." Lizzy says. Xander looks at his mate and his eyes instantly soften. He bends down to her level since she's sitting on a couch. "Don't worry Izzy...I won't let anything happen to you," then he lays his hand on her swollen belly, "Or our pup and Xavier. I'll protect our family."

Izzy smiles softly at him, "I have no doubt about it Xander. I know you'll do the right thing."

They both lean in and kiss each other. I couldn't help but stare. When I see them together...I can't help but See me and Mia like that. Her pregnant with my pup.

Xander stands up and looks at me with hard eyes, "We have to get more information on this."

I nod my head, "Eddie is already on it."

Xander nods his head, "Good."

MIA

I felt a dull ache in my head when I woke up. I try to open my eyes, but can't when light hurts my eyes. I heard someone mumble something, but I couldn't make out who it was. I felt my eyes could adjust better since the light was suddenly gone. I blink a couple of times, looking around. I was in a room, more like an infirmary. 

Soul was sitting on the seat next to my bed. His eyes riddled with worry and no sleep. I smile when I see him like this. He looked so worried and concerned over me. It was a much needed attention that I had been deprived on for years. I've been on my own for so long that I've always watched my own back, I took care of myself. So it was nice seeing that someone else was doing the worrying for a change.

"Solomon?"

He is instantly on alert. He looks up and looks down at my body as if seeing if there was something wrong. I smirk when I see this, "I'm okay Soul. I just have a dull ache in the head."

"You've been out for a couple of hours. You've had me so worried."

I reach my hand out and lay it on top of his, "I'm okay. You have nothing to worry about."

He hasn't even looked at me yet. I frowned. He couldn't even look at me in the eye. Then It dawned me, "This isn't your fault Solomon," He clenches his jaw, still not looking, "Soul? Soul, look at me...please."

He raises his head. His face was set in a hard expression. He was angry, but not towards me, he was angry with himself. I could tell.

"This isn't your fault Solomon. You just-" He stands up abruptly and throws the chair across the room.

"Of course it's my fault Mia? If I didn't suggest such a stupid game then you wouldn't be int his situation. Don't you see?" He stands there breathing hard from his outburst. His expression pained.

I felt sad that he felt like that, "Okay, so maybe it wasn't the best idea. But your intentions were good. And thats all that matters. It would be different if you wanted someone to get hurt. But all you wanted was to have a little bit of fun in this time of war and torment. You wanted to shine some light in this dark situation. And yeah the plan backfired, but your heart was good. And that's all that matters."

He looked to the ground and sighs, "Every time I try to do something good. It always turns bad."

"No it doesn't."

"Yes it does Mia." He growls. He comes and sits next to my bed.

"No matter how much good I did...I still lost my mate. My screw ups outweighed the good I tried to do. I wasn't a good mate to her at the start and now I am paying the price." He looks down with a pained expression. He looks like a little boy who lost his best friend. Or a man who lose the one person that he could have ever been fully connected to.

I sigh. I know that no matter what I said, he will just not agree. So I decided to comfort him. I leaned in, I laid my hands on his shoulders and I presses my lips on his forehead then whispered, "You're a good man Solomon Nightwalker." He didn't respond for a while. But he ends up wrapping his arms around me tightly. We stay like this for a while until we separate. I lye back on the bed and sigh, "Now," He looks at me with a confused frown.

"Now what?"

I smile "About that date."

And then he smiles

***

I am currently in my room, getting ready for my date with Solomon. He didn't want to because he wanted me to rest, but I kept pushing. I felt completely fine. My body still felt a little weak, but that's normal for when you are recovering from a traumatizing experience. Solomon said he is taking me out to an Italian dinner. I love Italian. I was wearing a off the shoulder white dress that went up to my knees along with some comfortable pumps. I didn't want to go all out, so I just left my hair down and put a little bit on makeup here and there, I knock sounded at the door.

"Come in!"

The door opened. I stiffened when I smelt the addicting scent. What's he doing here? I turn around and see Noah standing there. His eyes dilate as they roam up and down my body. He clinches his jaws, "Where are you going?" He asks.

"I am going on a date."

I could tell he is restraining from snarling, "With Soul? Dressed like that? Still? You should be resting after what had just happened."

I turn from the mirror and face him, "I feel perfectly fine. I am the healer here, not you. My word over rules yours in that regard."

He takes a step forward. I take a step back. I gulp. "You shouldn't go." He growls

I growl back "You don't control what I can and cant do Noah. Why Do you care huh? You don't even like me, remember?"

He didn't say anything. I could see a storm is going through his mind. He snarls and turns around. Holding his hands to his head.

"What happened?" I asked.

"What do you mean?" He growls.

"At my cottage, you were so nice and sweet. You were nice to me. You would call me-"

"Call you what? What did I call you huh?"

I frown, "You should know. You're the one that called me that." He clenches his jaw and looks away. Then it dawned on my mind.

"You can't remember it, can you?" I whispered

He shakes his head, "All I remember is waking up on your bedroom door. I can't remember anything else." It all makes sense now. When he recovered the night of my heat, that was when he was different. He was hard and cold. That may be so, I can still see parts of the Noah I first met here and there. Like when I saw him today storming towards me and Soul when we emerged from the forest, it reminded me of the time when I was in my heat and he saved me.

He slowly walks to me, backing me up against the wall. He had one arm either side of my face, he leans down closely, "That is why I can't figure out why I feel so connected to you. I don't know why I feel so drawn to you." My heart was banging against my chest. I looked at him and then his lips, I couldn't help but wonder what it would feel like if I just-stop Mia! Stop!

I gulped, "I don't know why I feel it either. Do you think that we could possibly be-" But before I could finish Noah abruptly backs away. His hard expression masking his face.

"Have a nice date." He says before walking out. I released a breath I didn't know I was holding. I can't believe that just happened. Did Noah just admit that he was really attracted to me?