A/N: Don't stop reading after this chapter, trust me.

Chapter 35

"THANE!" I screamed out just as the loud shrill of the gunshot rung out in the air.

My eyes followed the exact movement of the bullet.

It cut through the air and landed right in Thane's shoulder. An area not covered by his bulletproof vest.

It was an immense sense of déjà vu as the scene before me was an accurate depiction from the nightmares I had been having for all those sleepless nights.

I watched as Thane's wolf whimpered out in agony and his body crumbled to the ground.

The pain from the silver bullet that Thane was feeling suddenly ran through me from our mate bond and I felt like I couldn't breath. It was unbearable and my body wanted nothing more than to drop to the floor from the sudden wave of excruciating pain.

But I couldn't stop.

I had to get to him.

My breaths were labored as I pulled myself upright and stumbled into the battle field.

By some miracle all the other wolves on the field saw what just happened to their alpha and spotted me on the field.

The energy in the air shifted to complete hostility from our end. The wolves on the field all gave me a look of confirmation as they suddenly switched tactics and protected me from the firing guns. Our pack lined up in somewhat of a line on either sides of me that lead to Thane who was crumpled on the field crying out in pain. The wolves took out any humans who dared to cross my path towards my mate.

I trekked across the bloody battle field narrowly missing decapitated human bodies and leaping over dead wolves. My white tennis shoes was covered in the brown of the soil and the red of blood.

I picked up my pace immensely but I felt like I was in one of those bad dreams where it feels like the faster you move your legs, the slower you ran. As much as you try, your legs just wouldn't give.

With our little pea in my stomach in this first trimester, it would be dangerous to hop on a wolf and reach Thane faster. The speed and bumpiness would surely damage the developing baby.

My heart died a thousands times before I finally dropped besides Thane's wolf body laying on the grass floor.

All my senses suddenly rushed back to me and I was finally consumed with Thane's howls of pain at the silver bullet buried within him.

I could practically feel the silver poison burn into his bloodstream and starting to kill him.

"It's going to be okay." I choked out through my heavy breathing.

He whimpered out in agony as I hurriedly unstrapped the vest off of his body. I ripped off one of the straps so that I could stop the blood flow.

'Emery don't.' Thane mind linked me and I could hear the pain in his voice as his body struggled against my hands.

I knew that he knew what I wanted to do, but no amount of pleading on his part was going to stop me.

I had to heal him. If not for him, then for me.

I fastened the strap around his shoulder blade to stop the blood flow before I noticed the knife sticking out of his back.

Before I pulled out the blade, I ripped a piece of my shirt off and another one of the straps off the bulletproof vest.

"This is going to hurt love." I mumbled as I gave him a solemn expression and when he gave me a wolf nod, I pulled the knife out of his back.

Thane immediately released a low tortured growl as I placed the piece of my t-shirt over his wound before wrapping the strap in place to stop the blood loss.

I could feel his pain through our bond and there was nothing I wanted more than to take it all away from him. If I could bare all the pain for the both us, there is nothing I wouldn't do to take it away from him.

He couldn't fight me off though because he was in too much pain.

Not having any other option, I had to get the bullet out of his shoulder before I healed him and I prayed to the Moon Goddess that I had enough time to do so.

If I healed him while the bullet was in his body, then I would trap the source of poison and he would die.

The only choice was to pull it out of him.

So I used my t-shirt and hands to wipe the pooling blood off from his fur. I moved quickly as I searched for the bullet hole in his flesh.

It didn't appear to be lodged in that deep into his flesh but I knew it would be a struggle for me to get it out and painful for Thane since in the middle of this battlefield, I did't exactly have the correct materials.

Unfortunately the only tool I had was my fingers.

"I'm sorry Thane but this is going to hurt immensely." I said with caution to him even though I doubt he could be in any more pain.

Saying a quick prayer, I stuck two of my fingers into the bullet wound and Thane's body flinched in agony before tensing up as he let out another howl of pain.

I tried to calm him with my voice as I felt around in his shoulder for the bullet.

"Once I get this out, you'll be alright." I croaked.

Even though I had stopped the bleeding, a few ounces of blood was flowing out of his shoulder as I felt around.

I released a sigh of relief as I finally felt the warm, hard, silver bullet buried within his flesh.

"I promise, nothing will happen to you." I whispered as my fingers clutched the bullet. "I will have you fixed up in no time."

Holding back a gag from having my fingers in his flesh, I dug the bullet out of his shoulder as he growled in agony.

The silver bullet was covered in dark red sticky blood as I pulled it out from him and chucked it across the field.

I looked back at Thane to see his eyes looking dull and his breathing becoming slow.

It was too late.

I could feel it within me that Thane was slipping away and quickly at that.

His harsh howls of torment turned into soft whimpers as I placed both my palms on his wound and encouraged as much of my energy into healing him.

'Emery stop it! You're going to kill yourself.' He quietly scolded me.

"No. I'm not letting you die." I shook my head vigorously as I heard footsteps running towards us, "This isn't your time to die. I wouldn't have it."

'Stop love...please.' He begged me.

I continued to shake my head in disagreement as I felt two persons came to a stop behind me.

"Luna, you need to stop before you damage yourself and the baby." I heard Adler say behind me.

"I can't!" I yelled and pressed my hands with all my might against Thane.

"Emery you need to listen to him and stop." Anne whispered.

"I'm strong enough. Our baby is safe and so will Thane be once I heal him."

I healed Tate when she was on the brink of death and it barely slowed me down.

I wasn't about to give up on my mate now.

I tuned them all out after that and focused solely on Thane.

He had to live.

For our baby.

For our pack.

For me.

My time with him wasn't up yet.

We just started our lives together.

And he promised he'd come back to me.

I pressed on.

We had to get through this.

'You can't leave me.' I mind linked him and I could barely feel his presence within me.

'T-take care of yourself and the baby and remember that I....I love you.' He struggled to get in my mind and it felt like something snapped within me when he finished his sentence.

It felt as if my powers were coming alive and he was healing.

I could feel it within our bond that he was healing.

Something was happening.

I knew it.

The energy was bursting out of me like a metaphorical ray of sunshine.

I could save him.

A wave of hope washed over me as I smiled when I saw his beautiful red wolf eyes open.

He took a deep breath and then exhaled slowly.

And that was it.

The color and life faded from his eyes as he laid motionless under my palms.

"Thane?" I felt a moment of pure confusion as something broke within me. I felt as if half of me was suddenly and harshly ripped out of my soul without remorse.

It was indescribable but the pain inflicted felt like I was being tortured.

I felt like I was being burnt alive.

"Thane!?" I shook his body as an attempt to wake him up.

"Thane!" I shouted at him or at myself... I wasn't sure. "No. No! You can't leave me damn it!"

My entire body was in pain.

My heart felt like someone lit a fire within it.

My soul died.

My soul died with Thane.

Thane.

My mate.

He was dead.

It felt like a thousand knives were buried deep within me.

But it was more agonizing than that.

The pain was indescribable and immeasurable.

Everyone said losing your mate was the world's worst pain a werewolf could feel and I was quickly realizing that that was an the truest words every spoken.

Anne fell to her knees beside me at Thane's body and sobbed at the death of her son.

I heard the mournful howls of every wolf on the field as they grieved for their Alpha.

Alpha Thane Cole Blackwood of the Blood Moon pack.

Adler came to the other side of me and tried to pry me away from my dead mate.

"It isn't safe here Luna. The pack is weakened by the loss of our Alpha. It's anyone's winning fight now." He explained as he and Anne both pried my hands away from Thane's body.

"He's right Emery. Thane would want you and the baby safe. We have to get you out of here." Anne rushed out.

I felt weak. Not a bone in my body protested as they hauled me to my feet.

Once they started dragging me away from Thane's body though, I snapped back into reality.

They were taking me away from my mate.

But I wasn't having it.

I wasn't having any of it.

Thane wasn't dead.

He couldn't be dead.

He is the Alpha.

He is my mate.

He is a father.

I shoved Adler's and Anne's hands off me as I sprinted back to Thane. I fell to my knees and placed my hands over Thane's body once more.

"NO! You can't be dead!" I yelled at him.

"You can't leave me! You can't leave us!" I screamed into the wind. "You can't dare leave the pack behind without you."

I raised my head to the sky and at that moment I didn't know what or who I was looking for.

After what just happened, I didn't know if God or the Moon Goddess or any other great being was up there.

But I had to have faith that if anyone was there, they'd help me at that moment.

I needed to have faith.

I needed them to help me.

Or else everything was lost.

"Please, bring him back and take me instead!" I yelled to the sky, "You can't take him away!"

I felt as if I couldn't catch my breath.

The pain was way too much.

But I tried.

I started to sob as I forced every single cell in my body to heal Thane.

When Adler realized what I was doing, he tried to stop me, "You need to stop Luna, he's already dead."

"No he isn't." I declared in denial.

"He is and if you continue you're going to kill you and the only piece of Thane you have left." He referred to my child.

He was right.

But I knew if I tried just a little more, something could happen.

"If your up there Moon Goddess, please..." my voice broke as tears consumed me, "please save him. I'll do anything..."

I rest my sobbing face on Thane's wounded shoulder as the moments passed and nothing happened.

I had to face the facts.

No one could be resurrected.

Not even Thane, the great Alpha of the Blood Moon pack.

I gasped for air as I bawled my eyes out onto my dead mate's body.

I felt something cold and wet splutter on the back of my neck.

Drop after drop until suddenly it was pouring.

The rain started to fall as I felt a movement beneath my hands.

I raised my head and gasped at what I saw.

It wasn't the rain that shocked me.

It was Thane's body.

His wolf form had suddenly shifted under my palms from a werewolf to his human body.

Adler removed his shirt and laid it over Thane's naked waist.

His still wasn't beating nor was he breathing.

He was still dead yet his body shifted back.

I looked over at Anne who gave me a confused expression before she looked up at the raining sky.

I didn't know if it was a sign.

Or some miracle taking place.

But I wiped the tears off my face and placed my hands over Thane's chest, right where his heart laid.

"I love you." I whispered into his ear as I tried one last time.

I had to save my mate.

I closed my eyes and rested my head in the crook of his neck, near to the shoulder that was shoot.

I concentrated solely on Thane and my love for him.

My tears running onto his wound.

My energy being transferred into his heart.

"You're not saving him on my watch pumpkin." I heard a distant voice snarled.

I looked up through my tears and the rain to see Jake, standing on the edge of the forest a few feet away from us.

My eyes took in the irritation on his face but before anyone could comprehend what was happening, he lifted his gun and pulled the trigger.

"Huh..." My breath caught in my throat as the massive pain of a bullet hitting me consumed my body.

My eyes shifted down at my ripped t-shirt to see blood seeping out from the right side of my chest.

My vision became blurry as I heard loud shouting around me in mass chaos. I didn't know what was happening around me or within me as I collapsed onto the ground.

Jake shot me.

There was no way I could save Thane now and my energy was already depleted therefore I couldn't save my life...or my baby's.

I looked over at Thane's body next to me as fresh tears sprung to my eyes and the rain poured over us drenching our bodies.

I could feel the pool of my own, warm, thick blood gather beneath me.

My body felt weak.

My breathing was labored.

My eyes were closing.

My soul was dying.

I was dying beside Thane.

Our child was dying because of Jake.

"I love you...." I whispered to Thane's unmoving and unconscious body.

All the energy faded out from me and I could feel my heart beat slowing down as I moved my hand to hold Thane's lifeless one beside me.

I placed my other hand over my stomach as a way to hold on to our little pea.

I was sorry I couldn't save them.

I let them both down.

My boys.

I felt a certain calmness and serenity take over my body.

It was as if the true meaning of peace finally found me.

I could feel myself dying as the pain faded away.

I would join Thane.

My eyes closed and my heart slowed down.

I felt something twitch in my palm.

"Emery..."

I took my last breath as darkness and death swallowed me whole.

A/N

Chapter Update: Wednesday

*Sobs in a corner* 😭😭😭😭

Our Alpha and Luna is dead...😭😭😭 I'm so sorry guys.

Don't hate me, please? 😭

Also the end is right around the corner, so prepare to say goodbye and farewell to the story and remaining characters.☹

I also know it was a bit on the short side... I really didn't know how to lengthen it out any more. 

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