SWNOVELS Chapter 61
Soon I hear the cracking sound which forces me to close my eyes as pain jolts inside my heart as I recall the same sound which had scarred me for life.
Then a loud ear-piercing cry replaces the snapping sound as in my arms lay my beautiful baby girl, instead of a cute little grey pup.
Micah and Jenna walk outside the room after closing the door leaving me alone with my sweet, but fierce Ella.
Walking towards the bed, I sit while cradling the cute naked baby in my arms. Picking a green onesie from the pile of clothes on my bed I dress her quickly as she continues to cry.
Unbuttoning a few buttons of my shirt, I help her latch onto my breast as I hold her against me. Her cries die down as now my ears are blessed with the sound of her soft breaths and strong heartbeats.
Tears roll down from my eyes as I glance down at the beautiful sight which I thought I will never be able to witness ever.
Gently, picking up her small fist I place a kiss on her hand and rub her hand against my wet cheek. My heart fills with warmth and contentment, by feeling her small body against me.
I remember holding her lifeless and bruised body against mine and crying for hours after James has brought me back home to our pack.
I was not ready to let her go... I was willing to give up on my life if it would have meant to be with her forever.
My soul was crying... my heart was yearning for my child.
“Wolfie, our pup...” I cried as I called my Wolfie, “My nightmare has become my reality, my Ella is gone... Wolfie, I am sorry I couldn’t keep her safe.”
Call me crazy, but a sudden urge to feel her skin against mine overtook me. And that’s what I did, I held her naked body against my heart while I kept weeping because I knew this could be the last moments of her with me.
Slowly, I felt warmth spreading throughout my body just like I had felt that day. Soon my body started buzzing with energy and I could feel this energy passing through my body to hers.
Closing my eyes, I securely held her against my chest... engulfing her in my warmth. Then a vision started to play before my closed eyes.
I saw Wolfie circling her body and licking her bruises and howling in pain, his pain was reaching my heart because even I was living the same pain.
He nudged her body with his muzzle, then he licked her face as he continued to howl. He sat beside her and started licking her bruises formed due to the breaking of her bones. Gradually, the bruises started to disappear and her body started to heal on its own as all the broken bones started to repair.
Everything just felt like a miracle.
Then he slashed his paw with his sharp teeth and dropped his blood in her mouth.
Suddenly, he lifted his head and looked straight into my eyes, and at that exact moment, everything went black.
The vision ended and my eyes snapped open, I found myself still holding Ella. Just like in the vision, every broken bone of her body was repaired with no sign of the injury on her delicate body.
I remembered Wolfie giving her his blood, and I did the same. However, as soon as I dropped my blood in her mouth, a moment later I witnessed her chest rising and falling as she took her first breath.
I have never cried so much in my life, how much I have cried at that moment. I have no explanation of what had happened or how it had happened, but all I knew I got my daughter back.
My Ella was breathing in my arms... the same Ella who didn’t even get a chance to take her first breath when all her breaths were snatched from her.
My sweet baby was alive, even bringing her mother back to life.
Quietly, I slip out of my room after putting Ella to sleep and head towards the living room from where I can hear James and Michelle talking.
The conversation stops as soon as I enter the living room, and Michelle smiles looking at me.
“Jenna said she shifted again while sleeping?” James asks with an amused tone.
I nod my head, but I can’t stop myself from laughing recalling James’s shocked face when she had shifted for the first time, in his arms, freaking him out completely.
Honestly, we all were freaked out because we have our first shifts when we are fourteen years old and here she shifted into a tiny adorable pup when she is hardly four days old.
“Why are you laughing?” He asks.
“I just recalled the moment when she shifted into her wolf for the first time and how you nearly dropped her in shock.” I sit beside Michelle, who is even laughing recalling the incident.
“Ella is completely opposite of her mother.” James smiles while rolling his eyes, “You refused to shift even after turning fourteen, and she refused to wait till fourteen.”
“But she doesn’t have any control on her shift, as she keeps on shifting into her wolf especially when she is sleeping.” I sigh because every time shifts back the sound of rearranging of her bone hurts me.
“I don’t understand how did she learn to call her wolf and shift into her?” Michelle raises her eyebrow, “Our wolves stay dormant until we come of age.”
“Ophelia said she must have learned to submit her wolf when she was in my womb when I was trying to fight my shift... She felt the connection between me and Fire, and established the same connection with her wolf.” I tell her what Ophelia has said to me when I was trying to force a naughty pup to shift back.
“Ivory, you know we have to inform Arthur and Julia about this, we can’t keep her as a secret.” James turns to me.
I nod my head silently because he is right. She is their granddaughter, I can’t keep her away from them.
“Ivory.” He gently calls my name, forcing me to look at him, “Donovon... he is her father even though he doesn’t remember anything, but still, we can’t separate him from her without even giving him a chance to see her.”
“We can see his mind is being controlled and from what you have told me... I assume that girl, Emma, is behind all this.” James speaks carefully, “He needs help, Ivy.”
“He needs his wolf because without him he is not strong enough to fight with whatever he is dealing with.” I swallow the hurt which sears my heart when I hear Donovon’s name. “I am trying to reach out to Wolfie because I know he heard my cries when he came to heal Ella. We have a connection that has weakened, but still, it is there. I will help him by finding his wolf because I will not let my Wolfie suffer. But this all I can do for him.”
I can understand he is being influenced but the hurt which I have felt because he has claimed her is something which is not easy to forget. He never loved me, otherwise, even though he couldn’t recognize me but his heart should have helped him to see my love and sincerity.