Here is a short chapter from Tanyas POV, let me know what you think about it. and if i should include it more often.
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Universe must be joking, so I laughed, I laughed from all of this rage I was currently feeling. I could hear the steering wheel breaking under my hands while I was trying to reach my home. It was pure luck that nobody was on the road at this hour because somebody would potentially lose their life, but I couldn't be bothered. All I could see before me was red, I could feel venom gathering in my mouth, I was ready to kill someone. Someone, who I considered my companion for over a thousand years, but she threatened the bond between my mate and me. The very mate that I had waited for so long to find. I had given up all the hope of ever finding her. But she had come to me, she had found me, becoming the centre of my universe, and I wasn't ready to lose her. She was the one thing I wasn't ready to give up, my sole reason to live.
I could see Kate behind me, driving as fast as me. She should feel lucky to still be in one piece, I should have dismantled her the moment she dared to claim my mate. If it weren't for my Bella and my thousand years of control, she would be in pieces at the moment.
She will be in pieces.
My beast didn't give me a chance to think of her as my sister, my companion, she was the enemy that wanted to take my mate.
It didn't take me long to reach my home, nor did it surprise me to see my family outside, on the front porch. They must have heard me and Kate driving well over the speed limit; while we did drive fast, never did we rush in this manner. They had worry written over their faces, but I paid them no mind, all I could think about was sinking my teeth into Kate.
I quickly stepped out of the car, Irina's murmur of my name reaching my ears, but I gave her a warning growl that stopped her in the tracks. My word was the law and they knew that there was no questioning my power. I was the coven leader for a damn reason. I didn't use the authority often, but when I did, they obeyed without question. Now they knew that they shouldn't involve themselves.
It didn't take Kate long to reach our home, she turned off the engine and stepped out of her car. For a few seconds we just looked each other. But it didn't take me long to snap, she tried to do something that was unforgiving in our world. To try to claim another's mate was a hard crime, and she will pay for that.
I sprinted towards her, with my beast roaring, signalling a battle cry. She didn't have the time to prepare herself, I was very fast, and she could only watch as my fist came crashing into her face, you could hear her face cracking under my fist. She flew to her car, completely destroying it, but my beast was already in front of her, taking her by the neck, showing her that we are more powerful than her.
I griped her neck, feeling her skin breaking under my fingers when she came to herself, she quickly put her hand on my fist and let her power do her thing. She let the most powerful blast of electricity that I had ever felt in my life, and all I could do was fall on my knees, letting go of her neck. That was all the time that she needed to recover. She kicked me in the chest and when I fell to the ground, she straddled me and started to kick my face into the ground.
When she started to lose her power, I managed to smash her head with mine, startling her and giving myself time to get on my feet.
We started circling one another, waiting for the other to make the first move.
"How could you?" I shouted while growling the whole time. I wanted to hear her reasoning, how could she betray me like this, to try to make claim on Bella knowing that she is mine.
"She is mine!" she responded in the same manner, at which my beast responded with most powerful roar that I have ever let out.
"How dare you claim something like that, she is mine?" I prepared to jump her. I already started to run towards her, she didn't even try to redeem herself, not that I would forgive her.
All it took me was a couple of centimetres to reconnect with her face and this time she would lose the half of it, but suddenly someone crashed into me and threw me into the tree. I didn't even have the time to recover, Irina and Carmen were on me, trying to hold me in place, while lifting me on my feet, I could see Eleazar standing beside Kate, holding her in place. Knowing that she could easily shock him, but she didn't do that, she looked like she was calming herself down.
"You dare to disobey me; I gave you an order?" I asked my coven mates. "This will not be forgiven, and there will be consequences." They looked down in shame, in our world, disobeying the direct order of your coven leader was not something you took lightly.
"We didn't do this easily, Tanya, but you would have killed each other if we hadn't stopped you soon!" Irina was desperately trying to explain the reason for their betrayal. "What the hell happened for you to behave in this way, we are sisters." she asked.
"If she were my sister, she wouldn't try to claim my mate!" I spat in their faces, watching as their emotions changed, now they understood my reaction. They all looked at Kate with disappointment in their eyes, they knew the punishment for that crime.
Kate saw that she was being looked down upon, so she shouted at me. "Tanya, she is my mate, how dare you think that I would claim her without her being my mate." She was looking at me in the eyes, and I could see her begging for me to listen.
"That is impossible, she is my mate." I cried out, trying to free myself, but I could feel my beast slowly retreating inside me, accepting something I wasn't yet ready to hear. As my beast retreated, Irina and Carmen were able to hold me in place.
"I felt the pull, Tanya, she is the reason I am on this planet. I would give everything up for her." She was trying to reason with me, but I didn't want to hear her. Yet, here she was telling everything I was feeling for Bella.
"There is the case of multiple mates, think of the Queens." Eleazar quietly said, not looking into my eyes; he didn't want to provoke me or challenge my beast. He knew that they could still be punished for interfering when I said not to.
"They are all mates, they do not simply share the mate between them and they are the only example in the history of our kind, do not try to make me a fool!" I shouted at him, growling, daring him to challenge me again.
"Sister, have I ever given you a reason to doubt me? Have I ever done something against you? I am not questioning that she is your mate, but she is also mine." Kate was talking to me, she was looking at me directly in the eyes, only she could be this stupid to do that at the moment.
But her eyes did something to me in that moment, no one could make me reconsider my decisions. Only she could. My most trusted companion. The person who was closest to me for over a thousand years. And she knew exactly what she was doing to me, so she didn't stop.
"Tanya, think!" she begged me. "Think, she must be the reason why we are this close, she was the reason we trusted each other so much, why we never left each other. She is the reason." With every word spoken by her, I was breaking, I started to shake. "I can't lose her." I said to her, she was forcing me to recognize my biggest fear; losing my mate.
She started to walk towards me, carefully, as if checking if I would attack her again. But my beast didn't see her as a threat anymore, she was my trusted companion again, so she continued until she stood in front of me. She looked at Irina and Carmen, making them release me and moving away from us.
Then she slowly caressed my cheek, not breaking the eyes contact, "You are not going to lose her, I am not trying to take her from you, Tanya." she stopped, as if she was preparing for my reaction before she said "She is ours."
"How is that possible? What will we do?" she could hear the fear in my voice and after so many years together, she knew that I was losing myself, going spiral in my own thoughts.
"Don't think too much." Kate stated, but how could I not? "What if she doesn't accept us? I mean, she already told me that she felt the pull to me, but now there are two of us. Sharing a partner is not something people often do; we don't do that at all! In our whole history our Queens are the only example." She tried to say something, but I didn't give her a chance, I started to walk around, needing to have space while I was thinking of the possibility that my mate won't accept us.
I looked at Kate, trying to decide if I even wanted to ask her, knowing that her answer is going to change a lot of things. "Does it really not bother you while you imagine me and Bella, knowing that I am already in a relationship with her or the fact that we could be sharing her for the rest of our lives? That I will be intimate with her? You are ready to live with that, because that is what I think you are trying to suggest here? Isn't it? That we share a mate?"
She was quiet for a while. "I have already accepted that, Tanya, the moment my eyes met with hers. It didn't bother me even for a second, I know she loves you already and you love her. What else could I ask? I know that she will be protected by us, that we will not let anything happen to her. Also, her happiness depends on you. My beast can't look at you as the enemy or competitor when you are the reason my mate is happy. I love you even more because of that. For you it was different, you met her first, you are already in the relationship as you say, I would have reacted in the same way your beast did. I will not say that I was not jealous at first, I want to have the same closeness that you have with her." she was looking tired, exhausted as she was saying that. But she was honest, now it was my turn to show the same kindness.
I was trying to picture them together; I knew that if I have even a slight problem with picturing them together, I will not be able to see them together in the real world. As I was thinking of them, everything that Kate said I felt, I could see Bella happy because of her. I knew that Kate would die for her and that without her Bella won't be complete. But I also thought of Kate, she deserved to be happy, same as me.
My beast was agreeing with me so I knew that from this moment, I wouldn't have problem with them being together. Kate could see it of what I had decided, she was smiling from the moment she realized my decision.
"She can still decide not to even like you." The smirk was now forming on my lips, I would not pass such a good opportunity to mess with her.
"Please, have you met me? I will charm her off her feet, I'm sure of that." she responded playfully, relaxing completely. "Oh, Tanya, you owe me a new car, I was rather fond of it." I laughed at that, of course she would think about her car- her passion.
"Would you be willing to hunt with me? I feel rather exhausted now. It would also give us the opportunity to talk about Bella and how will we introduce you to her life. She will want to know what was this all about." I asked Kate and she nodded, excited to hear more about Bella.
Then, I turned to Irina, Carmen and Eleazar, not forgetting their actions. They expected consequences after disobeying me, a punishable action in our world. They were looking at us the whole time, but now that my attention was on them, they seemed content to look everywhere but me.
"You knew, no matter what circumstance, that you should not disobey me. Although I didn't say anything, I gave you an order. An order that you decided to break." They remained silent, waiting to hear what their punishment will be.
"There will be no punishment." they quickly looked up, not expecting to hear that. "You were right to stop me, you helped me stop and think about what I was doing and for that I want to thank you. I can't imagine what would happen if I didn't stop…" Kate decided to interrupt me. "As if you could do me a serious damage." she chuckled. I gave her a look that said do not test me, so she remained quiet.
"As I was saying, thank you. But do not think that there will be no severe consequences had this behavior be repeated. I will not forgive and forget so easily as I am doing right now. You know our law." I finished my speech.
"Thank you, it won't be repeated." they said, I could see that they meant it. I nodded and they fully relaxed, knowing that all was well.
"We will return in a few hours." and with that Kate and I disappeared in the forest, and on our mind was only one person, Bella. Our mate.
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