Filed to story: Sinful Mates (Imogen) Book by Jessica Hall
Theo places Imogen in my arms, forcing me to take her lifeless body. I cradle her and breathe in her smell that is faint, nearly gone. Her body is cold in my arms as her head lolls against me. I brush her hair out of her face. Theo disappears inside somewhere, and I can’t tear my eyes away from her face. I kiss her cold lips, tears running down my face onto her porcelain skin.
“There is no baby Tobias. Where is our baby?” He asks, panicked. He looks down at Imogen’s angelic face before collapsing beside me. “I need her back, I want her back, please. I will do anything,” he whispers and begs. I don’t know who he is praying to, but hearing his broken voice breaks me even more.
“We need to find our child, if not for us, for her,” I whisper, looking down at her face against my chest. We owe her that much.
Theo
I can’t believe it, she is gone, dead. Tobias looks as broken as I feel. Imogen, laying in his arms, drenched in blood. I pull her shirt down, not being able to stare at her belly torn open. The damage to her body is haunting, seeing it makes me remember her pain and fear. I’m sure it will haunt me forever, feeling how much she wanted us and how helpless she felt in that moment. I could literally feel her begging with everything she had for us to get to here. We failed her and I know that will drive me insane with guilt.
“Take her, we need to leave,” Tobias says almost angrily.
I know he is hurting, but I hate the way he says it as he dumps her in my arms and tears his eyes away from her. I start walking toward the path we came up, his voice echoing through the wind over to me.
“What are you doing, Theo? We need to find our child!” He growls harshly.
“I’m not leaving her here,” I spit back at him, clutching her to me, refusing to let go. I can’t leave her. I can’t leave her here alone in the cold.
“We don’t even know who took the baby. That’s our priority now, we can come back for her, we don’t even know how far whoever took the baby is. You, carrying her will slow us down,” he growls, stepping toward me.
Tobias tries to take her from me, but I shove him away, growling at him threateningly.
“Fine, I will go by myself then.” I watch as he shifts, taking the form of his beast. He shakes out his fur, turning away from me and heading back up towards the house, obviously looking for any scent.
I continue to walk down the path, the storm is still raging around us, yet I don’t feel its rage. I can’t feel anything. I’m numb. Completely empty and dead inside. I keep walking, pulling Imogen closer, trying to shield her from the storm. It makes me feel warmer, having her in my arms. I have been walking for around five minutes when I notice a gold light coming from somewhere. I look around but can’t see anything that would cause the light that is on the ground in front of me. Adjusting Imogen, I notice the glowing gold light is coming from her wrist. I pick up her limp hand and realize the light is coming from the strange bracelet that sits on her small wrist. I run my fingers over the pendant that is glowing. I recognize the intricate pattern woven around it, but I can’t remember where I have seen it before.
I inspect the bracelet closely before I hear her gasp, jumping forward, coughing like she has been underwater and is taking a breath after holding it for a long time. Her eyes open to reveal a magnificent gold color, the same as her bracelet, glowing before she looks at me.
“Imogen.” I gasp, clutching her tighter.
She is rigid in my arms, stiff like a board. She looks around confused, before looking at me, her hands go to my face as if to see if I’m real. Then, her hands clutch onto her belly, her hands clawing at her shirt as she pulls it up. She suddenly starts thrashing in my arms, screaming, forcing me to drop her. She lands on the ground with a thud but springs to her feet faster than I can imagine.
“Where is he?” She says, looking around frantically.
“Tobias?” I ask.
Her eyes dart to mine. I take a step back from her, her eyes are blazing with something I can’t decipher. I have never seen eyes like hers before, never seen that expression on her face. I know every one of her expressions, and made mental notes of all of them. Yet, this look I have never seen before.
“My baby, where is he, Theo?” I shake my head, not knowing how to answer when I don’t know. She suddenly takes off, up the path back towards the cottage. She runs so fast I can’t keep up with her. I make it back to the house to see her barge through the door. I hear Tobias barrel up behind me before digging his claws into the earth and sliding into me.
He looks at me with his black obsidian eyes, with a hopeful look on his face, wondering if he feels it right. The bond is surging alive with Imogen’s anger. He shifts, and we both chase after her. We hear doors opening and closing upstairs before she races past us, screaming for the last name we thought we would hear come from her lips.
“Bianca, Bianca!”?She comes running back out and stops next to us before looking down.
I watch as she sniffs the air before dropping to the floor, her hands running over all the blood on the floor. She wipes at it with her hands, clawing at the floor, digging through it looking for something.
“Where is he? Where is my baby?” She asks, peering up at us with a look of pure fear and desperation on her face. Tears run down her cheeks.
I look at Tobias, he looks just as shocked as I feel at seeing her.
“We aren’t sure, we got here too late” I whisper.
Her face crumples up and my guilt hits me saying it. She starts wailing and screaming loudly at my words, rocking back and forth, her hands becoming drenched in her blood that is congealing on the floor. The bracelet on her wrist glows brighter and brighter, flashing like a beacon.
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