Intertwined: her three mates

13. Lea

 3rd Person POV

Some time passes and the episode of Sponge Bob is over. The sensation that something is wrong grows stronger on Lea. 

She decides to mind-link her dad, something that she rarely does because it always tires her so much.  

“Daddy?” 

“Yes, Princess... are you okay?”  Maximus is quite surprised to hear her voice in his mind. 

“I think something is... weird” 

“What happened?” 

“I’m in this place that I don’t know. With these people, they are nice, but I don’t know them.... they said that mom wants to talk to me, but I think she’s not here”

“Where are you, Lea?” He asks worriedly.

“I don’t know... I’m in a white room, with Sarah and Richard....”

“Did they hurt you?” Maximus's voice grows desperately.

“No... I don’t think they are bad... but I don’t know what they are... they’re not elves, fairies or wizards... they’re something else”

“Baby, try to find out what they are, like in a detective game” He is absolutely worried, but he doesn’t want to scare her further. “and tell me what you get to know, okay?”

“Okay”

“I’m going to find you, sweetie. Stay calm. Daddy will be there soon.” 

“Yes, daddy” 

The worry in his voice aggravates her. What if she couldn’t ever see her mom, dad, and Liv anymore. Fear washes over her. 

She moves to the bedhead, hugs her knees, and cry softly. Soon Sarah notices the drastic change in her behavior.

Richard was in his room and he felt weird, a tickling sensation on the back of his head. He decides to go check on Leah, he goes there fast and opens the door of the room slowly to don’t scare the child. He sees Sarah trying to calm a crying Lea down. 

“What is wrong, hon?” Sarah asks her.

 “I know that my mom is not here. What will happen? What are you?” She says crying. 

“Oh... little one, it’s not...” Sarah mumbles.  

“I know you are lying. I’m not a baby.” She says crossing her arms on her chest. 

“Do you want sweets?” Sarah asks trying to appease her. 

Lea frowns, “I’m not 5, lady. I’m 9.”

Richard controls himself to don’t chuckle. 

“I want to go back home,” she says sobbing. 

Richard’s heart clenches a little at the sight of the girl crying. He goes to her, takes her crying form, and sits her on his leg on the edge of the bed. 

“We mean no harm to you, Lea,” he says in a deep and gentle voice. This appeases her. He wipes her tears with his thumbs softly. 

“What are you? You’re not an Elf or a Wizard.” She says, he chuckles. “you’re also not a fairy.” He chuckles harder. 

“Yes, I’m none of these. I’m a werewolf” he utters, looking at her cute surprised face.

She gasps. “A werewolf?” She asks in awe, eyes wide open. “I’ve never been friends with a werewolf before.” 

“Now you’ve two werewolf friends, Richard and I,” Sarah says.

“So, you can go furry like a puppy?” She asks 

He laughs “Not exactly.”

“Maybe a huge puppy,” Sarah utters. 

“Can I see it?” Lea asks excitedly.

“Hum... later, okay?” he says. 

“Okay,” Lea answers a bit frustrated. “Can you guys take me home please?” She pleas

“Lea, I would like a lot if you could stay... longer,” he says.

“We would like” Sarah adds. 

“Maybe a little bit more” the little girl utters with a small smile. 

Lea doesn’t know why, but she feels really safe there, with this huge and nice man.

   ~ * ~

* (At Avalon's Castle) *

They all walk towards Liv’s room. Elric is walking in front of them all carrying Mel’s limp form. Elric knocks on Liv’s door, she doesn’t answer. He knocks again. “Liv, it’s important.” She still doesn’t reply. 

He waves his hand in the air and the door opens, Liv is laying on her bed on her belly with headphones and looking at the screen of her laptop. She’s wearing only a grey crop top and mini pajama shorts. 

“s**t” he mutters under his breath at the view of her exposed curves. 

Liv finally notices his presence. She gasps in astonishment, takes the headphones swiftly, and goes to him after she sees her mom in his arms. She strokes her mom’s face and asks warily: “what happened to her?” 

"Is your sister, Lea. She’s in danger and your mom..." Elric utters. 

“The blood spell” Liv mutters. She moves to enable Elric to enter the room; he gently lays Mel down in the bed and Liv goes close to her. 

“Well, it’s a blood spell, so to make her feel better, she needs the blood of a close relative,” Liv utters. She looks at the procession of people entering her room. So much for privacy. Also, it’s not like her mom needs a crowd right now. Maybe they can make themselves useful, she thought. 

“Does anyone have a dagger, knife, sword, needle, butter knife, spoon, ... D…”  she means to say DAD as she is surprised to see her father among the crowd entering her room. But she coughs violently due to the blood oath she took days before, bending down a little as a searing pain strikes her. Elric holds her gently by her waist, trying to support her squirming body. Soon, the coughing fit is over, and she pulls him away. Her other mates are looking at her warily. 

 “I’m fine...I’m still angry with you... f**k off!” Liv exclaims. 

“You are not a sailor, Liv.” Astoria reprimands her niece. 

“Unfortunately, not,” Liv mutters under her breath. 

Liv turns her head and sees that Galvin is stalking towards her mother's bed, while the other people are standing next to the door, keeping a thoughtful distance. The only people who were closer were Amalia, the High Counsellor, who knew her mother, and her 3 mates. Her mates were by her side, near the bed.  

“And you Don Juan, get out!” Liv says through gritted teeth, pointing to Galvin. But he remains still, looking at her as if she has grown a second head. 

Avalon looks at him and orders, “please Galvin, leave.” Galvin leaves with a frown.

Astoria covers her chuckle. 

Liv despised Galvin and the annoying and harassing way he was pursuing her mother. She was not a fan of her mother's relationship with her father, that is for sure. But Galvin was even worse, the way he lustfully looks at her mother and never loses an opportunity to stalk her or touch her, even though he knew, as it was absolutely crystal clear, that his courtship was unwelcomed, made Liv nauseate. Her mom has told that twit that she was not available, that she was M.A.T.E.D. But the prick seems to don't understand or don't care about it. He continued to harass her bluntly and shamelessly.

  ~ * ~

Maximus decides to check on Lea again: 

“Lea? How are you, princess?”

“Oh... dad.”

“Did anything happen?” He asks warily.

“I, I... forgot to tell you something... they are werewolves. But they are really nice. I like them, especially Richard.”

“Lea, I’m going for you, sweetie. Stay calm and play with your new friends” 

He cuts the link and sighs deeply before he curses under his breath. His suspect was right. Her kidnapper is the Werewolf King. 

He knew he has to flash there and rescue his younger daughter, but before he has to be sure that his mate would be fine. He will flash to the Royal Pack borders since he could not flash inside the Pack territory. It was protected against uninvited guests by a very ancient and powerful magic. Many say that this magic came directly from the Goddess herself. 

  ~ * ~

 “50 people in this room and no one has a bloody knife... or a flower” Liv mutters as her eyes met the vase of flowers on top of her bedside table. 

She takes one of the red roses that Avalon has sent her hours early and cuts her palm a few times using the thorns. She gets close to her mom and moves her chin gently. “Mom, open your mouth.” Mel whimpers, eyes still closed but opens her mouth slightly. Liv clenches her hand tightly close to Mel’s lips and few blood droplets fall into it. Mel stops whimpering and her pained expression is gone. 

“she needs to rest, Liv. The effect of the spell took a toll on her” Avalon utters holding Liv´s hand. She escapes his hold and gives him an angry look. He sighs. Such a stubborn teenage girl. 

“No s**t Sherlock” she mutters. 

“You were the last person who saw Lea, am I right?” Astoria asks

“Yes, a woman came to call her, saying that mom wanted to talk to her...” she looks to the wall clock. “that was around 1:30, 2 hours ago” ... “crap, I lost track of time” 

“Have you seen that woman before?” The Wizard King asks.

“Hum... no” Liv answers. 

“And you didn’t find it suspicious?” He asks. 

She raises a brow at him. “It’s not like I keep a tab on everyone in your Realm, ´Oh mighty King.” She says sarcastically. 

His mate is a handful. Maybe having one man wouldn’t be enough to guarantee that she doesn’t incinerate the world, maybe that’s why the Goddess gave her 3 mates, he thinks, shaking his head at the thought. He was already using all his patience up with her and soon, very soon, he would reach the end of his patience.  

Seeing that Mel is not suffering anymore, Maximus motions to leave. Anyone, but Astoria, notices it, she gives him a knowing look, before he leaves to rescue his younger daughter. 

Liv bends down and says in her mom’s ear. “Rest mom, we will find Lea and bring her back safe. I love you!” She kisses her mom’s cheek. 

“We need to find Lea.” Liv sighs as she strokes her mom’s hair. She turns around, looks to her mates, and says: “let’s go!”

“You should stay here, Sugar…” Laius tells her, wrapping an arm around her waist. She pushes him away and snarls at him, earning a wide-eyed look from him. He for sure isn't used to be pushed away, she thought. 

“Heck no!! I’m totally going! It’s my sister.” She looks at Elric “but someone needs to watch her...” she adds motioning to her mother. 

“Astoria please watch her,” Elric asks. 

Astoria sighs, she wanted to look for her little niece as well.  

“Mircella, stay with Princess Melinda,” Laius commands. 

“Linus, stay with her as well” Avalon utters. 

“If you get me a cool outfit, I may think about forgiving you, eventually. And don’t forget the underwear, lazy-head.”

Elric chuckles and summons her a silver tank top, a leather jacket, and a flared black mid-thigh skirt. 

“Seriously? Are you watching too many 80s movies? That’s the opposite of cool.”

The Elf King chuckles again and summons her a black long jumpsuit, which hugged her curves.

“That’s what I was talking about” she mutters. “From where we should start?” 

//Author's Note:  

That is a little teaser of Lea's book. It's called "Torn between mates." It’s completed.