Chapter 71 All I have is hope

Chapter 71 All I have is hope

The worst part about blocking out, because of the pain, is waking up with the pain, and much worse.

I wake up screaming, barely able to open my eyes to take in my surroundings. I feel arms wrap themselves around me pulling me against a chest.

"Elle!" I hear a deep voice shout over my screaming. I grit my teeth trying to compose myself while feeling hot tears rolling down my face. "Do it now!" The same voice shouted again.

I still couldn't make out who it was, I can't even get their scent. I can't do anything but scream in pain.

I then feel something sharp being jammed into my skin. My eyes finally snap open and I shriek when I see a huge ass needle in my arm.

I begin to thrash around trying to get from whoever's arms I'm in. They pull me back, restraining me.

Getting tired, I stop and lay my head on their shoulder, breathing in relief as the pain subsides.

"You're going to be ok." The voice whispers into my ear. I then recognized it was Andrew.

I look at him in with blurry vision, happy to be in his arms. He looks at me with a small smile while wiping my tears with his thumb. "You're going to be ok." He whispers again, I could see the tears welling up in his eyes.

I rest my face in the crease of his neck, taking in his scent. He kisses the top of my head.

The guilt of the pain I caused him wash over me and I feel terrible.

"I'm so sorry." I cried. He holds me tighter not saying a word for like ten minutes until I fell asleep.

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Thankfully this time waking up, I feel more refreshed and not about to die. I slowly open my eyes to be greeted with Andrew's bare chest.

A frown forms on my face as I study his. He has bags under his eyes, like he haven't been sleeping for the past couple days. His eyebrows are furrowed as if he's worried about losing something.

I unconsciously lift my hand to his face, caressing his cheek. His eyes flutters open and I instantly stop but not removing my hand.

"I'm sorry I woke you up. Go back to sleep."

He sighs pulling me closer to him. "I don't need sleep. Now continue you what were doing with your hand. I like it."

A small smile grows on my lips and I resume to caressing his cheek while looking him in the eyes. "Are you mad at me?" I whisper.

I wasn't just asking about me leaving to find the demons, but me not telling him about the baby and what might happen when I carry on with this pregnancy. I'm sure he must of have asked Lyra on why I was screaming bloody murder.

"Yes." My smile falters and he continues. "But I don't want to talk about that right now." I am honestly surprised about his response and a little scared to ask him on what he was talking about, exactly.

My eyes avert to his lips, missing the feeling of them on mine. I lift my head up and place my lips against his. He groans pulling me by the back of my neck, deepening the kiss.

This kiss held not only passion, but also the anger. I know he's angry.

Andrew runs his hand down my back to my thigh. He slowly begins to rub on my inner thigh and a moan escapes my lips. He grabs me by my thigh pulling me on top of him. I break away from the kiss, kissing him on his neck.

He turn his head the other direction giving me more access. Andrew grips on my hips as I playfully run my hands down his chest to the waistband of his sweat pants while trailing kisses down to his chest. I can hear his heart beat getting faster and I stop, sitting up with a smirk, enjoying that I'm teasing him.

I place my hands on his chest, looking down at him. His eyes are now dark, with a look of hunger. He sits up locking our lip together while pulling me further onto his lap. I moan feeling his bugle and he gently bites down on my bottom lip, pulling it.

Getting tired of him teasing me, I pull him back into the kiss, wrapping my arms around his neck. I slowly begin to grind on him causing him to groan lowly into my mouth.

"I want you so fucking bad right now." He whispers against my lip slowly going down my neck and nibbling on my mark. A whimper escapes my lips feeling the electric sensation the mark pleasures me with.

Andrew kneads my inner thigh, and slowly gets closer to my center. He pulls my underwear to the side and gently form on my clit. I break away from the kiss, throwing my head back letting a breath out. He inserts a finger and I moan from the pleasure.

"You look so beautiful, when you're enjoying yourself." He whispers with a raspy voice.

I look at him too fluttered to answer him as he inserts another finger. I close my eyes as he leaves peppery kisses on my jaw, while pulling down the top of my dress, exposing my chest.

I fasten my pace grinding on his fingers as I roam my hands all over his chest to his defined abs and down to his waistband of his sweat pants, ready to pull it down but we here a knock on the door.

"Oh shit!" Andrew pulls me closer to him to hide my exposed chest. "You two don't waste time, do you?" Daniel asks with a smirk. I hide my sweaty and embarrassed face in the crease of Andrew's neck.

"Get out!" Andrew shouts.

"Ok, jeez. Lyra forced me in here to give Elle this tea." I hear him put the cup down before mumbling a sorry and closing the door.

I sigh lifting head and look at Andrew. "We have to go out there now don't we?" He asks with a frown. I nod and he helps me pull my dress back up. Ready to get off his lap, he pulls me back down meeting each others lips together, once again.

I hold him by the neck kissing him back, with our lips moving in-sync. I sigh realizing we won't leave this room if I don't stop.

I gently tap on his face, pulling away from the kiss. "Let's go. We have to talk." His mood instantly changes when he sees my mood change.

After we got dressed we, we met everyone in the living area. My eyes immediately spotted Simon and before I could finish asking my question about Junior, he answers with a smile.

"He'll be fine. Nikolaos' demon blood took a toll on him but Lyra helped out. He's resting now."

I am relieved that we got Junior back without much trouble but that also worries me. Why did he let us go?

"We do not know why Nikolaos let you guys go so simply." Lyra says as if she read my mind. "It just doesn't make sense." She mumbles. "Elle, what did he say he wanted from you, exactly?"

I gulp taking a seat. "H-he wanted me to give him the baby." My eyes immediately looked over at Andrew. He was already looking at me with anger, but not towards me, someone else and.... guilt.

"If that's all he said then why would he let you-" She pauses as realization hits her. "Did anyone follow you?"

"What- we don't know?" Jeremiah answers.

"Why?" Daniel asks, folding his arms over his chest.

"He would not let the source of his hope out of his sight. Something followed you guys here."

"What are we going to do if they already know where we are?"

"Don't worry. A long time ago before I died, I put up a spell for a barrier around this entire mountain to keep every demon out after I died."

"So, how are we-?" Simon asks trailing off.

"I gave you permission to enter." She pauses, pouring hot water in a cup to make her tea. "I made this barrier to protect my home when I knew my life was being threatened."

"Ook, this seems like the only chance I got but what causes the red fog?" Simon asks.

"I built this mountain from the ground, up. When I died, most of my power left with me. My power keep this place alive and beautiful, but once I was gone the blood red fog took over."

"But you're here now, why does it still look like this?"

"Because I'm not here to stay." We all look at her confused. "My time here is limited, so will Elizabeth's family when I bring them back."

"What?" Elizabeth snaps out of no where.

She the turns to me. "It will unbalance nature bringing anyone back from the dead, especially thousands of succubus'. Once our task is done, so are we."

"Did my mother know about this?"

"Yes, Elizabeth and she knows it's fair."

"W-will we go back to... the after life? Like before?"

"Yes. You and your family are bound forever, even in the after life."

I could feel her anger die down and she is now relaxed and drawn back.

Lyra turns her attention back to everyone. "Because we do not know what Nikolaos is planning, Elle will have to stay here until the baby is born." Everyone snaps their heads in her direction. "I am the only that can help, Elle, through this pregnancy. I can not let her out of my sight in order to make sure the baby has a safe delivery and to make sure, Elle, will be ok."

"What are you talking about?" Andrew asks looking at us both confused. "Will, Elle, have a difficult pregnancy?"

"Yes, she will and it will be threatening to her life."

"Did you know about this?" He asks me with his voice raised. I take in a deep breath before nodding my head. He rolls his hand into a fist before punching the wall causing me to flinch.

I look at Simon with pleading eyes to give us a moment. He got the memo and the rest of them left the room. I stand up walking over to, Andrew, whose back is turned to me. I wrap my arms around him from behind and close my eyes.

"Why, Elle?" He asks with is voice cracking.

"Because I want. This our child Andrew and I'm going through with it." I whisper.

He turns around to face me but I don't let go of him. I look up at him to see tears welling up in his eyes. "What's the point? You won't be here, what will I do then?"

"Don't talk like that." I snap. "You have our family, you have me."

"But-"

"Lyra, will help me through this and we will get married and raise this child together. You hear me?" I ask as I wipe the tears from his eyes.

He wraps his arms around me waist and puts his forehead against mine. "You better, Elle Cooper."

I give him a small peck on the lips with a smile on my face. As if remembering something, he pulls away and walks into the bedroom we were in. I stand there confused and a little worried. A few seconds later he comes back out with a familiar red velvet box.

"Take this off again and you'll never hear the end of it." He chuckles taking out the ring. I put my hand in his and he puts on the ring.

I admire the beautiful stone with tears now welling up in my eyes. "I'm sorry."

"It's ok."

After Andrew and I's talk, Lyra informed us that we could now communicate with our pack from here, through the mind link. Andrew immediately reached out to Chris and he informed him that the place is in chaos. The packs are arguing, everyone is lost and confused with what's going on and some rumor is going around about me joining the demons.

Even though Andrew didn't want to leave my side, he had to go and clear up everything. I still couldn't reach out to anyone because I am still not at my full strength. My senses are slowly coming back but I will have to wait a little longer to reach out to anyone.

I begged Andrew to not tell anyone about my chances with the pregnancy and just tell them that I'm fine. He didn't agree at first but I explained to him I really didn't want them to worry about me so he reluctantly agreed. Simon stayed back to keep an eye on Junior and Jeremiah and Daniel left with Andrew to make sure he got there safely from the demons.

Right after they left, Lyra went outside to check on her garden and Simon sat beside me on the bench.

"You're going to be ok, right?" He ask.

"I hope so. Any changes with Junior?" I ask trying to change the subject.

"No, he's still sleeping." He pauses for a second looking at me with concern. "Please do not change the subject. This pregnancy is life threatening, Elle."

"And I am going through with it. I know my chances, Simon and I hope to goddess that I make it through this alive. You are not changing my mind. No one is."

He gulps and take a deep breath before answering. "Ok..... and I want you to know that I will be with you every step of the way."

"You're not leaving?" I thought once he found Junior he would go back to his life.

He shakes his head. "No. At least not now. After everything is over and we take down the demons, you can ask me that question again." He smiles.

I scoot over next to him on the bench and wrap my arms around him. I could tell my action caught him by surprise but after a couple seconds he does the same and a lot tighter.

"Thank you." I whisper.

"For what, Little one?"

"Being my friend again."

"Shouldn't I be thanking you?"

"It can go both ways." He chuckles and kiss me on my head.

"Thank you, Little one."

"For what?"

"Being my friend again." I smile and closing my eyes, not wanting to let him go. "So, what will you name the mini Elle?"

I look up at him with a grin on my face. "Considering mostly girls run through my family, I think it's a high chance of it being a girl and I want to name her Cora."

"After your mother?"

I nod pulling away. "Yeah. Andrew and I talked about this a year ago and I always wanted to name my child after my mom, to honor her, you know?"

"Yeah, it's a beautiful name. You're going to a great mother, Little one." He says with a warm smile.

"Thank you."

It warmed my heart to hear him say that and a part of me really hopes that it is true. That I will be able to raise and love my child.

All I have is hope right now.