The Tribrid Heir's Orphaned Mate

Exposed Truths

Elizabeth's P.O.V.

Selene was right. The more that I've accepted Warrick into my heart, the stronger I've become and the easier it's been to be able to handle the cell that I'm in. It's been three days since I was stripped away from him and thrown in here to die, but the longer I'm in here and the more my heart yearns for Warrick, the more energy that I have. Honestly, it's kind of funny, because none of my pack members understand why I'm becoming stronger over the days, rather than weaker. The witches come in here to check their barrier spells over and over again, to make sure that they're not broken. The barrier spells haven't been broken though, not one single time, and it honestly humors me every time they come in to check. I can see them getting more and more concerned the stronger I get, I can smell the worry and fear on them, not understanding what is happening. None of them have figured out what's happening, though. Not yet, anyway.

Carter and Justin eventually just left me alone. They even started to get freaked out by the fact that wolfsbane doesn't have an effect on me anymore. The two idiots have even touched the silver bars a couple of times to make sure they are still...silver, I guess? I actually laughed at them when they burned themselves on them, which pissed them off even more. I've been alone for twenty-four hours now. They've finally all left me alone. All I can do is pace back and forth, though. My adrenaline has kicked in, making me ready for whatever is going to happen next. I haven't gotten fed either, and I know that I should be hungry, but I'm really not for some reason. Maybe that's my adrenaline too?

The cell door creaks open, and low and behold, Carter comes slithering in like the snake that he is. He gives me a devious smirk, like he has something on me, but I know the truth, he's scared as can be right now being in this room with me, I can smell it on him.

He just sits in the chair and glares at me, like he has been for the past three days now. I stop pacing and stare at him for a couple of seconds with my arms crossed over my chest, before letting out an annoyed snort and begin pacing again. I haven't even told him that his mate is waiting for him at River Crescent. That his fated mate is literally right at his finger tips, but that he's stopping himself from meeting her because he's being an i***t. I doubt he'd believe me anyway. I don't know if I even want to tell him, because I feel pity for his mate being mated to him at this point. The poor girl probably thinks her mate is somewhere out there searching for her desperately, waiting to give her this grand, romantic love story. In reality, he's a slimeball who's obsessed with another female enough to keep her captive, while trying to torture her.

I finally just decide that I'm going to say something to him, so I turn and look at him with angry, squinted eyes, "You know that Selene visited me in my sleep and told me that your fated mate is at River Crescent, right?"

Carter just rolls his eyes, unable to talk to me. On one hand, I'm glad that Warrick made that command so I wouldn't have to listen to his sadistic blabbering. On the other hand, I'm kind of irritated, because I honestly have nothing better to do than just argue with him right now, which is what I really just want to do at this moment.

"She's literally thinking her fated mate is some knight in shining armor, out there searching for her. When, in reality, she got dealt a bad hand and ended up with your dumbass." I say to him teasingly, trying to ruffle his feathers.

Carter lets out what I think is supposed to be a threatening growl, but it honestly just sounds like he wheezed. I start laughing at the sound that he makes, which just pisses him off even more. He can't even growl because of Warrick's command, which must be emasculating to him.

I finally stop laughing and catch my breathe, before sitting and staring at him seriously for a few seconds, "No, but seriously, Carter. You have a fated mate at River Crescent. Someone that was meant for you, picked by The Moon Goddess herself. You've got to let go of all of this hatred that you have, so that you can have a happy life with her. That's all I want for you, is to be happy. I know the amazing guy that I've known all of these years is still in there. He just feels betrayed by me right now and doesn't know anything else but hatred at the moment."

Carter glares at me, like I've pained him in some way. Now more than ever I just want to hear what he has to say. I want to know what's on his mind. Desperation to hear him speak burns through my soul, lighting up like a fire within me. Before I know it, I've slammed myself against the silver bars, clinging onto them angrily as I glare at him.

"TALK TO ME, DAMN IT!" I roar out, feeling the room shake around us.

Carter's eyes go wide as he stares at me, before he stands up and yells, "I CAN'T TALK TO YOU!"

Both of us just stare at each other in silence, confused about what has just happened. I step back away from the silver bars, the burns barely even visible on my hands from them. Carter's mouth is hanging wide open as he cautiously watches me move away from him.

"How...how did you...do that?" he whispers, as he squints his eyes in confusion.

I swallow down the lump that's forming in my throat, my mouth suddenly becoming dry, "I don't know." I whisper back.

"Your eyes turned purple, Lizzie." he says as he watches my every move.

I look down at the ground, suddenly aware that I've given him too much information on me now. He just witnessed me overpower my mate's command, my eyes change to a different color than they've ever changed before, and the silver barely doing anything to my skin. He knows something is changing in me now, and there's no hiding it from my pack anymore. These past few days they've thought me getting stronger was because they were doing something wrong with their magic, when in reality, it was me just getting more powerful because of my connection with my mate.

"You said that we would take each other as our chosen mate's, even if we found our fated mate's. I don't want my fated mate, Lizzie. I want you!" he says to me as I continue to stare at the ground, his voice cracking in desperation.

I look up at him with tears brimming my eyes, "Carter, I said that before I knew what it felt like to actually have a fated mate. You have no idea what it's like. The connection that you immediately have. Every sense that you have is heightened directly on them, every power of your being just pulling you towards them like a magnet. I wish I could explain. I wish I could show you what it actually feels like. Then you'd understand why I went back on my word. It's not only the fact that I'm choosing Warrick over you, Carter. It's the fact that I know you well enough, to know that if you ever found your fated mate and feel what I have felt for Warrick, that you'd want to be with them instead of me. You might be loyal to me, you might choose me and reject her, but that wouldn't matter, because you'd eventually resent me for it anyway. I not only made this decision for myself, but made it for you, because I know you. What I feel for Warrick, what I KNOW you'd feel for your fated mate once you find her, I would never take that feeling away from you. You have to know that, right?"

Carter looks away from me as he wipes a tear from his face, "You made a decision for me that you had no right to make. You've known me for years, Lizzie. You only knew Warrick for a few days. You're telling me that you feel more for him than you've ever felt for me?" he says as he looks back at me with saddened eyes.

I let out a soft sigh, "I'm telling you that there's a love for you out there that is much greater and stronger than the one that we have. Don't you want to feel that? If you love me as much as you do or did, and I was the wrong person for you, just imagine what the love you would feel for the right person would feel like. Yes, I've known you for years, and we will always have that connection. You will always understand me on different levels than Warrick will, because we've been through the pain of the past together, than he never had to deal with. However, the love I feel for him, the mate bond, it pulls my soul towards him in ways that I can't even explain. You just have to feel it for yourself to know what I'm talking about."

Once I'm done, Carter just gives me a soft smile without saying anything, nods his head, and walks out of the door.