My Warlock Mate

Charlotte

Prologue - Harley

I couldn't believe the image before my eyes... Her lifeless eyes were yet opened, staring directly at me, but no longer hold the same warm in there...

... The word cold was never one used to describe her beautiful blue eyes...

I could feel the tears running down my face along with the rain the fell this night, the smell of wet soil was clear in the air mixed with her blood as the light skin that I loved to touch, paled more and more every second by, making hard to no accept the reality.

... She wasn't any longer with me...

Angry started to flow through my mind as I heard she get closer to me, yet I knew I couldn't stop her... I couldn't win over her... So I just wanted everything could just end, it doesn't longer matter what she would do to me now, even the most painful torture was nothing closer to the pain I felt now in my heart.

"Kill me soon," I said, looking to my beloved's, once beautiful, black hair glued in her lifeless body by the rain. "Torture me if you want but just kill me in the end, please..."

... The sound of the rain was only sound through this quiet, deadly night...

"No. You must live with this pain you're feeling or everything would be useless." 

"... Why?  Why are you doing this?" Pain, clearly filling my voice as I asked her. She was just like me, so how she could do something like this? "Why are you doing this to me? Are you not a witch like me?"

A smile showed in her face as she knelt, staring straight into my eyes. She was just so fakely sweet that I didn't know how I never realized it before... How I could be so foolish... 

"Oh Honey," Sweetly she said, passing her hand on my wet hair and gently caressing my cheek as tears were yet flowing down. "The reason is quite simple..."

 Soulmates never have a happy end.

The unpleasant memory from the day Charlotte was killed, woke me up once again in the middle of the night, disturbing my dream as a nightmare which no allowed me to sleep peacefully since that day. 

... I wish I no longer had to remember it, yet she didn't allow me to...

Honestly, I thought it would get better now after I have met Penelope, the little human girl that once I helped to save the life, and now the Alpha She-wolf who make me no longer scared to fall in love again, and... 

For a while, I truly wished Charlotte had been reborn as her, and despite this foolish desire, I knew it wasn't true after I saw who was on the other side of her fate string as if it was me, I wouldn't be able to see someone, yet the perfect image of Alexander was there, looking straight at me as he stands on the other side of the red line.

... It was ironic, how she was right about her Mate all the time...

Wanting to be strong just like Penelope was, I decided to finally see how she looked now, I decided to see how my soul-mate looked after she had reborn in the same night that Alexander finally found out that his Alpha's daughter truly was his Mate.

... And just like her, doubt and sadness filled my mind and heart on that night...

Charlotte no longer looked like the woman that I once loved in the past... 

Her hair wasn't black like it was before, her ocean blue eyes could no longer be called like this, and just her skin reminded me of the old Lottie who I loved... In the end, she was a completely different person now, although being the same soul.

... I knew that I wanted to go running to her as I knew who she was, how closer she was to me as she lived in there, in Mingan, in that little town... Yet, I was scared... 

I was scared about the idea that I could be the one who would destroy her happiness now, despite my worries of what could happen if we were together again, or of what could happen if she found us again, the scariest thing to me was that she was happy now... 

I could easily remember the beautiful smile on her face as she looked to her husband, passing the hand over her pregnant belly where their child was growing peacefully, and it was obvious on the couple's face that they couldn't wait to meet their baby.

... She glowed in happiness that afternoon...

As much as I wanted to be with her... As much as I was scared to be with her... Nothing was able to change the fact that Charlotte was no longer mine, she was no longer Charlotte, she was no longer the woman that I once knew.

She was someone else now, someone who was happy, who was living the life in the same way that once she wanted to live hers in the past, and like I said to Penelope, I wouldn't be the one breaking it now.

...  As I'm no longer the man able to make her smile...