Forgotten Days (Fate's Intent Book 6) (24 page)

“Here’s your chance to try. You almost brought Kole back. Please, just try.”

“Okay. Okay.” Jaylyn said, wiping her eyes and trying to find the strength she needed. “Just give me some room.” Zayden stood up and moved out of the way but far from me and Jaylyn held her hand over her heart while her eyes started to glow.

“What are you doing, Jay?” I looked around and Ryon appeared standing by the window.

“What do you think? I have to try.”

“It won’t work like it didn’t last time.”

“Then you bring her back!”

“Sorry. I haven’t been authorized to. We’re not allowed to tamper with the living.”

“Then why are you here?” Ruby asked.

“To tell you how you can bring her back.”

“Isn’t that tampering?”

“It’s a loop hole. I’m not going to do it. So, no.”

“Then how?” Zayden demanded.

Ryon looked upon him for a moment. “A secret I can only share with a healer.”

“Then share it with me.” Jaylyn said.

He was looking right at Jaylyn and she was looking back but he wasn’t speaking; at least openly.

“What does that mean?” Jaylyn asked.

Ryon vanished and I was hoping he somehow shared something with her that would actually help.

“What? What’d he say?” Zayden asked. “Was he talking to you?”

“Yeah. Transferring life.” Jaylyn was acting as if she were thinking it over very carefully then this hopeful look came upon her face. She held her hand over Adele’s body and moved it from her head down her torso where she stopped and smiled.

“What?” Ruby asked.

“He was right. I can do it.”

“How do you know?” Troy asked. “What does transferring life mean?”

“She has life in her still. She’s pregnant.”

I hated myself even more and it was worse watching Zayden fall apart. He couldn’t even stand and had to back himself up to the nearby chair. Rift jumped out of it to let him sit and stayed close at his feet while Zayden held his head down.

“And you can bring her back?” Ruby asked.

“Yes. She has life in her already but in order to give it back to her I have to take it from somewhere else. Like a sacrifice.”

It was explained easy enough. I knew what it meant. She would have to take the life from the baby in order to give life back to Adele.

I looked at Zayden and he looked up, taking a deep breath. “Do it. The baby won’t survive if its mother is dead. It’s the only way.”

“He said it was but I’ll fix her neck first.” Jaylyn put one hand over Adele’s neck to heal that then moved it to her lower stomach and put her other hand over her heart. Her eyes had begun to glow and the process began.

We anxiously awaited in complete silence while Jaylyn concentrated on Adele. Zayden got up to pace but kept a point to keep his angry glare off me and down at the floor. When Adele started to breathe again, Zayden stopped and almost lost his.

“Good work.” Ruby smiled, getting down next to Jaylyn and hugging her.

“How about we not tell her that she was dead, okay? I don’t want her to think that I can actually bring people fully back to life yet. This was just a miracle that this happened at all so she shouldn’t know about the baby. We wouldn’t want her to become depressed and wish none of this had happened.”

“Wait.” Ruby said. “You know who the father was?”

Zayden immediately looked over at me and still had his angry stare but his eyes were blue.

Jaylyn nodded.

“Well?” Troy asked. “Whose was it?”

“There’s no doubt in my mind of what I felt. It was yours, Zayden. I’m sorry.”

He closed his eyes and put his head down while Troy put a comforting hand on his shoulder. Now I felt even worse.

“Leave. Now.” Zayden walked to Adele, lifting her to put her on the bed.

“We should.” Jaylyn said as she started to turn. “If it helps, Zayden, she’s alive right now because of you.”

I knew what Zayden wanted but I felt as if I couldn’t leave yet and let the others keep walking. “Zayden?”

“How dare you even think to speak to me?”

“I’m sorry. I understand that you hate me but I want you to know that if I knew about the baby, I wouldn’t have—”

“I doubt it, Darius.”

“You have to know that it wasn’t planned. I never set an objective to be with Adele that way, ever.”

“You were just doing what you’ve always done, right? Screwing every female that moves in front of you without caring about the people attached to her. I know your past better than anyone and I know exactly what you were doing.”

“Zayden, how can you just blame me?”

“Don’t give me that it takes two speech. I’ve seen you work on women since you were old enough to reproduce. I know you don’t have to say a thing to get them to cave to you, just look at them. You looked too long and now Seth is gone because of you.”

“I’m sorry. I didn’t know. What do you want me to do? I can make it up to you.”

“Just go. I don’t want you here when she wakes up.”

“But Zayden, I said—”

“And I said leave! Have Jaylyn tend to your face before I completely rearrange it!”

He was tempered but his eyes weren’t black. I didn’t want to go and leave this unresolved but I didn’t want the situation to get worse either. “All right. I’ll go but please, don’t hold this against me forever. We’re brothers, remember? We’re supposed to stick together.”

“Leave.”

I respected his wishes and I walked out to find Ruby waiting for me. I didn’t know what to say to her but she didn’t exactly say anything to me either. She just stepped closer and brought her hand up to my battered face.

“I’m sorry.” I said.

“I know. You’ve been stressed since the wedding and needed to vent with meaningless sex.”

“That’s not why I did it. I honestly don’t know why. It was a mistake and I’m truly and forever sorry for it.”

“I just want this to be over, okay? You’re forgiven.”

“That easily? But I know what I did must have hurt you.”

“It did but this just makes us even for the whole Trever thing.”

My eyes widened slightly or tried to. “But I thought you said nothing happened?”

“Nothing did.”

“Then how does that make us even?”

“Because I wanted to. I tried to do things your way but I realized that I couldn’t be like that.”

“But that doesn’t make us even because I did those things and you didn’t.”

“Maybe not completely but I just want this to be over.”

“Ruby, I—”

She put her finger to my mouth. “Shh. Let’s just forget about this and get you downstairs so Jaylyn can fix you.”

She hugged me and I held my arms around her. “I love you.”

“I love you too. Let’s go and try to forget about this.”

“Ruby—”

“Please.” She cut in, hugging me tighter. “I don’t want to be mad at you. I understand why you did it.”

“What?”

“Come on. Adele has always been the top choice. I’m surprised all three of you weren’t trying to be with her from the beginning.”

“That’s not true. She’s not who caught my eye that night. It was you.”

“It was more like you caught me but whatever it was I don’t blame you so let’s just go and leave this behind us.”

The fighting was over for us much quicker than I expected. Going on about how sorry I was would only started to annoy her and turn this around. I couldn’t let that happen and we slowly started down the stairs.

“If that’s what you want.”

“You know it is. I made a mistake too and Adele could have died or―stayed dead.”

“But they lost their child because of me.”

“And what makes you think they couldn’t have another? I give it a month and she’ll be pregnant again.”

“How do you know?”

“She mentioned being unusually charged lately. That could be because of you or it couldn’t be. I’m not judging but with them having sex that much, it’s bound to happen.”

“You really think so?”

“Why are you worrying? Of course I think so.”

“I just hope your right. Zayden hates me.”

“Oh, I’m sure he doesn’t.”

“He does. That child couldn’t have even been in her long enough to have its own brain and Zayden thinks he lost Seth forever.”

“And he’ll get over it when he has that again.”

“I wouldn’t be too sure.”

“There you are.” Jaylyn said in a whining voice. “Oh, look at you. You poor thing.”

“I’m okay, Jaylyn. Really. I deserved it.”

“Maybe not all of it. It was terrifying when he was beating you. I thought he was going to kill you. You don’t deserve that.”

“Difference in opinion, I guess.”

“Come over here and let me help you.” She took my arm rather forcefully and led me to the couch by Troy.

“How is he?” Troy asked.

“Awful.” It was the only answer I could give but I knew it was right. I just didn’t know how long it would be before that changed.

Chapter 40

Zayden

“What happened? The last thing I remember was yelling.”

I didn’t even notice Adele was waking up until she actually did; I was too caught up in the events but I answered her like she wanted, not mentioning anything I shouldn’t. “She pushed you and you hit your head but you’re okay now.”

“No, I’m not. I’m sorry I put you through this, Zayden.”

“It’s okay, Love. I think it’s best if we just put this in the past.”

“How can you say that? I thought you stopped loving me.”

“I never said that, Love and I will never stop loving you for any reason. You should know that.” I hoped my explanation would help but she only started to cry harder and I took her in my arms. “Hey, it’s all right, Love. Let’s just put this all behind us and move forward. I don’t want this to get in the way of our future and it will if you keep holding onto it.”

She pulled away and took a few deep breaths. “I just don’t want things to be weird between us.”

“It won’t be.”

“I mean with Ruby and Darius. I want things to be back the way they were and should have stayed.”

“It’s late to start thinking that now.”

“But you hate him, don’t you?”

“I’m disappointed in him.”

“If we’re going to move passed this, Zayden, you know you can’t be forever.”

“I know. I’ll just need more time with him. He hurt me on a level I can’t explain.”

“Okay, I understand. He’s your brother. I’m kind of in that boat myself.”

“You should get through the first step with her to see how it goes.”

She sighed to my advice and looked around. “Now?”

“When you’re ready.”

“Could you get her for me?”

“If you want it to be now, of course I will.”

I kissed her forehead and headed to the first floor where they were gathered.

“Ruby?”

“Is she awake?”

“She’d like to see you but due to obvious circumstances, I can’t allow your visit to go unsupervised.”

“Zayden, I wouldn’t—”

“Just taking precautionary measures.”

“Okay.”

She was the only one to speak to me and she was the only one to come with me back to Adele.

“Adele?”

She turned her head from the window and saw who was with me. I stayed by the door and tried to be invisible so they could have their moment together.

“Ruby, I’m sorry.”

“No. I think I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it to go that far. I was just really mad and hurt at the same time.”

“I understand. I would have wanted to do the same thing.”

“But I was wrong to do it. You’re a sister to me, you always have been and I don’t want us to change, not because of this.”

“It’s my fault, Ruby. I let this happen. At the time, I knew it was wrong but I don’t know what it was. Something kept dragging me closer to believe it wasn’t.”

She smiled and spoke what I already knew. “That would have been Darius. He’s had that kind of effect on women his whole life and I don’t blame you for falling for it either. That’s what I did, remember?”

“But this is different now. You’re married. He belongs to you and I should never have been with him.”

“Adele, you need to stop feeling all of this regret. You know that everything happens for a reason. Fate has something planned through this.”

“It couldn’t be anything good.”

Ruby laughed. “Listen to me. I’m not mad anymore. We all know how lucky we are to have found someone like them but it’s still not wrong to want to try something different every now and then. Zayden is pretty good looking.”