Chapter 41


    Blue


    The car crashed into a tree. I could feel my blood rushing to my head and a painful pounding was


    growing there. I pressed my hand on my head and looked around. A car balloon had deted the one


    that was called an air-bag. Hunter had told me that it deted during an ident and prevented a


    severe injury.


    The side of my face that had a gash was filing in, I was healing and it was painful. When the healing


    was for a deeper wound, it usually hurt a lot and it didn’t help that my head was spinning. I could only


    guess what Hunter was going through. I bit my lip from screaming from the pain.


    I turned in my seat to face the passenger side to see how Hunter was doing. “Hunter, are you alright?”


    There was no response, and he was looking the other way.


    “Hunter...” I touched his cheek and turned his head to face me.


    What I saw there might have driven my heart out of my chest. His silver eyes had lost the beautiful


    spark in them as they stared at me lifelessly.


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    “Say something...” I mumbled.


    I didn’t even want to think about what had happened because thinking about it made it seem like it


    actually happened. Maybe this was a dream, I was going to wake up soon.


    I pushed the damaged metal door out of the way and climbed out before walking to the other side. The


    passenger side door had been dented even worse. Still, I managed to pull it open.


    “Hunter...look at me. I’m going to call an ambnce.”


    He just stared at me and I let out loud scream. “You can’t...no you can’t be...dead. Look at me,


    Hunter....I’m right here...”


    I punched in a number and called 911 and told them it was an emergency.


    Maybe Hunter was just paused like in a game, maybe humans did that when they were in shock. I put


    my arm around him and started dragging him out of the car. He was very heavy but I didn’t have a


    choice. I panted and pulled him with every ounce of my strength.


    Iy him down on the ground and sprinkled water on his face. “Wake up...wake up, please.”


    When everything was vain, I buried my face on his chest and a loud sob tore through my body. Even if


    the ambnce arrived here in ten minutes like they said they would, I knew in my heart that he


    wouldn’t just wake up.


    It was impossible.


    I couldn’t feel him. I couldn’t feel his soul inside him.


    “It’s my entire fault.” I cried. “I’m so sorry.”


    My life was over. With Hunter gone, I didn’t think I could even live anymore. Not as a mermaid and


    certainly not as a human.


    I brought my face close to him and tried to give him CPR when I knew it wasn’t going to work.


    I touched his stomach and saw the dark spot of blood there. A metal had struck one of his arteries and


    he’d bleed to death while I was still unconscious. I cried harder.


    If there was a way that I could heal him back to normal, but healing only worked if the person was alive.


    Hunter was already dead.


    And a part of me may have died with him.


    I couldn’t lose him. There was no way that I was going to sit back and let this happen.


    I joined my hands and prayed, I was sending signals to my brother and to Adrian. The ambnce


    wouldn’t be here until a while and there was a chance that Apollo and Adrian could do something for


    him collectively.


    It was probably a few minutester that through my hazy vision, I saw two figures walking towards me


    from a distance and I knew instantly that it was my brother and Adrian.


    I ran into Apollo’s arms and sobbed. “Hunter...Hunter is...”


    He disentangled himself from my embrace and went to check him. The way Apollo’s head hung in pain,


    I knew that the worst had happened. He ced his hands on his eyes and closed them.


    “He is dead, sister.”


    I covered my face with my hands and cried. “I love him, I don’t think I can live without him.”


    This is exactly what Adrian and Apollo had warned me before I married him. Human lives were fragile


    and if I’d chosen a human as my soulmate, and if by any unfortunate circumstances like these that a


    human partner died, the mermaid suffered an eternity of misery.


    It wasn’t the misery I was concerned about, but more about losing my husband, my lover, my life.


    Adrian ced his hand on my arm. “Other than for you to wait for him to have rebirth there’s nothing


    you can do. He’s your soulmate, he wille back to you.”


    I red at Adrian, I knew he meant well but to suggest that I had to wait. “What if it takes him a


    thousand years toe back, Ade? What am I supposed to do until then? Rebirth is like a gamble.


    Some human souls don’t even have a rebirth, what if Hunter is the one who doesn’t?!” I reasoned.


    “Adrian is right. He’s your soulmate, he’ll find a way toe back and when he does he will remember


    you. It’s just the wait. You cane back to Antis and stay with us until then.”


    “Do you know what you’re saying, Polo? It’s like confining me to an eternity of waiting! He could


    probably be reborn, grow up and fall in love with someone else before I even get to know him. He could


    be born into another country entirely, with a different personality. He could be born and raised as a


    criminal. He could be one of those men who did bad things. There’s no guarantee the reborn version of


    him would be my Hunter. Besides, I can’t live without him that long, I can’t live each day knowing he’s


    not here...”


    “How did this even happen? What did you do?” Apollo asked me, his eyes searching mine, his


    expressions turned ck as he made the connection. “Oh god, you did not…? You didn’t let him...”


    “He’s my husband, he wanted to know what it was like to make love to a—”


    “You let himmit a grave sin!” Apollo ground out saying it as if he couldn’t think of anything more


    disgusting, what seemed so disgusting to them, was love to me. I’d submitted to Hunter in my mermaid


    form, to my husband, I still did not see what was so wrong in it. He went on, “You’re a sacred


    being...having intimate rtions with a human while you’re in human form is still eptable by a few


    ounts, but god forbid, you let him...”


    He let the words hang, too disturbed by the thought of saying it out loud. Adrian’s face was as white as


    a sheet, and he copsed onto the sidewalk.


    Apollo blew out a breath. “You don’t have any other choice now. You wait until he’s reborn into a new


    host, a new body.”


    I looked straight at my brother. “There is another way.”


    As soon as I said that, Apollo shook his head. “I won’t allow you to do that Blue.”


    I sniffed and begged, “Please...Please Pollo, let’s revive him. It’s possible if we do it together.”


    He ced both his hands on my shoulders, “do you know what you’re asking? If we revive him, you


    lose your immortality. You may never be able to use magic.”


    “I don’t care.”


    “If we manage to revive Hunter, you wipe off his memory, along with everyone else you’ve associated


    with.”


    I gave him a nod. “I would do anything to see him alive. Anything.”


    “You will destroy everything just for a selfish desire.” Apollo told me, “By bringing Hunter back to life,


    you will condone him to an empty life, he could find another woman, marry her, have kids with her but


    never be happy because he would be connected to you.”


    I was breathing hard, and it hurt me to say this. It was like twisting a knife in my stomach. “I want him to


    live, I don’t care what happens to me. I swear to you, if Hunter lives, I will go to Antis with you.”


    Apollo swore in Greek and then said in a stern voice, “Andmit another sin? You’ve already broken


    so many rules. You want tomit another sin by staying away from your husband?”


    In an adamant voice I said, “As I said, I would do anything to see him alive even if it means...” I sobbed,


    “even if it means staying away from him.”


    Adrian didn’t seem like he was even in this world as he stared into space. Apollo shook his head and


    said, “You’ve made up your mind, I see. I have never stopped you from doing what you wanted, Blue. I


    always wanted to support your decisions. If you think this man, your husband is worth giving your


    immortality over then we help you.”


    I caught both his hands on mine, “oh, thank you, Apollo. If Hunter lives, I promise I will do anything you


    ask of me.”


    “Are you sure about your decision, Blue? Once the ritual isplete and the spells are done, we can’t


    undo it.”


    “I haven’t been so sure in my life. I want to do this.” I said adamantly.


    Adrian looked like he’d been punched. “Think about it, Blue. There’s no need for you to sacrifice your


    immortality. He will be reborn.”


    “If you won’t help me, I’ll find another way to bring him back to life.”


    Apollo looked resigned. “We need to collect some things from the forest for the ritual.”


    “We need to do this fast before the ambnce is here. If they know that he is dead, it would be difficult


    to exin how he came back to life.” I exined.


    Apollo nodded and the two picked up my husband’s body and took him inside the forest. When his


    body was lowered to the ground, I kneeled down and brought his head in myp. Silently, I wept,


    wiping the bloodstains from his forehead.


    This happened because of me. If I had been paying attention to what he was telling me, this wouldn’t


    have happened. If Adrian and Apollo couldn’t revive him, I couldn’t forgive myself. It would kill Hannah


    if she knew.


    I was ying with nature again. I murmured a silent apology. I was too selfish to let this happen. I loved


    him more than I even loved myself and if bringing him back to life meant making sacrifices, I would do


    it.