Carnivals: Claimed By The Deranged Alpha Prince [BL]-Chapter 242: Aftermath

Blaze’s pov

I held him tightly, stroking his hair and consoling him with everything in me. He clung to me tightly, trembling and crying his eyes out. This was the mate I knew, the one my wolf was smitten with, the one who pulled me in from a single glance.

The confident, ruthless labyrinth who had just killed someone was nowhere in sight. In his place was my meek mate, the one who I was already falling in love with.

I had a feeling that ruthless part of him was still inside of him, waiting to be unleashed again. I silently wondered if it would make me a bad mate if I still wanted him to let out that part of himself again, not right now, but definitely later.

Right now, I was more concerned with getting him to stop crying. I wasn’t sure he remembered all that just happened some minutes ago, how he managed to unlock his powers by himself like I always believed he would.

If he still remembered, he gave no indication. He only continued to cry while blaming himself for Elio’s death. It was clear that he genuinely liked that kid because the guilt was clear in his voice as he lamented and blamed himself over and over again.

I could see Kim motioning Roy over. He was kneeling beside Kim, carefully regarding him and probably checking to confirm if he was indeed dead. He and Roy were being as silent as possible, clearly because they didn’t want to startle labyrinth. I knew they were extremely confused about all that they had witnessed today, which was honestly expected in this situation.

"Blaze?" Roy’s voice called out and I glanced over at him. He pointed at Elio’s body as he spoke.

"He’s still breathing."

"The kid isn’t dead?" I echoed, feeling immensely confused. It looked like he was stabbed in every part of his stomach which had in turn damaged a lot of his important stomach contents.

How could he still be breathing?

Labyrinth pulled away from my chest, blinking up at me, tears swimming through his bright blue eyes as he tearily asked if Elio wasn’t dead, a hopeful sound in his voice. The look in his eyes broke my heart and I had to force myself to let go of him and walk over to the kid who was still in the same position. I crouched beside him and checked his pulse, it was weak but it was still beating.

"His still breathing." I confirmed and labyrinth almost collapsed from relief. He clasped his hands before him and desperately begged for his friend to be saved.

I let out a long sigh and exchanged a few words with Roy and Kim who still looked very wary but were just going with the flow at the point.

Knowing it was left to me to bring him urgent medical help, I carefully lifted the unconscious omega into my arms, motioning for Roy to come with me. I ordered Kim to remain here with my mate and even though he was still scared, he nodded in understanding and stepped back.

After exchanging one more look with my mate, I teleported away with Roy.

When we arrived at the hospital in the spot, I was welcomed with respect as expected and the unconscious boy was taken away at once with everyone scrambling around. I ordered them to give the best care to Elio, warning them that the boy musnt die no matter what.

"Don’t you think it’s weird that the boy is alive?" Roy asked me as we washed our hands in the restroom of the hospital. "I checked his ody and he was really dead but after the whole thing with Jules and how he suddenly got magic ability, it was almost like that was what brought the kid back to life."

As Roy spoke, I blinked slowly while silently wondering why I didn’t think of that until right now.

That theory made a lot of sense and as I prepared to teleport back, I silently wondered just how powerful my mate’s newly unlocked powers were.

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After I teleported back to the garden which was in complete shambles, I met Kim and my mate sitting against a tree. Kim had his arms around my mate’s shoulders and my mate’s eyes were closed. As soon as he noticed our return, I held a hand out to him and pulled him to his feet, straight into my arms again.

As I buried my face in his hair and hugged him tightly, I silently let out a note of thanks to the universe for not letting me lose him today. Having in back in my arms where he belonged was the best thing in the world to me.

"Bunny?" I called out quietly after a little while and once again, he peered up at me with his blue eyes. After his powers broke lose, his brown contact lenses seemed to have been destroyed along with his resolve.

"I was so scared." He admitted, tears slowly filling his eyes again and I sighed as I tugged him into another hug, promising him that something like this would never happen again.

"I thought I was going to die, I didn’t know Andrian would go back on his words." He continued, words muffled against my chest this time but I picked them up just fine. Anger swelled inside of me at the thought of Andrian but the reminder of him being dead calmed my rage, but it also made me wonder if Labyrinth remembered that he had killed Andrian today.

Not wanting to scare him, I refrained from bringing up anything relating to his magic or Andrian’s death. Instead, I picked him up, motioning Roy and Kim over. They hat walked away to give Labyrinth and I some privacy some minutes ago.

"Let’s get out of here." I tell them, and they huddled closer to me. I teleported us out of there in a flash, reappearing in the large apartment which now belongs to Roy.

Labyrinth was clearly still dazed and in shock, and so I settled on one of the couches in the sitting room with him in my laps. His legs tightened around my waist and he clung to me tightly like he was afraid to let go. I massaged his back and kissed his cheek, quietly reminding him that I wasn’t ever gonna let him go.

I couldn’t feel the mate bond I once shared with him anymore, and that could be why he wanted to be glued to me, because just like me, I had a feeling he could undoubtedly feel a loss within his chest. I didn’t want to bring that up yet, not after all he went through today, and so I settled with holding him against me and peppering kisses across his face once again.

Roy didn’t tease us like he normally would, instead he acted like he couldn’t see us, looking at everywhere but at us. Kim was doing the same thing, however his phone kept ringing every few seconds and it was starting to get irritating.

"Who the fuck keeps calling you? Just turn it off." I demanded at once point and a perplexed looking Kim held the phone up with a apologetic wince.

"It’s- it’s the higher ups. It’s Chris. He’s asking me to come to a particular location so that I can be killed since I didn’t bring Jules to them today like I was supposed to in this final chance."