Marked in a Vision (15 page)

He kissed his mom on the cheek, “Do not worry, mom.”  He started to walk out the door, and then he stopped.  “Mom, if
Victoria
com
es back, do me a favor; make
sure that no one mentions Emily being my mate or that she is in a coma.”

Cass nodded her head as he smiled and said “Goodnight”.

He went up the stairs to his room where he looked at Emily before he went to take a shower.  Afterwards dressed in a pair of boxers, he slipped into bed next to Emily and placed an arm around her waist
before he fell into an uneasy sleep.  He had totally forgotten about
Victoria
’s visit.

Two days later,
Victoria
paid another visit to the house.  This time Sasha was in the living room with Cass and her mom when she entered the house.

“Hello,”
Victoria
said with a smile although
her eyes were dark with anger.  She knew Jay’s mother did not really like her, but she could not believe that she would not tell her son about his mate’s visit.  It never crossed her mind that Jay was told about her visit, but he did not even consider calling her that evening.

“Is Jay here?” she said after a few
minutes of
pleasantries were dealt with.  Sasha frowned as she said, “Yes, but he and Mark are in a meeting with their father.”

Victoria
settled down in a chair as she said, “Will it be okay if I wait for him?”

Cass said as she turned her attention back to the checkers game that she and Stacy were playing, “Of course”.  She sent a message to Stan through their mate link as Sasha was doing the same thing.  Stacy was focused on the game although she wished Jacob was there, but Stan sent him on an errand and he would not be back until the next day.

In the office, both Mark and Stan frowned as they were bombarded by their mates.

“
Victoria
is here,” Stan said as Mark rolled his eyes.

Jay looked up from the couch were he was sitting, “What is she doing here again?”

Mark just looked at him as Stan swore under his breathe.

Jay shook his head as he went back to the paperwork he was doing.

A few minutes later, done with the paperwork, Jay knew it was time to broach the subject with Mark about being Alpha.

“Dad,” Jay said putting the paperwork into its folder and standing up to give it to his father.

Stan took the folder but his eyes stayed on his eldest son as he asked slowly, “You want to do it now?”

Jay nodded his head in agreement as Mark asked confused, “Da
d, what are you talking about
?”
Jay smiled as he turned to him, “Mark, what would you say if I told you I wanted to step down from the Alpha position?”

Mark’s mouth
opened
in shock and he fell back against the desk stunned at what his brother was telling him.

“What?” he whispered back.

Jay’s green eyes gleamed with humor, “I just hope that you cho
o
se me as your second-in-command, but the choice is yours.”
Mark could not speak as he looked at Jay then turned his attention to their father.

“He already told me, and although I think he would make a good Alpha, I agree that you are actually a better choice for the leadership role,” their father said bluntly, and Jay laughed.

“Finally he gets it,” Jay said.

Mark laughed but he had some questions before he said yes to this proposal.

He looked at Jay and said hesitatingly, “Are you sure that is what you really want, Jay?”

Jay nodded his head.

“What about your mate? What would Emily say about this?” Mark persisted.

A knowing smile spread across Jay’s face, “Emily will accept me no matter whether I am Alpha or not.”

Mark continued to look at him and said bluntly, “If she dies, what would
Victoria
say about this?”

Although Jay smiled, Mark saw the pain that invaded his eyes as he replied, “
Victoria
has no say in what I do.”

Mark glared at him, “You know the reason she is here.”
Jay nodded his head slowly as he ran his hand through his black hair.  “I know why she is here, but I do not care.  Emily is my mate and if she dies, I will not choose
Victoria
.”

Stan stood there watching and listening to them until he interrupted.

“Mark,” he said quietly.

Mark looked over at him and he knew what he was asking him.  He sighed as he glanced over at Jay who was staring at him.

“Can I talk with Sasha first?” he asked softly looking towards his father.

Stan nodded his head as Jay said softly, “I knew you would say that.”

Mark laughed as Jay chuckled, and Stan just shook his head at the both of them.

“Let us go and join the women,” Stan said, and he laughed when he saw Jay’s grimace.

“Go on up to Emily, Jay, and we will make your excuses.”

Mark laughed at the relief on Jay’s face.

Emily, you need to wake up soon, he thought as they left the office and Jay headed quietly up the back stairs to his room.

Stan was the first one into the room and seeing
Victoria
, he said “Hello,
Victoria
.  What can we do for you today?”

Mark walked over to Sasha after he entered behind him and put an arm around her waist winking at her when he saw her confused look.

“I was waiting for Jay, Alpha,” she said demurely with a charming smile.

Stan was not fooled by her smile, but he said in a voice filled with sorrow, “I am sorry, Victoria, but I sent Jay out to do something for me.  We did not know that you were here.”

Victoria
’s smile left her face as she said, “I just got here.”

Stan saw the look of anger in her eyes and he said, “Would you like to stay for dinner?”

He watched as she hid her smile from them as she said, “I wish I could, but I already made plans.

Stan nodded his head, “We will tell Jay that you stopped by to see him.”

“Please do,” she said giving him a satisfied smile.

After she left, it was Stacy who had just been an observer said quietly, “Her mate mark…it is fading.”  The room was quiet at what she had said.

Upstairs in their room, a sleepy Jay thought he felt a movement from the woman in his arms, but when he opened his eyes nothing had changed.  His green eyes shadowed with pain before they closed and he drifted back off to sleep his arms tightening on Emily.

Chapter 18

Victoria
slammed the door behind her as she entered her house.  She was enraged for the last week she had b
een going over to Jay’s house everyday and yet she had not been able to meet up with him once.  She chewed on her bottom lip as she headed to her bedroom ignoring the woman she had in the house who cleaned and cooked for her.  Stan assured her that they were telling Jay about her visits.
She had even been offered to have dinner with them every evening, but her eyes gleamed with worry for a second.  She thought about the little human woman female that had came with Sasha and her family, but she shook her head as she snickered.

“No way Jay would pick her over me,” she said aloud with confidence.  Besides, there has been no mention of her at anytime so she assumed that she had left.  She could not even smell her in the house although she did not
take into account that Emily’s scent changed when Jay marked her as his mate.
She was getting undressed when she glanced up and saw the picture of her mother and her mate.  She sneered at it the picture as she picked it up.

“You got your rightful mate, and I am going to get mine,” she said snidely before she threw the picture into the garbage pail next to her vanity.  Clad in only her lingerie, she walked over to what looked a like a bookshelf and calmingly pulled down a book.  The shelf began to shift back to reveal a secret room and she walked in before switching on the light.  She did not look around but walked straight to the table where a book lay
and as she looked down, she bega
n to smile.
  Then she said aloud, “Everything will work out.  As soon as Jay sees me again, and realizes that I am free, he will want me.”  She nodded her head once, and then she walked back out the room.  She turned out the light and stepped out as the shelf moved back in place, and the room went dark.

Then there was a light as if a candle had been lit and in the dark, one could see the book she had been looking at
Black Magic: Spells to Enchant and Confuse
.  Also the light gle
amed for a second on a photo of a
young man
and
in the photo
he
was smiling with his arms wrapped around a scowling
Victoria
.  Although the man did not notice it for he was staring at the camera, her eyes gleamed with an undisguised hatred.

The light brightened on the picture before the frame shattered and the picture itself burst into flames.  Then a masculine voice
said with a touch of laughter although there was no humor in it:
She is stronger than you, Victoria.  I will be waiting for you, my mate.
 
  

Back at the pack house, Emily’s body jerked a couple of times before it became still.  If Jay had been in the room, he would see how, behind her eyes lids, her eyes moved rapidly. 

Emily looked around the wild field of flowers and she sighed as she sunk to the ground  Her mind was going a mile a minute as she thought about everything that has happen since she came here and met the Caine family especially Jay.  She sighed again wondering why she was chosen
as Jay’s mate, why did her mother and father choose her.  So many questions running through her mind, and there was no one to answer them.

“Dear,” a voice said, and Emily jerked up turning around to see an older woman standing off to the edge of the field of flowers.

“Who are you?” Emily asked quietly although she did not feel threatened by the woman.

She smiled at her and stepped closer as she said, “My name is
Myra
.  People call me the Old One.”

Emily’s brown eyes
gleamed with amusement before she asked, “So why am I here,
Myra
?”

Myra
settled herself next to Emily as she looked over the young woman.  She knew the answers to the questions that was running through the young woman’s mind, and she sighed gently as she said, “
You ask your
self why you were chosen.”

Emily looked at her in surprise before she admitted quietly, “Yes, I do.  I wonder if I am worthy enough for all of them.”

Myra
laughed as Emily shook her head in embarrassment.

“Many of the mates in the Caine family who were human never questioned their worthiness, but they questioned their love and trust for their mate.  You love and trust Jay with your whole heart.”

“I do,” Emily admitted in a soft voice.

Myra nodded her head, “Do you want to know why you were chosen?  Why destiny or fate chose you for him?”

Emily turned to look at her noticing that her eyes were silver and it felt like she was probing her mind.  Emily put up a block fast and quick because unlike Michaela,
Myra
’s power was stronger.

Myra
smiled as her eyes shined, “Very good, Emily.  You blocked me very well when I tried to probe your mind.”

There was silence for a few minutes when Emily asked, “Why did my parents pick me out of all the children at the orphanage?  Maybe it would have been better if I had never survived that night.”

Myra
shook her head as she said, “Would you like to see what may have happened if you had not survived?”

Emily hesitated for a moment, and then she nodded her head.

All of sudden, Emily noticed that the field of wild flowers changed into a house.  She looked around shocked as
Myra
said, “Watch.”

A little girl
around seven or eight
ran through the house her laughter ringing out and Emily gasped, “Sasha.”

There was laughter as Jacob and Stacy came after her, and then there was a flash.

“About eight years later,”
Myra
said softly.

Emily nodded her head as she walked forward
and she heard the arguing.  Her astonishment as she turned the corner stopped her as she viewed Jacob and Stacy arguing while Sasha just sat there flipping through a magazine.  She watched as Jacob stormed out.

“I never saw Jacob and Stacy argue like that,” she murmured.

Myra watched Emily as she watched the scene change again, “Jacob and Stacy could not have any more children after Sasha was born.  They looked into adopting another child, but they were looking for a child who was closer in age to Sasha.  Although they saw many children that they liked, they never could agree on who they wanted so they never adopted.  Sasha grew up with no sibling
s
so she became spoiled and much more.”