The Bad Boy And The Mermaid

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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 deflated the one that was called an air-bag. Hunter had told me that it deflated during an accident 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.

“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 ambulance.”

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.

I lay 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 ambulance 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.

feel him. I couldn’t feel his soul

I cried. “I’m

think I could even

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

had struck one of his arteries and he’d bleed to

back to normal, but

Hunter was already dead.

of me may have died

I was going to sit back and let

to my brother and to Adrian. The ambulance wouldn’t be

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

into Apollo’s arms and

The way Apollo’s head hung in pain, I knew that the worst had happened. He

“He is dead, sister.”

face with my hands and cried. “I love him, I don’t think I can live

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

about, but more

placed 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 will come back

suggest that I had to wait. “What if it takes him a thousand years to come 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

does he will remember you.

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

this even happen? What did you do?” Apollo asked me, his eyes searching mine, his expressions turned slack as he made the connection. “Oh god, you did

to know what it was like

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 relations with a human while you’re in human form is still acceptable by a few accounts, but

hang, too disturbed by the thought of saying it out loud. Adrian’s face was as white as a sheet, and he collapsed onto

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

straight at my

Apollo shook his head. “I won’t allow you to do that

“Please...Please Pollo, let’s revive him. It’s possible if we