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.

him. I couldn’t feel

my entire fault.” I cried. “I’m so

didn’t think I could even live anymore. Not as a mermaid and certainly not as a

him and tried to give him CPR when I knew it wasn’t

struck one of

that I could heal him back to normal, but

Hunter was already dead.

of me may have died

was no way that I was going to sit back and let this

to my brother and to Adrian. The ambulance wouldn’t be here until a while and there was a chance that Apollo and Adrian could

later that through my hazy vision, I saw two figures walking towards me from a distance and I knew instantly that it was my

into Apollo’s arms and sobbed. “Hunter...Hunter

to check him. The way Apollo’s head hung in pain, I knew that the worst

“He is dead, sister.”

my face with my hands and cried. “I love him, I

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

about, but more about

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

at Adrian, I knew he meant well but to 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.

when he does he will remember

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

you do?” Apollo asked me, his eyes searching mine, his expressions turned slack

what it was like to make love to

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.

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

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

my brother. “There

Apollo shook his head. “I

let’s revive