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.

couldn’t feel his soul

fault.” I cried. “I’m so

With Hunter gone, I didn’t think I could even live anymore. Not as a mermaid and certainly

and tried to give him CPR when I knew it

stomach and saw the dark spot of blood there. A metal had struck one of his arteries and he’d

back to normal, but healing only worked if the

Hunter was already dead.

a part of me may

that I was

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

my hazy vision, I saw two figures walking towards me from a distance and I knew

into Apollo’s arms and sobbed.

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

“He is dead, sister.”

hands and cried. “I love him, I don’t

and Apollo had warned me before I married him. Human lives were fragile and if I’d chosen a human as my soulmate,

misery I was concerned about, but more about losing my

arm. “Other than for you to wait for him to have rebirth there’s nothing you can do.

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 the one who doesn’t?!” I

will remember you. It’s just the

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

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

what it was like to make love

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 relations with a human while you’re in human form is

out loud. Adrian’s face was as white as a sheet, and he

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

straight at my brother. “There is another

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

sniffed and begged, “Please...Please Pollo, let’s revive him.