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.

I couldn’t feel his

my entire fault.” I cried. “I’m

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

give him

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

was a way that I could heal him back to normal, but healing

Hunter was already dead.

of me may

that I was

I was sending signals to my brother and to Adrian. The ambulance wouldn’t be here until a while and there was a

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

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

in pain, I knew that the worst had happened. He placed

“He is dead, sister.”

hands and cried. “I love him, I

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

misery I was concerned about, but

to wait for him to have

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

find a way to come back and when he does he will remember you. It’s just the wait. You can come back

It’s like confining 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

do?” Apollo asked me, his eyes searching mine, his expressions turned slack as he made the connection.

wanted to know what it was

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

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

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

at my brother. “There is another

I said that, Apollo shook his

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