Chapter 22
EMMA.
The call of my name causes Will to turn, and my heart skips several beats when he raises his hand, slashing his claws across Will’s back.
Time freezes, and so do my steps. My eyes widen as I watch Will fall to his knees with a loud groan.
“Alphat” Screams erupt around me and I just stand still frightened by the sight before me.
“Emma, run!” A gasp leaves me and my brain clicks again when he appears before me. I stare into his bloody eyes, rooted in place with my heart in my throat as I watch him tilt his head. He growls under his breath, his hand coming up to my face, and my chest rises and falls rapidly as I quiver in hysteria.
His claw is almost scratching my skin when he pauses, the hand hanging mid–air before he turns back and races off, Will is before me just as he leaves and he doesn’t give me time to worry for him–he lifts me in his arms and races through the woods. I throw my hand around his shoulder to hang on as he moves at an almost impossible speed. He runs into the park house in a blur and when I regain consciousness of my surroundings,
we’re in his office.
Will is leaning on his desk with his head lowered and I rush to him. “Your back. Goddess, you’re bleeding. We need to get this-
Don’t touch me!” He snaps, pushing my hand off when I try to rest it on his back.
“A–Alpha. You’re hurt. Please. He doesn’t answer. His face remains turned from me and 1 suck in a breath before his name falls from my mouth
“What the fuck were you thinking?” His voice raises and his eyes blazes when he lifts his head. “Why the hell would you go there! You are “You can scold me all you want later; let me treat your wound for now! You’re fucking bleeding!”
“I do not need your fucking concern!” He counters and his starp words make my heart clench in my chest. I pull my bottom lip between my teeth to keep the tears back, and it takes a moment before I’m able to speak again. “You’ll be getting it either way
“Alpha The door to his office opens and Doctor fan waltz in with Ryan behind him. “I heard you got hurt. I’m here to tend to your wounds.” “What about the warriors?” Will asks as he slowly makes his way to his seat. He looks weakened and the sight of it breaks my heart.
“All minor injuries. They’ll be fine”
“Good” He mumbles as he shuts his eyes and the doctor walks to him. He drops a box on Will’s desk before moving behind him. He lifts his shirt and grimaces at whatever he sees “Goddess. This is Alpha, this is.
“Tisas bad as it feels? Will asks, and the doctor shakes his head He pulls WH’s shirt back down before he says, “I’ve never seen wound like this before, what exactly did you go against
“Something that shouldn’t exist, Ryan answers for Will who still has his eyes shut. “It’s we don’t know what it was. We went to the border thinking it was another rogue attack, or perhaps a minor attack from our rival packs. What we didn’t expect was that. It was–it was sickly looking. It looked like a human, but he wasn’t. He had these eyes with blood dribbling from them, and he was impossibly strong. Stronger than a wolf–hell, than anything I’ve ever come across. We were tossed in the air like we weighed nothing. Our powers were mostly useless against him.”
Stronger
My eyes remain on Will throughout Ryan’s talk, and my heart jumps each time I hear him breathe. His breathing is slow–way too unsteady, I take a step closer just as the healer says, “Please lift your shin, Alpha. I need a closer look.
opens ha
eyes at the words and our gazes lock. He works his jaw before he looks away and rises to his feet. In one movement, he yanks his shin off and my lips part at the sight of his naked chest. I know my thoughts should rest more on the wounds he’s got on his back, but Goddess, 1 can’t help but get distracted as my eyes wander across his chest. At the tatoos that min along his left shoulder and down the chest area, the tiny inks rounding his nipple. At the abs and the…
My thighs press together, and I swallow.
“The wounds are fortunately not deep, Doctor lan’s voice brings me out of my drifting thoughts and I force my gaze to his face. “His claws might have been poisonous. You can endure it because you’re one of the strongest. Anyone else would be dead by now” A low gasp escapes me at his words and 1 shule even closer, almost bending over the desk
“Would he be alright! Ryan asks the question that’s on the tip of my tongue, and the healer lifts his head. “He will be, fortunately. His wolf is no doula trying to fight the poison, and that gives me time to figure out an antidote.”
“Please be quick” The words tumble from my mouth before I can hold them back and all eyes fall on me. The doctor gives me a small smile. “Don’t worry, Emma. He’ll be okay in no time now.”
Will is quiet and with his eyes closed, the only way I can tell he’s breathing is the way his throat moves each time he swallows and the hard that’s flexing and undiesing on his desk. I want to take his hand–I want to lace his fingers through mine and give him comfort in the only way I can rather dun stand and stare like a fool, feeling useless.
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“This is going to stage” Dester lan says after a few muiates and Will mods slowly, I keep my eyes outli leaves him when the healer ponus souve kind of ligand on his back.
“That should do it. You should start feeling the reliet in a few inboutes.
“Thank you,” Will utters, Inally opening his eyes Fran’t read him as he puts luixablet back on, wordlessly fixin
me who sose it rightt “Are we going to address what happened back there? Ryans speaks, his voice lisad over the silence is the pan. “hi wasiti jost nor wi
“What do you meand“Will asks as he rises to his feet and Ryant says, “After he bout you with the claw, he went for Emma, then he stopped. The atta ked everything and everyone in his way, but he stopped before Tuwin, Isn’t that strange?”
Ryan’s words make me think back to the scenario and it did seem like that. But why? There’s no trason for him to not attack me like he did everyone else
“Alpha-
4 I meet Ryan’s eyes.
“Out. Both of you” My brows perk at Will’s unkind words and i
DID YOU NOT HEAR ME I SAID LEAVE US!” I finch from the loudness of his voice and he’s breathing heavily when I look back at hin doesn’t meet my eyes and I gnaw on my bottom lip before hirsligg to head for the door.
“Not you I need Beta Ryan and the healer is of the room” I stop in my tracks and exchange books with Ryan. He looks just as condused as tam, buit says nothing as he bows in the Alpha. T’ll conte check lat on your later?
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With another glance my way, Ryan exits the offer with the healer, fearing me
The you feel-
“What the fuck were you thinking?” The growly as he moves from behind his desk. I stagger at the sight of his dark eyes as he closes the space between is “What the hell were you thinking, Emma Why did you shoirip there?”
“I thought you were–”
“You’re powerless!” He barks at mur, the sound of his bravy becails lood in the air between us. “You’ve wildless and powerless. What slid you istuk you were going to do running towards slanger like that? Bayout fear for your life? My hands cleuch by my skles as I force luck the trans that threaten to fall from each wood be spits, “Do you not fucking think? Your volil luve–”
“I didn’t care!” Doup, unable to keep it in any longer. “I dilat rate, okay? And yes, I licht think. I heard you need was because you were under an attack and I panicked. I panicked because
“You should have stayed back! There was nothing you could have done there
“How could I” My voice comes out small and I shake my head. “I couldn’t. I could do tha
“Why? Because you wante
to prove soumething?
ng? You couldn’t think of anything else than to
mouth before 1
“You were there?” Lanterat his words, and his larges furrow as his much closes. My breathing is balanced, as 1 kamy continue. “You were there. You–that’s all it took. I couldn’t think because you were there, and thad no idea what bul happened. I rushed in because you were the only one left standing and I thought you’ll…. I though you’ll get hurt anul 1 just cumblr’t, I couldart–you were. it’s you”
Will doesn’t say a word. He just stares at in like I’ve gone mad and maybe have. I’ve lost my alamat ini
because I sublely can’t see or think. clearly when it is him I worry about him. I feel concrmed in a way I’ve never Ich towards anyone else before, I care–l core for his and I care hand With him, my emotion always get the better of the and it’s always–ALWAYS–my heart before my brain. This feeling these feelings, they ve grown suncontrollable and I know I shouldn’t feel this way, lui Ecan’t help it. I can’t get risk of them and Lean no longer petend they aren’t There either
“Godden” He whispers the word as he turns his back to me. His
is braid hangs low, and let out an exhale. “Why why did you more me this
Lorowe raised as lie manhos,
I sweat his shoulders tense for a second before he swirls his bly in my direction again. He has one
“This morning. On the training grounds Our eyes met, and you looked away. You
thing that matters to you is why!
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di now?” The says in a scoff “After what happened, the only thing
I jerk my head. “estrelay Last night, we kissed” I pause for a reaction, but I get noiling My nerves art to unsettle and a voice in the back of my mind tells me to say bun Throne. But I don’t listen I push on because Lilnerve an answer. “I thought you enjoyed it. D54 I do wourthing wrong alter! |
on the training gre
You should stop” His words are qus k.
di shake my head when I notice the familiar coldness in his eyes just like on the
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stares into my eyes with such an edge.
“No,” I whisper as I tak
er as I take a step back, the reality finally sealing in. “No, you can’t. You can’t.”
“Last night…” be starts and takes a step forward. His face is expressionless and my chest squeezes tight even before he lets out the words I fear. “Last night was a mistake. It shouldn’t have happened. I shouldn’t have done that, and I apologize for my disgusting actions.”
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