Richard’s POV:I was still running through the forest. My heart was beating fast, almost in time to the throbbing of the Alpha bond.Hold on, I thought desperately, as I felt another sharp pain in combination with the throbbing.Your Alpha is coming to help you.I continued to move deeper and deeper into the forest, trying to trace out the location of my injured pack member.I still had not even gotten to think about who or what might have been the cause of such pain in them.But I would find that out, as soon as I found them.I paused, trying to figure my way out from left to right in the darkness of the night, when a piercing scream shattered the silence that had been all around me.At the same time, the pain doubled in intensity, almost making me bowl over with my hand over my heart.“Damn it,” I growled out loud, before then looking up at the sky, devoid of stars and the moon in its waning crescent. “Where are you?”It was then that I heard it; my ears pricked up at the sound of
Arielle’s POV:What the hell was wrong with me?I huffed, checking the patient’s files again. Devin, Richard has called him. And he had been found in the forest, bleeding almost to death.Richard had gotten him here in time, and it was only that which managed to save the life of this warrior. I had been able to stop the bleeding and stitched up his wounds. Luckily from what I could tell there was no internal bleeding, so I had faith that our injured pack member would be healing quickly in no time at all.However, that was not what was making me feel this way.Choosing to take a seat in the room where Devin was laying down at in order to monitor his condition, I began to play with my hair. It was a nervous habit that I tried not to show out to people. But now that I had barely even had any rest over the night and previous day, my inhibitions were much lowered.My mind was only on one thing - how much I had wanted Richard, our Alpha and my destined mate, to kiss me. My face warmed and I
Richard's POV:"Why the effing hell would you wake me up at this time?!"I watched as my annoyed Beta ranted as he got dressed, and I fought within me to not snap at him. After all, Darren was right; I had woken him up in such a quiet time of night, just after midnight.I also suspected that he had to leave behind a disgruntled Lilian in bed. However I did not wish to apologize to him in any way."Would you hurry up then?" I finally shot back at him, my body tense. Ever since I had taken Devin to the clinic, I had been unable to relax. My own pack member and warrior was injured brutally, and I had just barely been able to save his life, with the incredible help of Arielle."You still haven't told me what happened," Darren grumbled as he finished lacing up his shoes and was walking towards me. We both left the living room of his own in unison, and stepped out into the cold dead night. "And why the hell are you wearing that shirt?"I looked down at myself, already knowing that I would f
Richard’s POV:“Mmm, Richard,” her voice had said my name in a breathy sigh, and I could not help the instinct that jumped out at me. I wanted to kiss her.Still, i had to be careful not to display too much of how aroused i really was. In fact, a huge part of me was angry at Darren so suddenly for being in the room, stopping me from reacting to her the way that I wanted to.My annoyance rose when I heard a chuckle from behind me - my best friend intruding on what was clearly a private moment. I made a mental note to get him back one of these days, before I then brought my hand up to lightly touch Arielle’s arm.“Wake up, sleepyhead,” I said to her, careful to keep my voice low so as not to startle her. “I’m here with Darren, love.”The endearment that was so new to me just slipped out of my lips like they belonged there. I couldn’t take it back, and I noticed how her eyes opened slowly, blearily looking into my eyes.It was an intense gaze she gave me, even as she was tired and clearl
I was restless now; despite being very tired, that my eyes hurt and felt strained, I was pacing up and down the hallway of the clinic, passing the door of the room that Devin, the injured pack member, currently was. Richard and Darren were also inside, and that was what made me feel this anxious.Were they interrogating him?I brought my hand up to my mouth to stifle a yawn.I didn’t know whether or not Richard thought that Devin had done something that caused him to be injured.No matter what, I felt very protective of my patient, also because he was a pack member. I had felt his pain through the pack bond that I had in my chest.No matter what, his safety was somehow important to me.I was so endorsed in my thoughts that I didn’t even notice when the ward doors opened. I only noticed when the footsteps sounded in the hallway and I turned my head around, feeling the strands of my hair that had come out of its ponytail fan my face. I used my hands to tuck the strands of hair behind my
Richard’s POV:This was the night of shocking news it seemed, whether it was welcomed or not, and another surprise had just come out of my mate’s mouth that I certainly needed the time to process.I was speechless after she had finished her long explanation.At first when Arielle had looked extraordinarily serious, with her brows furrowed and her lips pursed, I had thought that she was about to tell me something grave.But to my surprise, it wasn’t a situation of life and death matters. Instead, she was telling me something that I had definitely not expected to hear.By the time she finished, I was thinking on what to say.“Arielle, you mean to tell me that you have these… abilities,” I began to speak and noticed how her face now suddenly looked so fearful. What did she think I was going to do to her?A wave of protectiveness rushed through my body and I touched her arm lightly.“Angel,” her eyes snapped to me. “Talk to me.”“I told you, Richard,” I was surprised by the tone her voice
Arielle’s POV:I think I was giddy with happiness. Even though I was tired, it was so easy for me to act so energetically, having only gotten about three hours of sleep the day before. It was now last 8am in the morning, and I was checking up on the other patient files that my assistant had so graciously arranged for me. We were not going to have too many patients, it seemed by the lack of a large piling of folders.But it was the thudding of the mate bond within me, and the feeling of assurance I felt through it, that made me feel ever better.Richard did not reject me.And I loved him.It seemed like everything was moving along for the better, now that I had finally gotten to tell him about my abilities and all that had come along with this mate bond. This was truly the first time in which I felt like I belonged in a pack. When I was in my previous pack, it always felt as if I had to work ten times as hard to prove myself, for the time I was a young pup until I left.But this was dif
Richard’s POV:It was certainly not a restful night for myself or for Darren.After I left Arielle, the two of us walked down the steps and out into the streets.“So,” Darren began to say and I could have glared at my best friend even through the darkness of this night, because I could tell by his tone that he was about to be mischievous.“Whatever you’re about to say, please drop it,” I told him, sounding strict. “Besides, we have to check out the forest. There must be tracks somewhere leading to where Devin had been attacked by this rogue.”“You’re right,” his tone suddenly turned serious. If there was anything I knew Darren for, it was that he cared so much about our pack members, just like I did. “Do you think it could be him?”“You mean Leon,” I replied after a few seconds. By now we were reaching the edge of the forest.I was not a fool; by this point I definitely knew that there was something connecting the attack of my pack member to that of Leon’s Rogues being present and cir