Chapter 17

Valen’s POV

“What did you just say? I turned around to look at her hoping I had heard wrong. Is this what this is all about? She wants to start insulting me?

“I..” she slows down when she notices that I have changed the energy that I was giving to her. “ I was just trying to say that she is way too heavy. We will never reach the house without getting caught,” she immediately adjust her tone

"You can decide to help me or not. I'm not leaving her here."

Gina threw her hands up in frustration. "Fine! But I'm telling you, this is stupid!” She started bending down to help me

I ignored her. I told myself that she is probably just too overwhelmed. I really did not understand why she was really angry. If she was angry that we were going to take ‘her best friend’ home so that she would be safe and not face any criminal law, then that was bad. Gina and Veyra and had been best friends since they were little, I couldn’t just understand why Gina was so adamant to help

“We should just leave her here and call the pack doctor.”

"No." My voice was firm. "We're taking her back."

We each grabbed one of Veyra's arms, placed them over our shoulders, and started the longest journey ever- the one where we would carry a girl who is slim but surprisingly heavy back to the pack house.

Her head kept lolling back, and her feet that’s weird dragging on the ground were not helping matters. We had to stop every few minutes to readjust our grip or rest

"This is so difficult," Gina panted. "I will need arms massage after this"

"We need to move faster," I ignore her

“Did you not hear me? I said my arms are killing me…”

"Hey! What are you people doing out here?" We heard a voice from behind us and I immediately recognised it as my father’s chief guard. Of all the guards to catch me, it has to be him? He will never let me pass. He will tell my father. He was beyond my control. He has been working with us since I was baby. My father has given him exclusive rights to disobey me if he sees necessary. I could not control him

He was with a security flashlight and he walked towards us. “Ah, Valen,” he acknowledged me while eyeing suspiciously. I knew that he was thinking I was carrying a dead body. “Who are you carrying?”

"Nothing," I said, "I am just helping my girlfriend home,” I nodded my head towards Veyra. She drank too much this night”

The guard's flashlight went to Veyra's face to confirm. as if the devil was laughing at us, it was at the moment that her head decided to drop in odd way

"She doesn't look like she is fine," the guard said, stepping closer to us. "Is she breathing? Why not call a doctor?” he raised an eyebrow

“I… uhmm… I didn’t think it was necessary…”

“She needs a doctor,” he moves back a bit. “Wait, let me call one”

“That would not be necessary, I am taking her to the pack house,” I counter

“On foot?” he looks at me, suspicion in his eyes

“My car… a guard took it home by mistake”

“Are you sure?”

"Yes. She's just... really drunk," Gina said quickly.

"I've seen drunk people before. This girl looks like she's unconscious. Are you sure I should not call the doctor?”

"No!" I said too quickly. "I mean, we can handle it. My girlfriend is just embarrassed, you know? She doesn’t want anyone to see her like this."

“ I would have helped carry her, but I cannot leave my position,” he breaks eye contact with me for the first time. by morning, if she is still sick, take her to the doctor”

"Alright,” I said and we moved

"We were almost caught," Gina whispered as we moved

"But he didn’t,” I said with a dismissive tone

Thirty minutes into the walk and we were so exhausted. As we were dragging Veyra, we got to another guard checkpoint

They were just making sure the area was safe

“Not again," Gina sighed.

I figured that if we kept walking, we could get caught and not go off the hook this time. Most security guards are loyal to my father only. It would be a disaster if I was caught. I had to do something quickly. I immediately dragged Gina and so we could hide behind a dumpster. We bent down, keeping Veyra’s body as hidden as possible while the guards walked past

"Quick, this way." I pulled us off the path and behind a large tree. We crouched down, trying to keep Veyra's body hidden in the shadows.

"Did you hear that?" One of the guards stopped suddenly.

"Yeah,” the other said

"Well, we better keep our eyes open. Let us search the area. Those rogues are always desperate for an attack"

They started looking for us.

Me and Gina muttered prayers not to be caught

“If we had reported,we would not be in this situation,” Gina whispered. “Now if they catch us, they would say that we are accomplices to crime”

“Stop talking and be quiet!” I snapped at her in a low voice. How could she be so insensitive? This is not time to talk.

Luckily for us, the guards came very close, but they didn’t check behind the dumpster. They moved their search elsewhere and we saw an opportunity to move

"We need to move now," I whispered to Gina.

“What do you mean move? They will catch us. They are just there!” Gina protested but grabbed her hand, forced had to hold Veyra like before and we started moving quickly

The rest of the journey was just us dodging guards. It was torture. My hands were so heavy from pain. Gina just kept complaining throughout. She even cried at the point because of how terrible her hands were hurting her. we had been switching sides to the point that our bodies were aching.

Finally, we reached the pack house. It was easier to control the servants and dodge them. The elevator was under repair , so we had to use the stairs. That was another form of torture. We finally got to my room and we dropped Veyra on the bed

"Thank goodness," Gina gasped in exaggeration as we dropped her. Both of us were exhausted, breathing heavily. It was a big deal, but not as Gina made it look like

"Thanks be to the goddess that we actually made it" I said, collapsing into my chair.

"Thanks be to goddess, but I cannot believe that I made you talk me through this. We should have left her there and all these will not even have happened in the first place ," Gina suddenly attacked me verbally. “All my body is paining me. My hand is so painful. I might even have a hunchback very soon. And to top it all we almost got caught and we were hiding. All forehay? For somebody that is cheating on you and doing drugs?”

“All for your friend,” I looked at her but all I could see fury in her eyes

I pulled out my phone and started calling my private doctor's number. He is the doctor that handles our private health matters -just me and my dad. Sometimes my dad does not want Anything going on to be so public, so we have your private Doctor "Hello, Dr. Ashuwizi? It's Valen. I need you to come to the pack house right now. It's urgent."

"What's wrong?" the doctor asked. I was sure that I must be disturbing him. It was the full moon celebration and everybody looked forward to that night. He is an unmated Doctor, perhaps he had found his mate already and I was disturbing him. But he signed a contract to us to always be a available as long as he is within pack boundaries and a certain number of kilometres, so he has to come

"I can't explain over the phone. Just please come quickly and don't tell anyone."

"I'll be there in soon,"he seemed to grumble over the phone

I hung up and looked at Veyra lying unconscious on my bed. She looked so peaceful. It was hard to believe this was the same girl who had been with that stranger fucking him and doing drugs

"I still can't believe she was doing hard drugs," Gina said when she saw that I was looking at Veyra. "And

Gina kept talking, but I was barely listening. She just kept complaining on and on. Complaints were tiring for me already

"And another thing," Gina kept talking, "why do you even care what happens to her? She obviously doesn't care about you. Can’t you see!" she seemed to even be getting angry

"Oh my moon goddess!” I suddenly snapped. “Canyou just keep your fucking mouth shut!?