Chapter 18

Valen’s POV

"What did you say?”

“I said, shut your fucking mouth,” I was the angry one now, and my anger was boiling and running over.

"You have been complaining like a bitch ever since we found her.. I get it, okay? This situation sucks. But I'm trying to think, and your constant bitch ass grumbling is making it impossible. You keep talking too much. Veyra would never talk too much."

Gina's shrinked back into her shell. “I… I …”

“Just shut up, annoying piece of shit!” I didn’t let her finish

"What have I done to you? Why are you speaking to me like this?" She wanted to cry. I could see the tears gathering in her eyes like heavy clouds before the rain. "I carried that cheating witch for you. If I didn’t tell you that she was cheating, you would not have known”

"Yes! I would not have known anything about her cheating! But I need you to keep your damn mouth shut! You keep talking and talking! Don’t you ever have a time while you keep quiet? You don’t understand what I mean when I ask you to shut up!? Don’t you know there’s something called quiet time? Shut the fuck up! Maybe you should not have told me in the first place, Gina! You are getting on my nerves… how could you say she is your best friend and she wanted us to leave her there!? Heartless bitch! You think I do not know that you just wanted us to break up, that is why you kept throwing her cheating evidence in my face!?” I kept rambling

Tears from her eyes, I did not care. “Now you have gotten what you wanted, can you now shut the fuck up and let me think!?”

“ I helped you for so long and this is how you thank me?" she fell to the ground crying, but I just left her and went to sit beside Veyra to make sure that she was okay. Her Britain was more stable now, but she still needed a doctor.

Gina kept crying uncontrollably and non-stop. I got an idea for me to pretend as if I cared about her. I just wanted her to shut up, sincerely.

"Gina..."

"No! Leave me alone," she wailed for a bit then kept talking "How can you talk to me like this? And call me names after everything that I have done for you? I risked my friendship for you, and now you are just shouting at me? You treat me like trash? What kind of man are you? If it wasn't for me, you'd still be walking around thinking Veyra was faithful to you! You wouldn’t even know that people are already laughing at you because you could not control your girlfriend”

"Hey," I said softly. "Come here. Stop crying."

She shook her head, still crying.

"Gina, come here." I pulled her into a hug. She didn’t even try to resist the hug. I felt weird. Aside from that time she was crying, I had never hugged Gina. It weirded me out how fast she collapsed into me when I opened my arms. It felt like a romantic kind of setting- one where I was her boyfriend and she was sobbing. It made me think of those times where Veyra will cry in my arms as I hug her. It was at that moment that I first imagined what it would be like if I Gina cried in my arms as my girlfriend instead of Veyra. Would it be Sweet? Would it be sour? Will she cheat on me like Veyra did? Or would she ruin my life with endless talks, sobs and complaints?

I shook my head. I felt like I was cheating on Veyra for even trying to imagine that. Should I be thinking of Veyra that way!? Dada even reprimanded me- he called me foolish for still considering Veyra in my future decisions. He was so mad. He wanted revenge.

"I just hate seeing bad people use other good people. You’re such a good man and I didn’t want her to use you the way she was using you. Period. she said between sobs. "I hate seeing you get hurt."

She cannot just keep quiet can she? She even keeps talking when crying.

I just needed her to shut up. Shouting out how they didn’t do it, so I have to pretend like I didn’t want her to cry anymore-actually, I didn’t want her to cry anymore, because she was causing noise. “Stop crying," I said, patting her back.

"She doesn't deserve you. If anybody deserves you, it is me…” she whispered the last part, but I acted as if I did not hear

"Stop crying, okay? you have a really loud cry and you are making noise”

She looked up at me with tear-stained cheeks as if suddenly offended by what I had just said. "You just keep hurting my feelings”

"I am stressed out. Now kindly stop crying.

"But you said…."

“Shut up!” I almost snapped again, but I didn’t break the threshold. I first for you, please her head on my chest and thankfully she kept quiet

We stood there and she was just crying non-stop

"Stop crying," I said quietly, wiping the tears from her eyes to make her feel special

Suddenly we hear someone clear histories behind us just a lot of that he was there

We jumped apart like we'd been caught stealing. Dr. Ashuwizi was standing at the door, looking between us with raised eyebrows. He looked at me critically as if accusing me of cheating

"Valen…” he said. “I didn’t mean to interrupt your moment with…" he pointed at Gina weirdly. “But you said it was urgent “

I was humiliated. Now it will look as if I am the cheating one. I felt the urge to tell him that it was Veyra that was cheating on me and not me cheating on her, but what was the use? People will think what they want to think. even though I played the nonchalance card, I couldn’t help but think about what he was thinking and how long he had been standing there

"It's not what it looks like," I said, finally succumbing to my inner thoughts . “This is Gina, Veyra’s best friend,” I thought it would be wise to do an introduction

“I know “ Dr. Ashuwizi' expression was unreadable as he spoke. He didn’t even look at Gina when I introduced her to him. "Well, you called me about an urgent medical situation?"

It seemed to me like he was questioning me woth his eyes. Everyone in the pack knew I was dating Veyra. And a few minutes ago, I had been holding another girl in my room while my girlfriend was unconscious on my bed. Like I was cheating when my girlfriend was vulnerable. It’s painted me bad

"Yes," I said, trying to get back into my character. "It's Veyra. She's unconscious."

Dr. Ashuwizi walked over to the bed and looked down at her as he set down his bag full of medical supplies

"What happened to her?" he asked, pulling out his stethoscope.

“I found her in the old warehouse close to the pack square,” I had to be truthful with him so that he would know what to do

Gina suddenly reached out for her pocket and brought out three white transparent bags- the one that we saw in the old house. “I think she has been doing drugs,” she showed the bags to the doctor as if deliberately trying to show him evidence to use against Veyra, but Dr. Ashuwizi’s contract with us would not let him even report to the police if he wanted to

He took the bags from Gina like it was an unholy substance and he was a priest that was going to perform exorcism. He already suspected what it was, but he had to examine the contents. I saw the way he studied the bag as if it was an abomination. I knew the exact moment when he found out what the contents of the bag was. He looked surprised. “Where did she find this?”

“ I don’t know …” I shrugged

“She could get in trouble for this. If your father finds out…” he looked at Veyra, then the bag, then Veyra again. I could tell what he was thinking, he couldn’t believe that an innocent girl like Veyra would do drugs. But she did not say anything else. He just started to check her.

"She's overdosed," he said, shaking his head sadly. "She is lucky to be alive”

"How is she doing? Did the drug have any effect on her?" I asked, even though my wolf was trying to scream at me for caring too much

"I will have some monitor her. The next few days are critical. She needs constant monitoring. I can set up an IV, get some fluids in her, but..." He looked at me and gave a sigh. "She might not be up for a few days.