Make it habit or else face trouble

Devika’s POV

“Will she be all right? What about her wolf?” I heard someone’s voice waking me up from deep slumber but took time for me to open up my eyes. As I opened the pair, everything was a blur in front of my eyes while me trying to focus and recognize the ones standing in front of me.

“She is going to be fine, and about her wolf…” The person in white was saying but took a pause in between making me think about what were they talking about and it took me a few seconds to realize that they were talking about me. “She might take some time to recover, Alpha. We cannot say anything right now due to the high dosage of wolfsbane in her body.” His words made everything play in front of my eyes, the way wolfsbane was injected into my body.

And, hearing what I feared the most to come true, I suddenly felt difficulty breathing. I tried to get up and talk to the doctor as only he can help me right now but getting up made me groan in ache due to the soreness in my whole body. “Just lay down, you are completely recovered.”

“What happened to Willow? What do you mean by you cannot say anything right now?” I questioned the doctor expecting and praying for him to say something good and all I heard was my bad dream. The doctor takes his time and stares between the Alpha and me making me tense, “Why are you not saying anything? What happened to her?” I started crying with fear not knowing what else to do, or how to react.

“You need to calm down, Devika, your situation would worsen otherwise.” The doctor says making it difficult for me to breathe. I shook my head feeling numb with the fear of losing Willow too, “If you want Willow to recover quickly then you have to calm down. Being like this would only cause Willow problems.” Hearing him I even tried to control my breathing but the pain in my chest and head took over making it difficult for me.

“Take deep breaths, Devika, deep. Breathe in, and breathe out.” Breathing along with me, the alpha tried helping me. Only if Brent would have been here, he would have helped me to overcome this situation. He would have taken my hand in his providing me the support I want right now. “Devika… Devika, look at me. Look at me, take a long breath…” he said doing it along with me, “now, breath out, slowly breath in and breath out.”

Following him, I tried to do the same as he took my hand in his, “Yes, yes slowly and steadily.” Rubbing the back of my hand with his thumb, he made the warmth take place only for me to after calming down feel guilty for making him go through this. As I calmed down the guilt registered in me when my brain started working and making sense. “Are you okay?”

I nodded my head while keeping my head down as embarrassment along with guilt took place in me. “What? Are you embarrassed now?” Biting my lip, I cursed Marcus for not being here due to which Alpha had to see me in such a situation and go through it. “You don’t have to be, I understand what you might be feeling. Your reaction was normal.”

And, after saying it he did not even wait for me to say anything instead he started talking to the doctor, “You should just schedule all the check-ups of her. We should make it quick, the sooner the better, or else just now you saw what happened.”

Following his order, the doctor got to his work while leaving the room with his nurse. “Yes, Alpha.” Bowing their head to the Alpha, both left the room.

“You take rest, I will be sending someone to attend to you.” I nodded at him but then realizing he was leaving I stopped him.

“Alpha…”

“Yeah?” He turned around.

Taking the precious seconds of his, I managed to ask him, “Where is Marcus? Is he on duty? Why is he not here?” I thought the questions were normal for me to ask him but his words made me doubt my thoughts next.

“Why? I understand he is from your previous pack and you are close enough to him but is it necessary for you both to always be beside each other?” It was like a shock for me to hear, no one since we came here ever said such a thing. And, he also never raised questions or objected to Marcus always being present for me when I needed and his sudden change of attitude towards it made me confused. “He has his responsibilities and duty, he cannot always be there for you. You should make it your habit, or else you will only have to face trouble in the future.”

His words just raised questions in my head which made me lose my control as I felt interfered with, who was he even to say that to me? It’s between Marcus and me, can’t he just stay out of it? “When will be off duty?” As if I said something inappropriate his expression changed to an irritated one making me think if I should not have questioned him.

He shook his head, “You should rest.” He said and left me alone in the room with questions playing in my head.

‘What has gone into him?’ I tried to mindlink Marcus but failed as if he had blocked me out. What has happened I need to know, but how? In an attempt of thinking about it, I bought myself a screeching pain in my head which forced me to just lay back while stopping myself from pressuring about it. When Marcus would come, I will ask him. With the thought, I closed my eyes in hope of easing the ache.