Twenty

Eira’s POV

I almost slumped down on the floor due to the effect of the Alpha King’s powerful voice and that was when I decided that I'm leaving.

I'm leaving this goddamn Pack.

I steady myself as I composed my bearing and quickly left the Alpha King's chambers.

When I got downstairs I didn't even say a word to Amoux and Dolphus because I knew that everyone heard the Alpha King's voice from his chambers as he ordered me to leave.

“Carla, get up, we are leaving immediately, " I said to my sister shortly after I got down the stairs.

“I'm not leaving,” Carla stated instantly after I announced that we were leaving.

“What did you just say?" I asked my sister in shock, my eyes opened as I stared at her unbelievably.

I said I'm not leaving now,” she replied in a blatant voice.

“Oh, good very good. Since you want to stay here and live off the Alpha King, I will tell Ma and Papa how good of a sister you are,” I snarled and angrily left.

I shifted into my wolf form when I jumped out of the Alpha King’s house. I didn't even take time to undress as the clothes were torn to pieces as my wolf form emerged.

After fully shifting, I ran immediately along the Pack house and headed directly towards Deep Water’s border.

I was so angry and infuriated, I wasn't thinking straight.

All I could think of was how the Alpha King looked at me as if I was a nobody and told me to get out of his chambers.

I feel angry as the scenes are repeated in my head countless times.

All my life, I've never been as humiliated as I was when I saw him look at me.

I was so angry and humiliated!

Did I come all the way from my Pack to be shunned like this?

It wasn't as if I came to replace his demise mate, I only came to treat him and extend his life if I can, but I was ridiculed as if I was some common slut that offered herself to him.

Since he doesn't want treatment then I will go.

I will go back to Alpha Ryan's Pack or my Pack and heal those that want to be cured instead of the mean and heartless Alpha King.

I don't know what drew my attention to the sky as I looked up at it and saw that the full moon was already high in the sky.

That was when I heard the sound of someone running after me but I didn't stop.

I kept on galloping and galloping blindly until I reached the border of Deep Water.

I looked back and saw that the person was easily catching up with me no matter how much I tried to gallop faster than it.

I still didn't stop.

I was persistent, I wouldn't go back to Deep Water and that horrible Alpha King.

I heard the person do a wolf howl but I still didn't stop.

I kept on galloping and galloping.

Until I couldn't run anymore.

I looked back and saw that the person was almost where I was sitting exhaustively.

I couldn't help but look at the figure in amazement.

Are all the werewolves in Deep Water that fast and powerful?

I used almost all my strength to run in my wolf form but this person didn't even shift at all but could still easily catch up with me.

I watched slowly as the figure came into view and I was able to see who the person was at night because of my wolf's sight.

It was Dolphus, the Alpha King talkative friend that I met tonight when we arrived at his house.

Honestly, I didn't think he would have been the one to run after me. I was thinking that it would be Amoux since he was the one that brought us here, but I guess he wasn't that bothered about me.

“Eira,” Dolphus called out breathlessly as he moved closer to me.

I was kind of happy that he was breathless because it would have hurted my ego if I ran like that and he caught up with me easily without losing his breath.

“Can you shift back? I brought a cloak for you,” Dolphus asked when he got closer to me and dropped the cloak I just saw that he was holding on the floor and turned his back for me to shift comfortably.

“I'm not going back to that mean Alpha King,” I blurted out immediately after I shifted and wrapped the cloak around me

“Listen Eira, the man you saw inside the chambers is not the same man he is anymore right now,” Dolphus dropped a bomb on me and gazed at the sky.

“What did you mean?” I raised my eyebrows at him and looked at him curiously.

He was still catching his breath and it was like he wasn't doing a better job of it as he was trying to talk to me too in the process.

“Eira, you need to go back with me. Right now Reagan’s strange illness has begun and it is much worse than before. I don't know if it was because he just lost his mate but it's really dreadful. I'm afraid we will lose him tonight if you don't go back with me,” Dolphus quickly disclosed in a heartbreaking tone.

Upon hearing the depression and humbleness in his voice, I calmed down a bit and thought carefully.

If I go back now and the Alpha King died, no one would accept me in their Pack because Alpha King's death would tarnish my image and I wouldn't be able to practice my profession.

That was when I realized that I didn't have a choice than to go back with Dolphus.

After that understanding, I frowned deeply.

I didn't care a bit if that lousy Alpha King dies or not!

But why did he have to get more sick when I left.

“I think we should start going back now,” Dolphus announced and we started walking towards the Deep Water again.

I couldn't walk as fast as him because I was so exhausted, and I should have asked him to go and bring a horse or something.

I still can't believe I'm coming back after running all the way to the border.

When we got to the Alpha King’s house again, I saw Amoux waiting at the front door.

“Maybe I was wrong and he was worried about me too but it was Dolphus that first ran out,”

I thought when I saw him waiting and looking at us when we came.

Or maybe he was just worried about his Alpha.

When we got back inside, I saw Carla pacing around worriedly and she instantly looked up when she saw me.

“Eira, quick! You have to go and look at the Alpha King. He's really in so much pain. He has been groaning in pain since you left,” Carla said to me impatiently as tears gathered in her hands.

I couldn't help but feel slightly annoyed.

What does that have to do with me?

I was trying to help earlier, wasn't I?

And why is she acting so damn worried, she wasn't even as worried like this when their father got sick.

I looked at her and scoffed.

Does she think that acting worried and pleading will make the Alpha King like her?

She hasn't even met him yet!

I ignored her and looked at Amoux and Dolphus who nodded their heads in sync, and I shortly heaved a deep sigh as I walked up the stairs again.

This time, I was going alone.

I hadn't gotten to the door yet when I heard loud groans coming from the chambers.

My heart jolted in shock…is that the Alpha King?

The amount of pain in the voice was immediately embedded in my brain.

Is this what he goes through every full Moon night? Or is tonight just different? I asked myself as I opened the door gently and walked inside.

The room was still pitch dark and apart from the lantern light on the desk that I saw earlier.

I got inside the loud groans and cries got louder and I moved closer to where it was coming from until I got to the bed and saw Alpha King whirling in pain.

My heart clenched tightly when I saw him in that position.

When I came in earlier he was looking all cold and depressed, but now he looked like a dying wolf, and my heart couldn't help but feel pain when I saw him.

This is how I feel for every patient. I told myself till I was convinced.

I moved closer to him, and I saw that he was in a subconscious state yet he was still groaning in pain and his body was quivering.

I quickly extended my hand to check his temperature but I was shocked silly when I saw how hot his body was.

What the hell!

I continued with my assessment of the sickness as I peered at his eyes and saw that they were so gray.

His iris and his lens were the same color right now.

He- he is…b- blind.