Chapter 3 - A Bad Dream!

Eva's POV:

My eyes were droopy and I fell asleep. My battered body was too exhausted to think about that weird man anymore.

"Help me!"

"Please, let me go!"

"Let me gooooo!" I screamed.

I was crying inside a dark dirty dungeon and my feet were shackled with chains. My clothes were dirty and torn in some places.

I was crying for help but no one came to rescue me. My body was shaking in fear.

The sleep didn’t last long. My eyes sprang open; I woke up panting from a bad dream.

I hardly got bad dreams or nightmares. Even after grandma was dead, I slept alone but never had any nightmare.

Then why did I suddenly have this type of wired dream now?

It was petrifying. I was looking like a prisoner who committed treason and was treated worse than a human in that dream.

I went to the kitchen to drink a glass of cold water. Each step I took, my body told me that it needed rest; it needed to stop working for a while. It hardly could make me move. If I pressed it anymore, it would shut down.

The trauma from the attack was serious than it looked. I was both mentally and physically traumatized.

So returning the bed, I lay down. Deep slumber took me over again, the drug contained a little sedative, I guessed.

After two hours later, I woke up. I ate something and got a call in the landline telephone. Normally, it was telephone for our restaurant.

"Hello, who is this?"

"Is it Grandma Dinner? Are you going to open today?" A girl asked.

"Actually, we are closed for today. When we open, you will be informed via our Facebook page." I said.

"Oh, okay." I heard her disappointed tone before hanging up.

Before, grandma used to cook for the restaurant; she had a helper and sometimes I also helped. But what was I going to do now?

How would I maintain everything? I had university to attend, I had to study, and then prepare ingredients and then cooking. The previous helper and the delivery boy were also gone. I didn't have enough cash to recruit both of them either.

Thanks to God that the apartment was not rented. Or else, I would be in great predicament.

For now, I needed to hire a helper and continue the restaurant even if in a smaller scale. Deliveries of food could be off for some time until I had enough money.

My iphone ran out of charge, so I connected it with the charger and plugged it in. After switching the phone on, I saw several texts from Valerie and Andrew.

Both of them were my friends in the university.

I dialed Valerie's number.

"Hello, Eva? What happened to you? Where have you been in the last two days? You even skipped university classes." I heard Valerie's voice as soon as she picked up.

"That's a long story, Val." I sighed.

"What long story that you can't even tell me?"

"Listen, when did I say that I can't tell you? I said that it's a long story. Let's tell you everything when I meet you." I sighed again.

"Why are you sighing like this? You are okay, right?" She asked.

"Okay, only feels like a truck ran over my body. Nothing else." I replied.

"What!"

"Nothing. See you tomorrow in the university. Everything is okay. Don't worry." Saying, I cut the call.

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The next day,

"What! So much happened already and you still haven’t called the police? You dumbo!" Valerie exclaimed as I told her about the whole incident three days back. We were having lunch sitting in the canteen.

I sipped my orange juice.

"Your eyes are still black. You should have at least seen a doctor. What if the blow in your head hurts later or arise more complications?" Andrew spoke.

"I couldn’t get time. Yesterday, I was feeling very tired and already missed two days in the university. So, I came here." I replied.

"It would be better if I could get a helper for the restaurant. I don't want to close the restaurant. My grandma loved this restaurant." I added.

"Why don't you publish an advertisement in the newspaper? Besides, my cousin Gamma needed a job temporarily. You can take her, she is quite expert in kitchen jobs. If you want, I can tell her and give your number." Andrew mentioned.

"Really? Okay, please tell her then to come tomorrow." I said feeling grateful.

"And the deliveryman?" Valerie queried.

"For now, no delivery. I won't be able to take so much pressure alone." I groaned.

I should have rested a few more days and then come to university. After the lunch break, I began feeling worse in the next two classes. I put my head on the desk and closed my eyes.

I survived in the classes somehow and exited the university building as soon as the classes ended. I took a cab to return but in the way I remembered that I had to buy some groceries and medicine. I got down from the cab a few blocks away from my home at the grocery store.

Buying groceries, I was getting out of the store but suddenly I felt suffocated in my chest. My clench on the bags loosened, and they fell on the floor as an immense pain hit my chest.

The glass jar of tomato paste which was in the bag was shattered into pieces.

"Ahhhhh!" I cried holding the door of the store.

The security guard standing there noticed me. He came inside.

"Are you okay, Ma'am?" He asked.

"I- I-" I couldn’t pronounce the words properly. The pain was unbearable, I couldn’t breathe.

I gestured my chest and tried to explain to him that I was in pain through my hand gesture.

The other employees also rushed to me. One of them called 999 and within a few seconds I was taken into the nearest hospital.

Mom, grandma were dead, it would be great if I died too. I would be able to join them soon. Would there anyone else who would wait for me anyway? I had no one now.

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Alpha Theodore's POV:

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh! Alpha!"

The she-wolf under me screamed as I was fucking her.

After fucking her for more than a few minutes, I also came.

I got up from the bed before wearing my jeans.

"Are you not going to stay for the night, alpha?" The she-wolf asked closing her thighs.

"I don't stay overnight with anyone. This fucking was consensual. We both know that we are not each other's mate." I replied.

Her glowing beautiful face turned gloomy.

"Forgive me, alpha. You still haven’t found your mate yet. It has been so many years. What if you don't find her at all, how long are you going to stay a companionless life? Why don't you let others love you?" She mumbled bowing her head.

I went to her and put my index under her chin, I made her look at me.

"What you have for me is not love. It's craving. The craving is also not for me, it's for 'power'. The power of being the luna. If you could truly love someone, it should be your mate. How could you talk big about love while betraying your own mate?" I spoke.

Her face was red in embarrassment.

And before going out of the room, I said, "Just because I fucked you doesn’t mean you can question me or point a finger at me. Never forget who I am."

I was the alpha of Red Aurora pack and it was the strongest pack among the entire werewolf clans.

You still haven’t found your mate yet. It has been many years. What if you don't find her at all, how long are you going to stay a companionless life?

Her words were echoing inside my head. And mine as well.

For the first time in my life, I acted like a hypocrite.

I had a mate, I found her. But still I fucked another she-wolf. It was a grave sin in the werewolf world. But I didn’t care. I didn’t care for my mate either even after knowing that she would be in agonizing pain.

All my life I wanted mate. I swore once I had her, I would always be faithful to her. But what I got? A human girl as a mate?

All my reasons, thoughts, dreams were overwhelmed with fury and disappointment.

Why my mate had to be a human? The very species I loathed most and the worst species in the whole universe. The species whose existence only means deception, betrayal, selfishness and who bring nothing but pain, misery and sufferings.

My mate had to die, or else I would not be able to get out of this ruinous mate bond. I wouldn’t let the history repeat.

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