Chapter 4

4… 

There was a forlorn wind hitting him constantly. Ryley let the servant go who fled away within a blink of time far away from his eyesight while he himself stood with mixed feelings on his spot— amused. There was no expression on his face! No excitement, no surprise, no sadness, no anger, simply nothing. He just blinked his eyes looking on the wall across him.

He had no idea what was wrong with him. He just changed his emotion suddenly from aggression to neutral hearing about her. Uhh, maybe because he was the one who carried her lifeless body that was going to turn cold, or for that matter maybe her spirit of perseverance had impressed him.

Despite being injured badly, she could still speak. She could breathe and above all, she could stay strong and fight death. He was impressed by her perseverance. One thing was clear, she had something strong that was keeping her go on without losing hope. Maybe she could still survive because she was bound to someone!

That could be the only possible reason as to why she was still breathing, otherwise, nobody would ever want to live after being held as a portion of food or say a prey, in an animals mouth. But she did. He could relate it to his world. Like it happens in their werewolf arena. A wolf does his best to stay alive for his mate because their fates are interconnected or simply say, intertwined.

However, he could not understand the fact why she was fighting so much! She could die, no? Who on earth would want to stay alive after being pained so much? "Stupid girl? She should rather accept her death than living a painful life." He turned to look at the door of his room and stare at the way the servant ran through. 

She was a human, and from whatever investigation they did in order to look for her family or relatives, it was cleared that there was nobody beside her. She was alone. 

 If anyone has been there, they would definitely have come to look for her. Two days to that attack, two days to her missing, two fucking days to her painful hours of survival yet there was no single news. Even the soldiers did not find anyone in the town looking for a missing girl named Valentine. No fucking human? 

Then why was she struggling too much to live? 

Ryley grunted rolling his eyes. The more he thought about her the more it frustrated him. He got back in his room shutting the door with a thud such that the painting on the wall next to the threshold fell down. He sat down on the bed with a paper sheet in his hand which he played with. The paper was rolled into a stick and held its end in between his teeth. 

He was trying to pass time doing nothing constructive. No matter how intense the noise outside his door grew, he sat inside his room unaffected. Although he glanced at the same from time to time, Ryley still behaved as if he was not interested in her. His face failed to express the emotions that his body posture otherwise reflected. He was really curious to see her but he held himself back. 

Ryley laid on his stomach like a frustrated kid who had been scolded for a small mistake. His eyes grew red and his face seemed like a red tomato. "He called me a dumb fuck, I will not go out and see his freaking face!" He murmured as his father's voice rang in the corridor outside his room. 

The location of the rooms goes like this— A huge mansion with three floors excluding the ground floor where you have somewhere around four rooms on each floor. Ryley stayed on the first floor in the first room that happened to be located near the staircase that goes up to the second and third floor respectively in the line while all the other rooms on the same floor were reserved by him as his audio visual room, gym room and a big fat study room containing hundreds of trophies, shields, medals and other achievements he made so far. One can say that floor belonged to him. Only and Only him.

It was decided to keep her in Alpha's house rather than the pack house until she woke up. And for that matter, she was kept in one of the rooms on the second floor as Ryley clearly refused to keep her in one of his rooms on his floor. Though he felt guilty afterward, he decided to stay away from her. 

He tried to maintain a safe distance from her but couldn't, and that was why he checked upon her that night where she laid surrounded with machines in the room with two guards outside of her room. He could not (again) see her face in the dark, but he knew she was someone whom he would never have a good relationship with. She was also giving him weird vibes, that being the case Ryley quickly left her room and never visited her again. 

It does not end here! She was also enjoying his father and mother's full attention! Ryley felt neglected in his own house. That was different that he felt a kind of pull towards her that dreaded him but it had nothing to do with his parents' love.

 "Huh, drama queen. Why doesn't she die or get up either? She has messed up with my peace." Ryley hissed. 

As it happens in every fucking bad boy's life since he is the rudest, idiotic yet handsome but breathtakingly handsome guy on the planet, he hates to have people around him and so, nobody was allowed to come to his floor. He does not like to be disturbed. But since Alpha's cabin and his room was on the ground floor, they were constantly rushing up and down on the stairs. 

Okay, he tried his best to not pay attention to the growing footsteps, alas, he lost it to his curiosity. Ryley after a heck of being reluctant slipped down the bed like a worm crawling on the floor and exited the room. He stood up on his legs and adjusted his clothes. 

When he progressed further near the stairs, he saw a number of people standing there as well as his friends. He waited there near the wall that hid him while he scanned the chaotic scenario gazing at the faces of people. Besides his friends, there was the beta, Gamma, commander in Chief, his mother— the Luna, and Dr. Jason who was seemingly sighing in defeat. 

"What is the matter?" At one moment he was murmuring that to himself, later in a swift, he was amongst his friends contributing to the crowd around. "What is this all going on?" He inquired, gawking at Zander whose father was busy talking to his father, Alpha Hercules. 

"Valentine, I mean that girl woke up for a second and then fainted again with a bleeding waist. I think she will die soon."

The reply made him feel bad for her since she has to go through such a painful event in life, yet again he maintained his tough face sticking to his thoughts and hating her guts, 'Let her die, who cares huh!' 

He was obsessed with stubbornness! 

Tbc…