Another path

Aria.

“I was about to leave. I didn’t plan to stay too long.” Lucian said and pulled away from me, he turned, and kept his gaze at Kade.

Kade glanced at me and then at Lucian. “She needs to rest.”

Lucian nodded. “I will be back tomorrow to check up on her.”

“You don’t have to…” Kade interjected, and strolled into the room.

Lucian simply nodded and didn’t say anything else. He headed towards the door and walked out of the room. He closed the door quietly behind him.

Kade exhaled when he was gone, he placed his hands on the bed.

“Be careful of him.” He mumbled.

I nodded slowly, I knew Lucian was someone that I couldn’t trust, and didn’t believe most of the things that he said but I needed him.

If I want to go against Alpha Rowan, I need him by my side, and I want Soren out of the prison too because he knows a lot since he was once a rogue before he came to the pack.

“Get some rest. I will sit here and watch you.”

“Why are you doing this Kade?”

“What do you mean why am I doing this? I thought you knew about all of it. I made my feelings quite obvious for you, Aria. I was ready to do everything if you let me, I would take you away from Rowan.”

“We’re not having this conversation, Kade.”

“That’s how you’ve been pushing me away.” He exhaled, took his hands away from the bed and folded it across his chest.

“I’m not pushing you away.”

“You never acknowledge my feelings for you either.”

I opened my mouth to speak but I couldn’t find the right words to say to him.

“It’s not a lie is it?”

“Kade.” I muttered.

He shrugged. “Maybe you need some time. I’m willing to wait for you, I’ll be here for you and I’m not leaving your side anytime soon as long as you still need me here.”

I took out my hand from the blanket, and touched his arm. He stared at my hand, the bruises had been treated. He held it with his large callous hand and squeezed it.

“Promise you won’t end up hating me?” I asked and blinked my eyes at him.

He pulled closer to the bed with his chair, his other hand went to my hair and he stroked it affectionately.

“I would never hate you, Aria.” He answered softly. “Get some sleep.”

I closed my eyes, the drugs were making me feel dizzy already but I felt his fingers on my hair.

I couldn’t tell him the truth, and Kade sees me as someone he wanted to protect but I was more than just being an omega without a wolf.

“Aria, wake up.” I felt a pair of warm hands shaking me slightly, I fluttered my eyes at the person standing over my bed.

“You've got to get up now.”

I rubbed my eyes so I could recognize the person that had the voice. I lifted myself from the bed, and stared at the man.

It was the doctor from yesterday. He looked terrified as if he had been threatened, and his hands shook beside him.

Is something wrong?

I wonder why he was acting that way?

“What is it?” My voice sounded hoarse when I spoke.

“Is she awake?” Another voice spoke, I didn’t know there was someone behind the doctor.

“Yes, Alpha.” The doctor bowed and stepped aside to reveal the man that was leaning against an empty bed at the other side of the room.

His eyes narrowed down at me.

I blinked my eyes to be sure he was the one in the room with me.

What was Alpha Damon doing here?

I thought I would get to meet him in the pack house.

He glanced at his wrist watch, and nodded before he pulled away from the bed, he made his way down to me.

He squatted, and roamed his eyes over my body.

I wasn’t in the same clothes from last night, I was in the hospital uniform, and Kade was here last night. I wonder where he had gone.

“You slept for a long time, it was almost 2pm. We need to get to my pack before night falls, so I ask the doctor to wake you up. You’ll get enough rest when we get home.” He said and smacked his lips together. He tilted his head to the side, and saw the doctor standing there. “Get out and get a nurse.”

“Y—yes, Alpha Damon.” He stuttered and scurried out of the room.

“Are you feeling any better?” He cupped my face in his arms. “Does it still hurt?”

I nodded, and he sighed and let go of my cheeks.

“I brought you some clothes, get dressed and let’s leave.”

He dropped a duffel bag on the bed beside me, a nurse came in, and Alpha Damon stepped out so I would be able to get dressed.

He came back after the nurse left me, the IV on my hand was taken away. I sat on the bed with my feet touching the ground.

“How long have you been waiting?” I asked when I finally found my voice again.

“Five hours.”

“You met with Alpha Rowan. What did you discuss with him, and how did you know where to find me?”

I stared at him.

“I told you, you had limited time with Alpha Rowan.”

“How did you know all of that, and those things you said about me?”

“It’s one of my gifts.”

“Prophecy?” I knotted my brows, and he nodded.

“And what contract did you sign with Rowan? He’s not someone you could trust.”

“What are you worried about Aria?” He took two long strides and stopped in front of me.

“Everything, Rowan is dangerous. I served him for years, I know how…”

His finger went to my lips, and he shut me up with it.

“I have got your things packed and we are leaving now. Don’t worry about Rowan or the contract that we signed. You belong to me now.”

I frowned, and yanked his fingers off my mouth.

“I don’t belong to anyone.”

He chuckled softly. “I keep wondering what’s making me attracted to you, I want to find that out. I’m curious about you, and you’ve piqued my interest.”

I huffed, there were a lot of things he was keeping away from me, and I hadn't been outside Rowan’s pack.

If he sided with Rowan and formed an alliance, Alpha Rowan would become very powerful.

He pinched the bridge of my nose. “Little wolf.” Then he smiled, and pulled me into his arms from the bed.

“I can walk!” I protested and tried to fight him off but the little fist I threw at him didn’t move him.

“You didn’t have any shoes and stop touching me that way, you’ve no idea what you’re doing to my body.”

He smirked at me when I stopped wriggling and fighting him, I allowed him to take me out of the infirmary in his arms.

I didn’t know if I should ask him about Kade, and if he knew what happened and why he wasn’t in the hospital when I woke up.

I kept quiet and watched him from under my lashes, staring at the features of his face.

We got to his car, the door was opened, and he dropped me inside the car, taking the spot next to me.

“We are taking a chopper, my Beta will drive us there.” I stared at the man behind the wheel, I could only see the back of his red hair.

We said nothing else throughout the ride, I glanced at the window, staring at the passing scenery. I was leaving the pack, and I don’t know what I should expect from Alpha Damon’s pack.

Would I be saved completely or I would fall into my own doom?