Chapter 2: Hospital

Leo

"What the hell did you just do?" Liam charges towards me as he shifts mid-air.

"You wanted to kill her!" I send him a mindlink.

"I just wanted to reject her."

"But you don’t know the effects of your rejection on her."

"Why are you concerned about her? She is my girlfriend. Do you want her?" He growls.

"Don't be ridiculous."

"You can have her, I couldn’t care less. She is of no use to me. Let me reject her fir..."

"She is your mate!" I snap.

"You should look in the mirror. You rejected three mates. You have no right to judge me."

"You are not going to reject her!"

"I can't have a human mate, man. Especially since there is a possibility of..." He trails off.

"Being the alpha in the future?" I interject, the bitterness in my tone unmasked.

"I don’t see why not. Especially since your dad can’t stand..."

I hiss at him, and I growl while aiming at his neck, but I stop myself. After all, the pack, especially my dad, shouldn't find out about my secret visits.

"You think you are invincible with the scent masking potion and all that, then you come to the forest to play spy." He grunts.

"Enjoy being my father's lap dog while it lasts. He is going to turn on you."

"There is no place for you here," he spits.

"Liam," Lucy's voice puts our tiff to a stop as we turn our heads in the direction of her voice.

I immediately turn the other way and I run before she reaches the forest. When I get to the edge of the forest, I shift back and grab my clothes hidden behind a tree.

I drive to campus to work on my research, but on my way go the lab, I smell Willow's fresh scent and I follow it's trail, thinking about Liam and how power hungry he is. He is going to reject her, and I will stop at nothing to prevent that from happening.

My sister should be the alpha, not him. If I make Willow stay as far away from him as possible, that could prevent the rejection. Until I find a way to humiliate him in front of the pack and to see my dad's face when he discovers that his replacement son has a human mate.

I arrive at what is probably Willow's apartment, and I lift my knuckle to knock on the door.

"Can I help you?" The blonde woman opens the door. Her eyes are puffy, and her hair is in a thousand different directions. She frowns when she looks up at me.

This is going to be fun.

"Your life is in danger, Willow. You need to stay away from Liam."

"Wow! Did Lucy send you?" She rolls her eyes.

"Why would Lucy send me? I'm here to give you a serious warning."

"Look, I would like to stay and chat, psychic, but I have to go. Keep those warnings to yourself." She locks the door, and brisk walks, as I follow behind.

"Fine, I'll leave, but we both know that tonight, he would've killed you if he could. You saw it in his eyes."

She rolls her eyes again, and I walk in a different direction and hide behind a building.

She gets in the cab, and I follow her in my car while keeping a safe distance. She gets off at the airport.

Where is she going? I don't even know her surname to get someone to check for me. I easily eavesdrop on her conversation at the front desk.

I wait for her to go through the gate, and I find out that her flight would be leaving in two hours.

"Liam? Yes babe, I'm on my way to the hospital, thank you for your support." She says with the phone to her ear.

What is this? She has just witnessed him getting married, then she still melts under his smooth words. Mate bonds are the worst.

I book first class ticket with a different airline that would be leaving in two hours as well, and I groan at the amount of time I will be spending at the airport.

We finally arrive, and I depend on her scent to guide me. She gets in a cab and I run to another cab.

"Follow that cab." I say to a first cab driver that I come across.

"Dude, are you a stalker?" I take five hundred dollars and wave the bills in the air.

"Lets go," the cab driver says.

I arrive at the hospital, and I sit outside while she walks in.

I hear a scream that could probably be heard throughout the entire hospital, I follow Willow's scent, and I see the nurse's arms around her.

Her cries pierce through my heart, and I tear up when I remember how I felt on that fateful day with my mom.

I reluctantly run to her, and I ask to hold her. The nurse allows me, probably assuming that we are siblings, and she doesn't even look to see who is hugging her.

"You are going to be okay." I keep whispering, and the screams have turned into sniffling.

I smell Liam's scent, and my wolf stands at attention. He rushes to the waiting room, and removes my arms around her with as much force as he can muster.

"Babe," Liam says.

Her face lights up a little when she sees him.

"Babe, he is gone" She starts sobbing.

"I'm so sorry baby. What happened?"

"Limbicus overdose."

"What? I told you I'm going to find the person responsible for the creation of such a drug."

She nods while wiping her tears.

"I will do everything in my power baby." He looks at me with a smirk on his face. "We are going to find him."

Willow looks at me in surprise, as if she was not aware of my presence before, but she doesn't say anything.

"Babe, who is this?" Liam nods in my direction.

"A psychic," she shrugs.

Liam glares at me. "What are you up to?" He sends a mindlink.

"Willow."

A woman who looks almost the same age as her stands a few feet away. We all look at the lady who had just called her name.

Willow purses her lips, and they stare at each other for some time.

"You can go guys, thank you babe." She gives Liam a peck on the lips.

Then, she looks at me. "Goodbye psychic," and she shakes my hand.

I can't help but smirk and then Liam chuckles.

We walk out of the hospital.

"Stop stalking my girlfriend," he grumbles.

"You are married. Does Lucy know about your human mate?" I raise my eyebrows.

"Willow is my girlfriend, Lucy is my mate."

"I wasn't born yesterday, Willow is your mate. Did you forget that I stopped you from rejecting her?"

"You don't have to worry about that anymore. I want to keep her around for some time." He grins mischievously.

"What are you up to?"

"I have other plans. She is so mad right now. I'm going to use her rage to my advantage. If I play my cards right, we are going to land you in prison."

"You are the worst, you are actually trying to take advantage of such a fragile situation..." I clench my fists.

"Just to give you a heads up, she is a psycho. If she finds out you are the creator of limbicus, she is going to go nuts."

"Liam, she needs you." I try to grasp at some non-existent hope that he might at least feel something for his mate.

Liam gets in a cab, beaming with pride and probably thinking that he has threatened me, but for Jessica, my little sister, I would do anything.

I linger at the hospital just incase Liam is bluffing and he comes back to reject her. I use my super hearing to tune in on her conversation with her family, and I overhear the conversation between Willow, her sister and her mother. She bolts out of the room while wiping tears.