An Enemy.

I seriously cannot believe that I'm doing this. I mean agreeing to help heal someone else’s mate when I recently just lost mine last night, might be the most ridiculing and funny thing to happen to me right after the night that I got rejected. The universe must be happy to want to troll me again.

Or maybe I can just let Hunter's mate die so he can feel exactly what I'm feeling. I'm not supposed to be the only one to suffer like this. Who knows? The hurt might likely reduce if I get to share the misfortune, right?

I don't even know if I'm walking right into a trap following him. I mean they could be the poachers here and I was being lied to the whole time. Anyway, since I still don't have any chains on my hands or feet for now, I think I can trust him.

“Well, aren't we there yet?

“We are almost there, please be patient with me”

“Well, I don't have all day, Hunter,” I said rudely and rolled my eyes as if I had any urgent place to be, following Hunter to take me to his injured mate. Now about his wounded mate, to be sincere, I'm not really a healer, My Dad was the healer before I lost him to the cold hands of death from a hereditary sickness.

My mom shortly followed after, not being able to live with the fact that her mate was gone. But I was able to acquire some skills on how to heal and save people from my Dad, so maybe that should be able to help save Hunter's injured mate, hopefully.

“We are here” Hunter stopped in front of a certain door and I didn't even notice he had stopped, too busy looking around the hallway to find a way of escape while he was taking me to his mate. We almost headbutt into each other when he turned around to let me know we had reached if I hadn't been quick enough to pause in my tracks immediately.

“Sorry…” I quickly apologized and covered up the slight feeling of embarrassment I felt with a short quirky chuckle to get rid of the strong feeling of awkwardness I felt when that happened with him.

“Well, what are you waiting for? Open the door” I demanded, pointing at the door after the feeling of embarrassment was gone, and Hunter just kept staring at me like he was lost for a moment and actually forgot what to do too.

“Yeah, right, sorry…” He forced a chuckle and a small smile followed as he apologized and opened the door to the supposed room his mate was in.

“Well, Ladies first” He gestured for me to be the first one to enter the room.

“Yeah, right, like I'm going to do that” I refused to be the first one to step into the room. If it's a trap, I'm certainly not walking right into it like that.

“Sorry, but I'm afraid men will have to come first this time” I gestured for Hunter to be the first one to enter the room so he would be the one to fall victim to any trap inside.

“Fine” He gave up, throwing his hands up as a sign of defeat when he saw that I was pretty intent on not stepping inside the room first before him.

“Are you coming in now or not? It's totally safe inside here if that's what you are worried about. If I had wanted to harm you, you wouldn't have been sleeping on a bed when you woke up” Hunter said, turning around and even jumping on the floor of the room to prove to me that it was safe inside when I still refused to go in, even after he went inside the room first as I suggested.

“Okay, looks kind of safe to me for now, I'm coming in” I looked at him with doubt but still went ahead to walk into the room. I calmed my nerves when I got inside the room and noticed that there seemed to be no traps inside for real. I think I'm the only one randomly getting worried over my safety when there might actually be no harm.

Hunter seems like a real genuine person. I mean even if he had wanted to harm me, he would have to wait until I helped heal his wounded mate. So, I just need to figure out a way out of this place before I’m done taking care of his mate.

“Where is she?” I asked about his mate straightaway and he ordered me to follow him.

“Follow me, she's just right here over there” He pointed to a certain corner in the room and began to walk towards it but I didn't quickly follow, deciding to take the opportune chance to look around the room well and I figured it out to be some sort of an abandoned place.

It was all dusty with cobwebs covering up the entire place and I had to remove them out of my way while following Hunter behind.

It seems like an old abandoned place in the pack house from the looks of it, but my observation abruptly got cut short by Hunter's mate when we finally came to a stop, and he swiftly hurried over to her struggling to sit up on an old cranky bed she seemed to have been lying on before she must have noticed us coming in.

She held the top of her shoulder which appeared to be badly wounded and bleeding. From the looks of it, I can tell that she's really weak, she seems to have lost a lot of blood as she doesn't seem to be healing at the moment too, so Hunter was certainly right about her being poisoned.

“Hey, Skye, I thought I told you to lie down, you aren't supposed to be moving. The poison could get worse and you wouldn't be able to lift a finger next “ Hunter softly grabbed her and tried forcing her to lie on the bed.

“I feel paralyzed when I'm lying down. I'm fine sitting up, I told you that a million times already, and what is she doing here? You know that she can't be here” His mate refused to lie on the bed and then asked about me when she seemed to have noticed me.

She doesn't look that happy to see me.

“I know that but she's only here to help” Hunter tried convincing her that I only came to help out. She seemed to have panicked a little when she saw me.

“Help? What do you mean by that, how is she going to do that, Hunter?” Skye, as he called her gave me a doubtful look probably trying to understand how I'm supposed to help her. Yeah, I'm trying to understand the same thing too because the amount of blood she has lost is quite terrifying.

“She's a healer, she can heal you so please let her. Is there anything you think that you can do?” Hunter decided to invite me to the conversation after it seemed like his mate wasn't going to stop with the questions and he was tired of it already.

“Uh, I…I think I can do something” I didn't expect him to invite me to the conversation that quickly so I was left dumbfounded a little, but I swiftly shook my head to shake that feeling off to get to work. I could probably try doing one or two things to help stop the bleeding first.

“Uhm…do you think you know what it is? The poison? Hunter asked, helping to stop the bleeding by pressing on the wound with a cloth.

“I think so, I've seen this before, It's a miracle she's still alive, she has lost a lot of blood, and that cloth isn't really going to help. I would need some herb to stop the bleeding first and then….” I paused when I suddenly heard a hornlike sound being blown.

“What is that?...” I asked out of curiosity and the look that Hunter gave me made me know that the horn blown was certainly not in his favor.

“Sh*t, he's back already” He cursed under his breath and facepalmed.

“Who’s back?” I questioned, not liking how shaken up Hunter was about the horn being blown and the person behind the reason why it was blown.

“Alpha Gordon, his brother…” Skye chose to answer the question for me since Hunter seemed incapable of doing it at the moment.

“Brother?...” I murmured, confused at first but then remembered that Hunter had mentioned him before while we were still in the doorless room.

“I have to go welcome him, it seems like he came back victorious” Hunter prepared to leave right away and even took a step forward when I swiftly grabbed him by the arm, stopping him to ask.

“Wait, where are you going? Where does that leave me? I told you I didn't sign up for this. I'm coming with you” I insisted on leaving with Hunter. I'm certainly not being left behind. He's probably going to want me to do more work when he's back.

“No, you can't, you cannot follow me. Please just stay here with Skye, it's better to do that, I'll be right back” Hunter advised, but I still insisted on following him, refusing to let go of my grip on his arm.

However, I swiftly did that in a flash when he told me how dangerous it was to follow him and it scared the life out of me.

“Why? Why can't I come with you?

“Because you can get killed, you are an enemy”