Intruder.

“I’m an enemy?...” My brows furrowed with confusion and curiosity at the same time with the word ‘enemy’ ringing nonstop in my head like a ringtone. What exactly does Hunter mean by that? I mean, initially, I did think that I could be in enemy territory when I first opened my eyes and woke up from my slumber.

However, if I'm an enemy, why the hell was I brought here? And why then is he leaving me with his mate and requesting my help at the same time too? You can't ask for help from an enemy and leave them alone with someone you love, right?

Hunter must have a thing for easily trusting strangers and an enemy at that too I guess.

“You can't be seen by him, he can't know that you are here. I'll explain better when I'm back, so please make sure to stay with Skye no matter what happens” These were Hunter's last words to me before departing and giving Skye a deep kiss on the top of her head.

After he was gone, I slowly shifted my attention to her while she swiftly avoided it, as if wanting to avoid any questions in case I had any because I do have a lot of questions to ask. First of all, the reason why I'm an enemy, and the reason why she and Hunter seemed to know about that and yet still risked bringing me over to this place.

“Guess I'll just have to be real quick with this and then wait for him to be back so he can give me a better explanation for that” I forced out a deep calm breath and went ahead to continue the treatment on Skye's wounded shoulder, before the interruption of the horn and Hunter leaving as well.

“Allow me…” I softly requested, noticing that she wasn't quite free with people the way her mate was. I literally had to ask her to let me take the cloth that Hunter used to stop the bleeding off her shoulder for me to be able to have access to her wound, yet she still hesitated in letting me do that but eventually did.

She doesn't seem to trust strangers as easily as Hunter does.

“Ouch…” Skye winced in pain and slapped her thigh hard when it seemed like I hit a bad spot on her wounded shoulder, trying to stop the bleeding with a neat cloth I grabbed from the bed. The other one was utterly soaked with blood.

“Sorry,” I apologized, being more careful this time. “I’m going to try my best but I’m not so sure I can stop the bleeding if Hunter doesn't find me that herb first, and I need some equipment too,” I said, putting more pressure on the wound to stop the bleeding which, thankfully has slowed down a little.

“I forgot to warn that was going to sting a little but you are stronger than that” I chuckled, trying to strike up a conversation with Skye. The level of awkwardness caused by the dead silence in the room with us after Hunter left was too much. I think he would have pretty much kept the place alive if he was still here.

I utterly expected Skye to say a thing or two to contribute to what I'm trying to do here. However, she simply just rolled her eyes showing that she was uninterested, and it gave me the ick and quickly made me have this little dislike toward her too.

She's probably going to be the first one to kill me since I'm an enemy here anyway when I'm done with this.

“Uhm…you know I need to put more pressure or you might likely lose consciousness soon. You've lost enough blood already, the only reason you are probably not dead yet is because your body is fighting back” I said, pretty much talking to myself since the person I'm talking to looks completely uninterested. I thought so until she suddenly spoke up.

“I… ” Finally, Skye forced a word but paused immediately to hold in a scream that would have likely split the room into two if she had let it out. She then closed her eyes and took in a deep breath while I paused and watched her take in that pain like a champ.

“Sorry but this is going to keep hurting like a b*tch until I'm done” I warned on time so the next upcoming pain likely won't take her unaware again.

“I don't know what kind of herb you need to stop the bleeding but Hunter can't get it, not now Alpha Gordon is back. It's too risky, ouch, take it easy!...”

Skye yelled aggressively and this time she let it out loud. It seemed like I touched a really bad spot on her wounded shoulder again. Her wolf even forced itself out to defend herself immediately as her eyes turned golden yellow.

“I'm…I'm so sorry, I…I didn't mean to do that, I mean I didn't know it was going to hurt that much, I'll be more gentle this time” I swiftly apologized, hoping not to make the same mistake again. Her wolf seems to be pretty pissed and I certainly do not want the one to pay a price for that.

Skye slowly shut her eyes and returned to her human form, sending her wolf back in. “It's ok, I'm sorry for that, Daya can be a little overprotective sometimes” She forced a smile and wore it off quicker than it first appeared on her face, which only made it quite obvious that she forced it.

I chose to pretend I didn't see that happen and proceeded with the conversation as it seemed like she might be a little bit interested now. “Daya?” I asked, knowing that has to be her wolf.

“She's my wolf, she's what I like to call…” Skye trailed off and before I could tell what was happening, she suddenly began convulsing and I was left confused, not knowing what to do. Like I said before, I'm not a trained healer so I didn't know what to do at this moment other than to panic.

“Skye?...Skye?...” I called with my hands shivering so badly that I tried to pull myself together, but I just couldn't, and that is when I knew that things might have gotten a little too serious. What if she's to die right here and right now? What am I supposed to tell Hunter?

He doesn't know yet that I'm not a trained healer so I'm certainly going to be blamed and face the consequences that are to come with that if Skye is to end up passing away.

Luckily, she stopped convulsing and foaming in the mouth, and despite being too scared to come close to her. I knew I just had to check up on her and see if she was not dead yet. Fortunately, she was not dead yet as I could still feel her pulse, but it was very weak and then I knew I had to go get some help.

This is now beyond my capability.

I want to run away actually, but I can't afford to do that knowing I still have the chance to save Skye as long as she's not dead yet. Truth be told, as much as I didn't want to waste the chance of escaping from this place with the opportunity I have now. I definitely won't be able to live with the fact that I'm the reason why someone died when I knew I had the chance to save her.

My father always saved lives, he didn't let them go to waste.

“I…I.. I'll be right back, I'll go get someone to help, Skye. I won't let you die, I promise…” I told Skye, who was partially conscious and ran out of the room like a madman on the loose to go get help.

****

I don’t know where I'm headed, solely focused only on getting someone to help Skye as I kept running and searching around the entire place which kind of felt like a maze, and yet, since I left, I still haven't been able to find a single soul to help Skye.

The only room I could find was the other one I was in and the one that Skye was staying at. I took a short pause in my track and found out that I might be lost, however, since I already went ahead with this journey, there's no turning back now.

After searching for someone to help for a few minutes, someone finally decided to come around and I sighed with huge relief when I found them coming my way.

“Hey, hey, over here! I need your help!” I screamed, waving at them excitedly, rejoicing over the fact that I finally found the help I was looking for. But the excitement didn't last long as the supposed helper suddenly turned against me.

“Intruder! Intruder!” He screamed, charging against me at full speed and before I could take to my heels. He caught up with me and tackled me to the ground aggressively and was forced to stand to my feet immediately.

“Who are you? And how did you get in here?” He shook me aggressively and when I didn't say anything, still suffering from the pain he caused me when he threw himself on me in the name of trying to tackle me down.

He threatened “Never mind, don’t answer that, Alpha would know how to deal with you, come on, let's go!”

“Huh?” My eyes widened immediately at the mention of Alpha and all the pain I was feeling came to a halt immediately, feeling like the worst pain would come if I got to meet the Alpha. It doesn't sound like he’s a merciful person judging from the words of this stranger, does he?

Hunter better be there or my ghost certainly won't stop tormenting him if I'm to be killed.