XAVIER'S POV "Will she heal?" I asked the healer a millionth time since he had arrived twenty minutes ago."Your Highness, once again I say, it is not up to us! I have done the best I can and all that could happen next depends on her. She will heal if she wills to heal," The grey-haired healer said.I grunted. His reply did not please me but I didn't want to rile him up further."Thank you for your services," I said, dismissing him."You are welcome, Your Highness," He replied with a bow and shuffled out of the room on his old legs.I gazed upon the lifeless body of Anna on the bed. She looked so pale like the blood from her body had completely been drained. The only indication that she was alive and what gave me hope was the rhythmic beating of her heart which I felt in mine. Although her pulse was pale, at least it was there.I sighed. There was no way I was going to let her heal herself. I could not play with such a probability. I needed her to be healed. Then and only then would
XAVIER'S POV Even though what I had heard was not new to me, my chest clutched at the sound of those words.Anna and I were not the best of buddies but the thought that she despised me to the extent that she would not let my blood heal her was troubling. "But it healed her chest wound!" I said explaining to the old woman."She had a huge wound that was bleeding so much and when I mixed my blood with hers, it healed immediately," I explained.It did not make sense that my blood would heal her and then stop healing her next. Did her hate for me grow stronger when our blood got mixed?That would sound weird as it was the opposite for me. The connection I had always felt towards Anna had tripled the moment my blood had mixed with hers."Your blood may have healed her physical wounds but the wounds we are trying to heal now are the ones that have been done to her mind," The healer spoke slowly as if she was trying to explain something to a little child."Her mind? What injury to her mind
XAVIER'S POV"How on earth did she get to be like this?" The voice of my uncle brawled, jerking me to wakefulness. My head felt light as I tried to make out my surroundings.I had fallen asleep beside Anna's bed. I had not moved out of the room ever since I had brought her in.I had my meal there by her side. I had not even gone to the restroom to relieve myself even though I was extremely pressed.The maids had begged me to go and take a rest but I had dismissed all of them aggressively.The presence of my uncle in the room was an unpleasant one that added more unpleasantness to my already sad day."She was attacked by a rabid wolf," I replied to him sleepily.I had already thought of that excuse a while ago as I had known he was going to want to know what happened."A rabid wolf?" My uncle asked.He did not get a reply from me."That is weird. There have been no reports of any rabid wolf," My uncle said.He walked over to the bed and looked at Anna's body.As he walked past, I picke
XAVIER'S POVMy uncle walked out of the door but not after staring down in a way that made me reconsider the way I had acted towards him.I had thought he was going to attack me and had even prayed he would. I needed an opportunity to unleash the anger and pain that was inside of me.When he left, I sat down on the bed beside Anna, abandoning my chair which had toppled to the ground when I had risen to rebuke my uncle. My legs felt weak as I looked at her. I used all my energy to stand up. My heart was still racing in my chest. Like a child who had just done something wrong. I knew my uncle wasn't going to let it slip. He was going to come for me and the knowledge made something flip in my stomach. I shook my head in an attempt to push away all the thoughts in my head and concentrated on the girl beside me.I stroked her ear lightly, pulling the locks of hair that had made it to her face behind her ears. I heaved a sigh as my hands caressed her cheeks gently. They were cold, if she
ANNA'S POV I was trying my best to break free from the invisible bonds that held me in bondage. I did not understand why I was not able to move my hand, nor had I been able to utter a sound. Everywhere was dark and I couldn't make out anything. I heard a chair fall beside me and I started seeing what was around me. Was I dead? Why was moving becoming such a difficult thing to do? I tried my hands but it didn't move an inch. I tried to part my lips to make a single sound but still nothing. I could breathe, but I tried to move my legs this time and I got no result. Is this what it felt like to be dead? I felt detached from the world and it was like I was watching all that was happening from a different place. Even their voice sounded like echoes from another place. I watched as various weird-looking people came and did weird things on my body. It had been terrifying to see some random person make cuts on my wrist and suck out my blood with his mouth.I had tried to tell them to
XAVIER'S POVIt was three days already and the reports on Anna's condition were getting worse than better.She still looked so healthy as she slept even though she looked as pale as a ghost but we could all perceive the death that hid from our eyes with our noses.The smell which would have been undetectable to the human nose was so pungent to our noses.The smell of Anna's decaying wounds were so bad that I noticed the maids were trying their best to keep their face straight when inside the room. They had even resorted to shifts in order to escape the small decaying flesh that seemed to engulf the entire room. The only person who seemed not to be affected by the smell was me because I was always by her side.I had been there when the smell first started permeating the air and I was still by her side only moving thrice a day to relieve my bowels.I had not taken a bath in those three days and I was starting to think my body's smell was an aggravating factor to the general smell of th
XAVIER'S POVI closed my eyes and sighed as I prepared myself to admit to my fault."She was attacked by another wolf," I said simply."That I know. What I need to know is why," The healer said.I looked at him as I thought of how to answer his question."It was in a fight. She had not seen the attacker coming. She fell on the ground from the push from the attacker and she has not been conscious ever since," I said not trying to reveal too much of what happened. Little information was all he needed."What was the fight about?" The healer asked and I looked at him with suspicious eyes."Who sent you? I am asking you for the very last time!" I bellowed at the old man."No one! I swear!" he said frantically.I sighed. I was not comfortable divulging this information."They were fighting over something," I said.The healer must have noticed that I was not willing to divulge the information he wanted from me and decided to let me be."Were you there? When it happened," The healer asked."
XAVIER’S POVI remained in that position on the bed with her in my arms till I fell asleep. But even in my sleep, Anna remained in the same position.My soul was broken, and I was at my breaking point.Tears continued streaming down my face until the pain I felt transformed into anger. Anger for the way she was treating me.I apologized. I had spoken to her like the male healer had suggested. I stayed by her side every single moment despite the decaying smell everyone complained about. I remained with her.I poured my heart out to her even if I had no idea what I was doing. I even regretted supporting Abigael when she had only been protecting me.And this was how she chose to pay me back —by letting herself die all for hatred I couldn’t even figure out where it originated from.My wolf felt like it had been cursed with rejection. It was like a burning drive in my soul, tearing me apart till I had no strength left in me.Anna had no right to make me feel this way. She had no right to m