Chapter One Hundred and Ninety Seven
I suddenly felt very hot.
“I need to take some air,” I say, heading for the door, but Axel was right in front of me before.
“No, you need to go to the healers; things would only get worse if you left this unattended to and it’s severe as it is.” Axel says, trying to make me see reasons, but I couldn’t go to the healers; they might discover what I was.
“I can’t… I just need some air; get out of my way. I growled at me, feeling restless inside; he wouldn’t move, and
and my patience was getting thinner.
“I’m sorry I can’t do that.“.
I lost it.
I slammed him against the wall. “You don’t choose where I go and when,” I snarled at him.
No, he didn’t look alarmed; his calculative gaze simply watched me, noting down that there was something off with me.
My eyes found his neck..
“I’m sorry,” I say to him, but he says nothing; my eyes never did leave his neck. “You scent really nice, Axel… really really nice, and your neck… it’s beautiful.”
“Is she drunk?” Axel asks Thane.
“No, she’s not.”
Thane disappeared into the bathroom; he returned with an aid box. I never knew werewolves needed those. He picked out some bottles and a syringe. He filled the syringe with a little of each content from the bottle.
“What are you doing?” I asked, but he gave no response. Finally, he gave the syringe a little shake before approaching me. “Don’t,” I warned.
I had forgotten just how fast Thane moved; he seemed to materialize behind me, holding me firm. I was furious; my fingers dug into,his skin, drawing blood.
I couldn’t pull free of his iron grip; I felt the needle pierced into my skin, and a single tear dropped down my eyes.
“You want to hurt me,” I whispered, feeling the fluid weaken me.
“No, I want to help you,” he whispered, and that was the last thing I heard before my turned completely black.
world
I woke up feeling completely drained. I blinked against the bright light.
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“Thane?” I called, “Where am I?”
“You are at the healing room.”
I rose from the bed. They waited. They had both waited for me to wake.
“I’m sorry, Axel,” I apologize, remembering what I had done.
“Is fine,” he says with a smile. “Do you still find my neck beautiful?” he questioned, holding back a chuckle.
“That was really creepy of me,” I agreed, and he burst into laughter. I couldn’t help but laugh along.
“Did the healers discover what was wrong with me?” I asked hopefully.
“There was nothing wrong with you,” Thane began. “You are pregnant, Riley,” he says with a small smile.
“I am pregnant?”
“Yes, you are… and I don’t mind taking care of the child.”
“Wait. I can’t be pregnant. I and Nick never… did it; the last person I had been with was you, and that was months ago; it can’t be possible.”
“Are you sure?” Thane asked, a puzzled look on his face as he exchanged glances with Axel, who had stopped laughing.
“Yes. I never felt ready, so it never happened, and I am hundred percent sure of that.”
“Riley, back at the Raven Clan, have you at any time woken up with any loss of memory or have you been unconscious around Nick for a long period of time… alone?” He asked, his voice laced with concern.
I was about to say ‘no,‘ but then I remembered being unconscious and alone with Nick after our return from the sorceress. I’d nearly lost my life, and when I awoke, I was in Nick’s room.”
“It can’t be; he wouldn’t. I should have felt something… right?, but I didn’t. Nick isn’t like that; he would never rape me.”
I had almost died that night; Nick had helped me; he couldn’t have touched me; I would have felt it. It wasn’t possible.
“Then how else would you explain a pregnancy?“Axel questioned, and he was right, yet I couldn’t bring myself to believe Nick would do that.
I had been about to say something to Thane when I noticed his eyes were completely black. ” Thane,” I called.
“It’s fine” Thane says. “Watch over her; I will be gone for a while.”
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Chapter One Hundred and Ninety Seven
We all knew where exactly he was heading to.
