Chapter 9: Chapter 9

I blinked my eyes before groaning to an unfamiliar white ceiling. Immediately replaced by it was an ocean blue worried eyes staring back at my brown ones making me shift uncomfortably on the bed.

"Isa? Are you awake?" Chris called.

I nodded my head sitting up before I noticed his hand was gripping mine tightly.

I moved my eyes from our hand to the room. It was white... everything. The walls, ceiling, curtain, door well except the table beside me which was brown.

"Where am I?" I asked Chris.

"Hospital." He said simply.

"What happened?" I asked rubbing my eyes with my free hand.

"You fainted. Dolores called me, remember?" He answered.

The memories came rushing at me and I sighed knowing the reason why I fainted. Damned period.

"What time is it now?" I asked. There was no clock in here. It was like they didn't want the sick people to see the time to keep track of how long they've been there.

"It's still today, as in the day you fainted. The time is..." He said taking his phone from the table and opened it "9:00"

"That long?!" I yelled out.

He frowned and then nodded.

"Are you hungry?" He asked suddenly.

My stomach growled there and then. What exactly is wrong with this stomach? The last time it growled like that too.

I heard a chuckle from my side as I ducked my head blushing embarrassingly.

"I'll take that as a yes." He said.

He kept quiet for a while making me look up. Why ask if I was hungry if you're not going to give me food?

His eyes had glazed over when I looked at him and then back to the ocean blue. I frowned blinking.

Had I seen wrong? Great! I hallucinate now?

"What's wrong?" Chris asked.

"Umm... I thought I saw something. Never mind." I said shaking my head brushing the thought away form my head.

"Okay." As the words landed, a knock was at the door and then the door slid open revealing Antonio carrying a tray. From where I sat, I could smell the scent of fried eggs.

How did he know I was hungry?! This guy is a life saver!

"Alpha. Luna." He said bowing his head and then dropped the tray on the bed.

"You can go." Chris said.

"Umm..." He hesitated looking at me.

"What? You can ask." I said awkwardly.

"Umm... My mate, Elena... She asked me to ask after your health and she said she'd like to umm... meet you." He said scratching the back of his neck.

"Oh." I said simply looking down at my food.

"Tell her I'm fine and she can... meet me?" I replied looking back up.

"Really? Thanks! You're a life saver! She had been pestering me since like forever. At least this would get her off my back." He said smiling.

A genuine one. I've never seen him smile. Only stone cold face like a ruthless person. He must love the... Elena.

"Happy to help. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm really hungry." I said reaching for the tray.

"Right. Sorry. Good Night, Luna. Chris." He said turning around.

"Call me Isabelle, please." I said waving my hand.

"I wouldn't dare." He replied turning again.

"Just go." Chris said suddenly.

"Right." He said and turned finally.

"Luna?" Isabelle said and scoffed. She opened the plate and sitting there was a plate was scrambled eggs and bread with a cup of Ginger tea right by it.

How did he know her preference? She shrugged and moved to eat.

She tried to pry her hands away from Chris grip but he wasn't willing to let go.

She frowned and hesitantly looked at Chris who was looking at her with a mused smile.

"I need two hands to eat?" She pointing at her food.

"Right." Chris said letting go of her hand.

"Well...?" He said after she ate the first spoon.

"It's okay." She replied shrugging and as if that's what he wanted to hear, he let out a laugh clapping.

"Umm... Who's the performer?" She asked eating another spoon.

"I made the eggs! It's my first time making scrambled eggs! You said it's good!" He screamed in joy.

"Umm...Okay." She said and continued eating her food with Chris eyes on her.

"You want to have some?" She asked.

"Nah... I'm fine." He said smiling. His stomach grumbled right at that moment.

Isabelle looked down at his stomach before looking at his face and then she threw in a fit of laughter.

Chris ducked down his head and blushed. Damn both their stomachs.

"Here, have mine. I'm full." She said pointing at the food.

"Umm... Hold on." Chris muttered and then his eyes glazed over before it went back to normal.

He looked at Isabelle whose mouth was hung open with a frown on her face.

"What's wrong?" He asked worriedly.

"You... I... What.... What just happened?"

"Where?" Chris asked.

"Just now. You were here and then you were not. And that eye stuff... What's that?" She asked placing her fork down.

"Oh... You mean the mind link." Chris said.

"The what now?" She said.

"You see..." He hadn't started when the knock came again and the door slid open revealing Antonio again.

Carrying the same tray, he dropped it on the bed before he turned around without another word, he left.

Chris carried his tray placing it on his laps. It was the same serving as Isabelle except the ginger tea was replaced with tea.

"You haven't explained." Isabelle said as soon as Chris raised the fork to his mouth.

"Oh, right." He said dropping the fork. As soon as he dropped it, his stomach growled again.

"Maybe we should just finish our food first." Isabelle suggested.

"Yeah, that's a very good idea." Chris said smiling as he picked up his fork again.

The only noise in the room was the clanking of cutlery against the ceramic plate.

"Okay, we're done. Go." She said dropping her fork.

Chris looked up at her and then her food.

"You haven't drank your tea." He pointed out. True enough, her cup of ginger tea was still full.

She grunted and carried it. She placed it om her lips, shut her eyes and drank it one go.

"Woah! Slow down there." Chris said collecting the cup from her.

He mind linked a kitchen staff to come and pick up their empty plates. She came afterward carrying the tray and walked out.

"Okay so, in the mind link... you can communicate with someone that isn't too far away without moving your mouth. It's like the person you're talking to can hear your voice in his head likewise you." He said.

"That's ridiculous." She said at once.

"Then how did I call the woman from just now and Antonio?" He asked crossing his arms.

"I don't know but, that's weird." Isabelle finalized.

"Fine... We'll test it tomorrow in front of you." Chris said.

"The... wolf... that night, where is it?" She asked looking at him.

"In me."

"Oh My... Nice... He's in you?" Isabelle asked amused.

"When you're discharged tomorrow, I'll show you." Chris said at once.

Isabelle looked at him and then smiled shaking her head.

"Oh yeah! How did you know I was... you know, today?" She said trailing off. But Chris had understood as they both turned crimson.

"Umm... We werewolves have heightened senses. Our eyes, nose, ears are two times more advanced than humans. Do you believe that?" He asked.

"Oh... No, yeah that makes sense. But tell me something right now that I don't know you know about." She said.

"You called yourself a monkey when you got to your room the day you tried to run." He said.

"How did you hear that?!" Isabelle asked clutching her body.

"Told you... Werewolf." Chris replied shrugging.

"How much stuff do you hear?!" She said ducking her head.

"We should probably sleep." Chris said instead.

Isabelle punched his arms. He was obviously saying he had heard everything!

She drove under her blanket and hid her face. Then she wondered where Chris would sleep.

"Where are you going to sleep?" She said before she could stop herself.

"Right here." She heard from right behind her ear making her shudder as her heart increased its pace.

"Why is your heart beating so fast?" Chris asked.

"Nothing." She replied clearing her throat.

"Could you... umm... your hand...I..." Isabelle stuttered not able to form words with the thought of him being so close to her. The proximity was too small!

"My hand... Oh I should place it on your waist?" Chris asked placing it there and pulled her closer.

"You... You're shameless!" She said trying to wiggle out of his grasp.

"Just stay still... You can't push me away." Chris said sighing.

Isabelle wanted opened her mouth to talk but a yawn creeped out instead. She blushed and closed her eyes to sleep.

Chris arm was under her head with his other arm on her waist.

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"So what should I do?" Isabelle asked awkwardly standing on the porch of Chris house.

"Nothing... Just stand there." Chris said smirking.

Isabelle crossed her arm looking at him. He was going to show her or rather introduce her to his wolf whom he called, Xerxes.

He also added that Xerxes was eager to meet her which made her anxious... I mean, who would want to see an eager wolf?

Her train of thoughts broke when she heard the sound of bones breaking. Hold on, bones breaking?

Chris clothes ripped revealing the skin which had fur sprout out of it immediately. She looked at his hand which had the nails lengthened out to be claws and his fingers and hand skin replaced with fur. Before she could move her eyes elsewhere, his whole body was covered in fur and his face had changed.

She looked up and met with his red eyes looking at her with full interest. She yelped and jumped back a little bit in fear. God! Did he have to have red eyes?!

She stood rooted to the ground as Xerxes circled her before giving her a nudge with it's snout. She moved forward and turned around to look at the wolf in front of her.

She suddenly felt the urge to run her hand through it's midnight black fur and she put her urge to action.

The wolf growled in content as she ran her hands through it. She knelt down and the wolf followed. Suddenly, it jerked up and looked around.

Isabelle also looked around at alert frowning.

"What's wrong?" She asked looking at the wolf who was still looking around... particularly at the forest of trees.

It suddenly nudged Isabelle as she stood up without any complaint. It nudged it's snout towards the house.

Isabelle looked to the house and then to him.

"You mean I should... go inside?!" She asked.

The wolf growled in response and quickly nudged Isabelle again.

"Alright then." She replied moving to the door as she pushed it open and stepped into the house.

After the click indicating the door had been locked, Xerxes sprinted into the forest mind linking Antonio on his way.

Soon, a brown wolf with black streaks along it's neck joined in the running. The brown and black streaks matches the ones on Antonio's human head.

The colour of the hair was said to be the colour of the wolves they became... those with white wolves are said to be special in some sort of way. {I don't actually believe this but for those who do, well...}

'I caught a whiff of scent of that man... I'm sure it's not him since I killed him the other day so I'm thinking it's the boss this time around.' Xerxes said to Antonio wolf, Ezra I'm the mind link.

'Those bastards! What exactly do they want?!' Ezra yelled even though they both knew the answer.

'I've sent Elena over to her, she should be okay with her since Dolores is out in the city.' Xerxes said.

'Wait... Let me take that side so we can cover more grounds.' Ezra suggested stopping.

'Alright.' He replied without stopping neither looking back.

That man shouldn't be far, after all he was human. He saw a man running through the thick forest pushing the branch of trees away.

'Gotcha.' Chris thought smirking.

He leaned forward scratching the man's leg with his claw as the man fell on his face writhing in pain. True enough, it was Oslo... The drug leader.

Chris changed half the way into his human form with his fangs and claws still out.

Chris moved near him pinning him down with his leg before mind linking Antonio that he had gotten him.

"Get away from me you monster! Get away!" The man yelled digging his fingers in Chris leg till he drew blood.

Antonio soon came after in his human form as well except he was wearing a short while Chris was standing there in all his naked glory.

He threw a short at Chris who caught it and threw it on eyes fixed on Oslo.

"So... Any last words?" Chris asked bending down to him.

"You monster! She'll leave you eventually. You'll see." He said in spite using his second hand to pack sand off the forest floor unknown to Chris and Antonio.

"And then you'll live the rest of life... alone!" He yelled the last part throwing the sand in his hand at Chris.

Chris got distracted for a while trying to clean his eyes with Antonio by his side, Oslo used the opportunity to run even though his legs had been torn open and he was bleeding profusely. He was limping yet he didn't have it in mind to give up. He couldn't die like this!

He looked back to see no one behind him. He smirked and turned around coming head to head with red eyes.

"You... How did you..." He said and didn't get to finish his words as Chris slashed his eyes with his claws smirking at the man.

"Ahh! My eyes! My precious eyes! How could you do this?!" He yelled clutching his bleeding eyes. It was a miracle his eyes hadn't disconnected from the six muscles holding it.

"Which hand was it?" Chris asked calmly.

"What?" Oslo asked confused.

"Which hand was it?" He asked again.

"What the fuck are you talking about?!" The man said moving his hand from his eyes as he looked at the blood on his hand.

"Which hand did you use to put a gun to Isabelle's side?"

"What?!" The man yelled again.

"Hmm... I'm guessing it's both." Chris said shrugging his shoulders as he moved near the man and slashed both wrists making the man cry out loud.

Isabelle snapped her head towards the direction the sound came from and without further ado, she ran towards it.

Elena, Antonio's mate was a lady with blonde hair who was trying her best to stop Isabelle but she yelled at her earlier making her let her go in submission.

Whose wrath was worse? The Alpha or the Luna? Definitely the Alpha.

Who could she not listen to? The Alpha or the Luna? None!

She had gone to Isabelle with a smile on her face. She knocked the door feeling giddy, it was her first meeting with the Luna. She even made sure she picked a cute dress as she straightened it while waiting on Isabelle.

If someone saw her, they'd think she was going to impress her crush.

"Chris?" Isabelle called moving towards the door. She looked through the peep hole to see a blonde girl with a huge smile on her face. She frowned at the unfamiliarity.

"Umm... It's not the Alpha. It's Elena, the beta female." The girl said in a chirpy and sweet voice.

"What?" Asked Isabelle confused.

"Antonio's mate." She corrected.

"Oh." Was all Isabelle said. This was the girl that so badly wanted to meet her?

She opened the door for her and Elena stepped in still with that huge smile on her face.

"Hi! I really like you! I mean, I know we haven't met, neither have we talked before, but I just liked you from looking at you from a distance." Elena rambled.

When she stopped, Isabelle smiled.

"Thank you. Now, let's go." She said moving towards the door.

"Umm, where to?"

"To Chris of course. And I'm guessing Antonio is with him so let's go." Isabelle replied pulling the door.

"The Alpha asked me to make sure you stayed?"

"And I'm telling you I'm not staying. Now tell me, which way did they go? And why did they go?"

"I... I can't tell you that Luna. I'm sorry." She apologized looking at the floor.

"Of course you are!" Isabelle spat out and made her way out of the door.

She turned back and with all her might she yelled,

"WHERE IS CHRIS AND ANTONIO?!"

"They went to the forest after some drug leader." She said and slapped her hands to her mouth. How did she do that?

Isabelle smiled at her and walked away to the forest with Elena trying to convince her not to.

Goddess! This Luna of thiers was such a stubborn person. But she was so badass! She gained more respect for Isabelle as she ran after her with Isabelle going forward like she was prepared for what she was about to see.

"You... Please just spare my life, please I beg of you... Please." The man sobbed and beg. His face was stained with bloody tears since his eyes was already torn from Chris claws.

"You should have never ever come here tonight... You should have never laid your eyes on my mate neither your disgusting hand." Chris spelled out slowly to him poking his wound.

"Stop... please..." The man cried.

"I promise..." The man choked out as Chris slashed his throat. Blood splattered all over Chris face as he frowned in disgust.

The man fell on his back choking as blood rushed to his mouth and all he could do was look up at the pinkish orange sky...looking beautiful like it knew nothing was happening.

Disgusting human. He moved his hand to clean his face when he heard that voice.

The one he would recognize anywhere at anytime, the one he loved hearing everyday...

The one he didn't want to hear, at least not at that moment when he was standing over a man he just left to bleed out.

"Chris?" Isabelle called weakly.

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Ooohhhhh a cliffhanger ... Gosh, I hate this kind of scenes, where the female lead finds out something gory about the male lead? Damn! Either ways, let's see how it goes. Who else noticed Isabelle used Luna voice there to ask where Chris and Antonio were? Poor Elena.