Chapter 14: Chapter 14

"The villagers think she seems to have seen the beast"

"WHAT?"

That was Delilah's reaction. A shocking reaction. She looked at the girl. "She saw the beast?" She asked in a whisper.

The mother sighed and nodded. She almost cried.

"My daughter is alive. So all I thank to the moon goddess. I don't want anything else."

Delilah patted her shoulder.

'Didn't I tell Everett about the beast? He always ignores it. That man! He should have come with me. Then he would believe me.' She thought.

"Don't worry she will be fine."

The woman nodded. "What is your rank?" She asked.

Delilah hesitantly replied, "Omega."

"Oh."

"You?"

"I am Theta female. My daughter is Beta. She got the rank from her father. He is a beta actually."

Delilah got that. In this village, rank mattered a lot. She could see the pride of her rank in the woman's eyes.

"Where do you live?" The woman asked her.

"I am living in the middle of the fo-"

Delilah immediately paused. She remembered Everett's warning. How could she be so careless?

"In the middle of where?" The woman asked.

Delilah chuckled awkwardly. "In the middle of this village. My home is very far from here."

Amelia tugged her mother's dress so her mother apologized to Delilah for leaving.

"I am sorry, I have to leave now. I think Amelia wants to go back now. She is on medication, she needs sleep."

"Yeah sure." Delilah replied.

The woman held her daughter's hand and started to go. The girl Amelia turned to Delilah.

Delilah waved at her but she did not wave back but only looked at her until her mother took her to the other side and told her about something.

'Why was she looking at me like that? Strange girl!' Delilah thought and went back to the hospital.

After working another two hours. She waited for Conor to finish his work. Because it was already evening and he would take her back to her home.

'Home? Can I call it my home? That is his home. I just met him. But I always felt safe whenever he was with me. Is that because he saved me?'

She looked down at her dress and caressed it. 'He is arrogant but a good person.'

Delilah saw many family members and friends come for patients in the hospital.

They were living in a society together. She thought it would not be bad if she stayed in a populated place like this.

She remembered the night when she ran to Everett. If she knew about this place, she would have not disturbed him and come here directly.

But she didn't know the way at that time.

"Let's go."

Conor came and Delilah stood up from her seat. She was sitting in the reception area.

When another nurse and doctor saw Conor with her together, they thought Delilah was a special someone so that their head was taking her with him.

In the area where no one was living or going there, they went back to the forest from the village with that way.

"Conor"

"Yeah? How was your first day?"

He asked as he walked in front of her.

"Good but there is a question in my mind."

"You can ask."

"I met a patient and her mother."

"Just in a day, you started to meet up with the patient's family? Not bad."

"No, it's not like that. I met her in the park side, outside of the hospital."

"Okay. Then?"

"She is eight years old. She can't talk right now. I heard she saw the beast."

Conor's steps paused. Delilah looked at him to hear his thoughts about it.

He turned his head to her said and asked with an angry tone,

"Who told you this? Her mother?"

Delilah felt awkward about his reaction.

She walked to him and looked at him.

"Are you okay? Why are you angry?"

He sighed and shook his head. "No, I am not."

"What do you think about it?"

"Look, Delilah. Isn't it better not to talk about this matter? We only treat people and wolves. It is not in our hands about what others saw.

And she is just a child. She had a panic attack and was temporarily mute. She will be okay soon."

"But what about she saw?"

"You are too curious about everything. Don't you think curiosity killed the cat?" He said.

His eyes were like a predator. For once she felt like she was talking about him so that he was getting angry at her.

"Come on. Why do you both react like the beast?"

"Don't talk about it in front of others. No one will like it. If you hear something about the beast, try to avoid it as much as you can. Otherwise..."

She frowned. "Otherwise what?"

"Otherwise who knows what he planned? Maybe he will fix his eyes on you and hunt you lastly?" Conor said with a deep voice.

"AAAA!!" She said and slightly hit his arm.

"Stop scaring me."

He broke into laughter and shook his head.

The moon was glowing. They could see each other through the moonlight and headed to the wooden house.

Delilah felt that Conor was a friendly guy.

"I will set your schedule from tomorrow so you can go back earlier before the afternoon."

"Thanks, Conor."

"Mention not."

They talked about a few matters of nursing. Conor told a joke about how some new nurses fainted when they saw doctors do any operation.

Delilah laughed hard because Conor was acting like those nurses and imitating their expressions.

Conor was a really fun guy. How could he become the head doctor at such a young age? If she did not see it today, she would never have believed that.

They kept laughing and talking when they reached the wooden house.

"We are at home." Conor said.

Delilah smiled at him but her smile froze when her eyes fell on the man leaning against a tree.

Everett was standing while glaring at her.

She became nervous. For a few hours, she thought she was a free spirit. But now his glare reminded her she was not, she was someone's slave.

"Looks like you're out for a walk, not work."