Chapter 30 – The Half Blood Luna

We finish our lunch in silence after that. I kept thinking about ways to make it up for her and convince her she is safe with me. Should I take over her training? It takes three hours everyday, but I have that time. The packs are stable and there are no pressing matters like before.

“I want to be responsible for her training. Do you think it is a good idea?” I ask my mom and Joseph.

“I was going to suggest it myself, but wasn’t sure if you had the time” said Sara.

“I will make time for her. Like you said, we all need to help her”

“I don’t think she will agree to that, Klaus. She is scared of all men, but she is terrified of you in particular” said Joseph disapprovingly.

He was right, of course. I look at my mom for an idea on how to approach her.

“Me and Joseph will open that topic with her once she is stable and do our best to convince her. But if she insists on refusing, we shouldn’t press her. You will have to find another way to reach through to her. I don’t want you to give up from the first try ok?” Sara said optimistically.

I nod in agreement and hope she doesn’t refuse my help to train her. Although deep inside, I was 99.9 percent sure that she was going to say no, judging from the way she didn’t even want to look at me earlier.

“Ok, let’s go check on Ella. I am worried about her” said Joseph as he got up from his chair and discarded the napkin on the table.

“Actually, I want to go check on her alone. She needs to start trusting other people, too. If you come with me, she will only want to confide in you” said Sara to Joseph as she drank some water and then got up from her chair.

“Ok, as you command doctor” said Joseph teasingly as he kissed her on her cheek.

“Let us know if she is all right” I tell my mom.

She nods and leaves the room, while we move on to my office to discuss some pack business.

Klaus’s POV

“Klaus, have you been listening to me for the past ten minutes or have I been talking to myself?” Joseph waves his hand in front of my face, pulling me out of my recently constant distraction, Ella.

She has been occupying a big part of my mind for quite sometime now; ever since the first time I saw her, and I can’t seem to stop thinking about her. She was the first person to have that effect on me after Kate. And that was freaking the shit out of me. I didn’t want to end up having feelings for her. Falling for another woman after my mate was out of the question for me. You only get one true mate in your lifetime. One true love. If that person is gone, a part of you will go with her and nothing will ever be able to replace that part.

Yet, where the hell did the part of me that kept thinking about Ella come from? Was it just guilt that brought that part on or was it something else?

I sighed in frustration, ran my hands through my hair, and ran any thoughts of Ella out of my mind.

“Sorry, what were you saying?” I asked Joseph in a frustrated tone.

He stares at me for a while then says “I was just telling you that we need to start preparing for the annual Alpha ceremony. It’s in two weeks”

“Yes, you are right. Why hasn’t Sara said anything about Ella’s condition yet?” dammit, so much for running her out of my mind.

I have no idea where that question that I just asked came from. Joseph gave me a puzzled look, probably confused about the sudden interest in Ella, which made me more pissed at myself. Get it together Klaus, she is just like any other member of your pack.

Whatever Joseph was about to say was interrupted by Sara’s voice through the pack link.

“I knocked on Ella’s door and when she didn’t answer I went inside and found her shaking badly on the sofa. She has a very high fever. I called a doctor to come check on her. She’s on her way. Don’t worry about her I will stay with her until she recovers. Just wanted to update you”

“Where did the fever come from? I thought you said her stitches were healing perfectly, no infection” I asked Joseph in confusion.

“Yes, it is healing properly according to the doctor. There is no reason for her to develop such a high fever” Joseph confirmed.

I got up from my desk and headed towards the door in a hurry. Joseph followed behind me. So she has a fever, why am I so concerned? Concerned enough to drop everything and go check on her. I wasn’t making any sense to myself. All this behavior cannot just be out of guilt, can it?

I reach her room and knock twice.

“Come in” Sara’s voice invites us in. I enter and find Ella on the sofa in a fetal position shaking and murmuring in a very low voice. Her eyes were closed but tears were running down her face. Sara was kneeling on the ground next to her head.

“Where is the doctor?” I asked Sara in a tight voice.

“She’ll be here in two minutes, let’s move her to the bed, it’s more comfortable for her than the sofa”

I moved instinctively towards her and bent to lift her up, but before I could touch her I stopped. It didn’t feel right for me to touch her without her permission. I straightened and looked at Joseph meaningfully.

As soon as Joseph put her on the bed, she started shaking even harder and moaning in pain “No, not the bed please. Please don’t touch me. I’ll do anything just don’t touch me” she wrapped up on herself even more and kept holding on to her clothes.

My heart tore apart at the sight of her trying to cover herself up and the sound of her agony.

There was a knock on the door followed by the doctor’s voice “Doctor Sara, it’s doctor Megan. Can I come in?”

“Yes dear, you can” answered Sara in a concerned tone.

The doctor started examining Ella, while Joseph and I gave them our backs and stared at the window overlooking the huge forest.

I heard Ella scream and turned to see her pulling down her sweater hysterically as the doctor was trying to lift it up to examine her chest “No! No please. Don’t touch me alpha. Please don’t” she moaned in pain.

“I need to examine her wound to confirm if there is any infection around the stitches” said the doctor to Sara.

Sara tried to speak to Ella in a comforting voice “Ella sweetie, you are safe here. It’s just the doctor. No one can hurt you anymore”

The doctor tried to lift the sweater again, but Ella thrashed against her even harder begging and crying.

The doctor turned to us and said apologetically “I am really sorry but you need to hold her down just for one minute. I have to look at the incision. Her fever is causing her hallucinations, she can’t hear anything we are trying to say to her”

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