A few seconds later, I hear running footsteps, then see the alpha and beta rushing into the room in panic.
“What’s happening in here?” the alpha asks the nurse sharply.
“Dr. Hunt instructed me to inject the patient with a sedative to put her back to sleep. She freaked out as soon as she saw me. I didn’t do anything to her, alpha I swear” the nurse stammered in fear.
“You are not injecting me with anything” I look at beta Joseph and plead “Get him out of here please. Don’t let him come near me”
Beta Joseph gives the nurse a nod towards the door, and the nurse complies quickly.
“Ella, he is gone. You can put the stand down, you are safe with us” beta Joseph says in assurance.
I don’t relax a muscle. There was a bigger threat still inside the room giving me a hard look.
I stare the alpha down hoping he would take a hint and get the hell out of my room without the need to yell it at him.
He finally breaks eye contact and says to joseph in a tight voice “I’ll be waiting in the car”
Beta Joseph nods in understanding. The alpha leaves without a second glance at me.
I sigh and put down the stand. I was shaking from head to toe, and my head was spinning slightly. I hold on tight to the stand to support myself.
“Ella, are you ok? Can I come closer to you?” beta Joseph asks gently.
I nod in agreement. He takes careful slow steps towards me, probably afraid of scaring me. When he is standing a few feet away from me, he offers me his hand and says “Let me help you get back to bed”
He waits for me patiently until I make up my mind and accept his help. When my hand touches his, a warm feeling that I have never felt before finds its way inside my body. A feeling of safety sweeps over me at once. He helps me up on the bed and puts back the IV stand in its place. He sits at the edge of my bed and says “Ella, I have to tell you something, but I don’t want you to freak out okay?”
I gulp and nod at him.
“You couldn’t identify the name of the man who tried to kill you. And we have no idea what he looks like or where he is right now. Alpha Klaus and I have decided that it is best if you come back with us to the head pack. That way we can always keep you protected and safe”
I feel a panic attack starting to build inside me. “You and alpha Klaus or just alpha Klaus? He wants to make me come with him so that he’ll make good on his promise to make me suffer everyday. Protection is just an excuse and you know it”
Beta Joseph shakes his head and says calmly “First of all, it was really both our decision to take you back with us. You are not safe here, I know you know that. Second, I know what Klaus did was inexcusable and I want you to believe me when I tell you that he regrets everything he said and did to you deeply. Especially after he found out what the old alpha and beta did to you. His promise to make you suffer was bullshit. He’s not capable of making anyone suffer but himself. He will not hurt you, he just wants to protect you, and so do I. Ella, you have my word, I will not let anyone hurt you anymore, as long as I live”
My tears start falling at his last words. It feels so good to know that someone cares enough about me that he would keep me safe from anything. I never felt that kind of safe, even when my father was alive.
“Are you coming with us, Ella?” beta Joseph asked.
The idea of staying in the same place as alpha Klaus sits my teeth on edge. I have made up my mind about him. He can be regretful all he wants, he is a control freak ass. Beta Joseph was right about one thing though, I am not safe here anymore. I can’t protect myself. If I refuse to go with them, I will probably end up dead tonight. If it wasn’t for beta Joseph, I would have refused to go anywhere with that jerk, I’d rather die.
“Ok. I will go with you” I answer weakly.
Beta Joseph smiles and says “Ok. We have to go right now. Klaus is waiting for us in the car. But we have to give you a sedative because you have a skull fracture that needs to be completely healed while you sleep”
I start to shake my head in panic, imagining that nurse coming near me again. Beta Joseph says calmly “I called for a female nurse to give you the sedative, don’t be scared Ella”
I take a few deep breaths and keep my eyes on his. His deep blue eyes are so relaxing, it is like staring at the ocean.
He smiles at me in reassurance, as the nurse walks in with a needle.
“I will be here when you wake up ok?” says beta Joseph gently.
I nod and do something I have never done before. I reach for his hand. I needed his touch again, I needed that feeling of safety to stay with me when I fall asleep.
He squeezes my hand in tenderness as my eyelids become too heavy to lift and I drift into sleep.
Klaus’s POV
I sigh loudly as I stay in the jeep, waiting for Joseph to convince Ella to come back with us to the head pack. My head was still spinning from everything she said in that room. All those horrible marks I saw on her body were caused by her old alpha and beta. It wasn’t just a one time thing, it happened every day for 10 freaking months!
The bastards were heartless monsters! How could they do that to her? My blood was boiling in rage. I wanted to rip them to shreds over and over again until my rage diminishes.
No wonder she didn’t scream during the public punishment, what I did to her was nothing compared to them. She handled a lot worse than that.
I closed my eyes as the pain of handling what was done to her weighed on me, crushing and breaking me from the inside out.
To top it all off, I forced her to speak about her abuse by alpha commanding her. I lost my shit when she told me that guy tried to kill her to keep her from saying something else to me. I accused her of hiding something from me and lost control of myself. Her screams and struggle to keep her mouth shut to protect her secret cut me deep in my chest. It was the last thing I expected her to be hiding about them.
It was official. I am worse than her old alpha in her eyes now. I couldn’t deny it. She is right. The way I have been treating her since last night made me an asshole. But it all stops now. I will do everything I can to change her mind about me. I will make her forgive me. I will do everything she wants me to do to earn her forgiveness. She was innocent from the beginning, and I was a fucking bastard to assume the opposite. I failed her as an alpha just like Grey.
A movement to my left catches my attention and I turn my head to look. Joseph was carrying a sleeping Ella out of the hospital. She was wrapped up in a blanket to keep her warm since she was dressed in a thin hospital gown.
I hop off the car to open the back door for Joseph. As he lays her inside, he turns back to me and asks “Should I stay back with her or do you want to?”
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