Chapter 40 - Intentional Attack

Inside the Romano Mansion, Antonio, Aelia, and Ivory never even imagined in their wildest nightmare to witness such a spine-chilling horrific sight just a day before the full moon night!

Czar was standing at the entrance door clenching brutally injured, crumpled Zeus leaning on his body for support as he was wholly unconscious. Czar was grabbing firmly by putting his arms around his waist, pouring his entire strength in. But as the strongest and powerful alpha of the pack, his body had become abnormally heavy even in his collapsed frigid state. 

"Wh-What on the earth is this!?" Antonio shrieked out with a petrified voice, swirling his pupils wider.

"My son! What happened to my Zeus!? Yelling in a horrified voice, Aelia rushed towards the entrance almost tripping over with her staggering footsteps. Followed after her, Antonio rushed towards that area with a panicked expression.

Ivory seemed frozen with shock and despair to watch her beloved one covered in blood and all helplessly fragile. For a moment, she forgot to breathe and gawked at the horrifying sight to cope up with the nightmare they were facing head-on.

After a moment of anticipation, immediately she started running towards them with tears of grief and anguish rolling down her eyes. She was trembling fretfully in agony and her toes were tripping over while running.

"Wh-What ha-happened to my son! Zeus! Sp-Speak to your mom! Open your eyes, please! What happened to you, my son? He...What...What the hell happened?" Aelia was unable to hold in her desperate anguish and several times shook his face with her slender hand to wake him up from the collapsed state, yelling frantically. Watching this horrific sight, she had lost the stability of her mind.

Antonio was frozen in alarm for a few minutes, gulped his saliva anxiously, and raised his eyes towards Czar, who was standing all numb with a frown face. "What on the earth has happened to our alpha?" He grumbled at him.

"He has been attacked with wolfsbane. The injury is very severe." Holding a serious eloquence, Czar answered him in a low pitch.

"Haww!" Shivering in fear, Ivory covered her mouth with her hand hearing such a startling revelation from him. Wolfsbane has been always a serious life-threatening weapon used against werewolves and hearing about that her beloved one has been attacked with such a malevolent weapon... her heart almost stopped beating for a moment in dread.

"What?" Aelia rolled her tearful eyes, furrowing her eyebrows and raising her husky voice impatiently. She seemed entirely petrified to learn about it. "Who... Who the hell dared to attack my son with wolfsbane? Is... Is...he al..live.." She was stuttering in panic.

"Yes, he is alive." Czar took a slight glance at Zeus who was still in a vulnerable severe state. "But we don't have much time left... We gotta summon the Witch Lady immediately... He has lost an excessive amount of blood. And, it's already around the full moon..."

"I...I am calling her right now. Please take him to his r-room." Ivory pleaded in a terrified expression and abruptly started to dial on her phone to summon that lady. 

Immediately Antonio grabbed Zeus on the other half and both of them started to drag him into his room at a staggering pace. Aelia followed after them at a wobbly pace of motion, shedding tears of grief. The entire pacific ambiance of Romano Mansion completely turned into a chaotic terrified one. 

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A lady, dressed up in black silk embroidered gown, appearing in her late 40's was applying bandages over the severely injured shredded portion of Zeus on his abdomen where he was pierced inside with wolfsbane. He was lying over the bed devoid of any shirt as his upper portion of the body which was gravely injured was being treated by her. Before tying up the bandage, the lady was applying some mysterious typical herbs to each and every part of the wounds.

Over the side of his giant bed, all of them were gathered around with their stare entirely fixed upon Zeus. Aelia and Ivory were continually sobbing watching him resting on the bed all stiff and frigid like a dead body. Even his breathing rate had turned out extremely slow.

Cleansing up all the injured areas, she wiped out her hands with a tissue and stood up from the side of his bed. Abruptly, Antonio dashed in front of her frowning his eyebrows and slightly took a peek at Zeus. He turned his face towards the lady and sighed a bit.

"Is...his condition too severe?" He inquired her in a dubious hoarse pitch.

"Well..." She gasped heavily at his question and scrunched her eyebrow ridge. "To be honest, he isn't in a stable condition."

"Have you treated his wounds properly? Have you examined his injuries " Aelia almost rushed hastily towards that woman, sobbing in despair, with her tearful eyes. She groaned at her in a deep voice.

"Yes, I have thoroughly applied my magical herbs to his grave wounds...But..."

"But?" Antonio fidgeted in anxiety.

"It seems from the attack that it was obviously an intentional life-threatening attack. The wolfsbane had been thoroughly pierced inside his gut so that the vindictive essence of it could burn his insides solely. The claws were extensively sharp and it was purely from an attack of another ferocious werewolf. I think...it's itself a miracle that he is still breathing after facing such a life impairing attack." The lady was responding to them in a fretful tone, swirling her dialed pupils mystically.

"But who would dare to attack him with wolfsbane? And... why...why couldn't he resist it?" Lamenting in a crooked voice, Aelia rumbled her words in an unclear tone.

"All I can conclude is... you all need to keep a better watch at him for the rest of few days. His condition is extremely fragile now just like a new-born... And, if someone attempts to take the advantage of this glorious situation, he may face another dangerous attack again... If he gets attacked in this vulnerable condition, probably he won't survive." She sounded very intense.

Everyone inside the room was spellbound with the shocking revelation from her and gazed at each other's faces for a few moments. Immediately, Antonio turned around and glanced at Czar, who was standing at the corner of the room silently, holding a frown grimace.

He slowly walked closer to Czar and furrowed his eyebrows deeply."Czar, you must know everything...why and what had happened to him, right? Narrate us everything now." His pitch sounded immensely dubious as he commanded him.

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