Chapter 47 - Found A Mate?

Richard frowned and looked down only to realize that he had forgotten that he was taking a bath. His eyes darkened when he realized he was so worried about the girl that he had come faster than the speed of lightning. A ray of light passed through his eyes, but in the next second, it turned normal again.

"I have worn a towel!" he replied rather nonchalantly, but Hazel was already half unconscious. Her groggy state was not able to register her words. Her mind was not alert enough to remember that he was not wearing clothes. Her eyes had turned too heavy and she had closed them and drifted to sleep for forever.

The sound of his gnashing teeth could be heard in the silent room. He moved closer and wrapped his arms on her shoulder and thighs. But when he lifted her, even her half unconscious mind pointed at the girl nearby.

"E..el.lie" hardly came out of her mouth when she tried to speak. Only blood was flowing like a broken dam. Richard only noticed then that there was another girl who was lying behind Hazel. She was the one who had come in the woods with hazel. If she would not have been there, he would have met Hazel there. Should he save someone who had been a thorn in his path once.

"Ellie" hazel took her name once more, with more pressure this time. As if she had sensed his unwillingness to save her, she wanted to make sure that he would take her.

Richard sighed and nodded. "Do not speak further!" he had held more than one human before. But she was in a grave condition and he did not want her to feel uncomfortable in any way. After all, the speed would already be new for her.

He looked at the window and howled.  Soon another figure leapt in. He bowed his head when he looked at his master. His face was devoid of any emotion, yet guilt filled his eyes.

"Didn't I deny you to follow me?" his gaze was Federer when he looked at the bowing man who shuddered yet maintained his posture.

"I apologize for my insolence, alpha. And I am ready for any punishment you deem fit!" he did not dare to raise his head and look at the alpha directly.

Richard snorted as his half serious word and shook his head. "Carry another girl with me. We are going to take them to Merina." the knight's eyes widened and he looked at his alpha with shock. This was the first time alpha is allowing humans to be taken to their territory! Just how!? Wasn't he against them since the start?

But when his eyes met the terrifying gaze of his alpha, he did not dare to ask questions or complain. He nodded his head and accepted his fate!

"Yes, alpha." he ran towards the girl whose face was so white, that if he could not have heard her even breathing, he would have thought that she was already gone!

Richard only looked back when Caleb had picked up the girl carefully in his arms. Then he ran towards the window and leapt out of it. But when he touched the floor, his body had already been taken by his wolf. Hazel was on his back, she had instinctively held his neck tightly.

He was soon followed by Caleb who had taken a bedsheet to tie Elie to his body. They both looked at each other and then howled again.

With the speed of lightning, they ran towards the woods. A lot of animals came forward, smelling the blood. But when their eyes met Richard's blood thirsty gaze, they took their steps back. Yet they continued to growl in a hope that they would outnumber the two wolves. But when they tried to come closer, Richard howled and more than a dozen wolves could be seen coming from the other side.

"Howll"

"Grrrrrr"

"Growwlll" the animals only increased but a shield of wolves were made between them and Richard who had increased his speed when the girl coughed blood again. His white skin had turned redder with the continuous coughing and some of the blood had fallen on his face. His fierce gaze that was filled with thirst of blood had turned bone chilling due to his red face.

Many animals were covered while looking at him and didn't dare to come forward. A few animals leapt and attacked them from behind with the greed to eat human meat but before they could even touch the girls, the wolves protecting Richard attacked their neck and they both growled.

A fight ensued behind Richard, but he was only worried about Hazel, who had lost her consciousness completely yet blood was dripping from her mouth. 

A long howl released once again. And everyone fighting around them stopped to see the scene in front of their eyes.

The alpha had leapt high in the sky and used his highest speed. He was almost touching the sky when he leapt forward again and again.

Soon, a castle could be seen. It was touching the clouds with his high toward and covered with mist. Yet it was glowing in the moonlight when I looked at it closely. The doors were opened when they saw Richard coming towards the castle with inhumanely speed. They all bowed their heads and didn't dare to look at the girl that was on the back of their alpha. But only one thing was on everyone 's mind.

"Has their alpha finally found a mate?"

Without caring about their curious gazes, Richard continued to run in his wolf form even in the castle; he only changed into the form of a human when he reached the inner palace and stopped in front of a door.. He knocked it frevently until it opened with a frowning man whose eyes widened when he looked at the man standing in front of him.