Chapter 48 - Their Benefactor

Merina could not believe that even Caleb brought a young girl with him today. Aren't they both famous for their cold behavior and haughty attitude towards the girl? How could they both find a girl today that was also injured and poisoned.

Merina frowned when his eyes fell on the face of the girl. She was looking badly beaten by someone.

"Do not tell me that you have beaten her and she has poisoned herself!!" mumbled Merina as he checked the girl. His frowned continued to increase as he noticed her condition.

"........."; 

"Did you think everyone is like you to beat or get beaten by his lover! Ha!'' Caleb gave a look of disdain to the physician and stauntered towards the alpha. 

"Is there any other command for me, alpha?" he bowed his head and asked in a voice filled with respect.

"Go and keep an eye on the humans. Tell me their every action but keep this matter only between the three of us!`` Richard continued to look at the pale face of Haze while instructing Caleb. His voice was grim and chilly. The whole room felt frozen when he spoke. Caleb nodded and left the room before he could be the target of the terror of his alpha!

The room turned somber when he left and Richard looked back at Merina who was checking the girls. 

"They will be fine earlier if you stop glaring at me. Go and stay out of the room and do not come back until you are called." he replied nonchalantly as he continued to look at the medicine in his cabinet. Only he had the courage to speak like that to the alpha as he was not only the physician but the only physician and Richard's childhood friend.

",,,,,,,,,,,,,,'' Richard gave one last look to the girl in the bed and then turned to leave. But just when he had reached the door, he turned and looked at Merina and spoke in a somber voice. 

"If she did not improve in an hour. I promise I will make a bed for you near her!" He went out without waiting for his response. Merina nodded his head but then still when he understood what Richard meant!

"Why would I be punished when you were the one who was not able to take care of her? Huh?" he shouted at the top of his lungs but Richard was already gone.

He looked at the girl with curious eyes. Just who was she that his dumb and cold friend was so worried about her!?

He shook his head when he saw her face contorting again and continued to create the potion for them.

"Alpha!" The moment he came out, a lot of knights came forward and bowed their heads in front of Richard.

"Prepare to leave for Alienore. We will leave the inn, the moment the lady will be conscious again.`` The men nodded but continued to stand there and looked at each other with some hesitation.

"Is there something that matters?" asked Richard as he raised a brow. He could feel the tension building among them.

"Yes! Alpha. We did not feel the sensation of finding our luna. Is she…?" They did not want to ask, but the way the girl was taking care of them and they had crossed such a long distance to only meet her and now she was in between them, they could not believe that Richard had no interest in the girl!

But if that was the case, then why did they not feel that their luna was a human!!

They did not think that a mere human had the courage and capability to be their luna anyway.

"You do not need to worry about it. If she will be your luna, a blood pact would be made and you all will be informed beforehand. For now, she is more like a guest. Have we faced any trouble so far?`` His cold and precise reply and lack of emotions on his face confused every wolf who had come to ask the truth from their master.

"But alpha.. What if she told the truth to others?" asked a knight, collecting all his courage. Cold sweat was breaking on his body yet he knew that question was inevitable. Since when had they started to include a human among them, their demise was fixed!

Richard tilted his head as he looked at the worried faces of his pack. A sarcastic smile formed on his lips as he looked straight into their eyes. They all bowed their heads when they felt the ferocity of their alpha.

"Since when have I given the right to decide to all of you?" he asked as he growled and they shivered. They did not dare to look back at him or reply to him.

"We.. we did not mean that, we apologize, alpha!" they bowed their heads further when the man in question did not say a thing.

"I want all of you to be respectful towards her and her friend till they are here. A single disrespect towards her is the disrespect of the savior and benefactor of your alpha!!" he added as he left the area while they all stood frozen there.

Everyone knew how worried they were when they were looking for their alpha who was being attacked by the humans due to their negligence.

They looked all around but they only found a lot of blood and arrows. Just when they had lost all hopes and called the beta of the pack, the alpha returned suddenly. Though injured, he was strong and had started working from the day he had come back. Soon they killed the man who had injured their alpha but then they announced that they were going back to that place.

They were told they were going to a palace but they never knew that the girl they met there was their alpha's benefactor. So that was why he was saving her!