Chapter 866 – Hidden Desires of the Werewolf King Novel

Filed To Story: Veiled Desires of the Alpha King Novel

“How about we take this upstairs?” Dayson spoke into her lips.

Talia released a shaky breath. It’s not that she didn’t want to, but weren’t both of them exhausted? Or maybe they could take it slow? Before she could respond, an angry shout reached them.

“Dayson!”

It was Jaeden.

Jaeden didn’t care that Dayson and Talia were making out on a bench in the garden. “What did you do in the Shadowbite pack?”

Dayson groaned in frustration when Talia moved away from him, but he didn’t let her stand up.

“Nothing,” Dayson responded grumpily. How did Jaeden know they went there? Dayson’s strategy was to deny and investigate later. “How can I be on the other side of the country when I’m here, in the garden, with my mate?”

Jaeden cocked an eyebrow. “Don’t bullshit me. The two of you teleported about half an hour ago.”

Dayson cursed under his breath when he realized… Keith. That snitch!

Well, there was no point in denying it further. “Sure, we teleported. What about it?”

“What did you do there?” Jaeden continued pressing.

“Why do you think we did anything?”

Jaeden narrowed his eyes at Dayson. “Because I just got off the call with Alpha Silas. He told me a wild story about intruders, strange winds, Olivia’s mate dead, and Olivia missing. Do I need more to know you were there?”

“That’s all circumstantial evidence. It doesn’t mean it was us.”

Jaeden couldn’t believe this! Was he talking to a grown man or with a child? “You can’t go around kidnapping people.”

Dayson shrugged. “I’m not admitting to anything, but it wouldn’t be the first time.” Didn’t they technically kidnap Talia? And look how well that turned out.

“This is different!”

Talia had enough. She was already stressed and hormonal, and she was having a moment with Dayson! They were about to go up for some sexy time, but Jaeden came and ruined it!

“That was NOT kidnapping,” Talia said. “I wanted to visit my friend. I found out she was abused to the point of her wolf suffering and her mate assaulted her right in front of me.”

Jaeden wanted to say how they have no right to meddle in the internal affairs of another pack, but if he said that after Talia’s story about abuse, it would make him look like an asshole.

“Where is she now?” Jaeden asked.

“If you must know, she is in the pack hospital, fighting for her life,” Talia responded.

Jaeden’s eyes widened. “In OUR pack hospital?”

“Did you expect me to turn a blind eye when someone is hurt because she dared to have a guest?”

“You don’t need to tell me how bad the situation is there,” Jaeden said to Talia. “However, the universal rule is that one can leave a pack amicably only to follow their mate.”

Talia looked at Jaeden sternly. “Get your facts straight, Beta Jaeden. Olivia denounced her pack before she left with us, and she broke the mate bond before we killed Luis. That means Olivia was an unmated female who didn’t belong to any pack before she stepped into the Shadow Fang pack. As for killing that violent buffoon, it was in self-defense. The only thing they can pin on us is trespassing. Assuming they can prove it was us, give them some compensation, and we will be done with it.”

Dayson looked at Talia with sparkles in his eyes. His kitten was brilliant!

“Trespassing?” Jaeden asked in disbelief to what both Dayson and Talia nodded.

Jaeden needed a moment to process this. Dayson and Talia went there, killed a person, and took away another. How can that be reduced to trespassing? But his Alpha and Luna were united on this matter, and his objections would be wasting his breath.

He still had to say, “We can deny this. However, if they confirm Olivia is here, it will blow out of proportion.”

Dayson smirked. “Why would they blow anything when we took in a stray she-wolf?”

“You will deny you were there,” Jaeden said in disbelief. “Is our story that Olivia killed her mate, avoided their patrols to escape their territory, and crossed two thousand miles without being discovered until she reached out pack?”

“Sounds good to me,” Dayson said, and he looked at Talia. “What do you think?”

Talia confirmed without delay. “That’s exactly what happened. The journey was so strenuous that the poor girl is recovering in our pack hospital.”

Jaeden looked at Dayson and Talia helplessly. So far, he had to deal with Dayson’s unpredictable behavior, and instead of stabilizing him, Talia was adding oil to the fire. What a headache.

…

Olivia was drifting in and out of consciousness, and her mind was swimming.

Somehow, there were hazy images of Talia showing up with a guy she called her mate, then Luis hitting her, and she broke the bond… Did that really happen?

But, if the mate bond was gone, what was this pleasantly prickling feeling on her right side? It was just like when she met Luis and when he held her before he took her to the Shadowbite pack.

The haze consumed her, and this time she could hear rhythmical beeping. Was this the pack hospital in the Red Moon pack? While growing up, Olivia would fall asleep on a free hospital bed while her father tended to his patients.

Olivia wondered if all that was a dream.

Maybe she never went to the Shadowbite pack. Maybe they were still in the Red Moon pack, and Luis was treating her nicely, and she was looking forward to a bright future. Or maybe she didn’t meet Luis at all, but he was just a product of her imagination.

With that, Olivia drifted off to darkness again.

Something was off, yet it felt right. The scent of bergamot filled her senses, and this time Olivia was confident that she was close to her father. He was the only one who would add bergamot to sanitizer to make it minty and citrusy and to soften the harsh pinch of alcohol; it was the scent that seeped into her father’s clothes and all their furniture.

Only after leaving home, Olivia realized how much she loved that scent which would always bring a smile to her face. She thought that comfort of bergamot was gone forever, yet here it was, all around her.

Olivia tried to move, but she felt trapped. Was she stuck somewhere?

Her body was pleasantly numb, but she could feel the little prickles on her right side, this time, with the scent of bergamot.

Olivia’s eyes fluttered open, and it took her some time to focus her vision and observe where she was.

It was an unknown room, but white walls and the beeping of machines on her left were a giveaway that she was in a hospital. There was an IV stuck into her left arm and…

“Ahh!” Olivia cried when she realized there was a man on her bed. She didn’t want to wake him up, but he startled her, and he was definitely a stranger. What kind of a hospital was this?

Travis’ eyes sprang open, and he stared at Olivia. The horror in her eyes broke something in him.

When Valerian brought in Olivia, Travis couldn’t believe this was happening. Talia told him to expect a patient, a victim of abuse named Olivia, and that she was Talia’s friend.

Travis didn’t expect that the girl would be so skinny and broken, and his heart cracked from the anguish that swelled within him. Who dared to ruin such a wonderful female?

She smelled of sweet mangoes, and his wolf was howling.

‘MATE!’

Travis jolted when that word echoed in his mind, and it took every ounce of his control to focus on the girl as a patient. She needed him to make things better, and for that, he needed to stay present.

He wanted to know what had happened, but Valerian didn’t have that information.

Travis’ wolf growled while urging Travis to find whoever dared to harm their mate and rip those bastards into pieces. It was hard to focus, but he pushed through the exams and surgery, and then he collapsed on the bed next to her. Until now.

“Who are you?” Olivia asked. “Why are you in my bed?”

Travis’ wolf urged him to stick close to Olivia, but Travis knew better. He slowly got up from the bed and took a step back. He lifted his hands, indicating that he meant no harm.

“You had surgery. Try not to move. I am Travis Arzt, a doctor in the Shadow Fang pack. Your mate.”

“My mate?” Olivia asked while wondering if her ears malfunctioned. “How is that possible? My mate is Luis.” Or did she imagine that?

Travis’ expression darkened. “Luis? Is he the one who did this to you!? Where is he?” Travis was ready to give him the death of thousand cuts!

Olivia blinked. “Luis is… dead.”

Travis’ chest was heaving. He was full of this inexplicable rage without an outlet. How can he kill a guy who is already dead?

Travis stared into Olivia’s hazel eyes, and he was not sure if he should feel happy or sad or angry. Nothing seemed right. He found his mate. She was right there, beautiful and smelling of sweet mangoes, but her body was battered, and she said someone else was her mate.

Talia and Dayson entered the room to see Olivia sitting on the bed and Travis standing one step away from her.

Nurses were updating Talia on Olivia’s condition, so Talia knew that Olivia had surgery and was recovering. Based on the changes in readings from the machines attached to Olivia, nurses notified Talia that Olivia was awake. That’s why she came.

“You are awake,” Talia said with a smile, and she paused when she realized that Olivia barely paid any attention to her. Olivia was totally focused on Travis.

Talia’s eyes moved from Olivia to Travis, and then she put her hand over her mouth. She could feel the energy fluctuations between them, which confirmed they were mates, but something was off.

“What’s going on?” Talia asked.

This time, Olivia reacted. She turned to look at Talia. “He says he is my mate.”

“Do you think he is lying?”

“I don’t know what to think.” Olivia realized that Travis kept his head down in submission when Dayson and Talia entered. “Who are you?”

“I guess I didn’t introduce myself properly. My full name is Natalia Moonrider. I am the Alpha of the Midnight Guardians pack and this…” Talia tilted her head toward Dayson. “…is my mate, Dayson Blake, the Alpha of the Shadow Fang pack.”

Olivia gaped at Talia. “Did you say you are an Alpha?”

“No matter who I am, I will always be Talia, your friend.”

‘You have bigger problems than your friendship to salvage, girl,’ Liseli spoke in Talia’s mind. ‘With her wolf weakened, Olivia doesn’t feel the mate bond.’

Only then Talia realized what was wrong. She knew firsthand what it meant not to feel the bond because she went through that with Dayson. At that time, even if someone told her that Dayson was her mate, Talia wouldn’t believe it. On top of Olivia’s body and spirit weakened, she also had a bad experience of abuse by her first mate and the breaking of that bond was still fresh. What a mess.

Talia needed to tread carefully, or this might implode.

Talia remembered when she met Travis for the first time. His demeanor reminded him of Olivia. Wasn’t that a sign they were two halves of a whole?

Talia walked to the bed and held Olivia’s hand. “This man is Doctor Travis. He is the main Doctor in the Shadow Fang pack, and he would never harm a person regardless of if she is his mate or not.”

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