Chapter 779 – Hidden Desires of the Werewolf King Novel

Filed To Story: Veiled Desires of the Alpha King Novel

“Don’t you think that this is strange?”

“What?”

“Rogues. Just as it was in the Blue River pack, if they attacked together, they could cause damage. The perfect timing would be to attack during the party, yet they didn’t. It all looked like a diversion.”

Dayson agreed with this. It looked like a diversion, but a diversion for what?

There was a clamor of people there as wounded were coming in from all directions, and nurses were moving among people who were sitting on chairs. They didn’t have enough rooms to examine them properly, so the triaging and first aid were done in the waiting room.

There were clashes with rogues in several areas, and even though no fatalities were reported among friendly units, there were a lot of injured.

While coming here, Keith was holding Arya against his body, hoping that she could take his vitality or that his healing ability would be used on her.

She smelled of cantaloupe, sweet and kind of musky, reminding him of a snack his mother used to serve on a hot summer day. Katya would do that now since they lived together. Keith loved cantaloupes so much that he would use them in his protein shake recipes.

Keith looked at his cantaloupe-infused mate, and his heart tightened.

The only thing preventing him from dissolving into rage and anguish were sparks that gently prickled his skin wherever they touched.

Her body was a mess, yet she was beautiful. Why would such a delicate girl be in the forest, fighting rogues? It didn’t make sense.

Meeting a mate should be special. They would see each other and be smitten, and… this was wrong. Was his destiny to find his mate only to lose her? Isn’t that the same as how he fell for Talia and found out she was taken?

But this was worse… this was HIS mate, yet he was losing her.

It didn’t make sense.

Keith stood in the middle of a crowd while looking around in the hope of seeing a doctor.

“Medic!” Keith shouted. “I need a doctor!”

A nurse threw him a side glance, and her eyes widened at the sight of Arya. Who didn’t know the youngest female general in the army of the Spring Leaf pack?

“This way!” The nurse waved at Keith. The warrior she was tending to was not in a critical condition.

The nurse flipped Arya’s eyelids to point a flashlight there, and then she pressed her fingers on Arya’s wrist to check the pulse while asking Keith, “How long is she unconscious?”

Keith shook his head. “I’m not sure. I found her in the forest, and I brought her here. Maybe ten minutes?” It felt like forever.

The nurse glanced at Arya’s body, and she frowned at the open fracture on Arya’s arm. “We don’t have rolling beds she could use. Can you carry her to radiology? We need to see what’s going on inside before we administer any treatment.”

Keith had no intention of letting go of Arya, and he reluctantly kept her on the exam bed for the CT scan. Luckily, they took Arya immediately, despite a line of patients waiting in the hallway.

By now, a doctor also appeared with another nurse, and Keith growled when the doctor reached to check under the hospital gown that was thrown over Arya.

“You need to wait outside,” a nurse told Keith. “There is radiation and…”

“I’m not leaving,” Keith said sternly. The sparks of their bond were getting fainter, and now that he was not touching her, they were gone completely. It was killing him from the inside.

“You can’t help here. You need to…”

“I’m not leaving my mate!” Keith shouted. No one will separate him from that female. No one!

Both nurses and the doctor looked at Keith briefly, and then the second nurse approached Keith.

“We need to examine your mate’s condition.”

Keith’s frown eased when he heard the nurse address the female as his mate.

Seeing that he relaxed a bit, the nurse asked, “How should we call you?”

“Keith.”

“Keith. I am Betty. I assure you that we will do whatever we can to help your mate.” Her soothing voice eased the tension in the room, and it was obvious that she had done that many times before. “It will take us at least ten minutes to get initial things done. How about you clean up and put some clothes on? You don’t want your mate to see you like that when she wakes up, do you?”

Keith looked at himself, and he realized that he was dirty. Other than the necklace with a broken pendant around his neck, he was completely naked with mud and blood on him. A lot of blood, most of it from the female he was carrying. His mate.

The nurse nodded at the doctor to go ahead, and she led Keith outside. “Let me show you to the staff room. You can clean up there, and we have extra clothes. When you are done, you can meet us here or ask anyone for Betty, and I will bring you to your mate…”

Keith cleaned up at record speed.

When Keith came out of the shower with sweatpants and a t-shirt on, Arya was in surgery. Other than the open fracture that needed to be fixed, she also had internal injuries.

Keith paced in front of the operating room.

No one told him her name, and he didn’t ask. He was determined to ask her when she woke up because she had to wake up. He wanted to hear her voice. It was important.

The door opened, and Keith saw Arya being rolled out into the hallway. She was covered with a white sheet from shoulders down, and Arya was so pale that her complexion nearly matched it.

“The surgery went well.”

Keith turned toward the voice to see Betty.

“But?” Keith asked. He sensed there was more.

“We did all we could. Her injuries were extensive and…” She released a long breath. “Her vitals are weak, but they are not gone. Your proximity will help. Skin-to-skin as much as possible. It could be the thing that makes the difference.”

Keith followed the bed that rolled down the hallway with Arya on it until it disappeared into one room. Betty and one more nurse were there also, helping attach Arya to monitors.

Keith stared at his non-responsive mate, unaware that more people were in the room.

“I’m sorry, we don’t have private rooms,” Betty said, pulling the curtain to give a resemblance of privacy between hospital beds. She put a chair next to the bed for Keith to sit.

“Call me if you need something.” Betty patted his shoulder and left the room.

Keith stood there like a statue, wondering what he should do.

Now that he could see her properly, Keith realized that the female was heavily bandaged, resembling a mummy. Yet all those bandages didn’t diminish her sweet scent of cantaloupe.

Betty told him to stay with the female, skin-to-skin contact, but even just holding hands seemed out of place. He just met her… actually, met was the wrong word because finding someone unconscious couldn’t be called as meeting.

Keith was aware that leaving was not an option. His wolf was scratching at the back of his mind, urging him to get closer to the female.

Slowly, really slowly, Keith sat on the chair, and he extended his hand to hold hers.

Keith inhaled a shaky breath when he felt the sparks prickling his palm. They were weak, but they were there.

What did Talia say? Something about hope… that as long as he can feel the sparks, there was hope.

Dayson and Talia stayed there to help with the reports. They were relieved to see that no one from the Shadow Fang pack had more than a few scratches, and even though there were no fatalities among friendly units, some warriors required hospitalization.

Tony, Kalina, Pierce, Daria, Amelia, and Liam helped interrogate captured rogues.

Everyone was busy.

When things calmed down, Talia asked Dayson to head to the pack hospital. She wanted to check on Arya and Keith.

Cristian also wanted to visit Arya, but then he heard that she had found her mate and was unconscious, so he gave up on going to the pack hospital. He couldn’t help Arya, and there was a lot he could do there.

Cristian decided to focus on matters at hand and will visit Arya after she wakes up, preferably with Luna Michelle, assuming Arya doesn’t seek solitude with her mate right away.

Dayson asked Talia to rest first, but how could she rest when she knew that Arya’s situation was not optimistic and she could help?

Talia pushed the door open of the room to see curtains separating three spaces. A nurse told them that General Arya was on the far right.

Other than the machines beeping, there were no other sounds in the room.

Talia peered behind the curtain to see Keith sitting on the chair next to Arya’s bed, holding her hand and staring at her bandaged face with a complex expression on his handsome face.

“Hey,” Talia called.

Keith’s head snapped toward the sound, and he bolted to his feet.

“Talia, I didn’t notice…” Keith’s voice trailed as another figure appeared behind her, and Keith lowered his head. “Alpha Dayson.”

Talia raised her hand, indicating to Keith to sit. “How is she doing?”

Keith’s gaze drifted toward Arya. “Uhm… the same.”

Talia got on Arya’s left and observed her. Talia remembered Arya as a beautiful and prideful she-wolf, and none of those were visible now.

“Your mate is brave,” Talia said to Keith. “Her unit was attacked by rogues, and she acted as bait to increase the chances of others to survive.” They saw that information in reports. “Thanks to her, no one in her unit was seriously injured. She was outnumbered, yet she fought bravely.”

Keith had an odd mixture of feelings while listening to Talia praising Arya. Somehow, it was like one girlfriend praising another, and Keith felt like a cheater.

He knew it didn’t make sense, but then… his feelings for Talia didn’t diminish. The only thing that changed was that another female came into the picture. Arya’s existence in Keith’s life would be wonderful if Arya were not unconscious on the hospital bed.

It was messed up, and he didn’t get it, but he remembered how Cassandra said his luck was tied to Talia’s. Is this what Cassandra meant, that Talia will save his mate?

“Can you help her?” Keith asked Talia.

Talia smiled a little. “That’s why I’m here.”

Talia raised her hands and paused halfway. “I want to warn you not to get your hopes high. There is a limit to how much I can do.”

Talia’s body recuperated since she and Dayson faced rogues; after all, she was an Alpha. However, her energy was returning slowly. Liseli said it was because Talia overworked herself overnight, and the best thing would be to sleep, but Talia couldn’t sleep while knowing that Arya’s life was hanging by a thread.

Talia was not confident that she could heal Arya completely, but even if she could help a little bit, it would be worth it.

Dayson was unwilling to let Talia do this, but she promised to watch out for herself and not endanger their baby. After all the stress Talia went through in one night, Dayson couldn’t say no to her. He knew that if Arya didn’t make it, Talia would blame herself forever. Just how she is blaming herself for Lulu’s death.

Talia placed her hands above Arya’s body, and her palms lit up in silvery light.

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