The Alpha’s Human Mate

She sat down on a chair, still breathing heavily. Maya poured her a glass of water, but she did not drink it.

She saw the dried blood and injuries on Ellie’s legs and arms, but she did not say anything or do anything.

Just then, Callum entered the room. Ellie looked up at him and stood up. “Why? What did you do to him?! Why did you lock him up in that dark room?! What did he do to you?!” She screamed, asking different questions that ran through her mind.

“Ms. Loren, you need to calm down. You shouldn’t be here. You need to go home.” Callum, who was still shocked that she was there, said to her.

“Home? How could you tell me to go home when you kidnapped Alex and locked him up in a room?!” Ellie screamed again. She was so angry that she couldn’t stop herself from screaming.

“What? I think you’re getting the wrong idea here, Ms. Loren.”Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

Maya, who was already pissed and frustrated, suddenly voiced out, “Enough! The both of you should stop.”

“My brother is dying. And the only thing you could think of is to argue?” She asked with a tone denoting pain and sadness.

Ellie was so confused; she stood up and walked towards Maya. “Dying? What do you mean by that?”

A drop of tears fell out of her eyes, but she quickly cleaned it. Maya has always been a girl who didn’t like getting sad. She stayed away from guys because she had always felt that she was a strong lady and no one would make her cry.

But for the first time, she cried because she knew that her brother did not have much time. She knew she wouldn’t be able to handle it if her brother dies.

She sighed before facing Ellie. “Alex was poisoned. And he did not have much time, because the poison turns wolves aggressive and later kills them.”

“No. Alex can’t die.” Ellie thought.

Ellie could not say a word; she was trying to digest everything she heard, until Maya asked. “Why did you go to the woods alone that night?”

Ellie stared at Maya. She did not understand why she had asked, but she managed to say it slowly, even though it was embarrassing to her. “I had a dream about a woman telling me to come to the woods so that she could show me how to break the mate bond.”

Hearing this, Callum quickly stepped in between them. He knew that Maya was so angry that she could strangle anyone who crossed her path. Maya, please, let’s stop talking about this.

“No, Callum. We have to talk about this.” She said, facing Callum before looking back at Ellie. “I’ve always seen selfish humans, but I never thought you’d be this bad. You just want things to go your way without thinking of other people. It’s all because of your selfishness that my brother got poisoned.” Maya sniffed.

Despite Callum trying to stop her from talking, she kept pouring out her mind. “If only he had left you alone to face your consequences, he wouldn’t have been poisoned.”

Ellie could not say a word. Tears kept falling out of her eyes. She remembered that Alex was looking so sick the night he had come to save her, but she never thought he was poisoned. “It’s all my fault.” She kept saying it in her mind.

She did not even know the word to say to Maya, who was fuming in anger.

“I wish I had never thought you two could be together. Because someone like you doesn’t deserve my brother,” Maya said before walking out of the room.

She knelt on the floor and cried. “It’s all my fault. If only I was not so selfish.” She wailed.

Callum walked towards her and touched her shoulders to stop her from crying. “It’s okay now, Ms. Loren. You shouldn’t listen to Maya; she just talked out of anger. I’m sure Alex would not want to see you blaming yourself.”

“You know the truth. If I had told him before going, none of this would have happened.”

“Then, instead of crying, Why don’t we think of looking for a solution?” Callum said.

She looked up to him with hope. “Solution? What is this solution?”

Callum sighed before standing up straight. The poison can only be found among black witches, and its antidote can only be found with them. Ellie, who was still thinking about witches existing, decided to think about it later and focus on the solution.

“But the problem is that black witches have been exiled and locked up in a dark forest. The dark forest gate is so difficult to open, and it’s only a female that could go in.” He explained, but he didn’t know that the girl did not know anything about witches; he just thought he was giving her hope that there was a solution.

Ellie did not say anything. A lot was going through her mind as she sat and listened to what Callum was saying.

Callum talked to her for some time, until she finally calmed down and stopped crying. “I’ll drop you home, Ms. Loren.” He said before escorting her out of the forest. He kept wondering how Ellie had followed him till he got to the forest, without him getting her scent. He thought about it for some time before he stopped.

She couldn’t take Sam’s car with her because she was so weak due to all the stress she had faced in the tunnel.

Callum assured her that the car would be returned tomorrow morning, and he would be the one to take her back home.

She got home and went straight to bed. She couldn’t stop thinking and blaming herself, saying that it was her fault. “If bringing the cure from the dark forest will save him, Then that’s what I’d do.”

She laid on the bed, looking at the ceiling. Sleep was so far away from her.