Chapter 7

• Erica
• I sat down at the training ground with a frown on my face. I couldn't believe what had happened. My body was overreacting to something I didn't know about. I feel worried about something or someone whose name I don't remember. I feel like I have offended someone, but I didn't know the person.
• I have not felt like this before in my entire life. I have never cared about or worried about someone or something like this before. It's like I have greatly offended the person. I could feel nervousness seeping through my body.
• “Alpha, I'm here,” I heard Victoria's voice say, and I turned to look at her with a smile.
• I was glad she could make it here. I was hoping we could both have a duel. I want to blow out my steam, and I hope she does too.
• “I called you here because...” I was saying before I was cut off by Victoria.
• “You called me here because you want to have a duel with me, right?" "Just like old times when you are confused and don't know what to do,” she said hastily as she stared at me with a knowing smirk, and I nodded my head.
• “It has been long since we last had a duel, and I must admit that I miss it,” I said, and she smiled as she stared at me.
• “What are you waiting for?” she asked as she stared at me with a tingle of excitement.
• “Let’s get started,” she added, and I stood up with a smile.
• “Don’t go easy on me because I won't,” I said, and she rolled her eyes.
• “As if you can do anything to me,” said Victoria as she charged at me with a smirk plastered on her face.
• I dodged her advances, and I punched her stomach. She dodged the punch, and she lunged her legs at me, which I dodged easily. I slid on the ground and did a sweeping kick, which she dodged by leaping up lightly.
• I took my stances again, and I stared at her menacingly with a dangerous glare on my face.
• She charged at me again, but this time with a fake punch, which I dodged, and before I knew it, she punched my stomach.
• “Look who is talking about not going easy on me; you just got your butt whipped by me,” Victoria said with a taunting look on her face, and I smirked.
• “I’m afraid to judge; let's just get started,” I said, and with that, I rushed toward her.
• I did a high flip while swinging my hands and legs to hit her face, but she managed to dodge it at the last minute, but my legs hit her nose a bit.
• “Enough of the chitchat, Victoria,” I said, and I dashed toward her while ducking left and right while punching her body.
• She dodged all my advances, but she didn't know what was coming her way. I gave her a punch in the face and did a bicycle kick, landing it on her face again.
• I stopped immediately, and I walked up to her worriedly. Her face had been cut, and blood was seeping out of it. I stared at her worriedly, not knowing what to do. I knew that the cut would heal soon, but I wasn't happy with what just happened.
• “I’m sorry, I don't mean to hurt you,” I said, and she rolled her eyes while cleaning off the blood. I looked at the cut on her face, which is now healed, but I couldn't take it off my mind.
• I couldn't believe I did this to my best friend, and it's all because of my damn boyfriend, whom I have been thinking about.
• After the incident at the cold room, I told the guards to take him to my mother for him to get treated, but I haven't heard from my mother, and that's likely because I have blocked everyone out of the mind-link.
• “It’s now healed, so you shouldn't think too much about it,” Victoria said as she sat down on one of the stools in the training ground.
• The whole place is vacant because the time for practice is over and we are now in the evening. I knew that no one could come to this place right now, but still, I felt like someone might just walk in on us without announcing it, and I felt nervous.
• “We need to talk,” Victoria said, and I sighed heavily before nodding my head, urging her to continue.
• “What have you done about your mate's issue?” she asked with a questioning look on her face.
• “Nothing. Do you think I have time to be forcing myself on him? He had made it clear that he loved his fiancee, Mabel, or whatever she is called. I only brought him here to see if he would have a change of heart. You don't have to worry about him. "I planned on sending him off back to his pack after a week or so,” I said as I stared at the sky.
• A sick smile was plastered on my face. All I could do was think of what would happen next. I have always wanted to accept my mate, and seeing him in the first place, I wanted to accept him, but seeing the way he behaved, I still wanted him to be part of my life. He forced me to be as I was to other people to him. I was willing to show him what I'm capable of doing, but he made me show it.
• I have never been hostile towards any of my close relatives unless needed, and seeing that he wasn't ready to accept me made me enraged. I wanted to make him mine the moment I saw him because I was attracted to him. He wanted me to reject him at all costs because he was in love with another woman. It hurt me to realize that, and I knew that the only way to hurt him was by taking him away from Mabel.
• I knew that what I was doing was wrong, but I do not care about what people say. I myself knew that I wouldn't be able to release him because I had made it my priority to make him suffer and hurt like I did.
• “We both know that you aren't releasing him soon, and all I'll say to you is that you should be lenient toward him because you might end up killing your mate in the end,” she said, and she left me sitting in the training center.
• I was sitting there wallowing in thoughts for minutes, but that was interrupted by Victoria, who ran toward me.
• “Alpha, you need to come see this,” I heard her say with a wavering voice.
• “What is the problem?” I asked with a creased eyebrow, and she sighed impatiently.
• “It’s Jerome,” she said, and I felt my heart stop beating instantly. I could feel my heart beating rapidly and heavily after a while. I could hear the sound of my own heartbeat. I could feel my whole body get sweaty all of a sudden.
• I felt a gush of emotions wash through me, and I felt cold suddenly, but it was fine within a few seconds. I could feel the way the blood was being pumped in my heart.
• “What happened to him?” I asked as I stood up while staring at her with a worried look plastered on my face.
• “He is...” she was saying, but I cut her short.
• "What happened to him?" Is he alright? "Tell me, Victoria,” I demanded, and she sighed heavily while fidgeting with her fingers.
• “He is sick, and your mom said she can't say if he will be able to survive it,” she dropped the bombshell, and I stared at her with shock etched on my face.
• I couldn't believe what she just said. I knew that throwing him in the cold room is cruel and wicked, but I was so angry that I ordered him to be thrown in there and not only that I let him stay in there for too long. I didn't think of what that could do to his BDUS system, but all I cared about at that time was making him pay for trying to escape.
• I ran toward the hospital where my mother was working. She was the one I took Jerome to. I rushed into the ward, where I met my nurse operating on him.
• “Mom, is he going to be okay?” I asked my mom, who didn't reply but only glared at me angrily.
• “You are asking such a question when you are the one responsible for this." "I don't believe this is the person I raised you up to be,” my mom said, and I looked at her angrily.
• I couldn't believe she would say something like this. I couldn't believe she didn't trust me. She knew that I couldn't do a thing to him without a reason.
• “Do you actually think that I'll keep quiet after what you just said?”
• “You don't know anything about what just happened, and you are judging me already,” I shouted angrily as I stared at my mom.