Chapter 38

Aleksander’s POV

I had refused to go see Chris. I stayed in my room beside Elisabeth. I was so unhappy that I even cried. Nicholas was the one keeping Chris. He had asked me if I wanted to go see Chris and I told him I wouldn't leave Elisabeth's side.

I wasn't going to see Ava too. I was so angry with her. I had told her to keep Elisabeth for me yet she failed. She failed so badly that Elisabeth had to struggle with her life. I had personally taken care of her.

I made sure to give her drugs at an accurate time. I had also made sure to clean her body. She is my responsibility. I wouldn't let anyone see it.

The door to my room opened and I wondered who dared to enter without a knock. Looking at who came in, it was Victoria. She wasn't exempted from my wrath and I don't want to see her.

"What do you want?" I growled at her.

I could see her unhappy face but I didn't care in any way. Everyone is really annoying me.

"I brought you food," she said, walking toward me.

" Not interested," I said bluntly.

"Alek, it's been three days straight and you haven't had anything. You shouldn't hurt yourself this way. Look at you, you are an Alpha King and you are wasting away like this. You wouldn't even dress properly or even shave. Do you want anyone to see you like this?" She asked me.

I could see that she was angry at me. She really hates it when I scold myself. Since we were young, she always gets angry when I do anything that would risk my life. But right now, I don't even care about what she thinks.

"Get out," I said to her weakly.

My woman is lying on the bed and not moving and she expects me to have an appetite. Never! Every night I cry while laying down beside Elisabeth. She was a gift from the moon goddess and now she's playing a trick on me and about to take her. That was not so fair to me.

"No Alek I won't sit back and watch you like this!" She shouted at me.

8 looked at her with a blood shot eyes. I know I'd probably have a big dark circles under my eyes and I will be looking like a bittered ghost but I don't care. I was angry at the way she spoke to me.

"Who are you to say such words to me?" I asked her harshly.

" Alek, I'm your friend and I do care so much about you," she said like she was going to cry.

I snorted at her words.

"The last time I checked you were nothing but a stranger that I accepted as a friend. I do not need your care. You fail to protect the only woman I care about and yet you expect me to accept you? You are joking!" I growled at her.

Victoria looked at me and her face showed so much pain. I knew my words were too harsh, looking at how she had stood by me all the time but my anger was too heavy. I wanted her to leave me alone.

Ava didn't even try to persuade me to do anything since the first time I shouted at her and told her if she loved her head she should stay away from me. The only thing she did was to come to visit Ava. During her visit, she would not even talk to me. She would only mind her business.

I like it that way because if she opens her mouth, my anger will be kindled on her. Victoria wouldn't listen. She kept coming back even when I told her not to. The worst part is not seeing Elisabeth but me. I know she's not aware that Elisabeth is my mate but then, she should have known that she's the woman I love with my behavior.

"I know I'm a nobody to you Alek but I'm sure that you woman would want to see you this way when she wakes up. And if you don't think she will, why not wake until she does before you kill yourself" she said with an angry voice.

And that was it. I have heard enough of her words. How could she wish Elisabeth death? It was as if a bot that tied my anger down was loose and I rushed at her pinning her to the wall. I glared at her with such a malevolent look that she shivered. I didn't care that she was running out of breath. I was so angry.

"How dare you wish my woman death!" I growled at her in my wolf voice.

My wolf was already in charge and I couldn't even control the rage.

"Alek,.... yyy......you aware.... choking me" she struggled to say.

She was pulling my strong hands off her neck but I was too strong for her.

"You can as well die," I said to her.

Maybe I would have killed her if Nicholas didn't come in to rescue her. She was almost out of breath when he came in and I wasn't ready to release her. Nicholas pushed me with all his power and I moved back.

Victoria fell to the ground, breathing so hard as she was trying to cover herself. She held her neck with tears in her eyes. I looked at Nicholas in anger.

"My King, please calm down. I beg your pardon" Nicholas pleaded.

Well, he has learned a lot of lessons not to argue or go against me when I am angry. He knew it is suicide. I glared at him for the last time and went to sit down.

Nicholas helped Victoria up and they went out. I then take charge of myself again and I start to regret what I did. Victoria is a friend. I shouldn't treat her like an enemy.

Victoria

I was so shocked at Alek's behavior. He almost killed me because of that slave. Not right after he called me a nobody. This was extremely painful and my hatred for that b*tch grew. What has she done to Alek? What did she do to him that made him love him that way?

"You should have let Alek be," Nicholas said to me.

He had taken me to the living room and was treating the wound Alek's hand had caused around my neck. I then started to cry.

"I didn't know he would attack me. I was only persuaded him to eat" I said with a sorrowful look.

Tears streamed down my cheek. I wasn't so sad because Alek scolded me but because he scolded me for a woman, while all I do is love him with all of my heart.

I had thought that he was mine when his mate died and I consoled him. I was with him for weeks because he was hurting. I had to pacify him, and fight with him but he didn't even get angry, talk more of him, fly into a rage, and almost killed me.

"You should have let him be. He wouldn't die without having food for a few days. You know how his anger can be. Do you even imagine that I didn't come in? You would have lost your life just because you wanted to be good to him. He might regret it but then you are already gone. You shouldn't try it next time" he said with a firm voice.

He was scolding me. Not that I don't know what will happen if Alek's wolf takes over but then his wolf has never gotten angry at me before now. I felt his wolf has always accepted me. But then that woman came and changed everything.

Everything I have suffered is going to drain. I didn't reply to Nicholas.

Good, Nicholas was still even talking to me. Ava had stopped talking to me. She even started to sleep in Nicholas's room and said she doesn't want to be in the same bed with me.

I have tried to explain that I am innocent but she wouldn't believe me. And this is all because of that woman. I am losing those that are family to me. Those that treat me well.

Before I joined Alek's pack because I wasn't a member of his pack from birth neither is my family. My family was destroyed by the disease that struck our packa and it killed many, including my parents and my younger sister. I was the only one that was left in my family. Seeing that the plague can't be controlled, everyone that wasn't affected starts to run away before they get affected.

Because I lost the whole of my family, those ones that I followed treated me like trash. Anywhere we are, they make me do all the hard work, while they just sit to eat.

We found a new pack to take them in and they now fully made me their slave. It was just too unbearable for me so I ran away and became a lone wolf. I was just a pup when all these were happening. Roaming about, I was so scared of other wolves because I am yet to have a wolf. But then the moon goddess decided to help me and Alek was on hunting with Nicholas and Chris. That was how they found me. Chris wanted them to leave me but Alek didn't. After much argument, I was taken to their pack.

Then it was Alek's father that was still on the throne and he is a very brutal man. He also didn't want me to be kept. In fact, he wanted me killed because I was too young to grace his bed. Alek never allowed it. He fought with his father and kept me. He took care of me and it was since then that I fell so hard for him.

He had always treated me like his own. Many times he has even told people that want to bully me that I am his. I hoped to be his mate but fate was wicked. He got a mate but the mate broke his friendship with Chris and she died.

I wouldn't lie that I wasn't happy when she died because it gave me more chances with him. He leaned on my shoulder to heal. I had thought he would because of that see me as one he could make him but then he didn't. He treats me like a friend but I want to be more. He had more mates but he rejected them all and that was the reason I didn't know why he didn't reject that dying woman.

I wish she would just die like the first so that he would know that I'm all he's got.

I'm surely going to find out the truth about why she came to Alek. I feel there's more to her coming.

I won't give up. I won't let her take what belongs to me. The moon goddess might be so cruel not to mate with us but I won't let her decide my own fate.

I didn't even know when Nicholas left me. I had closed my eyes thinking about what Alek did to me. It was so sad and my heart ached because of it. I was going to get my revenge. I was going to make sure that the slave suffered the pain I suffered. I won't relent.