Chapter 5 Caring for her
5\. Caring for her
“How many meetings are due, Brian?” Inquired Alpha Damien.
He was sitting in his cabin, his head resting back in the chair as he held his cell phone across from ear.
“Damien, there is one more meeting at 3.00, later you have a conference call to attend with the alpha of the Australian pack and then the party in the evening.” He answered, making Alpha Damien sigh. Finally, he was about to get done for the day.
“Okay then, thanks. I can’t wait for the day to end soon." He was tired, he has been working continuously for two days. He could not even get a chance to sit down and have a cup of coffee.
He was about to cut the call that he recalled Aura, his sweet lovely housekeeper cum his secret crush.
Damien imagined her coming to him with a cup of coffee which caused him to yell at the phone, “Dude,” he was feeling shy because he was going to ask about Aura to his mischievous beta cum best friend who has always teased alpha Damien with her name as he urged him to accept that she meant something to him.
“Yes, Damien?” He responded to Alpha's yell with an amused tone.
But he always refused and at the moment he could not express how nervous he was feeling as he was bloody going to ask him about her.
“Uhh, how are the preparations going for the party?” Damien inquired without taking her name as he hoped for his friend cum beta to sense it.
So, he did as the next second Brian laughed heavily at his question, “The preparations are almost done, but if you desire to know about your secret crush well then,” he paused, making Damien's back straightened at his suspenseful pause.
“Then what, beta Brian?”
“Then you wouldn’t feel good to know that she has fallen sick, and taken to hospital.”
“What? How? And when did this happen?” Alpha Damien screamed at the phone and heard his beta heave with a low groan.
“Dude, listen to me first. At least let me finish my words!” Damien remained silent, patiently waiting for Brian to continue further.
“She is working non stop from last few weeks and I assume it is extreme exhaustion why she fell sick, probably a good rest will do.”
“Is this what the doctor said?” he instantly questioned as his own tiredness disappeared on hearing about her being in hospital.
“Oh no, I don't really know about that given that she has not returned yet.” Damien's jaw dropped at his word.
Like seriously?
This stupid wolf made his wolf, Hunter, growl, and curse in his head.
“Bitch, I will kill you.”
“What?”
“I literally assumed those to be the doctor's words,” Damien's eyelids fell across his sight as he let out an angry howl before saying, “just tell me which hospital she went to?”
“She… Ah, here she comes. She's here, bitchy alpha”
‘Damien, ask him to give her the phone.’ Hunter restlessly spoke in Alpha Damien's head.
He was about to deliver those words to his beta but stopped. Skipping a beat as his heart throbbed, Alpha Damien recalled that he has not been in contact with her for about two days since that morning.
‘But you had to go to an urgent meeting, Damien! You didn't purposely leave her.’ exclaimed Hunter.
"I know but I don’t want to hurt her by asking about her health on the phone. I would go back home and talk to her personally as that is the only way my restlessness will calm down." He answered his wolf before switching his attention back to Brian.
“Damy,” Brian called him from the other side of the call and broke his trance.
“Y-yes?”
“The doc said what I had predicted, bitch! It was exhaustion why she became ill.” A feeling of relief filled alpha's heart while a soft smile crept on his mouth, it was of his relief.
“Now before you blame me for her health, know that she has been sent to her room to rest. Okay?”
“Okay. And please see to it she takes her meds on time and takes a good nap.”
“Sure thing.”
“Brian,”
“Yes, now what?”
“Ask Madam Martha to look after her, Aura will recover soonish if she has Madam Martha with her.”
Madam Martha was Alpha Damien's nanny. After his parents left him at the mansion he lives in now under her care, it was her who provided him with a mother and a father’s love.
Damien was thanking her in his heart when Brian interrupted his reverie with his statement, “Well, you would be happy to know that she is already sent to your crush’s chambers.”
Alpha couldn’t stop his chuckles. He loves it when he calls her his crush. But his beta was unaware of his true feelings for her. Damien didn't just like her; he loved her.
Soon he hung the call up as he had unfinished business to undertake.
He pulled his laptop before him on the desk and started working on the mails while his wolf and he together started thinking about Aura, the woman of their dreams.
Twenty-five years Aurora Collins was the daughter of Damien's father’s servants. They used to treat him as their own kid when he was small. He also loved them but as he had been sent to the Alpha’s academy for his further studies in Russia, his contact with them broke.
She was fifteen and he was seventeen when Damien returned home for the holidays. He had gone to visit Mr. And Mrs. Collins to their house—where he first saw Aurora.
A ticklish sensation crawled at the back of his neck as he got hard in his boxers because— she happened to be his love at first sight.
Damien remembered that he had lost his senses since she was the most beautiful and innocent girl he has ever seen. Delicate and pure. Ever so cheerful and someone who never forgot to thank God for every little thing she found blissful.
Unfortunately, she only remained as his love at first glance as Damien had found his mate. And despite his love for Aurora, he had to forget her and love his mate who was also his girlfriend. Hunter was reluctant and didn’t wish to reject her for someone Damien saw and lost his senses for.
Though he hated it, he had to agree with his wolf as they loved their fated mate, Christine. A Russian by origin with a soft voice and thick lashes, she was compatible with him.
And so, Damien promptly forgot about Aura and went back to Russia to his mate. But the moon goddess had something else in store for him because when he was about to mark Christine, she passed away.
She died leaving Damien behind in pain and grief. He was heartbroken and didn’t show any interest in any female after that.
Alpha Damien, at the age of twenty, became a widow wolf. He only fucked and enjoyed one-night stands until that day when he received a call from his father’s beta. He was informed about the attack which happened on his father and how Aura’s parents saved him whilst sacrificing their own lives!
He had not even gotten over the grief of his mate's death that he heard about Mr. And Mrs. Collins passed away.
It was then, after years, that he remembered about Aura, his love at first sight.
He could still recollect that day. He was numb and trembling as he thought about Aurora. He worried for her. She had no one except for her parents in this world. Damien was concerned about her future.
And when he was told that his father was planning to send her away to another alpha, Damien couldn’t stop himself but fly back home. He forcibly bought her to his mansion and settled there himself.
Three years have passed to that day and he never approached her in spite of having feelings for her.
Damien was scared as to how she would react learning about his feelings, and eventually began dating models and celebrities in order to forget Aura.
She wanted him to let her go and be on her own as she didn’t want to be a burden on him. And the fact that Damien had fought with his father to bring her to his mansion, she was scared what if their fight aggravated.
Damien assumed she was just crazy!!!!
First, she stole his heart; secondly, when he wished to help her, she wanted to go. Wanted to leave him. How insane. But Damien being a reluctant alpha, he didn’t let her leave himself because he perceived that the moon goddess purposely introduced such events in their lives so that he could have her.
He presumed that was why she took away the destined mate she assigned to him in the first place so that she could bless him with Aura. Yes, he comprehended that Aura was given to him as a blessing since his mate died before he marked her. Had it been that he marked her before her death then his life would have been something else.
Because when a wolf’s fated and marked mate dies, they are then assigned a second chance mate; however, when one wolf’s mate dies before being marked then he has the liberty to choose his own mate. So, you see why he refused to let Aurora go!
He never noticed how beautiful Aura was until he found it himself. Her touch was magically soft and addictive. Damien desired it more.
Although there were more beautiful women than her, she has been an attraction to him for years. She was different.
He still remembers the day when she was crying on her parent's death while calling herself left alone and an orphan. That was the moment the charming alpha decided he would give her the house she needed. He would become her family.
He was just not able to stop himself from letting her cry like that. Moreover, Damien did not want her to go away from him, that was the reason behind his offer of a job to her.
He liked her like a dendrophile likes nature, and didn’t want to let her go when the moon goddess herself gifted him with a chance to take her under his possession.
Damien had felt crazy for having slept with her since she was a virgin. He thought she would not accept him for he had been involved with an uncountable number of women. He also went away from her for a month to prove it. Albeit, resisting her charm was tough and so he came back home.
His mother's topic was a drama just to get her sympathy. Damien only desired to spend his time with her. Though it really took place and he tasted a lick of humiliation because of his mother, it was not hurtful. He only used it as an excuse.
He also recollected the umbrella incident. It was a shock when she ran to him with an umbrella. Damien had predicted she wouldn’t want to see him but when she talked to him so curiously while her heart throbbed crazily in her chest, he realized she might have missed him. Rest all his doubts were cleared when she let him love her again as she also responded to his touch and kisses with shudders and moans.
he closed the laptop and sighed.
“Frankly speaking, I forever desire to spend the rest of my life with her. Just the two of us. Now that I know she also likes me, I can’t wait to go back home and propose to her and mark her as my mate. I want to introduce her as the Luna of my pack and the queen of my heart. Therefore, tonight after the party I will propose to her.” he determined with a sheepish grin.
Tbc…