Ellie leaves me to think about Ryder as she takes the bandage around my waist off. I flinch as she pulls a gauze pad off that is now soaked in blood. Looking down at the cut I see that I have more stiches in and the colouring has died down but it's still there along with a large amount of blood. She rubs something cold over it before she replaces it all back and slips a lose shirt over my head. "Come on there's breakfast outside." She says her hands moving to my arm. "I'll take the tube out but Riley's asked to keep the needle in." As she helps me up from the bed I notice the strength she has in such a small body. She pulls me up straight with an arm locked around my waist as she leads me outside to a small table where there is an abundance of fruits spread in plates across the small area. "How are you feeling anyway? That drip was giving you nutrients and healing the cut faster." She sounds curious. My fingers come up over where the needle is still in my skin. It stings a little when I touch it. It stung when Ellie touched it. Not when Ryder touched it though. "Where's Ryder?" I ask instead of answering the question. Ellie tenses and looks to the door. She's sat across from me at the table but the suite is open and I can hear Reynolds and Charlie playing some game on the television in the other room. I remember when I told them that I was bored they offered to keep my company. Ryder wasn't happy about it but the both of them where bold when they said they could watch me easier if they were inside the suite instead of standing outside the door. He relaxed when I said it was fine and that I was more comfortable to have them closer. "He had to leave." She says placing a lot of the fruit on the plate in front of her. "He said he would be back as soon as he could but Maxon looked like he was about to burst a blood vessel. I'm surprised you didn't hear the argument that they had when he came up here." She's still piling food on to her plate. She just shrugs at me with a smile when she realises that I'm watching, trying to get my mind off Ryder. "Shewolves eat a lot, which you should be doing to." My eyebrows cock and she just shrugs again and starts to place food on my plate nudging it in closer to me. Sighing I pick up the fork and drop a strawberry into my mouth. She lets out a small chuckle of content and starts to eat herself. "Who else is mated?" I ask her. Ryder told me little details about mates before he froze up and just stopped talking after that I just fell asleep. "Out of whom you've meet, Theo, Charlie and Riley. Theo's mate is Lena she works in the kitchen absolutely loves it down there. And then you have Haley, Charlie's mate she mostly just hangs around outside, Charlie hates it but he wants her to be happy. Lastly you have Jake, Riley's mate. He works down in the hospital with Riley but he's helps the rest of the pack instead of the people in the castle, that's Riley's job." She explains. "Pack?" Ryder mentioned it briefly but I didn't take much notice of it. I was too consumed in the feeling of his touch. She looks as if she's just choked on her food. "Ahh, yes, I wasn't supposed to mention that to you yet." She bits her lip but still continues. "Ryder is not only the King of Jordena itself and all werewolves but he is the alpha of a pack, a community you could say that live under an Alpha." "There are two thousand packs spread across the world, consisting from 500 to over a 1000 in them. Ryder's pack, the royal pack, is more of an army made up of the strongest and longest lines of wolves and alpha's and beta's that want to do something more with our race. We protect the royals and we prevent wars from breaking out when we can. It's also only us that reside down in Cardel the royal town. It's a tourist destination for those who want to see where the most handsome prince lives, not a real estate hot spot, but it's a town that's made up full with wolves that are living there dreams in the spare time that they aren't fighting to protect our species." That's a lot of words and a lot to take in in general. She apologises for unloading all the information on me and begs me to eat now and that I'm beginning to look a little pale. Slipping another cube of strawberry in to my mouth I think about what she said. Her telling me all this is not the same as Ryder telling me all this. With Ryder telling me I felt relaxed but with her I feel overwhelmed. What gets me that most is how many wolves there are supposedly spread across the world. It's enough to freak me out on how close I could have been to one before. It scares me actually. I am not scared of Ryder or anyone else though. Growls erupt down below us seconds later and it's accompanied by the broken piercing alarm that alerts the castle to an attack. Arms wrap around my shoulders and legs in the same second and in the next I'm being placed on my feet near the lounge. Ellie's back next to me as well helping to support me as the metal barriers come down over the doors and windows, locking us in and everyone else out. "The attackers are wolves?" I ask breathless as I'm lowered down on to the lounge. "The rebels have broken the sire bond to Ryder. Even the rouges can't do that." She whispers. "They want to kill Ryder so they can take reign, to stop him from producing an heir and continuing his line." Ellie lowers me down onto the lounge. "They can't hurt Ryder." All three of them stare at me questionably but only Charlie answers me. "Hurt Ryder?" he scoffs. "Ryder's one of the strongest wolves to ever lived and if anybody tries to threaten his mate, his heir is really going to piss him off." Ellie gasps in shock before she's standing over the top of me and holding my hair back out of the way as the tightness I've had in my throat since I found out that I wasn't Ryder's mate ends up on the timber floor consisting of the little breakfast I had in my stomach.