Chapter 80. Healing
Prince Vincent
My own father purposely injured me so that I should just stay in bed and Beta Derek lead the warrior wolves for the fight this evening. Everybody knows that an Alpha's attacked takes days to heal even from a wolf with an alpha blood like me.
I stayed in bed for a couple of minutes after Ashley left my room. She looked shocked and terrified just like a little mouse that's ready to run away but something else have caught my attention. Despite her pure innocent look, there is an electrifying sensation every time our skin touch. It arouses a strong feeling of desire to take her. Damn! She's young and she is a human!
I will be eighteen in a few months and they said that a mate is going to attract me, however I am not interested with those stories. I've had women in my bed both wolves and human but I have no interest in thinking that one of them could be my mate.
What I wanted is to become stronger and prove to my father that I could lead the wolves. I know that I will become Alpha one day, and not just an Alpha but an Alpha King. I will lead all the wolves, I will be powerful and I will protect my pack.
"Shit!" Her face lingered in my mind once again and so is her scent that invades the entire place inside my room. I don't even have to put my hand against my nose to know that her scent is on my hands too, in fact it's all over me when she fell on top of me in this bed.
I pulled myself straight from the bed and stood up, I have to take a shower. I need to keep my mind sharp, despite the pain in my stomach from the punch I received from my father. I hop inside the shower thinking that the discomfort I felt would soon go away.
The soft knock on the door have awoken me from my sleep. For how long was I out after I had taken a shower? I look around and realized that it is already eight in the evening, it's dark outside. I waited for the knock to come again and when it did I exhaled sharply.
"Come in! The door is unlocked!"
I jerk out of bed and sat on the edge while looking at the doorknob being turned. A scent so familiar assaulted my nostrils afterwards. "Good evening Prince Vincent, I am here to look at your wound."
"Oh great! Good evening Maleficus, that's so nice of you. Did my father told you to come?"
I rolled my eyes upwards and relax my breathing while he came further after closing the door behind him. "No, he did not specifically tell me to come to you but he told me what happened in details before he left so I assumed my presence is needed here."
He stood in front of me looking deep into my eyes before running his gaze all over me, stopping in my expose stomach because I don't have my shirt on.
"That's a nasty bruise right there, only the strength of an Alpha King can make such damage last up to this hour. Like I guess you don't know how to cure yourself from your father."
His arms on his hips tells me that I'm missing something in his lessons which I don't remember what due to the fact that there has been too many of them. "Did you say that my father talked to you about me after he's off to somewhere?"
"Yes my Prince, he told me about Beta Derek and you fighting about who's going to lead the wolves fighting another group of rogues tonight. That's a very unwise decision you did back there, to forced him into allowing you to go and yet you ended up still staying."
A smile not meant to humor me curved around his lips. "So did they get ready to leave?"
I casually asked while looking away, thinking about the previous incident made my feelings unstable.
"Yes and your father already left to be in the town first, Beta Derek is the back up plan now. Your father is out there leading the warrior wolves earlier than planned. It was a last minute change of plan due to the circumstances you have created."
"What!?"
My jaw dropped and I looked at him up and down, listening closely to his heartbeat trying to convince myself that this old man is just teasing me or just playing tricks on me but he looked back at me without blinking. His lips are now closed tightly in a thin line.
"I am not joking my Prince, Alpha King Jack is in town with the warrior wolves and is now talking to the Mayor. The move is to help them get back the territories which belongs to the humans."
"Why did my father go Maleficus, it was supposed to be Beta Derek and not him!"
I didn't know why but all of a sudden there was a cold feeling that I felt below my feet, I have to go there too.
"Well would it justify your father's decision if I tell you that Beta Derek has minor injuries that is slowly healing that is why he cannot lead the warrior wolves no matter how much he argues with the Alpha King."
Maleficus sat beside me in the bed. "Beta Derek is injured?"
I frowned and recalled the incident in my mind making sure not to miss every detail on how much I have hurt him.
"Yes Beta Derek is injured and it takes time to heal for him because the wolf who beats him is not just the future Alpha but the future Alpha King and has no control over the exerted force that his fists has executed."
"Oh!
I stood up and massage my head with my fingers, I did not expect that I would cause something like that to my father's Beta and to think that he is no ordinary wolf. I removed my fingers from my head and looked at my hands closely against my face. I've hurt him but it wasn't intentional and now my father is out there fighting the rogues.
"Stay still my Prince let me help you heal that injury in your stomach, it looks better on the outside but i know what's going on inside of yourself."
I paused and somehow feel the discomfort from my own body, my muscles contracted when I tried tightening it around my belly.
"This should be healed by now!"
I grunted unable to believe that it took many hours and still the injury in my body have not subsided.
"Be patient my Prince, listen closely and follow what I have to say."
I looked at him and relax myself I trusted Maleficus just like my two best friends. "Close your eyes and concentrate, release your body from anxiety and stress don't think of anything else. Now focus on your heartbeat, how it pumps blood all through your veins. Your muscles are healing. Begin the heat of your energy circling from your heart down to your stomach make it stay on the injury there."
I growled when I felt the pain grows stronger. "Ugh!
Maleficus cleared his throat.
"You're healing my Prince, the blood you posses is similar with your father. Don't think that he is stronger, think that you and him are the same. Plucked from a similar body of your ancestor, same blood, the blood of a strong wolf. Now breath in and try contracting your stomach."
I focus all my energy into the feeling I have on my muscles in the stomach and begin to take slow and deep breaths. When I felt the heat begin to move inside my belly, the pain I felt begin to subside and then it actually clear out. After just a few breaths and I felt like I never even had it.
My hand squeezed on the muscle of my stomach. "It's gone! Wow, that was easy."
I looked at myself and then at the smiling face of Maleficus, he was right. My father and I have the same blood and perhaps, perhaps we have the same strength.
"I always thought you have it in you my Prince, as the son of Alpha King Jack. There is no doubt you are going to stand in his throne one day."
I frowned deeply, there is something that I needed to do now. "Maleficus, I need to go and help my father. As you said Beta Derek is still healing, my father might need a back up."
"No! My Prince that's enough."
Maleficus stand up and place both his hands against my shoulders. "You worry too much for the strongest wolf in the land, that's not right. You know who you should be worried about?"
"Who else should I worry about Maleficus despite my father and the warrior wolves who's fighting right now?"
I exhaled sharply and frowned deeper than before. "You should be worried of the girl he asked you to watch over. I think she's planning her escape tonight."
"Escape!?"
I closed my eyes and control the annoying feeling which begins to show from my face. The human girl.
"Prince Vincent, I suggest you take care of what your father tells you to do. When he comes back it might be the first thing he would ask from you. Obey your father after what happened today."
The old man nod his head and reached out for the door knob of the room. "Thank you Maleficus. I thought I would just sleep tonight enduring the pain but you made it go away."
"Oh, you're welcome Prince Vincent. But it's not me, I just help you realized one of your strengths. Now get some rest or perhaps talk to the girl before she thinks about leaving this place."