Chapter 56 056
Danica's POV
Bianca and I made up as quickly as three year old children would. An apology and a feathering peck was all it took and she gave me all the latest gists, including one that gave me a heart attack.
"I think I gave off the fact that you're his mate to him" she said casually and I swallowed nothing as I stared at her like she was suddenly a different person entirely.
"You did what?" I demanded and I watched her lashes flutter several times before she responded cautiously.
"I called you his mate... Right in front of him. Alexander already knows that you knew he was your mate" she explained and I felt my throat clogged up.
She wasn't actually serious, was she? Nothing made sense.
"You could have been more careful!" I yelled, completely appalled but she simply shrugged.
"I tried. I was careful okay? But at that moment, nothing else mattered than saving you... It just slipped." She explained and I sighed, wondering what would become of me at that point.
"What I'm saying in essence is that you should give this self protection a break, Danica. Please." Bianca continued, staring me dead in the eyes with her face and expression all serious.
"What do you mean?" I stammered, pretending not to understand what she was saying even though I did.
"Alexander is capable of protecting you. He can... Protect your heart." She said and I forced a breath through my lips.
"No. No one can protect my heart as well as I can, Bianca. One day he'll realize it's pointless to have a weakling like me and he'll reject me just like the others." I retorted sharply, hoping she just dropped the case.
"Danica..." She trailed off but the doorbell interrupted whatever she was about to say.
She stood to get the door and I heard a faint conversation at the entrance before she eventually clicked it shut and returned to the room.
"I have a package for Miss Danica"
It was probably a mix-up but that was what I heard before Bianca's response followed.
"Are you sure it's for Miss Danica?" She asked and he responded with a firm 'Yes'
She came back to the room with a bouquet of the most beautiful flowers I'd ever seen and then a box. Medium size, nothing too grand.
She pulled out the little paper that got stuck with the bouquet and then she read aloud. 'TO MY LITTLE DOC'
She shot me a confused look but I think she must have caught on when my face instantly heated up in an annoying, helpless blush.
"Wow, you even receive gifts now. A slick bouquet worth thousands of dollars for just one girl who thinks she might not deserve it... You really think an Alpha doesn't know who deserves and who doesn't deserve his gifts before giving it to them?" Bianca asked and I shrugged, emotions clogging up as I stared at the huge bouquet of flowers. God, I felt like crying.
It was the first time I received a gift from someone that wasn't my mom and I might pretend it didn't mean anything but it did. It meant a lot to me.
She slowly opened the box until she got a phone out of it. A brand new, latest mobile phone, just for me.
Bianca literally fell on her butt and screamed.
"This... That... Phone... No wolf has ever used it from what I heard. It was newly launched and largely on sale in the human world. You can't get this brand anywhere around here" she explained and slowly reached out for the pretty looking phone. He must have repainted it or something but this was exactly my favorite color. Purple.
Then Danica was imprinted permanently at the lower end at the back of the phone.
An unintentional smile broke out of my lips as a tear spilled out of my eyes and down my cheeks.
"Isn't this too much? I truly didn't do anything to deserve this one..." I trailed off, wiping my tears and smiling like a fuckin' child.
"Exactly, Dani. You didn't. And that's what makes you special because your existence alone means the world to him. I bet you're the first woman he ever gave a genuine gift" she added, a mysterious glint beaming in her eyes as she spoke.
"I beg to differ" I retorted teasingly but the thought of it, of being the first woman to ever receive a genuine gift from him made my heart flutter. I liked to think that, whether it was true or not.
"Think about it, gurrl. He knows you knew he was your mate, and the moment I mentioned mate, he dashed off to find you even before a clarification that it was you, which means he knows too. He felt the bond. But even after that, he never tried to force you into admitting or anything. He respected your decision to keep quiet about it the moment he noticed your desperate hesitation. That is just how much he loves you, Danica." Bianca stated, clearly wanting me to go for the shots.
"Admit to the bond, and stop making him walk on eggshells around his own mate. That is how you can love him back. An Alpha can't go too long without claiming their mate. It drives them mad torturously slowly. Especially when that mate is right beside them. Don't let him be the cause of you getting hurt when in reality he'd hate himself to be a reason for that" she continued and I wiped another lone tear, confused and convinced all at once.
"I can't... I can't do this" I whimpered, getting off the bed and running off to the bathroom. I locked the door behind me to shut off her voice that followed me relentlessly.
'No one can protect my heart as much as I can'
'I'm better off alone'
'Giving in to Alexander would mean nothing but weakness on my part'
I tried to convince myself but Bianca's words kept repeating themselves in my head.
'Alexander loves you' 'And you love him too'
Fine! What if I did? And he doesn't? What if all he felt for me was pity after all? What if he's doing this just because he pities me or because he just needed to have his share of my skin?
It took hours to pull myself together and when I came out of the bathroom, Bianca already left.
So I simply laid on the bed and went through the phone, features and all.
I tried checking for something I've always been curious about. The mysterious death of the man that performed a successful surgery similar to one I did eleven days ago. How could someone like him die? It made even less sense that he wasn't that old. He was only a little over 80 and it can't be tagged a natural death of old age. He was a wolf not a human... Wasn't he?
Did he probably die from stress? What kind of stress could be enough to put a man like him, a wolf, into an everlasting sleep?
I couldn't help but wonder. And Google wasn't giving me the lead I needed.
I kept scrolling up until I stumbled on something. 'True identity of the genius Doctor, Hezekiah Brown’