Athena Crimson ✓

CHAPTER 20

(Athena's POV)

I hear Victor talking to someone, but I cant get my eyes to open. Also, I feel very weak. Also, we are moving, maybe I am in a car or something. I feel nauseated... Thanks to my motion sickness... I can feel I am lying down on the car seat, with a slightly uncomfortable pillow, its hard. Suddenly its like we hit a rock or something... I groan which comes out of my mouth as a whimper, "Victor" I try to talk, but I don't hear myself.

(Victor's POV)

"Watch it" I growl at my driver, he hit a sudden brake to avoid a deer crossing the road. I had taken my unconscious mate in my arms and ran to my penthouse, just an hour ago. I laid her on my bed, and started making some calls. In short, I asked my pack police to get DNA tests done on the dead shooter and run it against the DNA profiles we have to check who he was. It was a long shot, but I just hoped it would turn with some results. Meanwhile I got my pack doctor to check on Athena. She is okay, but may remain unconscious for an hour or two due to the shock and stress. Also, its after lunch time, and we haven't eaten still. I was planning to move to my pack house. It was a highly secure place, and no human can enter my pack boundary (different from pack border, which has the resort included; my pack boundary houses my pack and their homes and of course my own mansion – the packhouse and a training ground) unless they are invited inside by me.

Athena will be safe there. I have been too careless, I better step up my game for my own good. Now, I am in my car, in the backseat with my mate sleeping with her head on my lap. I couldn't wait till she woke up, the resort has more humans and it will be difficult to contain any more situations that may come up, so we left immediately. I arranged an escort convoy and there's good protection to avoid any mishaps on the way to my mansion. I have asked the maids to make my room and the guestroom next to mine ready for me and Athena. When my driver hit the brake to avoid a deer, Athena stirred and whimpered, she called out my name, it was as if she didn't say anything, but I heard it. Thanks to my wolf's hearing.

I adjusted her on my lap, making her straddle me and I hugged her, pressing my face into the crook of her neck, inhaling her sweet scent. It helps me keep calm. Her eyelids flutter and she moves slightly. "Hey Sweetheart" I say kissing her forehead and she opens her eyes, and gives me a smile that doesn't reach her eyes.

(Athena's POV)

I am hugging Victor now, this is more comfortable than my previous position, I give him a sad smile and lay my head on his hard chest, hoping that darkness would swallow me, and let me be in peace. I couldn't bear the thought of losing Betty and Max. Not to mention it was because of me. He held me tighter and let out a sigh. "Sleep honey, I'll wake you up when we reach." It was like he cast a spell on me and I felt myself drifting off to sleep.

I was being carried somewhere and opened my eyes. It was not surprising or shocking anymore to see that I was with Victor. I didn't ask him to let me down, nor did he do so. We went inside a room, if I wasn't so gloomy, maybe I would have admired how cozy and beautiful it was. He sat me on the bed...

As if on cue, a maid (I could tell from her dress), came in with a food tray in her hand and handed it to him. They were speaking, but again I didn't hear anything, I couldn't care less. My body and mind are not at its best.

Before I realized what was happening, Victor was trying to feed me some pasta "Eat, you'll feel better"

I was silent, all I could feel was numbness.

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