Connected By Fate [Completed]

Chapter 7

I wake up in an unfamiliar bed. It smells and feels different from my bed at home. My rib still aches and my face is still bruised, but I guess that gives me more awareness of my surroundings. Anyone could appear and start to hurt me again.

I stretch as I get up, making my way downstairs. I look around the house, and realise I'm home alone. Just me. A wave of emotions come over me, drowning me in my own thoughts.

'What if someone attacks me?'

'What if someone knows I don't belong here and comes to get me out of their pack?'

'What if Liam realises the mistake I am and puts me back in the cells?'

Shaking the thoughts off, I notice shadows standing outside the door. Freaking out, I slowly creep up to the door and try to open it. Locked. Why is it locked?! Maybe those men are back and want to hurt me. Maybe the shadows are waiting for the door to open so they can get to me.

'I'm scared scar. I'm not kidding, I'm scared for what's going on right now, and my future. What if my life just ends up worse than what it was before? What if Liam doesn't actually want me, only using me for god knows what. What if he doesn't want me at all, only for a doll he can play with whenever he wants? What if....' I get cut off by a pissed scarlet.

'Shut up! He obviously cares if he stopped them from hurting you even more. Stop being so ungrateful!' She snaps.

I shake my head and go into the kitchen. I rummage around in the pantry and find no decent food. I look in the fridge and still, nothing. I groan as my stomach grumbles. Making my way back upstairs, I trip and stumble back downstairs, screaming in pain as I land on my healing rib. It happens all so quickly, there was nothing I could do to stop it. My footing had just been wrong on the step.

I lay on the floor, wailing in pain before I hear a jingle of keys and immediately the door bursts open.

"Amber?!" Someone yells worriedly. I recognise the voice as soon as it rang through the house.

"Liam I'm at the stairs!" I wail in pain. My arms grab at my side, my broken rib hurting badly.

I hear heavy running towards where I was trying to get up.

"I'm fine, I just fell down the stairs, ah, a bit." I say, looking into his big, worried eyes. I was hurting, but I didn't want to go back to the pack doctor, and I don't want Liam worrying about me too much. He was gone for two hours and already I get hurt. He doesn't need to baby sit me and I didn't want him thinking he needed to.

"Are you sure? I can take you back to the pack doctor if you want. Do you want to?" He says, scanning my body making sure everything was in place. His hands moved over my body, igniting fires within me.

"I just want to lay down." I rub my forehead, a headache making it's way to my head. My frown increased as his hands left my body. Oh how I needed his hands on me.

"Yeah, come on, I'll take you upstairs." He coos in the most soothing way he could muster, taking my hand and stepping back onto the stairs. My hand burned just as my whole body had before. I stand, a bit wobbly, but Liam makes sure I'm guided with his large hands.

"How did you know I was hurt?" I ask, curiosity getting the better of me. I scanned his face, he looked so hot as he focused on the task at hand, getting me to bed. I couldn't concentrate, all the heat heading between my legs. It turned me on so much that he cared so much.

"Mates can sense when their other half is in pain. It's like when you feel happy, I can sense it. Or when you feel sad, I can feel it." He lays me down on the spare rooms' bed. I sink into the sheets.