Where's my Alpha? (GirlxGirl)

Chapter Fifteen: Anguish

Vixen P.O.V

Something was wrong. I knew this when I went to sleep. I knew this as I slept, and I now know this when a dark haired guy burst through our door like hell was on our wheels. I knew. My mate was in trouble. 

"Are you Vixen?"  He said breathlessly. 

"Yes. Yes I am. What happened to her?"

He looked at me shocked, "Wha?"

" No time to explain, just tell me what happened."

"They took her. Some rogues. We had agreed to meet in the meadow not far from here to discuss how to get her out of mating me. When I had gone to the meadow in the first place, they had caught my scent so I had tried to avoid them..... but then they found me." I had heard enough. I had already grabbed a packet of clothes to tie onto my hind leg so that I can change. Before the dude was even out of the door, I had phased and was on my way.

"Wait. You don't know where she went." he called from somewhere behind me.

I growled angrily. My mate was in trouble. My mate was in trouble. It was all I could think. I could sense her, in a way and I had to get to her. NOW.

I ran through the forest. Ferns whipped my face. Blood surged through my veins. Was she okay? Was she hurt? I knew the answer to that. If it was the wolf I thought it was....... then she would be hurt. Badly. I thought a prayer to the moon. Please. Let her be okay. She was at the rogue's place, and her signal was getting weak, as if she was giving up. Noooo please Riya. Hang on for me, baby. Hang on please. 

Miraculously; as if she could hear me, her signal got a little stronger, just strong enough to locate the filthy little house. I would not have found because the signal had been about to go out. I had to help. Need filled me. Need to hurt whoever hurt her. Need to protect her. Need stronger then a thousand suns.  

A mile and a half later, I finally glimpsed a building through the trees . There. She was in there. I am almost there baby. 

I couldn't just bust in there though, I had to be stealthy about this. I slowly crept towards the house, with the one guy on my heels. 

As I got closer I could hear the sound of a belt hitting flesh. What was happening? WAS HE HITTING RIYA?!?!?!

"Oh my god.... what are they doing to her?" the guy behind me whispered.

Screw stealthiness. 

As a wolf I threw myself at the wall of the house and busted in. I phased as I did it so I busted through as a wolf, and then phased mid-leap into a human. I came in through a kitchen where two other people were at a table. One held a spoon frozen half way to his mouth. If I weren't so angry, it would have been comical. 

"HAND HER OVER NOW!!!!" I growled. I could no longer hear the belt, which was a good sign. 

They both backed away, "I have no idea what you are talking about." 

I grabbed the one with the spoon by the throat and shook him.

"WHERE IS SHE?!?!?! TELL ME NOW, OR DIE!!!!!!" 

The guy I was holding made a gurgling sound so I dropped him. "I-i-in the b-basement." he rasped in a high pitched voice. 

I stalked over to what looked like the basement door and ripped it open. It was a broom closet.

"Uhm... Vixen. Over here." the dude had opened a door next to it, and it had stairs leading down.

"Shut up." I sprinted down the stairs, past him at full speed. I was so angry. Angry enough to rip this house from its foundation.  And all that anger changed to something far different when I saw the condition Riya was in. 

"Riya......" I sobbed, my voice cracking. I could hardly bear to look, so I rushed over and undid the ties. Swept her into my arms. 

Her left eye was swollen;puffy and black and blue. Her hands were bleeding and there was a big bruise on her cheek in the shape of a hand, with a deep gash in the middle that was also bleeding. That was the best of it. The rest of her body looked like there wasn't a place she wasn't bleeding. Why wasn't she healing?!?!? Riya. If you make it through this I will stay by you. Just please stay safe Riya. I then remembered the impossible favor I had asked of her at the bonfire. To stay safe. And here I was holding her, where she had been beaten to an inch of her life. With her blood soaking through my clothing. 

It made me cry harder. I had to get her to my pack shack. So with a body that wouldn't stop shaking I left the place, totally forgetting about the rogues who had taken her in the first place. They could wait. Riya definitely had my priority, and I would do anything for her. How true that was, I realized now.

"KENDRA!" I yelled once I was within distance of my house.

"IF YOU THINK I AM DOING ANYTHING FOR YOU AFTER HOW YOU TREATED NINA; GIRL YOU HAVE ANOTHER THING COMING."

I sobbed, "NO KENDRA. IT'S RIYA! SHE'S HURT!!!" 

At the distance I was, I could just barely see her head poke out the door, and then come rushing out to meet me. 

At this point, I was staggering under Riya's weight, and the blood was just making her slippery. 

"Let me take her." Kendra demanded. 

"No. Get out of my way. Get the I.V. and oxycodone." I was stubborn; yes, but she was my mate, and my responsibility. 

I laid her down on the couch and barely noticed as the hours passed. All I could think of was the pain in her eyes when I walked away. It was all my fault. If I had mated with her, there would have been no need for her to go out and try not to mate someone else.

I tenderly washed her brow with a wash cloth. This was all my fault. How could she ever forgive me? See, this was why I walked out in the first place. I was no good for her.

She coughed and I held her hand, "V-vixen?......"

"Yeah? I'm right here baby. I'm right here." She smiled up weakly at me. God, I didn't deserve that smile. "It's all my fault Riya....." A single tear slipped down my cheek. 

She reached one shaky finger to swipe up that tear, "N-no V-vixen. It's not your f-fault....." She shook her head, and winced. 

"Just sleep baby. Please. You really need it." I got up to get her some water if she needed it, but her hand snatched at my clothing.

"N-no please don't go. S-stay with me? P-please lie with me a while." 

I owed that to her, "Alright Riya. I will stay with you."

"P-promise?" 

I could tell she was no longer talking about staying with her while she was so weak. There was forever in her eyes. I couldn't say no. She might try to get up and leave, and she could barely stand up on her own as it was. 

I nodded my head. And she scooted over a little on the COUCH. I lied down beside her and soothed her by running my hand through her silky blonde hair. 

"Shhhhh... go to sleep baby." She snuggled deeper into my side, and within a moment her breathing deepened. She was alseep. Just listening to her sleep was starting to make me drowsy, so I closed my eyes, and I too feel deeply asleep.