Soulless ✔️

Chapter 21

Zaya p.o.v

Blue eyes are locked to mine. They fill with surprise and terror as my mate yelps and jumps up. He yanks me in the process because his hand never let go of my own. And now it was my turn to yelp, but not in surprise.

"Ow ow ow!" I yell as he almost yanks me up and out of the bed.

He's instantly at my side again, inspecting for injuries and apologising. "I'm sorry. I'm an idiot and I wasn't thinking. I didn't mean to hurt you. I'm sorry." He rambles on.

I put my hand on his cheek to silence his endless rambling. "I'm okay." At first he tenses with my touch but only for like a second. Then he relaxed and slightly leans into my touch.

"But I still hurt you." He pouts and I have to admit that he looks damn adorable when he does that.

I chuckle slightly and let my hand drop, ignoring the curios gaze I receive from him. I take in my surroundings and note the machine hooked to my arm. I frown at it before pulling all the wires and things off of me.

"I don't think you should -" He was cut of by a loud beeping noise that suddenly fills the room and we both flinch a bit. A guy dressed like a doctor - I'm assuming is the doctor too- comes rushing into the room with a slight panic. He scans the room quickly and breathes out a sigh of relief when he sees that both of us are okay. He fixes the machine and the beeping thankfully stops.

"You're making me greyer than I need to be." He says as he walks towards me. "How are you feeling?" He puts everything down beside me and examines my now healed injuries.

"I feel okay, normal." I say at the doctor, trying to ignore the stares of my mate. "All this because of a stupid fall, just because of the stupid snow." I mumble to myself, not intending for them to hear. But of course, us being wolves with enhanced hearing and all, they heard. I notice a smile on my mate's lips and he looks super attractive when he smiles, even if it is just a little smirk. I'm brought back to the doctor by his laugh echoing through the room. For the first time I get a really good look at him. He looks kind and looks as if he's had a lot of laughs throughout his life. His grey eyes shine with kindness and humour. He's shorter than my mate but overall, still in good shape. His hair is dark and starting to turn grey here and there. I hear a growl and turn my head towards my mate, his eyes are slightly narrowed on the doctor and I realise that he saw me inspecting the doctor. Now, it's my turn to smirk to myself.

The doctor turns around with an amused smirk towards my mate. "Would you mind waiting outside Alpha? I need to ask this young lady some questions." The amusement never leaves his eyes, but he manages to keep it out of his voice.

"Fine, I have other work to do anyways." He says. He walks out of the room and mumbles something about 'stupid mate bond' and 'stupid King duties' and something about a 'cold shower'. I burst out laughing, just as he shuts the door.

The doctor turns back to me with a smile on his face, we make eye contact and then burst out laughing again. I can feel the six pack forming and I clutch my stomach from laughing so hard. We both calm down and we can finally breathe again.

"We've got a case of a jealous mate on our hands, now do we?" He says with a raised eyebrow and amusement in his voice.

"I always mocked my friends for being so overprotective of their mates, and now mine is like that too. Oh well, guess I have to tease him too." A sudden wave of sadness washes over me as I remember all of my good friends, but I push it aside as quickly as I could.

"Oh yes, mates can be very protective. And I think your King might be a bit over the top." He smiles again.

"How so?"