The Alpha King

Chapter 28

I woke up for the second time and instantly knew Xavier wasn't in the bed or smothering me, I realised with a small smile.

I wanted my mate.

I wanted to feel safe and protected.

Just as I was about to attempt to sit up the door opened and Ginger walked in with a steaming mug in her hands. As soon as she noticed I was up she practically sprinted to my bedside, the tea or coffee I wasn't quite sure, almost spilling everywhere in her haste to get to me.

She set her mug down onto the table besides my bed and knelt down besides the bed.

"Oh Tori!" She said and burst into tears. I could feel my eyes start to well up as well.

"Don't cry Ginger." I said trying desperately to not cry myself. I cried enough in Xavier's arms.

She wiped at her face and took my hands in hers.

"Sorry, I-I just missed you so much and I was so scared you weren't going to make it! You've been in a coma for two weeks! I've been goin-"

"Wait, what? Two weeks?" I almost shouted.

Ginger stopped her rambling then and looked at me slightly confused.

"Yes... Xavier mentioned you woke up earlier on so I assumed he told you?" She said looking at me slightly confused.

"No, well we didn't really talk much..." I said.

"Oh, it's okay though now that you're awake. All you need to do is rest and heal and I promise you'll get better. You've survived much worse." She squeezed my hands and looked at me with so much of hope.

I looked away not wanting to divulge in any painful memories that I was sure I was going to have to talk about some time or another.

I didn't want to think about them. When I woke up earlier I said I would but just thinking about them caused me pain how could I manage verbally expressing the horrors I had endured. How could they possibly understand my pain? No one would ever really understand and no one would ever understand what I went through. I, myself was still grappling with it.

I want my body to heal physically for the time being with as little emotional pain as possible and afterwards I'll focus on my emotional health. With my mind made up I attempted to get out of bed and go get some food because I was starving!

Ginger almost jerked backwards and when she realised I was trying to get out of bed she screeched,

"Tori! What are you doing? Get back in that bed right now!"

I looked at her as if she were crazy and said,

"Ginger I'm starving and in order for me to heal I need food."

Her face softened slightly but she practically forced me back into the bed.

"I know, I'll go bring up the food Xavier prepared for you right now. You just lay back and rest. After you eat I'll check on your bandages last I heard they were all intact and you've been healing slowly but you have been healing which is enough."

Snuggling back into the duvets I rested my head on the pillows and asked her,

"What do you mean, 'last you heard', is there a doctor who's been looking after me?"

She had a ghost of a smile on her face when she said,

"I guess you could call His Majesty that."

I furrowed my eyebrows at her and asked once again,

"Do mean to say that Xavier has been looking after me."

Ginger sighed and said,

"Yes he has. He has being cleaning your wounds, bandaging them everyday and feeding you through injections. I refused to allow him to "bath" you in a sense so I did that."

I looked down feeling slightly embarrassed that they had to do all those basic necessities for me but I was so grateful for them.

"Oh, that was nice of him and you," I said almost shyly.

I heard Ginger scoff, confused I looked back up at her.

"Nice to you maybe. He's been like a wild, caged animal. He's growled, I don't know how many times at everyone in the house if they so much as came near your room and he's refused to eat or hunt or sleep or do anything besides be at your side. Tori I'm not going to lie as much as I feared for your life I was fearing for mine and especially his poor warriors or the werewolf's he calls his "elite squad". I think he almost attacked the leader at one poi-."

She must have seen the shock on my face because she stopped talking and faked a cough.

"Anyway, he seemed much better when he came downstairs and started making your food. Speaking of food I'm going to quickly go down and get it and I'll call Chris up." With that said she quickly turned to leave.

"Ginger," I called, causing her to stop half way from the door.

"Yes, Sweetie?" She said turning towards me.

"Thank you for everything." I said looking directly at her. I never truly appreciated her and Chris but I was so blind to not see how much they cared for me and loved me. I was so grateful to have people like them in my life. Nowadays it's hard to find people who want the best for you. I bitterly thought of Adam and I felt my heart drop, what would Ginger say when she finds out. She really liked him as did I. He was my best friend, now all he is, is someone who caused me pain, someone who it hurts to think about. I can't even think about all the moments we shared together without remembering the feel of the whip on my back or the Wolfsbane.

I don't think I'll ever be able to go back to Jennifer's either. Jennifer's became sort of our place but now all it did was remind me of him and the moment I was taken.

I didn't catch Gingers reply. My mind was too consumed by the thoughts of Adam. Adam the spell caster, Adam the betrayer, Adam the best friend, Adam the liar and the light hearted.

Snapping out of my miserable thoughts I mentally reminded myself to not think about all of that and that I should be focusing on my physical healing. Not worrying about things that can't be changed.

I heard a noise come from outside my window and instantly froze. Was Cadmer outside my house this very moment? Was he hear to take me away again and laugh in my face, saying I was foolish to believe he would so easily let me go? But he didn't really let me go did he? He said so himself, this was all a chapter in his great master plan to hurt Xavier. Why does he want to hurt him so badly? It can't just be because of some war, can it? He specifically wants Xavier to hurt, to feel immense pain. He must have some personal reason, some personal attachment to Xavier.

I told myself he wasn't outside and that I was being the foolish one and that all theses question were just hurting my head not really helping with my healing process at all but I had so many unanswered questions.

Lying down on my pillows and looking up at my glow in the dark moon and stars, I thought deep down that this was only the beginning and that sooner or later I had to face my demons and after I did, I was going to have my revenge on Cadmer and Adam. When I'm done they are going to wish they never knew me.

That storm that was raging inside of me, it was going to wreck havoc and I'm going to make sure the people I love and I are far, far, far away when it does.

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