The Legendary Red Wolf

Chapter 11

Flashback

Well two weeks are up and Carlson is making me do a pregnancy test which I know is going to come back negative since Rowan has been getting the pill to me every morning, plus an advantage to the werewolf race is that females know when they are pregnant days after conceiving the child. Carlson is not going to be happy when I show him the test but I don't really care about how much pain he will put me through, just knowing I don't have his offspring in me makes me happy.

Well I've been sat in here for long enough and I sense Carlson and Rowan have just walked into the basement, it's now or when he gets fed up with waiting. Sighing silently I stand from the floor and walk out of the bathroom, holding the test in one hand. I stop in front of them and bow my head, raising my hand and opening my palm. Carlson snatches it from me and reads it.

"I'm sorry Alpha, I don't know what happened" I say quietly trying to shrink myself

"You have failed in your duties and will be punished" Carlson growls furiously.

I step back, whimpering fearfully, Carlson raises his hand and crosses it over his chest before swinging and back handing me across the face. The force of the blow throws me into the wall to my left the one that holds both the door out and the bathroom door.

My head makes first contact, followed barely a nano-second later by the rest of my body. Sliding to the floor, my head is pounding, black spirals dance over my eyes, my ears are ringing. My head calms slightly after the impact and I realise my hair feels sticky and I reach behind my head to feel, something warm and wet greets the tips of my fingers and I pull them back already knowing what it is. Blood stains my fingers red however I don't sit and stare or think about how light headed I feel.

Looking up at Carlson I'm greeted with an angry stare, his lips pulled back in a snarls. In the blink of an eye his leg swings back and then forward straight into my ribs, a searing pain shoots through me as they crack and I fight to hold in a gasp, instead I cringe, tightening my face and gritting my teeth to keep quiet. Unfortunately that doesn't satisfy him, he grabs a fistful of my hair and yanks me up, my hair feels like it's going to rip out and with all his might rams his knee into my chest with my back crashing into the wall.

A loud scream tears out of my mouth without permission as my ribs are jarred. Carlson signature grin cracks his angry face and he lets go of my hair making me fall back to ground onto my hands and knees, breathing deeply to get oxygen back in my body. Carlson turns his back on me and looks to Rowan who had managed to keep his cool, that won't last long.

"Get her on the bed, she isn't going anywhere in that state. She can be fun with everyone tomorrow" Carlson orders, an edge to his voice.

"Yes Alpha"

Carlson storms out, a tense moment passes before Rowan is knelt beside me, grimacing and he takes my shoulders and pushes me as gently as he can so that I'm sat on my feet. I look up at him through eyes filled with pain and tears threatening to spill, he returns my gaze with a sorrowful and slightly angry one. He places the fingertips of his right hand on to the large swollen bruise hiding my broken ribs. He begins to move his hand in a circular motion, making me grit my teeth and force myself to stay put. Rowans other hand brushes against my cheek before resting there and he offers me a reassuring smile as he strokes my cheek with his thumb. He presses a little harder and I gasp moving away automatically.

His next move has my mind reeling and body paralyzed. His lips meet mine and I watch him shocked as he closes his eyes. In that one moment I realize a few things, one: he's pressing a lot harder on my rib but I'm frozen which is the main reason, or excuse, he kissed me, two: his lips are extremely soft and comforting and three: Rowans not just my friend, he's in love with me.