Alpha Tristan ✓ [Republishing]

Triantaenia [ 39 ]

- Tristan -

She was bleeding so much.

Her blood had soaked my clothes and I couldn't get the sight of her limp body out of my mind. My hands shook and I lifted them off my lap to see her dried blood on my skin. A shaky breath fell from my lips and I turned to my men who were guarding the room they were holding me in.

"I need to wash my hands." My voice was scratchy and I dragged my gaze upwards to Markus who was pacing anxiously in the room. He came to a stop and nodded towards a door.

"There's a bathroom there, Alpha."

I pushed myself off the floor and stumbled over to the bathroom. I locked the door behind me and it was within seconds that I collapsed against the sink. My hands gripped the edge of the basin and I flipped the tap open before the water streamed against my skin.

I scrubbed Kara's blood off my hands and as the water turned a painful red, I sunk my teeth into my bottom lip. I swallowed down the sob and continued washing my hands. I had seen a lot of blood in my life—I had spilt a lot of it in my life but nothing could have prepared me to have my mate's blood on me.

The mate pull was a lifeline for us both but I could tell that it wasn't enough, not with the way Mindy had stabbed her. Kara was hanging on by a thread, I could feel it. The bond that pulsed between us strongly was dwindling and it was taking everything in me to not run and be at her side. I had to have faith that she would live.

If I lost faith, I wouldn't be able to hold back the monster within. I glanced up at the mirror in front of me and bloodshot eyes stared back at me. I looked like I had run through hell and back, and quite frankly, I felt like it too. The moment Mindy dug her claws into Kara, I felt this searing pain and it had knocked the breath out of me.

I wasn't bleeding but I felt the pain all the same and I had never felt so scared in my life. Seeing her fall to her knees tore my heart out of my chest and I had caught her before she hit the floor. Her eyes, always so beautiful, didn't instantly find mine like they usually did and it had tipped my world upside down.

She was the only person I could focus on. My existence depended on hers and I didn't want to think about what would be left of me if she died—

Shaking my head vehemently, I growled and screwed my eyes shut. Closing the tap, I tugged my shirt off and dashed it into the bin by the door. When I stepped back into the room, I took deep breaths and dropped the barrier in my mind between me and all my pack members.

For once, it was chillingly silent and I clenched my jaw as I thought of Christian and slipped into his mind.

'Get everyone home, Christian. And tell them Kara and I will be okay.'

'Yes, Alpha.'

I turned to Markus. "How long has she been in surgery?"

A grim expression covered his face. "Two hours, Alpha. The doctors had to sedate you when you got too much to handle." It was then I noticed the nasty bruise on Markus' jaw.