Healed by the Alpha (Hunted Book Two)

Chapter Twenty Two

Dominick

It was like I was having the strangest dream and it didn't seem to be ending any time soon. I woke up in my bed, only this wasn't my bed. I scratched my head as I tried to get my bearings. From the blue ghostly tinge of light I knew this wasn't my waking state and from the look of the bed I was currently laying on, I knew that this wasn't my room at the pack house. I was in the dream realm and for the first time in a long time I'd actually been dreaming. I blinked my eyes rapidly and the sleep from my eyes started to clear.

I heard a scuffling noise from the right side of the bed. I was still so lost in the dream I hadn't even noticed her presence this close to me. "Little varg? What're you doing here?" She looked shocked and a little bit scared, had I done something? She stayed put, the only movement in her body was the rising and falling of her chest. "You... you're awake?" She asked me nervously.

I looked down at myself, checking out my different body parts, "yeah I think so, so to speak." I threw my legs over the side of the bed, "what're you doing here? How did you get here?" For the first time since waking up in the dream realm it had only just registered that she was here alone and I hadn't bought her. "Are you feeling more like yourself?" She asked, the hesitation was clear in her voice. "Of course I am? What do you mean by more myself?"

I went to stand but my head felt heavy and dizzy. She instantly rushed towards me as she saw stumble and sat me back down on the bed. "You were speaking in a strange language when you woke up." She informed me. My eyebrows raised as I took in what she said and I instantly started laughing. "Right, you almost got me Emily." Her face turned serious, "I'm not joking, it was scary and you really didn't seem like... you." I looked into her eyes, really looked, she was scared.

"You're scared of me?" I asked her, she sighed, "no. I'm scared of whatever I just witnessed." I rubbed my eyes and held my head trying to stop it from spinning, Emily carried on her train of thought. "I'm just saying, when I came through the door I could hear voices and then your eyes opened and you started saying something in this strange language." She looked away from me, "it was like you were a different person, it was like you weren't really here."

"Why are you here?" I asked her again, "I'm aware you are strong, but you couldn't make it to the dream realm alone, who helped you?" She took a deep breath, as if whatever it was she was remembering was too much to bear. "You collapsed in your room, I don't know how it happened." She took another deep breath, "I was walking past your room when I heard you making noises and then there was a huge thud and I found you on the floor next to your bed."

I blinked slowly, this isn't something that had ever happened before. She continued, " I couldn't wake you up, so I went to Elena and she couldn't wake you either. She decided that this was the only way to get to you." This was sounding scarier and scarier by the second. I'd never been unwakeable before, I was always awake before the sun naturally. "How long ago did all of this happen?" I questioned her, pulling myself out of bed and looking around the camp dorm room. "I don't know specifically, but it's probably been around 20 minutes by now."

A tingling needle-like feeling made its way up my spine. 20 minutes? And I couldn't be woken? "What did you hear when you came through my realm door?" She shook her head, "I couldn't hear specific things. The more I tried to wake you and talk to you, the more the voices disappeared." It was incredibly strange. Even if you were in my dream realm, she still wouldn't be able to hear what I was dreaming of unless she entered my dreams. My eyes shot back to her, "did you enter my dream?"

Her eyes bulged out of her head, "of course not, I wouldn't even know how to-" I held up a hand stopping her for the moment, "there's no way you should be able to hear what I was dreaming if you didn't enter my dream. That means someone else was in here before you got here." Icy terror gripped my shoulders, "someone had access to my dream door." I walked towards the far wall of the camp room, "we need to get back, I need to talk to Elena and the witches." There had to be a way to work out what had happened, suddenly the dream realm felt tainted and dark. I didn't want to be here and I definitely didn't want Emily wandering around without me.

"I didn't see anyone in the room when I came in, but I could hear a few people talking." She started to make her own portal next to mine, every now and then I could tell that she was watching me from the corner of her eye. I smiled at her, "it'll be fine I promise, we just need to get back so I can try to figure it out." I watched her step through her own portal before I exited through mine. I had no idea what I was about to wake up to, but if what Emily was saying was true... part of me couldn't trust myself either.

I had no recollection of the events and yet they had happened. Could I really be fit for my position as alpha if I couldn't trust myself? Luckily it only seemed to happen when I was asleep and as far as Emily claimed it hadn't been affecting me outside of the dream realm. I just had to keep whatever this was contained and I'd have to do some serious research back at the pack house.

There was just one problem, the only thing I could remember from the invisible conversation was the strange name...

Kresnik.