Chapter 194
KROW
HOURS AGO
I mood will, hovering over him, and watched as he drew in breaths
In and on
In and out.
Heavy and slow,
Silas was dying
It’s been years,
Years since my brothers left and I was alone in that mansion. Years since the mansion felt too big
I was pushing towards forty, Kade and Belladonna’s child was now going to school. Rovette and Alex got married, had twins. and the kids just started walking,
I’ve become CEO of the company even though Silas was still alive. As soon as he fell sick, he stepped down and I took over.
It’s been years and a lot of things have changed, and yet…
And yet…
I turned away from Silas, about to leave when he called out.
“Stay”
I turned to him, an eyebrow raised, my irritation evident on my face. “Why pretend you were sleeping? I’m a busy man, Silas”
He blinked slowly, his heavy breathing, filling my ears and I wanted to plug them shut.
“Five minutes,” he said,
I sighed, moving to the chair beside the bed and dropping into it. “I’m listening”
“I never thought I would die this young” he began, and I wanted to scoff. He sure as hell wasn’t young “I thought I would live a really long life, but here we are. And now I’m having so many regrets.”
“You’re regretting not acting like a proper father and husband?” I bite out, unable to help myself, bitterness filling my voic
Silas turned his head very slowly to me, blinking like that took strength “Yes”
I stood up suddenly. “Your five minutes are up. I don’t want to listen to this bullshit anymore.”
I left the room. his voice following me. “Take care of your brothers, Kross
un not
When have I never! I’ve been taking care of them for as long as I could remeinber, and I wasn’t planning an stopping even though they had their families now
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If they let me, I’ll take care of them until the day I drop dead.
“Don’t ever call me again if it’s not an emergency,” I said to Gabriel as I walked past him without looking at harr
Old Gabriel was the only person Silas had left. Vera left him years ago, almost emptying, his account and running away
I didn’t blame the woman. If I were her, I would have left years before that.
I got into my car, my hands tight on the steering wheel.
How dare he say that to me? That he was regretting all he did? What did he hope for? Forgivenew?
Because of how bad he was, none of his children were on his side even when he was dying Axel and Kade hæven’t seen him once since he fell sick. They didn’t even bother to call.
Not that I blamed them.
I would abandon him too if I could, but I was in the same city as him, so there was no way I could abandon him.
And damn this sense of responsibility that has been built in me, because I feel like it was my responsibility to stay by his side until he drew his last breath.
It was like a reflex in me.
It was a damn curse.
I started my car, driving away from the mansion. It was almost midnight so I couldn’t go back to the office.
I would have to go home then.
I avoided going to that house as much as possible because it felt so… empty without them.
On the way home, my thoughts spun and wandered,
I was dragged out of my thoughts when an animal suddenly ran out of the woods and ran straight into my car.
‘Shit!” I cursed, slamming the brakes but it was too late.
My car hit the animal and it flew back, landing on the ground with a wet thud.
“Fucking hell!”
I rushed out of my car, running towards the injured animal but my steps faltered when I saw it shift.
Fuck, I just hit a werewolf.
But she should be alright. She could recover from that, so why the hell wasn’t she recovering!!
I cursed harshly as I rushed to her, kneeling in front of her. Her hair was soaked in blood and it covered her face. And her body.. God, her body….
She wasn’t healing. She wasn’t healing!
“Why aren’t you healing?!” I yelled as I took off my jacket and covered her, carefully picked her up and she whined, “Shh
Shh. You’ll be fine.”
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I took my phone out from my pocket as I carried her to my car, calling the hospital where our kind get treated.
“Hang in there,” I muttered as I placed her in the back seat.
I entered the car, driving fast but carefully not to bump into anything, my heart racing.
“She’s stable,” the doctor informed me when he stepped out.
I exhaled, running a hand through my hair. I paused, looking back at him. “But why didn’t she heal?”
We ran a lot of tests on her and it seems her healing properties were suppressed.”
My eyes widened. “What? Suppressed? Is that even possible?”
He nodded. “With poison.”
I didn’t even know how to react to that. I just stood still, staring at him and he explained. “With constant intake of poison in mall doses, her healing properties slowly got suppressed.” He paused, his eyebrows furrowed in concern. “Mr. Varkas, there ire signs of abuse on that girl. Even I, as a doctor, find that… gruesome. Whoever did that to that girl doesn’t deserve to live. Wolf or human, they deserve to die. The broken bones, scars, and injuries on that girl are from years of abuse.”
My fists clenched by my sides, that sense of responsibility kicking in again.
Do you know anything about her?” the doctor asked. “Her name?”
shook my head. “Nothing. I couldn’t find anything on her. No phone. No ID.”
The doctor said nothing, and I knew he was thinking the same thing that I was.
Can I go see her?” I asked and he nodded.
‘You can, but she’s still asleep.”
I entered the room, closing the door softly so she wouldn’t wake.
She was lying so still that if I couldn’t hear her heartbeat, I would think she was dead.
Now that the blood was cleaned off her, I could see her clearly,
She has a kind of beauty that was rare on this side; skin so golden, they looked like honey. Brown, wild curls that almost covered her face.
She wasn’t from here.
She was far, far away from home.
As I watched her, she suddenly gasped awake, her eyes wide.
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Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.
