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He rushed to Emily who laid on the floor still groaning over the pain she felt.



Her nicely dressed hair was ruined completely, rough handled and scattered. Her cheeks were already turning red, touching it was adding more pain to what she felt at that moment.



"Emily!!!", Richard screamed as he rushed over to where she laid. She was in pains, her eyes raining down tears, tears due to the pains she received from the hands of a ruthless animal whose mind was over clouded with money and good offers from someone who had successfully triggered Richard's anger.



He saw her groaning, her hands on her stomach, he could feel her pains, the bond between them was so strong, he could feel almost everything Emily felt at that moment.



"Are you alright?", Richard asked as he pulled her upwards to himself, holding her in his strong arms, wiping off the tears which rolled down her eyes.



She couldn't say a word, the merciless slaps she received had hurt her so badly, she could barely speak normally or see Richard's face.



"It's alright.. I'm here", he said out when he saw Emily struggling to raise up her hands.



She struggled to raise up her hands, she could hear the sound of Richard's voice, but she was too weak to say a word, she wanted to feel his face, to touch him.



Her hands were moving upwards slowly, and Richard caught them, holding them, he squeezed them as a tear drop rolled down his face.



He placed her hands on his face, assuring her he was the one who held her tight.



"It's me Emily!! It's me .", He said with a shaky voice filled with emotions and pain.



"Someone help!!", He screamed at the top of his voice, hoping the maids or servants would come up to help Emily.



The sound of footsteps approaching was heard, it was Luke who ran towards Richard accompanied by his men



"Come on! Don't just stand there, help her", Luke commanded as he saw some of his men standing with weary bodies and grieving eyes.



Quite impossible for Luke to believe that his men were still standing there thinking Emily was going to die, he felt slapping them all at the same time and restructure their brains with positive thoughts.



Four of the men ran closer to carry Emily out of Richard's grip. If the men didn't, then Richard would sit there the entire time weeping and sobbing her pain.



He promised to protect her, that night the stood under the shiny stars, he kissed her forehead, and whispered that promise, that he would cherish and protect her with everything he had, but now, his mate was being carried out like her life was at risk.



He stood up from the ground, he could hear the babies crying at the side of the room, and before his gaze could fall on Agatha, she swiftly stood up from the ground and took the babies away from that spot.



His eyes were fixed on the man who physically assaulted his mate, tears stopped flowing from his eyes as his face became dark red in anger.



Luke walked over to him and touched him on the shoulder and said to him, "You know she will heal quickly. Don't be sad, she'll be fine"



Richard sniffled his nose, trying to suck back up some mucus which were rolling down his nose and replied him, "I'm not sad because she's in pain, I feel... bad because I couldn't keep my promise".



He turned to Luke, looking at him straight into his eyes and said to him, "I told her I would protect her, and today, I couldn't... I couldn't", he said as he wiped off a tear drop falling from his right eye.



"That's not true", Luke said as he shook his head. He touched Richard on the shoulders again and said to him, "You were surrounded by ten men, fighting some lowly skilled mercenaries".



Yes! Even Luke confirmed Richard's statement about the men who intruded the party to be lowly skilled.



They had no good fighting skills, swinging their weapons unprofessionally, like they were some form of trainees sent on a mission for the first time.



The men were wet behind the ears, and it was quite easy for Luke and his men to take them out alone.



"But you felt her pain. Thanks to the bond you two share, you felt her pain. You came at the right time. Give yourself some hope..", Luke said as Richard paid attention to every thing he said.



"She.. will.. be... fine. Trust me", Luke said emphatically.

He listened carefully to what Luke said and she saw the truth in every statement he made.

He was surrounded and occupied with killing ten lowly skilled men, while this strange man took advantage of it and tried to hurt Emily and the babies



If he was less occupied, then he knew he would not have allowed get one inch close to Emily, not to talk about raising his hands on her or battering her.



But then, he thought of the pain she went through during her pregnancy, and also the pain she was going through at this moment in time, he tried comparing to see which one really hurt her the most, but he couldn't place which one was greater.



But he took assurance in the hope that if she was able to heal after her much painful delivery then she would heal from the pain she was going through.



His eyes were still on the man he furiously threw to the wall, he clenched his fist hoping he would get on him and punch his life out of him, or drive his long claws into his heart and drag it out.



Many things he thought of doing to this man until he Luke said to him, "Do you think your brother has something to do with this?".



His question struck him, obstructing his train of thoughts as he replied, "My brother won't want to die a painful death, but there is only one way to find out".



He turned back to Luke and said to him, "Check the other men out there, find anyone who's still alive, take them all to the dark room".



The dark room!! The terror in that word was enough to scare the living hell out of anyone.



One would think of the dark room to be deeply dark, but surprisingly that's not it.