Chapter 161

Akira's POV
"Austin did you forget..." My arm flew to my lips. "oh my God! What happen to you?" I grabbed the bleeding Wolfie into the condominium, his skin was covered with bruises, and he had more blood all over his body than earlier. "Holy shit, I need to bring you to the hospital." His arm gripped my wrist as he pulled me from the door and shut it behind us. 
"No, we can't go out, those men are still out there. You are not safe out there." 
"What bullshit, are you talking about, you are bleeding and you think it is not safe for me." 
"You should listen, I don't want to go to the hospital." He pulled me towards the bed.
"Wolfie, what is wrong with you?"
"Don't worry about me, it will heal just as it did the last time?" He tried to persuade me but I am not buying it.
"Are you crazy, how can this heal on his own, and those monsters who did this to you, who are they? Are they wolves as well?"
"Akira stop asking me questions, you shouldn't know," 
"Fine, if you don't want to go to the hospital, I am sure there is a first aid kit here." He didn't say anything before I went in search of the kit, this was my first time here, so it was difficult for me to get it fast, but I didn't give up when I eventually found it, I walked back to where he was sitting with his eyes shut. "Take off your clothes." He parted his lashes and stared blankly at me. "stop looking at me, I need to clean you up."
"Why do I feel you are desperate to see my nude?"
"Your nudity?" I asked with scorn on my face. "You shouldn't be delusional." I said grabbing his shirt to take it off him but his hand grabbed my wrist, and my eyes snapped to him. "what is wrong with you? I am not some pervert, and you know it." 
"No, I don't..." His voice came out low but annoying. 
"Really now?" 
"Yes Akira, for all I know, a lot of things could happen in a second, talk more of weeks, I broke up with you over two weeks ago, so I don't know you anymore. I don't know what you are capable of doing." 
"Are you calling me desperate, that I will force myself on you because I am desperate to have you back." He shrugged his shoulder. That gesture was enough to boil my anger but I swallowed the pain in my chest, still wanting to help him out of the bloody shirt.  
"Stop it, I don't want my..." 
"That is enough Wolfie, I have no plans of seducing you or giving my body to you, I just want to help because you risk your life for me." The last part was a lie, I wasn't helping him because he risked his life for me but I was scared of losing him, even though we were no longer mates, I still didn't want anything to happen to him. 
Tears were already welled up in my eyes, but I blinked it off, I didn't want him to see that I still wanted him and cared about him. I avoided his gaze while I struggled to open the kit searching for antiseptic. 
From my peripheral vision, I saw him rip off the remains of his wears leaving his bare bloody chest, I swallowed hard, knowing that his nude upper body was affecting me, I fought the urge not to run my fingers on him while I focused on applying the antiseptic on him. 
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Logan's POV
I shut my eyes and let Akira clean my wound, it was painful but I was enduring it, I didn’t want to tease her anymore, because her eyes were already welled up with tears. I let my mind wander to the incident.
Earlier after Meredith and I argued, I received a call from Austin saying that Akira and Vida were in danger and that there were gunmen outside the mall. I got the hunch that they weren't just gunmen robbing a mall coincidentally with Akira there but I didn't want to give importance to my hunch, that they were after Akira. 
I didn't think twice before getting my car keys and darted out of my room, at first I didn't want to inform Meredith because I was still mad at him for throwing my only chances to be with my mate or should I say ex-mate but I know Meredith will kill me, if ever anything happen to Vida, even if he is in denial that he doesn't want Vida. 
I know the mate bond, it's one nonsensical thing that no wolf could turn a blind eye to. That feeling of wanting to be with your mate even though they know nothing about it, I have seen how the mate bond works, I felt it myself even when my mate was human, the attraction was instant and the desire to be with your mate is animalistic. Even when I rejected Akira already, I knew I couldn't bear to see her with another and I didn't think I could be in the same space with her without, thinking of ways to get in her pants. So when he asked what was happening, I had no choice but to tell him. 
I am glad I did because I don't think Austin and I would be able to handle the situation, they were not just gunmen but Lycan. 
Those men were sent to kill, they were assassins, my wolf could smell them but who would want Akira dead and get a Lycan to do the job? I can't say Katerina because I was already picking her over Akira and she knows I don't have a future, so I will always pick her. If not Katerina then who? Katerina was the only enemy I could think of.  
So if it wasn't Katerina then it must be someone aware of werewolves' existence, the question is who? I had that thought in my head when I found those men, but then, something else got me, Vida could do magic, she could freeze time, and the expression on her face was enough to show this was her first time and she doesn't know how to control it. 
That wasn't the issue, that particular ability only belongs to just one person, the guardian or keeper of the last prophetess but she is human, a mere human can't be the guardian but if she is the guardian then where is the prophetess? If my hunch is correct, Vida is the guardian then the prophetess should be close by. The one with the special blood that could heal me. 
I should be happy that I am close to finding the healer, the one with the blood, but this news isn't good news, not because I don't want to get healed but because it will put Vida in danger if ever the werewolves found out she is the guardian of the healer, the last prophetess, they will come for and that will put her in danger. I don't want the two important people in my life to get hurt. Akira and Meredith. They could go insane if anything happens to her.
"Ouch!" I let out a sharp cry, as I felt pain in one of my injuries.
"What the fuck is wrong with you? Do you have to do that? Are you being mad because I am picking..." My voice died in my throat, as she pressed harder on my wound, stopping me from teasing her. She was a bit rough, and I knew she was mad at me. 
"Can you stop shouting like a baby?" I look at her. "It's irritating when you don't think twice before hurting someone but you can't take a single pain."
"You are being annoying you know. Are you going to hurt me because I am no longer yours?” She rolled her eyes, “…you are pissing me up and you don't want to see me piss up because I could be wide when I am pissed up." I grabbed her hand suddenly wanting to pull her to my bed and get on top of her but the shocked expression on her face made me abort the idea, I shut my eyes, I know I hurt her but it's for the best.
"Wide? If you want to be wide with me, I wouldn't mind, and I could show you a few more things that could make you wider," she pulled her hand off me, and I smirked. The sound of her voice and the meaning of her words are something dirty. 
 "Just get off me, I could take care of myself, I only come here to make sure that you are okay" I tried to stand up but her hand moved to my chest pushing me to the bed, and I gnaw my lips. 
"No, you can't get off the bed and you are the one hurt, it's should be me taking care of you and making sure you are okay, so if you have plans of going out, you should abort it because you are too weak to go out " she was talking but my wolf was flashing me something else like she was seducing me. 
"You..." I said with gritted teeth. "are you seducing me?" She shrugged.
"Nah... You are the pervert having dirty thoughts about me. " My lips dropped as my Adam's apple moved so fast, I was losing it and she smirked, this sly woman was enjoying what she was doing to me. I pulled her suddenly to myself.