Chapter 28: Meeting Helen
Chapter twenty-eight: Meeting Helen
Elena
As we walked through the hospital, heading towards the Alpha's wing, some of the staff nurses greeted Liam. They even bowed to him, this is strange considering he isn't a high-ranking in the Pack. He may have been the head doctor but that didn't give him any real ranking in the Pack. Technically, he is just an omega.
"Why do they bow to you?" I asked, and he shrugged.
"Because they still believe that I should be the Beta. My bloodline has been Beta for decades within this Pack, I was the first to break the chain. A lot of them are used to having a castle as a Beta and not all of the Pack members agree with Bernard's choice of Beta." He explained.
"Do you agree?" I asked, he glanced at me.
"It doesn't matter whether I do or don't agree, it is Bernard's Pack and he is my best friend. So I support whatever decision he makes." He responded.
"I didn't ask that, Liam. I asked if you agree with Nicholas being a Beta?" He sighed.
"No, l don't. Nicholas is a great warrior but he is not what a Beta should be. Leadership isn't so black and white and Nicholas makes it that way. There should be room for bending and flowing but Nicholas abuses his powers far too much. He is meant to serve the Pack, noth them serving him." He said to me and I nodded.
I couldn't have agreed more, Nicholas was not the right person for the job and I only interacted with him a couple of times, but for the time I spent with Liam, I knew that he was born to lead. It is a shame that he chose to be a doctor instead. If only he had been allowed to be both Beta and a doctor.
"How are you feeling, by the way? Do you feel the wolf has regained her strength?" He asked.
"Yes, all thanks to you." He waved me off.
"I was just doing my job." He responded as he held the door to the elevator open for me.
I walked into the mirrored elevator and stopped momentarily when I caught my reflection. I was stunned at the girl staring at me in the mirror. I don't usually see my reflection and it always shocks me each time I see my human face. The last time I saw my fave before I came here, it had been sunken, and dark circles sat under my eyes. I looked like I was on the brink of death and at the time I was really in that situation. I came down with pneumonia from being out in the rain for so long. A kind woman who lived in the woods found me and nursed me back to health. I stayed with her for ten days before I left. It was never safe for me to stay in one place for too long.
"What are you thinking?" Liam asked, I shook my head, shaking off the distant memory.
"It is nothing, just thinking about something." I brushed it off.
The elevator door opened onto the third floor of the hospital and we walked down the hallway, passing by some nurses. Each of them greeted Liam with bowed heads. Even without the title, they still admired and respected him. As we walked closer to the Alpha wing, my nerves picked up. I didn't know what to expect entering the room. Will Helen still be there? Will Bernard be angry with me? Will he reject me if Helen is there and what would she think of me?
"Liam, may I ask you a question." I said to him.
"Go ahead." He responded.
"What do you think of Helen?" He mused over my question for a few minutes.
"I only met her a few minutes after she arrived. She seems intense but I guess her heart is in the right place because all she cares about is Bernard." I felt a stinging hit my chest. I didn't like the fact that she was being close to Bernard but I couldn't do anything about it. Technically, he isn't mine to be territorial over, she was his mate.
"Do you think she will make a good Luna?" I didn't know why I was asking such questions but I just felt like I wanted to hear his opinion about her but he shrugged.
"I can only determine that once I see her interact with the Pack members but from what I can see as a leader, she will be okay. She was raised by Alpha Ronald so we know she can hold her own. The only thing that remains to be seen is if she will be kind-hearted and learn to serve others or will she be like Nicholas who cares for no one's feelings." I nodded in understanding.
I felt a pang of guilt hit my chest and flow down to my stomach. I didn't know why exactly I was feeling this was because I hadn't done anything wrong.
'You are abandoning your Pack.' My inner voice said.
My Pack? It felt strange to think of Bernard's Pack as my own. They weren't mine because I was not going to mate Bernard no matter how much my heart wanted to. I had no Pack and I hadn't had one since I was fifteen years old.
'But this could be our new home.' my inner voice whined.
"Shut up." I gritted.
"But I didn't say anything." Liam responded to my words which I hadn't meant to speak louder.
"I am sorry, Liam. I wasn't talking to you." He gave me a weird look but didn't say anything.
We continued walking until we reached the door that led to the Alpha's wing. My heart pounded inside my chest as we drew closer and closer to the door. My palms felt sweaty and my head started to feel light. We stopped in front of the door and Liam turned to me.
"Here we are, I just hope that he hasn't gone back to sleep. Before I left, he was wide awake and anxious to see you. You go inside and if you need me, I will be in my office." I nodded and he left me standing by the door.
I stood there for a long time, staring at the door. After some minutes of giving myself a pep talk, I steeled my spine and opened the door. The first thing I saw was a sleeping Bernard. He looked so peaceful in his sleep, there was a child-like innocence in him. He was still on a drip and there was no other life supporting machine and told me that he was well now and it eased some of the worries that I had. I felt my wolf stir inside me at the sight of our mate. Being close to him brought a sense of peace within me that I couldn't put into words.
I closed the door behind me quietly so as not to wake him up. I walked over to his bed and stared at him for a moment. Even in his sleep, his handsomeness was still breathtaking. I was able to admire him in his sleep shamelessly without fear of him catching me. His face was clean-shaven which added to his cuteness. I reach out my head tentatively towards his cheek. My fingertips were a whisker away from his face.
"Who the hell are you?" I heard a female voice behind me which made me jump back. I turned around to see a very beautiful woman exiting the bathroom that is in the room. She was wearing skinny-cut jeans and a pair of silver heels that gave her a little extra height. She wore a tight-fitting bodysuit that showed off her cleavage. Her pin straight blonde hair flowed all the way down her back and she narrowed her eyes towards me.
"Are you dead or just stupid? What are you doing near him." She spat. I swallowed the lump that formed in my throat. I expected her to be here but I hadn't expected to meet for the first time like this. As far as the first impression goes, this was disappointing.
"I am sorry, it is just that Bernard requested for me and I thought he would be awake when I got here, I didn't know that he would be sleeping
"It is Alpha." She corrected me.
"You do not call him Bernard by his first name. You are too low ranking to have this privilege of calling him by his first name." She said to me.
Technically, I wasn't but I was not going to tell her that I was actually his true mate so I just simply nodded my head and kept quiet. She didn't seem like the kind of person who takes it lightly to people challenging her or taking back at her.
"Get away from him." She ordered.
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