Chapter 51: She Got A Talent

Chapter fifty-one: She Got A Talent

Bernard

I watched her walk away from me and leave me standing in the alley alone. She left me heated, angry, and flustered, all at the same time. What a talent she has.

Her lips on mine heated every part of my body. She was like this drug that I couldn't get enough of, I am addicted to her, and I can't wait for the day I will finally have her in my arms and mark her. That is the power of her effect on me. She had me feeling like a damn schoolboy who had his first crush. I felt nervous around her but not in a bad way, I felt nervous in the best way possible. She made it feel like I wasn't carrying the burdens of being an Alpha, she made life seem very bearable. Just seeing her alone made my days better but not today. The image of that gamma boy holding her hand while he wrote his number on her skin. I wanted nothing more than to rip off his hand but I couldn't. I had to remain composed and besides, he didn't know who she was to me. Otherwise, he would have never touched her.

I had never been the jealous type but with Elena, I was a possessive b*stard. I didn't want to share her with anyone. She is mine and I am hers, I wanted to shout it from the rooftops so that the entire world would hear me but I couldn't do that. As far as everyone knows, I am still marrying Helen Elison. I hated the fact that I had to continue to play this little charade until I sorted out everything I needed to do behind closed doors. I longed for the day I could openly hold and kiss my mate whenever I wanted to. I shook myself out of my thoughts and walked into my car. My body felt tired from standing for so long and the surge of anger that had cursed through my body made me tired. I hated feeling weak like this but I needed to count myself lucky. A lot of wolves would have died for a poison like wolfsbane, especially at the quantities Liam had told me it possessed.

I left the hospital without informing anyone because I had grown tired of the place. I needed to be out of the room as I was going stir crazy. I needed to heal at home and away from a place that was meant for the wounded and the sick. I made it to my house and made my way to the living room. The coffee and the croissant were long forgotten in the car. I hadn't even wanted to order anything, I had only done it so that people wouldn't have been suspicious of my presence at the bakery. The main reason I was in that bakery was because Jane had told me Elena had gotten a job there. I felt betrayed initially because she didn't bother to tell me. So I went there to see things for myself that is why I snuck out of my room and made my way to the bakery after Jane left. I went to my house to get my car keys and headed towards the Pack Center where the bakery is located. When I entered the bakery, she was at the counter looking as beautiful as ever but that gamma was holding her.

I wasn't mad at the gamma because he didn't know who she was, but my wolf didn't like him regardless. We are mates and we couldn't have secrets between us. If we were having our conversation later, I am going to lay everything out on the table because I don't want any secrets between us anymore. We needed to be one hundred percent honest with one another.

My eyes started feeling heavier and heavier as the second ticked by. I was about to succumb to their strength when I heard my door open.

"Bernard?" Jasper's voice traveled into the living room.

"I am here." I groaned, what is he doing here? I heard his footsteps approaching as I sat up on the couch. He walked into the living room with a concerned look on his face.

"Alpha." He greeted and I waved him off.

"No need for formalities, we are friends after all." He lifted his head and looked at me.

"I went to the hospital but couldn't find you. Jane told me that you had discharged yourself and are most likely to be at home." I nodded leaning back onto the couch.

"I couldn't take another second being there and besides, I had an important business to take care of. What did you need, Jasper? I am tired and I need to rest." I said to him.

"It is actually about Nicholas, Bernard. He had gone mad." He said and I slowly sat up.

"What do you mean by he had gone mad?" I muttered.

"Evert since you have been unwell, Nicholas took it upon himself to make himself interim Alpha. He trained some of our young warriors but he didn't train them with some of the approved programs. He trained them with some of his own exercises. He was training them as if they were at war, the young warriors nearly collapsed at the training ground. One of them suffered some internal bleeding after the training session, he is fine now but he was wounded." He explained.

"Who gave him the authority to do something like that?" Jasper shook his head.

"He said that it was his right by law to take over all Alpha's duties when the Alpha was not present to fulfill his duties. He then threatened to throw me into the cell if I stop showing him blatant disrespect." He replied, I was silent for a while as I took in all the words he had just said. My blood had already been simmering since I saw Elena with that gamma boy and now it is boiling violently. I knew Nicholas was a difficult character to deal with at the best of times but this was getting out of hand.

He is messing with the Pack and blatantly defying my authority. I could feel my wolf threatening to push the surface but I did my best to hold him back because now is not the time to lose control. He is still weak and even with my Alpha blood, I wouldn't be able to take on Nicholas. He had been itching for a fight for years now. Our tension dated back far beyond me choosing him as my Beta to the time that we were still children. But all worsened ever since the time I started my Alpha training and Liam started his Beta training as well. I needed to be patient, Nicholas needed to be dealt with but only when I had regained my strength fully.

"Thank you for informing me, Jasper. Do me a favor and keep a close eye on him while I am still healing. If he does anything, you come directly to me. Understood?" He bowed his head.

"Yes, Alpha." He replied and I dismissed him, he left without uttering another word.

My mind was filled with a million different problems like Elena, Helen, Ronald, and now my Beta. Things just seemed to be going from bad to worse to catastrophic and they are all giving me a headache. I walked over to the bar cart that was near the large window in my living room. I poured myself a glass of bourbon and downed the content in two seconds flat. I was pouring another glass when I heard my front door open, I really needed to get a lock on that door.

"Bernard! You better not be here!" Damn it, just what I don't need right now. My doctor had come to drag me back from where I had just escaped from.

"Go away, Liam." I took a sip of the bourbon.

"I am not going back to the hospital." I said as I heard his footsteps approaching the living room. I felt his heavy stare on my back as he walked closer to me. He was quiet for a moment watching me and then looking to the view.

"It is rude not to offer your guest something to drink." I side-eyed him and smirked at him. I handed him my drink and poured another one for myself. He took a sip from it.

"Alcohol in the morning? Should I be concerned?" I raised my glass in the air and took a sip from it.

"Only a little." We both laughed lightly and I turned to him.

"I am not going back to the hospital, Liam. I hate it there and I can heal much faster here at home." I said.

"And so you will be close to Elena?" I looked away from him and stared at the view before me.

" I can't be away from her, Liam. You know what it is like, I am drawn to her the way you are drawn to your mate." He nodded.

"I know, which is why I won't drag your sorry ass back to the hospital but you have to promise me that you won't over exert yourself. I will have Jane or myself come in every morning to check on you." He replied.

"I am okay with that." I muttered.

"Another thing, Elena is concerned that you were calling Alphas asking about her. I told her that you weren't but I also told her that I would double check. You are calling the Alphas, aren't you?" He asked and I nodded.

"I had thought about it, not anymore. I want to hear everything from Elena herself, I don't want to hear it from someone else." I said.

"So have you decided to stop calling them?" He asked.

"Yes, Elena is my mate. There is no one else and there can never be anyone else. I have a mountain of a mess to sort through just so we can be together because she is worth it. She worth everything." Liam patted me on my back.

"Finally, you have come to your senses, let make a toast." I raised my glass in the air to meet his.

"To your beautiful mate, may she bring you down to your knees and set your heart ablaze." I laughed lightly at his antics.

"She already has, Liam." I said to him.

I know that I am walking right into hell fire but it is for the sake of the love of my life. I would walk through a thousand fires if it meant that I got to have her for all eternity.