Chapter 31 Injuries

Ava's POV
I don't think I've ever heard Adele sound like this before.
She had always been a little girl in my mind who hadn't grown up yet, and all her emotions would be noticed by others at first, happy or unhappy could be detected from her voice and expression.
And now, surprisingly, I don't know what kind of state she is in.
I didn't know what kind of mood she was in when she said that.
She kept her head down.
"Adele."
I called out her name, but soon I didn't know what to say.
Maybe it's because we've really spent a lot of time together these days, I actually feel that she looks really strange standing in front of me like this now.
After saying that, she has been standing in the same place with her head down and never spoke again.
A silent, spiky Adele.
"I really didn't expect that." I still couldn't resist the urge to sigh. She shuddered minutely and slowly lifted her head.
"The last person to ask me to leave first would be you. Adele."
She looked at me, her blue eyes filled with tears.
I opened my arms towards her and let her sob and swoop in to hug me around the waist.
Adele cried for a long time this time as she usually did, but unlike before, she barely made a sound. Several times I thought she had calmed down, but when I touched her cheek I still felt a handful of tears.
I couldn't imagine what was going on.
Had Aaron finally decided to turn Building 17 into a training ground? Or is that former mate of his ready to acquire the Gentoo Wolf Pack?
"Tell me what happened, will you Adele?"
I stroked her fine, soft hair and said softly, "Whatever happened, I have a right to know, right?"
"Yes." Adele huffed, lifting her head and trying to wipe the tears from her face, "I know you should know, but."
She paused and breathed heavily, tears dripping down her chin once again.
"It doesn't matter." I gently took her in my arms and wiped her tears for her, "Take your time, don't rush."
My gesture seemed to calm her a little.
"Sam said that the Blue Moon Pack will merge with other wolf packs." She told me in a broken voice, "That's the news I just got."
Her body began to tremble, "Brother promised that person."
That man?
"That's the one." She suddenly tilted her head and stared at me, repeating once again, "That man!"
Such a look and tone of voice already made me fully aware of who the 'that person' she was talking about was.
At the same time, I finally understood what kind of significance the arrival of this so-called mate had for the Genghis Khan wolf pack, and that there probably couldn't be anyone other than her good brother Aaron who could make Adele sad like this.
My brain seems to be split into two parts at this time, one part thinking rationally about the information brought by this news, while the other part is mocking in shock and numbness.
Oh no, the voice of mockery came from my wolf.
"Stay here." She sneered, "Just to wait for such an outcome?"
I didn't know how to answer.
I don't think I should even open my mouth to say anything right now.
I remembered what Aaron had said when I was still in bed, and he didn't say much about that person, and he didn't show much emotion when telling about the past.
People sad or angry to the extreme will become numb, I believe that for him to control his emotions will help his condition. But now that I think about it, I find it a bit ironic.
He did listen to my words and was controlling his emotions, just a little too well, even beyond my imagination.
"They must have had a good relationship."
I said softly.
That's why after so many things, after several years of separation, he still says things like "But I'm still happy you're here" when he sees that person.
"What?"
Adele didn't hear my words and shook my hand.
"Nothing."
I finally snapped back to my senses and looked down at her.
Her eyes were red and the tip of her nose was red, just like a little white rabbit. Pure and innocent.
"Whatever." I tried to sound calm, like nothing had happened, "He's all your brother."
Adele looked at me, not quite seeming to understand what I was saying.
"You should trust the decisions he makes." I tugged at the corners of my mouth and put on a smile.
I'm sure I smiled a very hard smile.
"He'll have his own plans." I finally said so.
Adele slowly straightened up her body on my arm to look at me, her gaze puzzled and surprised, and a little angry.
"Maybe working with that man is the situation he hopes to achieve." I finally finished the sentence with difficulty.
"Then in such a situation, there is no need for us to stay any longer isn't there?" Misty said, "Your wounds have completely healed, and the Pabu wolf pack has a doctor, so he no longer needs you."
"We should leave."
"What about you?"
What?
"What about you?"
Adele noticed that her eyes fell behind her and didn't seem to hear herself, so she asked again.
Me?
I looked back at her, "My intentions?"
"No." She looked at me and said slowly, "So you, do you trust him?"
"I don't know what you mean, Adele." I felt a strange kind of panic that I had never felt before.
"Do you believe him?"
Adele, still in the position I was holding, stared straight at me and repeated again, "Would you trust him?"
Believe that he only made this decision for the sake of the wolves, believe that his intentions were indeed for the benefit and safety of all, and not to find that little bit of lost affection again in the past few days with his former mate.
I believe him?
What reason and need do I have to trust him?
He originally had nothing to do with me either.
I just came to the Blue Moon Pack undercover, get the information and news I need to get and then I should leave immediately, and maybe make a little damage before I leave.
That was my purpose.
So what the hell am I staying for!
"You're doing it for him. Ava." Misty whispered, "You want to stay with him a little longer, you find it pleasant to be with him, you're even happy to see him come to you every day and obediently eat all the things you give him. It doesn't matter if those things are some strange cuisine or medicine he's never seen before."
"You've gotten enough of that already."
"I didn't." I retorted dryly, "I'm just. I'm just doing what a doctor is supposed to do."
"But doctors don't talk to their patients about where they're going to play in the future, or blush when they do routine exams on their patients, or have their hearts beat faster when a patient hand them a spoon." Misty said with a sigh, "That day in the library loft, the ice cream he brought you when he came to visit you in the evening, and the soup he made for you every day during that time. Do you dare to say that you really didn't have a little heartbeat?"
Did I really not have a little heartbeat?
The look in his eyes when I killed the witch and returned to the safe house, the hand he raised and quietly dropped countless times when I was framed by Edna, the countless times he looked down at the tenderness in my eyes, and the bowl with pear soup he handed over when he ran up in the green sunlight of the attic that day with a red face.
Have I never had a heartbeat?
How could I not have had a heartbeat?
I knew full well that my identity was not trustworthy in his eyes, yet I still exposed my medical skills to save his clan to cure him, did I really just want to improve my status in the Blue Moon Pack?
"I regret ever saying something like that to you." Misty's voice trembled a little, "Some things don't even need to have a beginning, just like feelings."
"It has nothing to do with you."
I answered her arduously, "But the good thing is that it's not too late to end it now."
"Go back, Ava." She said, "Go back to our wolf pack with all the information and intelligence you have now. Take a good bath and get some sleep, the whiskey and liqueur will make everything better."
Go back, before the summer is over.
"Brother shouldn't have promised her." Adele didn't wait for my answer, already talking to herself, "Even if he were to say yes, he couldn't say yes so quickly."
"He should ask our opinion." She said, looking at me, "At the very least, he should have consulted me as well. But instead, he made sure of such a thing in just a few days, and perhaps the entire Blue Moon Pack is aware of it by now."
"He simply can't imagine the consequences this matter has caused, and the harm it has brought to others." Adele's voice trailed off as she looked out the window.
Outside the window was a dizzying white, and the sun was still shining today. The sun had been good since the heavy rain two days before.
"I've been waiting for him to come to me." Adele looked at me, "I knew what he might be up to. But he's not the only one going through the past, and I just wish he would stand in front of me and tell me himself."
"But he didn't."
"From the time Deborah came to Genghis Khan until now, he hasn't come to see me, not once."
I knew this was not something that belonged to a child's possessiveness; for Adele, no one could see her as merely a child when it came to the past.
Aaron went through what she also went through, three years in the Colosseum was their brother and sister rely on each other to go through, and that person is not just a scar on Aaron's heart.
She dried her tears, took a few steps back to distance herself from me, and her tone became as hard as before: "So I guess you should.
"So, I think you should get out of here."
"I will." I heard myself say this.
"But not now."