Chapter 44: The Covenant

Ava's POV
I was also a little surprised by this patient from the Pabu wolf pack, who didn't seem to expect to be recognized at all, and was now looking at Jonny with her mouth open in astonishment.
I also looked at Jonny somewhat bewildered, and he glanced back at me, his eyebrows furrowed, and gently waved at me.
"You wait." I said, looking down at the person lying on the bed, "I'll get an ice pack ready."
"Okay."
The other person said, as if relieved, "Thank you."
I closed the door to the treatment room and walked out. Jonny was leaning against the wall waiting for me, puffing on his cigarette.
I looked at him and subconsciously said, "Smoking is bad for your health."
He smiled, "I know." Then he asked, "Do you have something to do this afternoon?"
"Of course I do." I was a little surprised, "Didn't Aaron tell you he'd be off this afternoon? I'm going to rehab him."
"Now then?" He looked inside inquiringly, then at me.
"I was supposed to come back to get my stuff." I rubbed my chin helplessly, "but saw you guys here."
"Where's Adele?"
"Adele? Isn't Adele in her room?" I was getting curious, "Did something happen? Why would she come to my place?"
"I don't know." Jonny also looked confused, "Why don't you go to Alpha's and just leave her here. Do you have any valuables here?"
Valuables?
I thought about it, "I think not, here is also some medicine." As for other things I usually carry with me.
"Then you go ahead." Jonny said, "By the way, go to see Adele, if you are not sure, you can call her over."
There was nothing I wasn't sure about. But there was something strange and unsettling about seeing him. I'm going to take a look at Adele, and if she's there, I'd better tell her not to run around tonight.
As for letting her come over is absolutely impossible, Adele has been angry with Aaron numerous times lately because of Deborah, and I think if she grows up a little more, she might be even more cranky than Aaron.
I always feel funny when I think about this day later.
On such an evening, when everything seemed calm and cozy, countless coincidences led me to the most unlikely and least expected outcome.
I didn't see Adele in her room. Maybe it's because there's really no one in this place where we live, or maybe it's because people don't bother to discipline her intentionally. Anyway, throughout the Blue Moon Pack, if you don't see her, then you should never try to find her except when she comes out and lets you find her.
This guy is like a kitten, only if she wants to let you touch it, or hug it.
The most likely thing I would do is leave a note in her room or my room. But today I don't know what happened, in pushing open the door to her room but did not see her people at the moment, my heart began to beat uncontrollably and violently.
"Something must have happened." I whispered to Misty, "I can feel it."
"Oh Ava, don't be like that." But Misty didn't take it seriously, she said in her trademark lazy and casual tone, "I'd say I'd be willing to spend all day hiding from anyone if I saw my brother hanging out with a woman like that. Not to mention she's not even fifteen yet."
"Of course I know she is not yet fifteen." I said somewhat helplessly, "But what does that have to do with me worrying about her?"
"I know you're worried about her." Misty told me to look at the sky outside the window, "But look at what time it is already, I'm sure she'll never wander off. And what you should do now is to go to Aaron's immediately and come back as soon as you've taken care of his broken problem. Maybe you'll find Adele there when you get there?"
I wanted to contradict her, but then I thought there seemed to be some truth to what she was saying.
To miss an already scheduled treatment with Aaron just to wait for Adele would mean another bit of a long journey home for me, not to mention that he and I really shouldn't be seeing each other at such an ambiguous time of day right now, for whatever reason.
"It's a good idea." I said, "And I could ask her to stay and help me if she happens to be there."
With her around Aaron wouldn't have to say anything that could easily cause a misunderstanding.
With that in mind, I turned around and walked out the door to speed up my pace towards building 1 where Aaron was, but what I didn't expect was that I was stopped before I got very far out.
The person who came seemed to know Adele well, but the face wasn't really familiar to me.
"Bertha? Is that Bertha?" What's more, he looked excited, "Don't you have anything else to do today?"
"It's me, I'm okay." I frowned, but the man's aura didn't give me any sense of danger, "What's the matter with you?"
And, surprisingly, he was looking at me in a daze.
"Ah, what?"
I had to ask again, "Is there something wrong with you?"
"Oh, yes." His cheeks suddenly turned red and he reached up and scratched the back of his head and said, "Adele asked me to tell you for her that he's waiting for you at the usual place."
The old place?
I suddenly had good reason to suspect that this was a Pabu wolf pack coming to deliver a fake message to me, and as for the reason ...... whatever it was, it must not be anything good anyway.
"Where did you run into her?" I slowly took a step backwards, ready to pounce on him at any moment and grab him by the throat to make him hand over Adele.
The people sent by the Pabu wolves were so well disguised now?
But then he said, "It's downstairs, but it looks like she just went in the direction of the crappy library building."
I know that almost everyone now knows that the place I like to stay is the library, but not many people know where Adele likes to stay, and everything that happened there at that noon in the first place is a little secret between the three of us.
There was absolutely no need to add the last sentence to arouse my suspicion if it was someone with some bad intentions.
"Thank you." I felt myself relax a little, "Where are you going now?"
"Me?" The other person once again looked surprised, as if he didn't expect me to initiate so much talking to him, "I'm going to the kitchen, well ...... you know, today my mom ...... no, Mrs. Macy will be making some donuts and turkey, and I'm going to give her a hand."
I know who he is, Mrs. Macy's son, generally stay in the kitchen to help their own mother, no wonder I look at him feel a little strange.
But it was he who had run over to me before when Mrs. Macy had fainted in the kitchen; we had met before.
"Is she okay? Does her head still spin now?" I simply stopped to ask him.
"Everything's fine." He said with a smile, "I told Adele what's coming today and she said they'll be in the kitchen a little later, will you come along?"
"I think so." I answered him dryly, "But maybe a little later."
It would be a nice evening to go to the library and find Adele so I could go with her to Aaron's for his treatment and then go to the kitchen for a donut and turkey dinner together.
"It doesn't matter." He waved his hand, "We're always going to be busy late, going to prepare tea or coffee for you, which do you prefer?"
"Coffee." I nodded, "Adele's share with extra sugar and ice."
"Okay." I notice that he looks serious when talking about this, a very sweet man, "Say hello to your mother for me."
"I will."
I had completely forgotten all about my alarm and concern, and my feet were once again briskly walking toward the library.
This was obviously the biggest mistake of all, because if I had talked to him a little more I would soon have noticed that the silence around us while we were talking was nothing like usual, plus I might have gotten the news from him that Aaron hadn't eaten dinner yet today.
But I didn't know anything, I was just happy with the evening meal I had ordered, until I walked into the library and found no one there.
Ha, can you believe it? Up until this point I had simply assumed that Adele might not have arrived yet for some other reason, so I just sat down and waited.
During that time there was someone else who also brought news of Adele, what with her being busy collecting her own fireflies and preparing to bring them to share with me.
I was so foolish as to believe it and was thrilled with the surprise she was going to give me.
I don't remember much of what happened afterwards.
All I remember is that I waited for a long, long time in a library where no one was around until I finished reading the book in my hand, and the sound of birds chirping outside the window made me notice the time.
The moon had risen and hung coldly on the branches of the trees.
For a moment fear and worry overwhelmed me, I knew Adele would not let me wait here alone for so long for any one reason, especially since she also knew that today was the day I was to treat her brother.
There was only one reason why she would leave me here, and that was that one of us must have been tricked, or that she had been in danger.
I rushed down to the library as fast as I could myself and ran towards her room, and to my further surprise, she was sitting in her room, alone, with nothing going on.
"What happened?"
She asked me.
I couldn't say anything.
"Is it so late in the day for therapy?" She asked again, "Where's Aaron?"
"I told Bob that Aaron said he'd meet you at the library and then we'd have turkey together, and you didn't come with him?"
I finally realized what was wrong.
The she that Bob was talking about turned out to be him.
"Nothing." I said in my stiffest tone, "I just came to let you know that we might be a little late again."
Turns out it wasn't Adele I should have been worried about at all.
I felt completely soaked as I rushed to the door of Aaron's room again, and I reached out to knock on the door, but just as I touched it, it was pushed open a crack.
The door was unlocked and the room was pitch black.
"Aaron?" I tentatively shouted his name and moved in slowly, "Are you there?"
"Aaron?"
Suddenly, a hand reached out from behind and covered my mouth.