Chapter 15: Playing dumb
Pov Helena
I hear faint noises and familiar voices. I feel the throbbing pain on the back of my head and I try to open my eyes.
"I think she's awake." Luke's voice sounds worried and I finally can see what's going on. I'm laying in an unfamiliar room, many people hanging around me. I frown trying to remember what happened.
I look over to the right and see Eros sitting on a chair next to the bed I'm laying in, a frown edged on his face. "Do you remember anything from last night?" Eros voice is so soft that I barely hear him with the drumming in my ears.
Just as I'm about to speak up all the memories from last night flood back. The shouting, Brian that was raging, he attacking me, half in wolf form, and me blacking out after being hit with my head against the wall.
"No." I say with a sigh, playing the dumb card. "I remember walking down the stairs hearing voices and after that it's all blank." Eros nods and I see relief pass over his face.
"What happened?" I asked him and I was actually curious what he would say to me. He rubs his hand trough his hair making it stand in all directions.
"One of the guys living here was drunk last night and he has a pretty rough time behind him and you must've wanted to talk to me or something because suddenly you were in the living room. And he wanted to walk away but he had run into you and you stumbled, and before anyone could do anything you had fallen with the back of your head on the edge of the table behind you. You lost conscious but the doctor says it's gonna be okay. It was a small gap but he managed to stop the bleeding so you're okay."
I nod looking at Luke and he gives me a strange look. I touch the back of my head feeling a small bandage wrapped around the wound. I sigh and look back at Eros. "Thank you."
He softly smiles.
I look down at my hands and know one thing. I need to start my plan as soon as possible. I've been stalling to to long. As I look around, all I see are worried faces, so I know they care about me enough to trust me.
I look back at Luke and he must know what I'm thinking cause his face is emotionless. "I'll take her back home." Luke says and looks at Eros.
"Be careful, doc said that she could have an concussion." I see Luke nod.
"I will. I'm glad she's alright."
I then look to the left and see Elisa with an guilty expression on her face. She notices my stare and she gives me a small smile. She stands up and comes standing beside me.
"That wasn't my idea of a great first girlsnight. It's my fault, I should have stayed awake and it wouldn't have happened." She says sad and looks worried at my head. I grab her hand and squeeze it.
"It's no one's fault. I'm just a magnet for bad things." I murmur giving her a soft smile. She squeezes my hand back.
"We'll leave you now so you can dress." She says and lets go of hand. All the people in the room start to walk away, almost everyone saying a 'get well soon' or a 'sorry'.
Eros and Luke are the last going out of the room and I see my bag in the corner of the room. I pull myself out of bed, groaning as my head spins. I grab the bag and pull the leggings and the sweater out, not bothering to put a bra on.
I switch panties and pull the legging on, almost falling in the proces. I pull the sweater over my head and sit on the bed, bending to put my sneakers on.
"Oh my head..." I mutter and rub softly over my forehead. After lacing my shoes I grab my bag and stuff my pyjamas and other things in it and then zipping it up.
I make my way through the house. Easily finding the way. When I come down the stairs I see Luke waiting there for me with his bag in hand.
I walk towards him giving him a hug. He hugs me back tightly.
"I'm apologising for what happened." I look over to Eros who stands there with a look of shame on his face. "Brian should have calmed down instead of storming off and hurting you in the proces. I know it doesn't make up for it, but it has been a rough time lately with that maniac on the lose, we've lost friends, family, loved ones, so we're all pretty on edge, with each one of us another way of dealing with it."
I give Luke a look and he gets the hint walking towards the door. "I'll see you in the car." He says before stepping through the door.
I turn back to Eros giving him a soft smile. "I understand but no one has fault in this, it wasn't his intention to hurt me, I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Suddenly Eros steps closer to me, making my heart pick up the pace. "Oh Love, you are such a wonderful person..." He breathes, coming closer and closer. I feel my breathing getting ragged. As he comes closer I feel my lips part slightly. His eyes dart towards the movement and his eyes grow darker. He leans in so close that I can feel his breathing on my face.
My mind goes blank and the only thing I can think of is that I wanted to lean in and just the moment I do a voice calls making me take a step back, looking like a deer in headlights.
"Eros, Brian wants to speak to you." Erik walks into the room looking at me with a slightly irritated look in his brown eyes. Eros backs away from me looking at his beta with an annoyed glance in his direction. I took this as my cue to leave.
"I'm gonna go." I mutter before giving them both a small smile and I quickly walk outside, releasing a breath of air that I didn't even notice that I was holding.
I walk to Luke's car, I get in and throw my bag on the backseat. Without a word he starts the engine and drives back to our cottage. Halfway there he suddenly stops the car, turning in his seat to look at me.
"What the hell happened there?" He asks going straight to the point. I huff and look down before I look up again into his eyes.
"I heard noises last night, Elisa was sleeping, so I thought it would be a good idea to go take a look but instead that mutt stormed out of the living room, half turned, and attacked me, who was standing in the hall. So not such a good idea after all." Luke looks me over.
"There is something else. You are planning something, I see it at your face."
I sigh at how good he knows me.
"I'm gonna set the plan in action. We've been here for more than a month, I only had a handful of kills, while in other country's I would wipe a pack in the time of two weeks. We've hanged around here for to long and I've grown closer to those mutts than I had planned, when they talk about their dead friends I even feel sad." I look away feeling disappointed at myself and at the way I've done things, but on the other hand I feel disappointed that I haven't killed off this pack.
"You like to think you're a bad person, but in reality you have a good heart, just with a bad past that makes you do things that you would never do in other situations. And SSL took advantage of this, using your past to kill for them." I whip my head up, knowing in the back of my mind he is right, but I can't believe that Lucien would just use me to kill off werewolves for them. He took care of me, and he treated me special, I was trained under his supervision while others were trained by professional hunters. He always looked after me, more then he looked at the others so I don't believe that he would do this. So I shove Luke's words and my feelings to the back of my mind.
"I'm gonna kill this pack off. For my parents, it's not because you don't trust SSL that I don't. They care about me. Hunting all those monsters down and killing them is my destiny. It's what I owe my parents after what those things have done to them. This is my life and I don't give a fuck about any of those mutts." Luke looks disappointed but doesn't argue with me.
"If that's what you want and think is right than you have to do what you think is best." He sounds defeated, giving up hope to make me change my mind. "When are you gonna start this plan?" He asks as he starts driving again.
I grin and look through the window. "Tonight."
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