I hear a growl again and I feel it go through me. The growl is coming from the man holding me. But it doesn’t scare me. I know its not directed at me, and again I want to comfort him.
“Oh stop that, I’m here to take care of her. Take her to the infirmary.” A female voice says.
He growls again but walks on. The urge to comfort him is compelling me; again I concentrate on just him and try to speak. I put every bit of energy into it. If I can just get him to stop growling maybe he will hear me.
“Shh...” He stops walking and his hold on me tightens.
“Alexia?” The man says my name and I melt in his arms.
“What’s wrong Logan?” the female asks. That name again. I know that name.
“Alexia, did you say something baby?” I’m overjoyed, he heard me. I must have spoke, even though I didn’t even feel my lips move. I want to answer his earlier question so again I concentrate on him and try to talk, to tell him why I was driving.
“Ice cream...”
Then everything goes black.
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People talking bring me out of my dreamless sleep. One voice I know, one I don’t. I can feel that I’m laying on a soft bed with blankets draped over me. I don’t know what they wash them in, but the smell is divine. I never want to leave.
“Well that’s a great idea but what exactly do I tell her?” I remember the voice as belonging to the person who carried me from my car. The voice is just as soothing to me now as it has always been. I remember what happened, although some things are uncertain in my head, like the wolves, the growling and the naked man.
The naked Logan.
“How about you try the truth? Something you should have done in the beginning maybe?” the other person replies curtly.
“Its not as easy as that and you know it” Logan says. I can tell he is getting worked up. I also feel a little rude eavesdropping on their conversation, but I’m not sure how to get their attention to let them know I’m awake. A cough should do the job.
It does.
“Alexia, you’re awake. How are you feeling?” Logan says rushing over to my bedside. I try to sit up and when he notices instead of helping me he gently pushes me back down shaking his head.
“No you have to stay there and rest. Do you know what happened? Do you remember? Does anything hurt?” he fires questions at me while softly holding my shoulders down.
“You may want to let her answer the first question Logan before asking her more man.” The other person says. I look over to him and nod. I tap Logan’s hand on my shoulder to bring his attention back to me instead of glaring at the other guy. He did have a point though.
“I’m fine Logan. Let me sit up.” He looks to me, concern written all over his face but still shakes his head.
“No. Doc’s orders. You gotta rest.” Is his only answer, well if he wont help me maybe the other one will.
“Can you move him and help me sit up please?” I ask politely to the guy. He nods his head and takes no more than two steps forward when a loud growl stops him, and he holds his hands up. I realise the growling is coming from Logan and I press myself into the bed more to get away from him. I’ve never heard such an animalistic sound come from him.
“You’re scaring her Logan. Look at her.” The stranger says making the growling stop instantly and Logan looks at me, regret already filling his eyes.
“Damn, Alexia, don’t be scared. I wont hurt you. Here I’ll help you up.” He places his arm around me to help me sit up and I involuntary flinch away from him. I hear him sigh and mutter a curse word under his breath. Once I’m up he takes a step back.
“Dom can you get Doc? Tell her Alexia is awake.” Dom must be the stranger. He leaves the room instantly and quietly shuts the door behind him.
“Are you scared of me Alexia?” Logan asks, so quiet that if it there wasn’t already silence in the room, I wouldn’t have heard him.
Am I scared of him? Normally I would have said no, but I know that he was the person growling just now and I’m not entirely sure how it’s even possible to make that noise. It wasn’t only the sound though. There was a sort of power that came with it. That’s what I’m afraid of. Not him.
“Should I be?” I ask him, he scoffs and runs his hands through his hair. Then looks directly at me, taking a step toward me.
“Maybe you should” Well that wasn’t what I was expecting.
“What does that mean? Am I not safe here?” he closes the gap between him and the bed and sits in the chair that’s been pulled up close to the bed.
“You’ll always be safe with me Alexia. I would never hurt you. But that’s doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t be
