Chapter 28
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” Please wake up Princess,” Howard said with a broken tone. He looked like he attempted to knock on the gates of hell but survived. His beard had grown out since he refused to shave for the past few weeks Diana had been in a coma. He refused to move from one spot, he looked like shit and felt like shit too.
He knew it was his fault that she was in that condition but he doesn’t blame himself a bit. He knew when she woke up, she would be fully his and that made him oddly satisfied. But what bothered him was the purplish color the bruise was spotting, instead of turning to a beautiful mark that would carry his initials and stay majestically on her neck, it looked like an infected bite mark. Even with all the medications the pack hospital already administered to her, the wound refused to heal and it just stood there like an ugly curse mark. The almost invisible golden rune on her neck was gone too.
” You should at least take a bath, you stink” Brittany cleared her throat as she stepped into the room quietly. She felt bad on Diana’s behalf, no werewolf wants to be marked against their wish. She has heard cases of death as a result of unwanted marking in the past and she desperately hoped that Diana’s won’t be the case.
” Fuck off” He replied to her rather rudely but she ignored him and continued with her work anyway. She had hoped that Howard would be different and at least protect Diana not put her in danger himself but he proved her wrong anyway.
” If you were going to be that way, then you should at least win her over before marking her.” She muttered in a sing-song manner while adjusting the drip.
” Fuck off!” He growled, this time around louder than ever. Brittany only chuckled at his behavior which irritated him more, his anger rolled off him in waves.
” Oh I just peed my pants,” Brittany said sarcastically with fake shudders as if she was really scared of him before dropping her tray on the small stool beside Diana, she moved close to him and whispered in his ears. ” You do not deserve her. Just wait till she remembers something about her past and then you will be nothing but the man she will hate the most”
In a flash, his hands were on her neck, he had her pinned against the wall in a chokehold. His eyes flash gold as he battles with his wolf for control.
” She won’t remember anything, she will never hate me because she loves me” He snarled but the woman only smirked once again, ignoring the threat in front of her.
” Then why is she ignoring your mark?” She asked him the same thing Leonard had asked him and that drove him to the edge, marking Diana had changed everything in him, He had become more sensitive when it comes to her.
” I will kill you if you don’t shut your …” He threatened but was cut off by the sound of the monitor going crazy. He released Brittany who pushed him out of the way to check what was wrong with Diana.
” Oh my God” She gasped.
Diana’s eyes were opened, she was wide awake trying to figure out her surroundings. She almost laughed at her situation, it’s not even a year yet and she was back at the pack hospital again.
” Are you okay Diana? Can you hear me?” Brittany asked immediately and was rewarded with an immediate grin from Diana. “Nod if you can,” She said and Diana happily obliged. She sighed in relief as she quickly ran some other test on her ignoring the overbearing presence of the Beta in the room. Since Diana was not fully fledged yet, she had yet to sense or notice him and he wasn’t sure about moving closer to her.
” Oh thank the moon goddess you are fine. Does your neck hurt?” Brittany asked and Diana nodded once more, it didn’t hurt that much she could feel a sting come from the mark area. Brittany moved away from her a little bit and that was when Howard came into her view. Her expression changed almost immediately into anger.
” Get him out of here” She cried as she repeated the words faster, her consciousness slipping away from her within seconds, Brittany had to shift halfway to hold her down and stabilize her.
She lost consciousness and woke up the next day and the first person she saw was him once again. He refused to leave even with Brittany’s threat and all, none of the male doctors had enough balls to get close to him so he remained there waiting for her to wake up again.
” Please get him out of here” She begged Brittany who was shocked out of her mind at the sudden reaction, the heart monitor beeped crazily again as Diana’s heartbeat went into a frenzy. Brittany cursed under her breath before shouting at Howard to leave.
” You can’t tell me to leave. She is my mate!” He barked at Brittany who was trying to stabilize Diana. He was hurt seeing the expression on Diana’s face, she looked at him like he was what she hated most in her life and it broke his heart. He thought she would wake up feeling the mate bond and bond with him but she was still resisting his mark with everything possible.
” Princess please” Ignoring Brittany’s order, he moved close to him with a broken expression on his face but she only turned to the other side with tears spilling from her eyes. She wasn’t acting up, the image of his wolf marking her against her will was too much for her to handle, she only wanted to invite Darryl in and soak in some of the comforting aura.
” Brittany please get my brother, I don’t want to see this man” Diana cried more trying to move her body to a fetal position but the tubes connected to her body restricted her.
” The Alpha is on his way already” Brittany informed her while rubbing her back soothingly still preventing Howard from going closer to her. She knew she wasn’t enough to keep him away, the only thing preventing him from throwing Brittany across the room was his guilty conscience.
He knelt in front of Diana and pleaded. ” Baby, please. I know I did wrong. It was wrong of me to mark you against your wish and I am Sorry. Please princess look at me”
” Please get him out of here. Please get him out..” Diana sobs.
The door of the room flew open and Alpha Leonard and his gamma entered the room. He looked happy and a relieved smile was plastered on his face but anyone with a working vision would know it was all fake.
” Thank the moon goddess, I thought I would lose you” He cried pushing Howard from his way and sitting on the chair stood up from.
” What is he doing here?” Diana asked pointing at Howard to Leonard’s surprise. He had the same theory as Howard that would wake up feeling the mate bond but he was surprised to see her glaring at Howard with a reasonable amount of venom in her eyes.
” Well, he is your mate..” Leonard cleared his throat to regain himself.
” I want him out of here right now! Get him out of here please” Diana cried to her brother, she influenced the expression with a lot of acting to look and sound convincing to Leonard. He couldn’t bear the heartbroken and her tears but he only sighed in response.
” Peaches, he was here with you throughout praying to the moon goddess that you will wake up. Don’t you think that this is too harsh on him?”
” Harsh?” Diana responded with a bitter smile staring at her brother eyeball to eyeball.
” What about what he did to me? He put me in the condition in the first place and you said I’m harsh? Why should I care about his prayer to the moon goddess when he was the poison in the first place? I can’t believe you will defend a man who hurts your only sister and call her defensive reactions harsh. You should punish him” She spat bitterly at both of them. The Gamma shifted uncomfortably before asking for permission to step out. Howard felt a hot searing pain in his chest at her words. He felt like someone burned him with silver and wolfsbane at the same time, at her words.
” Peaches I can’t punish my Beta. you will have to forgive your mate. I know he did wrong but you can’t blame his wolf’s urge to mark his mate” Leonard breathed out gritting his teeth together. He hated apologizing to people and the only wolf he had ever had to apologize to was her not even the Alpha king. The last time he saw such a mad look on his sister’s face was when she woke up from a coma for the first time. The first time was on the plain when she was ready to tear him apart for the sake of her mate.
” Everyone should leave” She sighed.
” Peaches, I understand how you feel but Howard remains your mate. You will have to forgive him” He said with enough threat laced in his words.
” What if I don’t?” she grinned.