ANASTASIA
“I had to let him go for your sake, Anna. Your safety was more important, and I didn’t want to risk your life any further with those dogs moving around.” He sighed, breathing down on my neck.
Hearing my Alpha speak about his worries made me upset with myself even more.
If I had stayed back, Diego wouldn’t be in this mood. My presence in his life has increased his workload.
My problem is just adding to his troubles.
Goddess… I feel like a burden.
“I’m not angry with you. I’m not,” He repeated, squeezing me tight.
I felt my heart melting in his hold. It made me wish I could do something to calm his problems once and for all.
If only there’s a… “ARGH!” I groaned, feeling my wolf reacting to Diego’s touch!
“Anna?” Diego called when he heard my voice.
He was about to let go and have a look at me, but my wolf reacted speedily and forced me to grab Diego close, with my hands running all over his body arousingly!
“Don’t let go, Diego. Hold me tight,” I moaned, feeling my wolf fighting to take control, with my whole body tingling hungrily.
“Anna, what’s going on?” Diego questioned, pulling my hands off his body to look at me.
But before he could even drop his eyes on me, I found myself falling on my knees and reaching for his cock.
Like a beast, I had Diego’s dick in my mouth, sucking down on my Alpha’s rod.
“Anna!” Diego called out loudly, reaching for my head to stop me. But his body went weak at the way my tongue ran around his dick, refusing to listen to his order.
He groaned when I pushed closer, almost taking all his dick into my mouth.
“This is bad! Anna, stop!!” I yelled at myself from within, struggling to pull away from Diego, but it was hard!
When I tried to resist, my wolf overpowered me. I saw myself going weak while my wolf grew stronger, slowly taking over my body when suddenly… “ANNA!” Diego yelled, successfully drawing his cock out of my mouth before my hands would grab his waist back!
“NO! GIVE IT TO ME!!” I screamed out crazily, crawling towards my Alpha Lord!
Diego didn’t need anyone to point out that something was wrong with me. He immediately acted fast and had my hands tied to the back with a towel, real tight!
“ALPHA, PLEASE! JUST THE TIP, I PROMISE!” I begged, struggling to break lose.
“DIEGOOOO!!” I roared, but it wasn’t me. It was my wolf!
It gave out a loud deep cry, forcing me to drop my eyes on Diego in anger, breathing out heavily.
And when I saw how my Alpha stared at me in shock, I… I felt like a monster.
My heart broke at his gaze. He can’t recognize his Anna anymore.
“ARGH!!” I yelled out, struggling to resist the temptation taking over my wolf and I. But my wolf was finding it hard to listen to me.
It wants to be touched badly!
“Anna, what are you… STOP!” Diego yelled, rushing close to stop me from resisting.
That’s because my body was slowly transforming. My wolf can’t take it anymore!
But I can’t allow it. I know I can hold her down!
With one more force, I succeeded in making my wolf submit. But it affected me too.
“ANNA!”
I fell flat to the ground, with my whole body shivering. Diego’s voice echoed in my head, as I slowly passed out on the tiled floor.
.
“I NEED ANSWERS NOW!”
“Alpha, please calm down.”
“DON’T TELL ME THAT, ARNOLD! THIS MAN HAS SOME EXPLAINING TO DO, OTHERWISE…”
“ALPHA!!”
I heard lots of yelling ringing around me. It sounded really tensed.
Due to the troubling roars, I carefully opened my eyes and found myself in that same room where that Lady was once kept.
“This is Jeremy’s lab,” I dentified, getting a troubling feeling running through my skin.
“How did I end up here?” I asked myself, carefully sitting up, only to feel an ache in the head that forced me down again.
As I laid my head back on the pillow and tried to recollect the last thing that happened… “GODDESS!” I exclaimed, remembering that my infection kicked in right in front of Diego before I passed out!
Is he the one that…
CRASH! I sat up immediately and was stunned to find Diego through the window, lifting Jeremy into the air!
Arnold was behind the Alpha, trying to rescue Jeremy from Diego’s wrath!
Oh Goddess! What’s happening?! Has he learnt the truth?!
Jeremy… Oh no!
“Alpha, please let him go! You won’t get anything by handling him like that!” Arnold begged, but Diego wouldn’t listen.
Jeremy’s skin was turning blue. The poor man was struggling to breath!
Terrified, I screamed out, “STOP!” Gaining Diego’s attention.
When my Alpha turned to look into the room, I met his wolf eyes glowing intensely. My Alpha Lord is mad!
“Anna?” He called, releasing Jeremy out of his hold, with the doctor falling hard to the ground.
Arnold went to help Jeremy while Diego ran from their point, heading for the door leading to the room where I was in.
And when he made that move, I took a look at both men outside the room. They didn’t look happy one bit.
In fact, their face expression said a lot.
Suddenly, the door came wide open. I turned and saw Diego walking up to me with loud thuds. He looked so frustrated when he dived into the room. It felt frightening.
“Alpha, I…” Before I could speak, Diego pulled me into his arms for an embrace. He held me tight and said, expressing his fear, “You’re finally awake. Thank the heavens you’re okay.”
My body went weak at his words. I could feel guilt eating me from within.
When I looked behind Diego, I saw both Arnold and Jeremy standing at the door, staring at me.
Jeremy was nursing his neck while giving me a sign with his eyes to act fast. He wasn’t the only one doing it. Arnold was also signaling me with his eyes to speak to Diego.
That made me afraid.
How will he react? It might even be worst than what he did to Jeremy.
What should I do?
“How do you feel?” Diego asked, checking my body.
I had no words to say to him. Even to pronounce or stammer a single word felt so hard.
As he was doing this… “Alpha,” Jeremy called, stepping fully into the room with Arnold.
All of a sudden, Diego sparked out at Jeremy, ” You better not push me, Jeremy! You have failed me!!”
“Alpha, calm down and listen! I haven’t failed you at all. You need to hear me out!”
“What do you want to tell me now?! How you failed to play your role with Anna?!” He groaned, letting go of me to face Jeremy.
This is not good.
“You have been sending in updates of Anna’s check up, saying she’s doing fine, this and that. But if she’s doing okay like you said, why did she act that way?!” He slammed, almost grabbing Jeremy’s coat.
Quickly, Arnold stepped in between Diego and Jeremy, saving the doctor from the Alpha’s rage.
“Calm down, Alpha! Jeremy wasn’t lying when he said Anna was doing fine. He has been keeping to his words!”
“Stop covering up for him, Arnold! This man has disappointed me! How could you lie to me?!” Diego roared, almost tossing Arnold out of his way.
Seeing how far this problem was going… “HE’S TELLING YOU THE TRUTH!” I yelled, intervening quickly.
Diego heard my voice. He turned around to face me and said, pointing at Jeremy, ” Don’t even think about it, Anna. This is your life we’re talking about and you’re protecting him?”
“Yes, I am. That’s…” I bit down on my lower lip, summoning my courage to speak up. “That’s because Jeremy is being honest with you. He hasn’t failed you, Diego. He has been doing his work. The one who has the answer to your question is me,” I revealed, shivering all around.
“Jeremy and Arnold are just helping me because I begged them to keep you in the dark until it’s time.”
“What… What are you talking about?” Diego asked, looking confused.
He glanced at the guys before facing me again. Now his countenance had changed. Diego looked lost.
“You can go. This is between us, ” I said to Arnold and Jeremy, giving them the permission to leave.
Diego didn’t utter a word but watched his Beta and Lab doctor exit the room, leaving us alone.
Once the door came shut, Diego asked, walking up to me, ” Anna… What is going on?”
“Please, promise me you won’t yell?” I pleaded, feeling my heart racing fast. I don’t want him to consume me with his rage after telling him the truth.
But that request only added to Diego’s anger. He drew closer to me and sparked out, “Speak up, Anna. What are you hiding from me?!”
I shivered, drawing my steps away from him.
When he saw my fear, he immediately calmed his temper and pleaded with me to tell him what the problem was.
“You said you have the answer to my question. So tell me… What happened to you back there? If you’ve been attending your check ups, why did your body react that way?” He asked, getting worried.
The pain in Diego’s eyes bruised my heart deeply. I held the helm of my shirt and said, lowering my head, “Diego… Something happened to me when I was kidnapped by Woods one month ago.”
Just his enemy’s name made Diego restless. I lifted my head and noticed how his hands vibrated, waiting to hear all I had to say.
Controlling my fear, I shared the hurtful truth to Diego, getting teary from it. “Woods had injected me with a bottle of the drug that day.”
“What?!” He exclaimed, with his eyes popping out at my words.
I told him how I’ve been nurturing the problem since then, getting Arnold and Jeremy to stay shut, even though they begged me to reveal the truth to him.
“It’s not their fault nor did Jeremy fail you. He has been giving me all the necessary items I need to subdue the urges. Both of them have been working so hard to save me from rushing fast into the final stage. I was playing my path too by trying to stay away from you whenever it kicks in.”
“For one month?” He uttered, gazing at me in astonishment.
I lifted my eyes and saw pains written in my Alpha’s eyes.
“You kept this away from me for one month? WHY?!” He raised his voice, causing me to tremble, with my feet drawing back from him.
“You had such a serious problem and didn’t tell me that Woods injected you with the drug?! Why didn’t you tell me, Anna?!”
He angrily walked up to me, forcing me to drift away fearfully.
“You gave me no choice! You wouldn’t even allow me to speak to you. You kept pushing me away from you!” I said, meeting the wall with my back.
I wanted to move away, but I froze in my spot when Diego’s hand came slamming on the wall by my side, trapping me before the Alpha.
He glared into my eyes and roared, grabbing my arm roughly, “If you had made mention of it or given Arnold the go ahead to tell me, I would have done something!”
“Really? You would have done something if Arnold had told you?! No, Diego…” I pulled my arm out of his hold, flashing to his harsh behavior towards me. “You would have taken it as Anna looking for your attention and done nothing about it!”
His eyes widened at my word.
He knows what I’m talking about.
“Arnold has been trying to give you a sign even when I didn’t want him to. He has been trying to give you a hint but you didn’t care. You interpreted his language as Anastasia being stubborn and ungrateful. You made it hard for anyone to communicate with you without getting yelled at or attacked. That’s why I kept this away from you!”
My words left Diego silent. He drew back a bit while I kept on talking, reminding him of all the things that held me from bringing the matter to him.
“Just the sight of me made you mad. It’s either you yell at me to head to my room or you bruise my heart before kicking me out like I mean nothing to you. Tell me… How was a broken woman supposed to share her problem with the man she loves when he wouldn’t even give her his attention or even believe a thing his Beta says about her? How Diego?”
His temper came mellowing. My Alpha was lost in his thoughts.
“I had no choice. I saw how much you changed and that fear of getting attacked pushed me to stay shut. I had to protect my heart at all cost,” I added, holding to my shirt sadly.
I had my head lowering when I saw Diego’s hurtful eyes on me. He must be feeling guilty.
But I don’t want him to feel that way. It will only affect me even more.
“Maybe if I had told you, something else aside from your rage would have taken place. But I couldn’t take that risk especially with your mission to hunt down Woods. I didn’t know how you’d react when you discover the terrible thing he did to me. I was afraid.”
“Even if you had told me then, I would have still done something to stop you from reaching this stage,” Diego said in his calm yet hurting tone.
I looked and found him staring down at his hand bitterly. This news has disrupted his peace once again.
It’s always my case.
“My mission against Woods wasn’t for myself but for us. I was struggling to get those drugs to save your life and… And end those Wolves for good. I didn’t know my action was causing a lot of damage from within. I made you lose faith in me.”
“Diego, no…” I extended my hand to touch him, but he turned his back at me, distancing himself with a few steps.
When I saw this, I was shattered.
“It’s a good thing you told Arnold and Jeremy. At least they were around to keep you safe,” He said, sounding emotionally down.
My body quivered. I felt guilty for pointing all that to him.
I wanted to hold my Alpha Lord from behind and let him know that he’s not at fault, but Diego drew away and said, “You’ll start staying here at the lab with Jeremy. It’s important for him to monitor you just in case the drug reacts again.”
“What?” I uttered, feeling uncomfortable with this plan.
Diego revealed his plan to get more of the substances from the enemies, especially from Cassandra, my step sister.
It would turn out that the drug Arnold told me he brought back then for test was gotten from Casey.
That slut of a sister had fallen for Diego’s trick and brought in a bottle. But it wasn’t enough.
“Jeremy will need more than those five bottles we brought in. He needs a lot to run his test before getting to the right one. Till then…” He turned around to my direction, walking up to me.
With a careful cup to my face, he said, caressing me, “Stay strong. I’ll try to gather as many as I can and save you. I’ll… Fix this.”
“Diego,” I called, feeling my eyes tearing up.
That’s when my Alpha Lord pulled his face closer to mine and gave me a deep kiss on the lips.
It felt like a kiss of sorrow. Our hearts can’t fully bond due to the pain we’re feeling.
Drawing his lips, Diego said his goodbye and left me behind.
I stood in my spot, watching my Alpha leave.
To move became… Goddess! I couldn’t even go after him.
I fell on my knees and broke into tears, blaming myself for being a burden to the Alpha.
He’s doing all this for me and I can’t do a single thing. I feel so useless!
“Anna,” I heard Jeremy call out to me.
When I lifted my head, I found him kneeling before me. He stared into my eyes with sadness, carefully running his hand across my cheek to wipe the tears off my face.
“Please, pull yourself together for him. Everything will be fine,” He said, showing his support.
Pained, I held Jeremy close, trying to ease my tears.
I don’t like how this is going. I can’t bear this heartache between Diego and I.
I want to end this, Goddess.
Please, help me!