Mate by Fate, Bound by Love

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Claire’s POV

“My lord! I found Lady Claire!”

ADRIAN’S Beta said shouting from the entrance of the Palace.

I could hear more footsteps approaching where he stood carrying me.

“What the hell happened to her?!” Adrian’s voice came in

I was thrilled by the way his voice sounded so angry, confused and sincere. I could hear how worried he was in his voice. I wanted to smile but I couldn’t risk blowing my plans.

I maintained composure in the beta’s arms.

“Call the best doctors in the whole pack!, let them attend to her; somebody gets me some vitamin supplements to aid in her healing process; she’s taking time to heal,” Adrian said in a very loud and concerned tone.

I sensed him coming closer…., oh, that scent, I could tell from anywhere. He placed his hands on my head, patting it gently and said

“You will be fine my dear”

“Go, drop her in my chambers she receives treatment there, I will be the one to personally oversee her recovery and guard her until she’s well enough to speak and tell us what happened to her!”

“Get the physicians to attend to her In my inner chambers right now” He shouted.

They began to take me inside his chambers, just before I was placed down, I heard something that made me almost scream out loud in anger

“You, You, You, make sure to find Lena; she couldn’t have gotten far; she’s heavily pregnant and injured, so she can’t have gone so far from these surroundings,” Adrian said

‘What!? Lena got out!!?’ I screamed in my head.

I began to wonder if this trick I decided to play was a good idea; if I had not left this place, she wouldn’t have been able to get out. I wouldn’t have let that happen.

I began to ponder on what happened and how she got out. I wanted to just stand up and start asking questions, probably join the search for her but I am in no position to do that.

The way I cut myself was making me feel so weak. I was already dozing off to sleep, but I couldn’t sleep; I needed to know what was going on.

“We’ve searched everywhere, my lord. We couldn’t find her”, one of the guards said.

“Use one of our sniffers!” Adrian said.

‘Sniffers’ are werewolves whose ability is majorly for hunting. They make a complete transformation to be able to have a good sniff if they are finding it hard to sniff out a person with their normal human body.

We have a full family of just sniffers in our pack.

They are not good in combat, even if they learn, just basic defences, but never for war, they are only used to find things.

All they need is something to register the smell in their senses.

“I felt Adrian walk into the chamber, and pick something, I guessed it was Lena’s cloth so the sniffer could sniff”

I heard more footsteps, probably the family of sniffers.

“Who among you has the best sniffing ability” Adrian asked

I heard a footstep come forward. I wanted to open my eyes to see who it was, but from the position I lay, I couldn’t see well and couldn’t risk turning to get a better view.

“Take this and find these scents, and don’t come back until she’s found; you can pick two other better sniffers among you to work with; you will be accompanied by my Beta and two other guards”, Adrian said in a stern voice.

“Deep down, I hoped something might have happened to her, maybe a wild boar ate her or a ravenous wolf or a rogue werewolf devoured her. That’s going to be much easier than having to find a black witch.”

I heard the sound of footsteps leaving the Palace until I could hear them no more.

“Hey Milady I promise to find who did this to you and I will make sure the person suffers badly that he or she would wish that they never existed”

I was glad to hear about this from him. But right now my mind was fixated on Lena

The physicians came and gave me some pain relief injections, not like the injections for humans, definitely not; they won’t even pass through the skin of a werewolf.

The pain relief was an instant one that made the person in pain feel relieved after a short while so they could be able to tell the people what happened, after which they will be given an injection to make them rest for a long while to recuperate well.

“Claire, can you hear me?” Adrian’s voice came in

I pretended like I didn’t hear him; I wanted him to feel more anger and make him think I was beaten so badly that even the injection could not make me wake up immediately.

“What’s happening to her?” He asked The physician

“I don’t know sir, she’s supposed to be awake by now, maybe the dose isn’t enough probably she was beaten too much, and that’s why she’s not responding immediately,” he said

“Can you give her another dose?” Adrian asked

“Giving her another dose isn’t going to be healthy for her right now, it’s going to become an overdose.”

The best thing for us to do is to make her heal slowly; don’t worry, the pain relief drugs will help her heal faster.

“Claire! Claire!! Claire!!!” The voice came in.

I recognised the voice, it was my father. Adrian asked him to come into the chambers; he came in, and I could hear his voice; he sounded broken, like someone who was pained.

If I hadn’t told him about my plans earlier I would have thought his pain was genuine. He sounded very convincing.

He came closer to me; I could feel his breath on my face; he held my hands, saying to me,Ccontent © exclusive by Nô/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.

“get well soon, my child” I was really glad i had the support of my father.

The trio just sat down close to me all waiting for me to wake up. I could notice my injuries were closing up little by little; by now, they would all be expecting me to wake up.

I finally opened my eyes, only for my eyes to be locked in with Adrian’s eyes.

He was probably staring at me all along.