They stood embraced for minutes, just looking in each other's eyes, without being able to utter a single word. It was like time stopped for them.
And right then the door opened making them startle and both of them made a step back.
“What’s going on here?” Mark Thompson, Sarah's brother asked looking at their troubled looks, but he turns his gaze from them and signals to a doctor to come into Sarah's room.
“Is she disturbing you?” Mark asked Patrick, throwing an ugly look to Sarah.
“No, we were just talking and I saw her sad. That's all, she didn’t do anything inappropriate.” and he looks at Sarah and gives her a soft and polite smile, totally different from that he gave her when they were alone.
“I talked with my father” Mark said “ And he agreed to..” but hearing him Patrick stops him without a second thought and just signals him to keep his mouth closed.
“You will tell me about this when we will be in the conference room with the other, now is not the place and the time to talk about it” and Mark just looks at him not knowing what to say.
“Now she is about your sister. She is not feeling well, I don’t want to hold her off with things that we can discuss another time.” Patrick continues trying to make Mark understand not to insist on the subject.
Just before he came to see Sarah, he asked Mark to go and talk with his father about an alliance marriage between him and Sarah’s older sister, but hearing Mark now, he stopped him without hesitation.
“What are you doing?” Bart asked him, because as a wolf what Patrick does confused him.
“I don’t know. It's simply the wrong moment to talk about” he tells Bart and puts him back in his mind.
Patrick looked at Mark and at the doctor who came with and this time is Sarah's time to panic.
Mark rarely comes into her room and when he does it he is not even looking at her. Every time he comes to tell her that is the time to donate blood, or that she is asked to do something. He is like a guardian for her, always giving her only glances, never a full look.s
The poor girl is convinced that he hates her because he is acting completely impersonal every time she is around.
“I needed to speak with her,” Mark said, stealing a glance and watching her with the corners of his eye.
His mind is tormented every time she is around and he knows that this is not good at all. She is his sister. This is a taboo subject, and his father will break his neck if he finds out what was going on in his mind.
So all he does is to glance at her when nobody is around, because the truth is that he likes to have Sarah in the setting.
“Then speak!” Patrick said signaling him to start but right then Sarah stopped him.
“Why don’t you go to the conference room?” she asks Patrick.
“The doctor will give me a physical examination, “ she said, blushing a little.
Every time time Mark comes with the doctor is to inform her that it is time for another blood donation. So as long as he came here with the doctor he did it for that reason and she is completely panicked.
She hid all this blood exchange from everyone and she just lost her mother after she found out about it, so she wants to keep it secret.
“Than I will let you have this physical examination” Patrick asked and looking at Mark and the doctor he just nodded.
“They came daily to verify if I am feeling well” Sarah lied. “After I would like to rest a little, I am more and more tired” she whispered. “Can you please , leave alone with the doctor?”
“Of course, princess,” Patrick said, smiling again at her. “Take care of you!” and he just left her with the doctor , while he signaled Mark to follow him.
“So ? Are you ready?” The doctor asked her as soon as they were left alone.
“Can I ever be ready for this?” Sarah said looking at his hands that are placing a garrote around her arm.
“This is going to hurt a little” the doctor said as he inserted the syringe needle in her vein and started to take her blood but Sarah found his comment hilarious. She is doing this for months , she already knows that hurts. What’s the purpose of his tactful act?
“I’ve got some news” the doctor said while he was watching over the transfusion. “And are some good news”
“What could be good, doctor?” Sarah said, closing her eyes, while Gal, her wolf, feels more and more weak and sighs in her mind.
“In two days all of this will end, Sarah, '' the doctor suddenly said without looking at her.
“You won’t need my blood anymore?” she asks, looking at him and for the first time feeling that she really received good news.
“Yes, just as I told you. In two days all of this will end for good.” And this time the doctor looked at her smiling deviously, took the bag with blood and put a patch on her arm to stop the bleeding.
“But there will be different, what we will do this time.” and he turned his back to her and continued.
“We will take the blood like usual, a little bit more than usual more precisely, but before doing this you will take some medicine.”
“I didn’t take medicine until now?” Sarah said, looking at him. “Why is it suddenly needed now?”
“It’s something new, Sarah. We’ve been working on this for a long time trying to find a way to stop those blood donations and we finally found this medicine, so you need to take it” the doctor said and he turned his face to her.
“Do it and that will be your last blood donation.”
“And is safe?” Sarah asked, feeling a little bit uneasy by this sudden change of plan.
“Is completely safe!” the doctor said and smiled at her. “Trust me!” he said but he laugh inside his mind saying it and he helped her sit in her bed because she is really weak after giving her blood again.
“Did you hear him, Gal?’ she asked her wolf closing her eyes. “We will be relieved soon. All this will end!”
“I can’t wait for it!” Gal said with a very weak voice, but just the thought of all of this ending made her feel better.
“Where the fuck is he?” Pete Thompson , the alpha of the Blood Moon Pack and Sarah’s father, asked looking at his watch. “He is doing this on purpose, I'm sure !”“Calm down , father,” Mark said, seeing him so agitated and thinking that he's going to explode a blood vein soon. “He said that he will come. Let him be! If he is a fucking royal ass it doesn’t mean that I should stay straight waiting for him.”“Are you sick on your head, Mark?” Pete Thompson asked him a little bit furious. “This is a big chance for us. Your sister will be the next queen and we will become even more powerful than anything you've ever seen. So don’t tell me to calm down.” and he would want to say a lot of things to Mark, to put his minds back in his head, but right then the door opens and Patrick comes in.“Your Royal Highness, I am glad that you made it!” and he bows a little, shocking Mark.“What fuck?” he said in his mind looking at his father acting.“I had some business but I here now” Patrick said look
Two days later in the morning Sarah just stood alone in her room. She was thinking about everything the doctor said to her. Today she will be finally free and she is happy to finally reach the end of this Calvary.But her thoughts are interrupted when someone knocks on the door and she opens the door just to see her brother there holding a tray with a lot of food. She just looked at him with her mouth open and seeing him alone she couldn’t help it and she stuck her head out of the door looking for something.“You are alone?’ she asked him looking at him strangely. He seems different today. .“Yes? Can’t you see it?” he asks her and puts the breakfast on her desk. “I brought you some food. You need to eat for tonight's ceremony so you would have enough strength to resist. You can’t faint in the middle of the ceremony.”Mark was never alone in her room, so this is strange. He is the one who comes with the doctors, but he is a tough guy. He never acted like a brother, rather more like a
She stood there for hours, in her chair , with her eyes closed and holding her mother's necklace. Calm and cold as if this was not happening.This is the way Patrick found her when he came back to her room.“Hey!” he whispered .”Why are you staying here alone when outside the sun is so warm?”Sarah opened her eyes and smiled at him, but not as she was doing on a normal day. She forced herself to look like she would not die today.Why make Patrick sad ? Just as that Bible verse said “ Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. (Matthew 6:25-34)”It’s enough that she feels like shit, he doesn’t deserve to feel as well.“You didn’t leave back to your pack yet?” she asked him and stood on her feet.“No, I will go there tomorrow, but today I wanted to stay a little bit more with you.” Patrick said.“ Would you accompany me to the forest this afternoon?” and he looked at her smiling, making her think at the doctor’s words. The chain food. He is the top and he is beyond happy, while she is
“I thought that he didn’t know about my horrible life, but he knew all this time,” she said to Gal. “He knew how miserable my life was and he just stood and watched me as I struggled to survive!”“I can’t stand it anymore!” she yelled in her mind “I..I just need to get out of here!”She remembered everything and all those thoughts that were running through her mind in the last few minutes now were revealed through the light of a new plot. Plot which was not new at all but it was there from the beginning.They fooled her.Her father, her siblings, the pack doctor, Patrick…everything was a fucking lie! And she was thinking of asking Patrick for help!“Shit!” She just stood there and caught the bridge of her nose trying to focus and think about what she should do.“Run or die!” gal stated “ Those are our options!”“I thought that he loves us , Gal. After mom died he was there, he took my hand in his hand and told me that everything will be fine! Someone will love you! Those were his own
“Sarah!” Patrick called her but she just walked away from the lake, from Ian, from everything, without looking back.“Sarah, don’t be like that!”” He said, seeing her that she is just ignoring him and keeps walking without saying anything and this is something he just realized that it’s kind of upsetting.“Why did you act so rough with her, Ian?” Bart asked but Ian just stopped and let her go. In the end she was returning to her father's packhouse and this was what counts. Without her the blood exchange ceremony couldn't start, isn't it?He watched her moving away, he watched her delicate figure, her long brown hair fluttering in the breeze, until she was only a small point in the horizon and a lot of thoughts started to run in his mind. She never acted like this, he has been seeing her almost everyday since this blood change ceremony started.It is true that she was more and more pale every day but with him she was always smiling, even today, in the morning she was laughing and askin
“Goddess!” Sarah screamed in her heart as soon as she closed the door behind Patrick.“Hey, they don’t deserve our tears!” Gal said.“Everyone left us, Gal! We don't have anyone in this world to care about us, but at least we have each other.” and Sarah put the book on her desk , because the truth is she never intended to read, it was just a reason to make Patrick leave.“We are so alone in this big world that it’s scary, Gal.” and tears start to run again on her face, but those are not tears of fear, tears of pain. Are somehow, in all this madness, tears of relief.Someone once said that betrayal can be a gift.“Everyone laid to us. All this time all they wanted was to save Amber, no matter what. My life is not important. Mom was right, Gal. Mom was so right.”“You have me, Sarah.” Gal whispered “To the end, I will be by your side”“But the end is so close, Gal. And I didn’t have time to be happy in this world, to have our first shift, our first run, to find my mate.”“Is better this
“Just sit here and drink this cure!” the doctor said without looking at Sarah. And how would he have been able to look in her eyes when he knew too well what he was giving her to drink?“Cure?” Sarah asked laughing bitterly “Oh my goddess” she whispered and lifting her gaze she saw Mark and the doctor’s assistant watching her with concern.“Let’s do this, give me that so-called cure you said about” and Sarah holds out her arms and takes the “cure” from the doctor.“Drink it to the bottom,” Her father said. “Don’t let not even a single drop inside that recipient or the cure will not work” he said commandingly, while Amber, her sister was just smiling.“Can’t we start it?” she said “I am tired of waiting. I want to be healthy and meet my future husband, she said, accentuating the last words to stab Sarah in her heart, because she knew too well that Sarah and Patrick had a good relationship.Sarah just looked around.“What the hell , Gal? Isn’t it here not even a single person to care ab
“Sarah..” he heard her name being called.“We did it , Gal” she said “We are free.” and she just stood there, trying to find the strength to open her eyes.“Why am I feeling like this?” and Gal escaped a soft growl “I thought that on the other side there would be no more pain. I feel like shit!”But hearing what Gal just said Sarah realized something and focusing on everything she heard around the doctor’s voice.“This was not a part of the plan. Why the hell did you give her her sister blood?”“Oh my goddess!” Gal yelled “We are still here? We are not dead yet?” and he starts to cry so hard that brooked Sarah’s heart.“We are together in this, Gal. I am here, “ she whispered and tried to focus around to find out why she was still alive.“He will break our legs for this” the doctor said and she felt his hands over her arms , probably searching for her pulse and blood pressure.“We could say that she simply resisted, he doesn’t need to know that I gave her the blood that we exchanged f