Arranged To The Alpha
Chapter 44

Blake:

I kept my eyes on Ryan as he opened them. His heartbeat was calmer than it usually was, and looking at me, he frowned in confusion as he processed the fact that he was in the infirmary room.

“Alpha?”

“Ryan” I said, smiling, happy to have heard his voice without him fighting me for the first time in weeks. He sat up, shaking his head as he fought off his nausea, but I couldn’t help but wrap my arms around him, hugging him tightly. He hugged me back, and standing back, Natalia watched us in silence.

“Luna, I was not aware of your presence, I apologize” Ryan said when I pulled away from him.

“You needn’t worry, Ryan. You had us all worried about you, do you know that?” Natalia asked, crossing her arms over her chest as she took a step forward “but it’s good to have you back”

“What happened?” He asked, frowning at Natalia’s statement.

“You really don’t remember, do you?”

“Not at all. I remember going to Drake. The two of us worked together for a while and everything was actually fine, then some witch, who is his girlfriend by the way, told him that I was by your side. I believe that she foresaw something and that just ended up bad for me. Anyway, one thing led to the other, and after a while, he had me locked up. I lost everything from there”

“That bloody witch put you under a hex. One of the element manipulators helped you out of it, but it seems like you still need to use your treatment for a while longer” Blake said and Ryan nodded “Nikita said that there was something about a game that my brother is hosting. We didn’t really get to hear much about it, but Natalia told me that she also got an email about it, I don’t know if you heard anything…”

“The Survival Games” Ryan said, stopping me. I frowned and looked at Natalia who nodded as she sat on the chair that I was sitting on as I was sitting on Ryan’s bed by his side “the man is sick, and that witch he has with him is even worse. But they want to have all the magical creatures in the games, at least, one or two from each of them. They’re trying to make us a public figure in front of humans to entertain them. The humans would pay to attend, he would be gaining out of it, and the worst part of it, humans would most probably think that this was just acting out. I don’t think that they would believe what they’re seeing”

“What is the objective of the game?” Natalia asked, shaking her head. Her heart raced, and I knew why. The email that she got was telling her that she was chosen to play in the games. The thing was, had it not been for Nikita, we wouldn’t have known of them.

“Survival” Ryan said simply “the man is putting so many different, and difficult obstacles for the players to pass through. The thing is, he doesn’t seem to understand that the witches could be using his money to set all creatures against each other”

“What do you mean?” I asked, frowning in confusion. Ryan sighed and laid his head on the backrest, closing his eyes as he tried to ease a headache in his head, and looking at him, Natalia stood up and put her hand on my shoulder, squeezing it gently.

“He needs to rest, love. We can’t over exhaust him when he just woke up, but we’ll manage to find our answers somehow. The one issue we’ll have is that we have to do it without getting caught” Natalia said, and I nodded. I pressed on one of the buttons calling for the nurse.

She knocked on the door less than a minute later, and entering the room, she lowered her head as she waited for my order.

“Alpha?”

“I want you to watch over Beta Ryan at all times. I don’t want anyone in or out of the room without me knowing about it, and make sure that he takes his medication on time. If there is any change, let me know” I said, getting up from the bed as I looked at her and she nodded. I wrapped my arm around Natalia and walked out of the room, the two of us waited until we were out of the house before we could talk.

“Do you really think that he’s out of that hex?”

“No, not at all, but for now the two of us have nothing to do but play the game like we are…”

Flashback:

“Blake, you need to sit down and relax” Natalia said, cupping my cheeks. I shook my head at her, and wrapping my arms around her, I pulled her to sit on my lap, wanting to get a little peace after what we just saw from Nikita. The woman had come here, but the two of us weren’t convinced of what she said. Why was she the only one who responded to the call? Could she be behind something? Could anyone have sent her? If she knew of what Drake was doing with witches, why didn’t she and the other manipulators do something about it?

All these questions kept running through our minds as we sat in the living room, trying to clear our heads.

“Natalia we are entering a game that is way above what we could handle. I know that we think that we can get past this, but this is too much for the both of us”

“Then we are going to fight until the last drop” Natalia said, looking at me “getting that invitation to play didn’t just come by coincidence. If Nikita brought it up, she knew that I heard of it, and maybe they even knew that I ignored it; therefore, they wanted to cast some light on it. For now, we are going to do as told, we will hear what Ryan has to say but we will not trust a word from it…”

“Natalia, we might end up killing him…”

“I know, and I know that it would be harder than ever, but right now, it is us against the world. We will ask your mum and dad for help, I know that you don’t want to do that, but we have no other options right now, they would both know better than we ever would” Natalia said, looking me in the eye “and I’ll find a way to train. If I have to go back and ask my dad for help, I will”

“He could end up rejecting it…”

“Not when he hears about this” Natalia said, stopping me. She looked down at her lap as we intertwined our fingers “we are going to need all the help that we can get, and I can already assume that grandfather might be one of that help too”

End of Flashback.

“What do you want to do now?” Natalia asked, turning to look at me. She took my hand in hers, squeezing it gently as she intertwined our fingers, and running my thumb over her fingers, I shook my head, not really knowing how to answer her.

“I wish I knew, baby girl. I still need to think, but at least we know that he’s awake. Whether or not he’s healed from that hex, we’re getting a few answers, true or not, they could be a lead to something” I said, looking at my wife who raised an amused eyebrow, waiting for what I had to say “what now?”

“The Blake that I know never has himself completely lost” she teased, making me chuckle.

“The Blake that you know is now planning different things, but neither one of them concerns Ryan” I said, wrapping an arm around her waist “first, I need to ensure your safety as my Luna. Second, we need to start training, if Drake is planning something, then we need to be ten steps ahead, and third, we really need to start finding someone that we can trust, and it unfortunate to actually admit that the one person that has been honest to the bone with us is your grandfather”

“Why is that unfortunate?” Natalia asked, frowning in confusion. Trying to process what I was saying; I knew that she wouldn’t like it, but right now, it was the ONLY option that I saw fit. Everyone around us seemed to have their eyes on our power, what we had, and as time started repeating itself again, I knew that we were in for one hell of a war.

“Because we’re heading back to the forest…” I said, looking at my wife “I don’t care what that woman said, and I won’t be taking no for an answer from you. The one safe place that I see around is that forest; therefore, tomorrow, the two of us are going to be heading there…”