His Blue Moon Princess
His Sunshine Baby Chapter 50

"Who was that?"

I roll my eyes at Tonia. She's not my freaking mother, is she? Why would she want to know who I was with on the phone? Moreover, we are in a Hospital waiting room, with a more pressing matter at hand! I glance at the two doors separating us from the surgery room. The girl is in there, but we barely have any idea what's going on.

Facing me, immobile like a statue, Damian is sitting in silence. His eyes have gone so cold, I feel like he's the one close to death. Or close to kill someone, if I trust the murderous aura around him... He almost snapped when Tonia and I told him what had happened. I can't blame him, though. After searching for about ten years, who knew we would find his mate assaulted in the slums. Too bad Boyan couldn't catch the guy. The big wolf next to us is still infuriated about that, and pretty much sulking too.

The nurses walking by are glaring at us. We are all soaked and dripping on the floor. If I wasn't worried about my brother's mate, I would drop by my place and take a shower. But that's out of the question for now. We have no idea about her condition, or if she will even make it. We didn't even tell Damian about how much blood there was...

Neal, Damian's Beta, walks up to us, he was on the phone for a while.

"The Chief of Police is investigating this, but they didn't catch anyone either. Even humans are not really watching that area. I dispatched Sean and Victoria to help them."

"What about the girl?"

He sighs and shakes his head.

"Nothing. I asked if they had anything about a missing person who would match her description, but they don't have a clue."

"So we still have no idea who she is, where she came from and what happened," growls Tonia, annoyed.

We stay silent because Damian is right next to us and hearing everything. Everyone waits a bit longer, no one dares to talk anymore. Neal is constantly on the phone and sending texts to our lieutenants, Tonia is angrily biting her nails and I'm dying for a cigarette. Finally, the doors open, and a man in a blue coat walks out. The three of us almost jump out of our seats. Only Damian doesn't move a muscle.

"So, she's stabilized for now. She's unconscious for now, but she should be recovering within a few days. We stopped the internal bleeding, but that girl is in severe condition. She's malnourished, there are traces of a***e and her throat is badly damaged as well." "Do you think she was..."

"No, there is no sign of s****l assault, though she definitely fought with someone, judging from the bruises and blood on her fingers. I would recommend taking samples to the police, obviously."

The surgeon was perfectly aware he was talking to werewolves, and couldn't meddle in our affairs. He glances at Damian, then comes back to us.

"The... Blood on her dress wasn't hers. She doesn't have any cut deep enough to provoke that. I would say there is another victim."

"Not the guy Boyan tried to get," whispers Tonia. "That guy looked fine. Fine enough to outrun Bobo..."

We talk a bit longer about her condition, but globally, the girl should be fine. Tonia is infuriated by her condition. She keeps asking details about the bruises and malnutrition until I stop her before she really gets Damian mad. My brother hasn't said a damn word yet but I can feel it's a f*****g storm inside.

I turn to Neal.

"Call the Chief of Police, we are filling a report about what happened. And I want everyone looking for the fucker who did this to her."

"All right. Boyan, Tonia, you..."

"Boyan and Tonia are staying here."

My brother's cold voice takes us by surprise. I turn to him.

"Damian?"

"You too Nate. I want you three watching her from now on. Aside from the medical staff, Neal, Liam and I nobody else approaches."

No need to say, his order is final. We all nod. Damn, I didn't think we would really put all three of us to be her watchdogs... He gets up and suddenly leaves, followed by Neal.

"Where is he going?" Whispers Tonia.

"Probably somewhere he can vent," I sigh. "You don't want to know."

Even I wouldn't want to get too close to Damian when he's angry like this...

Anything, Liam?

No... That guy is either well hidden or far away. And with that rain...

Ok, go home as soon as you can. Damian will get seriously mad if we have to look after you too.

Yeah, yeah...

I sigh and look at the door. It may be totally out of place right now, but I'm still secretly happy. We finally got a hold of Damian's mate, after searching for her for so long. Moreover, Elena called me. It was so freaking cute. How she was worried about me hearing I was in the hospital, and after that, how she tried to said it was not... definitely over between us. That's what I understood. Not over, just a little break. I like the sound of that. I can work with that.

We both need to sort things out. Me with Damian's mate, Elena with her pack and her ex. Damn, her ex... I don't want to think about it. Every time I do, there an uneasy, annoying feeling in my heart, like an alarm in the back of my head. It's her ex. Nothing will happen, she moved on. Right?

"All right, we will transfer her now. We need someone to take care of the papers?" Asked the nurse, looking at us.

"I'll do it," replies Tonia.

"Give her the VIP Room", I immediately say.

She rolls her eyes at me.

"With the kind of security Damian wants, I pretty much figured so. And having my brother around won't be easy to justify either, so..."

Indeed. Boyan is still laying down in the corridor, in his wolf form. The guy is so huge he's scaring the people passing by. With his sister, Damian put our two best fighters in charge of guarding his mate. No one is coming near her dead or alive, I can guarantee that. The next day, we are still gathered in the VIP room. I slept there with the Mura siblings, on the couch, as Tonia and I took turns to watch her. Now that the sun's up, I can finally have a good look at her. The nurses changed her in a patient's gown and put her hair to the side. I hate to admit it, but Tonia is right, that girl is severely underweight... She looks so frail too, she doesn't look like someone who is seventeen already. Her skin is very pale, like someone who doesn't go out much, and she has the hands of someone who works a lot. I try to imagine what kind of life she's had until now. Sitting on the window's frame, Tonia is looking at her again too, frowning.

"If only we had found her before... Whoever did this, the Boss is going to make them pay. I sure hope he does. That girl..."

Before she finishes her sentence, someone knocks at the door. Judging from how Boyan, who is laying under the bed, doesn't move an inch, I guess it's their brother or mine. Liam walks in.

"Hi guys. Did you stay there all night?"

"How do you know?" I ask.

"Well, I crashed at your place last night and you weren't there, so..."

I sigh and roll my eyes. I'll have to ask Damian why did we even bother looking for an apartment close to his High School for him? He never goes there! Liam walks in, looking at the girl, frowning. "Damn, she doesn't look too good... Did she say anything?"

"No, when we got there she had lot consciousness already. We just grabbed her and ran here. She was so.... He would have killed her. Too bad we let him get away," replies Tonia.

"How did you know that was her?"

"I didn't! Bobo's the one who insisted. Turns out he was right.... Hey, move your big furry a*s over there, I can't examine her with you here."

She walks to the bed and Bobo has to move to the side while Tonia checks the girl's arms, and all the tubes she's linked to. She arranges the sheets too as if the nurses hadn't done that a couple of times already. "Well, she's better. That shouldn't take too long for her to wake up, now."

"She'd better. Our brother is making everyone freak out since that girl's here. Looks like he's about to murder someone or something..."

"It's his fated mate, Liam. He spent years looking for her and finds her in such a state... I can't blame him," I say.

He nods, scratching his neck.

"Where is he?"

"He spent the night with Neal and Sean, looking for... Well, whatever a*****e attacked her. I think they were going to inspect the borders when I went home."

"I see... Hey, should I get us some breakfast? You guys stayed there all night, right? I'll grab it."

Liam leaves the room to go buy us something to eat. I had no idea how hungry I was until he mentioned it. I pick up my phone, checking my texts. Nothing from Elena... I don't know what I was expecting. I got a whole bunch of texts from Isaac, though. He asked about my brother and his mate's condition, but most of the other texts are about his own fated mate. Damn, the guy is crazy about that...

Two days later, we are still pretty much confined to the Hospital Room. I did go home a few times, but only to change, take a shower, sleep and that's it. From seven in the morning to nine or ten in the evening, I'm in the VIP room, working from my computer and watching the girl with Tonia and Boyan. Liam comes there a lot too, though I wish he brought his homework instead of his console... I'm eating some Italian take out, while Liam and Tonia are arguing about some football team. My phone rings.

"Yes, Neal?"

I put him on speaker for everyone to hear.

"I just got a call from the Chief of Police. Still no missing people report, nothing about her whatsoever, even the fingerprints didn't give us anything. The blood on the dress is not registered either, but definitely a male werewolf." Tonia slams her chopsticks on the table. Liam turns to me, frowning.

"Great. No pack, no name, no clue who that girl is. She doesn't even smell like a werewolf!" He says.

"Stop fussing. He can't be wrong about that, at least. But I still don't understand where she came from. She looks old enough to have been marked if she was in a pack..."

No matter how we think about it, things just don't add up about that girl. Liam shakes his head.

"Oh, come on. Do you think a pack would let one of their girls out in that state? Can't be. She must be a stray or something. And what about the scar, anyway?"

Tonia walks over, but shrugs.

"Dunno. It's a few years old, probably a knife of some sort. Too neat to be a claw. But honestly, that's the least of my worries. No matter where she comes from, this girl was in hell. She's got bruises all over, and it's not just from the a*****e who assaulted her. Some bruises were older than that, and she has lots of scars, too. I recognize a***e when I see it."

"Don't say that in front of him, he might really start killing people," I warn her.

"Well, he wouldn't know who did it, anyway..." Sighs Liam.

That's the issue. We really have no idea what happened, and I don't like that at all. Why the hell was she abused? By who? I turn to the phone.

"Keep looking, Neal, Damian will want answers anyway."

"I know, but man, there's only so much we can do. Even the human police are collaborating with us. Anyway, I'll call you tomorrow and let you know."

I hang up, with a big sigh. What a mess... If only she would wake up and talk so we can have names. But she had been deep asleep, in some sort of coma since we brought her here. According to Tonia and the medical staff, she should come to her senses soon, but... "Why doesn't he come to see her? Damian?" Suddenly asks Liam.

"He does come. At night. He never stays long, though," explains Tonia.

"Why? It's his fated mate, he's been waiting for her for... Well, pretty much forever!"

"It's not that simple, Liam."

Indeed. Knowing Damian, my brother must be torn between his attraction for her, and his guilt for not being able to save her earlier. I still remember that horrified look in his eyes when he finally got to see her... It was like someone had just stabbed him. That probably wasn't anywhere near what he had imagined, even if he knew what was going on through their bond. She looks so... weak, like she could die at any moment.

When he comes to see her, he doesn't even dare to get near her. It's almost painful to watch for me.

Well, that's even more reasons to look after her now that she's with us. I don't think we could give her a better treatment or a better team to take care of her. Even now Damian added a couple of werewolves to watch the floor, as extra security. "She should wake up soon, right?" Asks Liam

Tonia and I nod. We hope so. I'm about to take some more pizza when my phone vibrates. It's Elena. I try hard not to show a smile, but I can already feel Tonia's eyes on me. I ignore her and read it. She's asking when we can meet again.