MY ALPHA BODYGUARD

CHAPTER 10: CONFLICT ARISES 1/2

POV: Eris

The rain continued to pour outside. The darkness of the night was doubled because of the weather with lightning flashes through the space above the city. Without electricity, it will be certain darkness. Thunder continues to roar vibrating across the air like my skin quiver in fear and cold of the night. 

 "Still no news about his whereabouts?" Marco is talking on the phone with the detective. I can see his body was tensed but not of fear. Adam is sitting beside me on the couch.

"Please, do all you can to find that bastard!" he uttered with his temper now reaching the red alert. His left fist on the battle mode. Then, he hung up and turned to face us. I looked at him, eye to eye like 'good news?'

Adam looked at Marco and said with his elbows on his knees "What did they say?" then he sat straight.

Marco sat beside us, "They find nothing in his unit that can tell them where he is. They also talked to his friends and family but they also looking for him. They also searching the area around the salon" he exhaled to relax himself. 

"Eris, why didn't you tell us about the pictures? We could have prevented the incident" Marco continued to sermon me. I know but I don't want to make a rescue drama again or to concern them a lot. There's so much in my mind to think of that I can't sleep well and work normal. 

"Or make a trap to catch the mouse" Adam said. What was he thinking right now? He seems relaxed but somehow, I'm not sure, I can feel that he's annoyed and ready to fight. He stood up and then looked at us with a handsome smirk. Wait? What? what am I saying? He stood up and then looked at us with a smirk, just... a normal smirk. I smiled.

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'Please... please... Don't hurt him!' I begged to the tall and huge man in front of me. I can only see half of his face because of the shadow curtained on its half. He seems to be the leader of this, whoever they are, gangster or whatever. What important to me was to save the beaten and wounded man with blood painted all over his bruises. He is also lying few steps away in front of me and below the tall man who's like a firm tower whom I was pleading to.

'Take me instead. Put me in slavery or in prison.. I beg you... please spare him. Me..me.. kill me instead, if you want' I beseeched in desperation. My face covered with tears and sweat all over my body. I don't care if my body also ached and my skin twitched in pain.

'Nooo!' the man groaned in a weak soft voice. I looked at him and tried to crawl on my knees but someone stop me, grabbing on my shirt from the back. Just then I realized someone was standing beside me, his finger nails were pointed and his knuckles were with blood. The tall man looked at me and smirked wickedly.

And then I remembered, Adam hugging me that night sitting beside me at the bed. What is he doing in my room? Whatever, I need comfort and he is in the right place. "Don't worry I'm here. No one will hurt you, I promise. I will not let that happen again" he said and sniveled. Is he crying too? No way? Is he that concerned of me for a simple nightmare? And wait, what did he say 'happen again'? 

"What did you say?" I asked him in post crying voice.

He moved a little like he felt sudden discomfort, "I mean.. you have nightmares for a few nights now..." he looked down. Well, it's not the time for question and answer portion besides I am grateful that he's here. Comforting me and watching me. I rested my head to his hard chest.

Few minutes later, I calmed down and he handed me a glass of water.

"Eris....? Eris?" Dr. Ben called. I snapped. I didn't notice. I forgot I'm in his clinic.

"Is that all" he asked me again and I nodded.

"That was my new dream and I'm sure it has a connection to the others" I stuttered and cleared my throat when I said it to Dr. Ben, my Psychiatrist. He's a friend of my manager and since I entered the industry he became my doctor. 

"Whatever tragedy it was, It caused you to experienced trauma which is the root of your fear, panic attack, hyperventilation and distress you're experiencing right now" Dr. Ben said and then continued, "...though your brain chose to forget what happened your body still remembers it" 

"No matter what I do I can't remember the details" I uttered in exhaustion. Only Marco was with me inside the room with Dr. Ben. Adam was outside the room patiently waiting and standing just next the door.

"Like what I said before, don't rush yourself Eris. Only time can tell when you will regain your memory. Possibly, you can recollect your memory back faster if you can visit the place where you stayed the four months you disappeared. But unfortunately you also don't remember the place. Or it may someone you met there can help you" Dr. Ben explained while writing something on my chart.

"Eris is a celebrity and its been two years but still no one comes out to tell us what happened" Marco butted in beside us from the couch. "And now, his ex-boyfriend troubled him"

"It's good that you have a bodyguard now" Dr. Ben said looking to the door. "And Eris, you have your family and friends, please don't isolate yourself from them. Continue your daily routine, exercise, get enough sleep, talk to them, to us and eat healthy. Avoid negative thoughts, it's normal to feel fear that's why you have us" the good doctor further explained. I put my lips to smile. Then our check up ended and we exited the room with gratefulness to the doctor. As we opened the door...

"Where's Adam?" Marco asked moving his head left to right to the corridor.

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POV: Adam

I'll do my best to find that jerk. How dare him to trouble my mate with his craziness. Eris and Marco was inside the clinic with the Psychiatrist, Dr. Ben. Few moments, I sensed someone. It's not human but one of my kind. We can sense our fellow kinds with our unique odor that we werewolves can only smell. Each werewolf has distinctive scent glands on different parts of their body so smells unique.  Like a wolf we navigate the world through sense of smell and of a feeling like when someone enters our territory and an instinct when we are in danger or threat. We have an ability thrice all of the senses and strength of the humans.

It also apply when we meet our mate, our dopamine, oxytocin, testosterone, androgen and/or estrogen intensify, all of that feeling with physical manifestation like, but not limited to; body sweat, heat and erection for male happens synchronously. All of these attributes doubled especially when we are in our wolf form. But nowadays, werewolves can camouflage their scents through human perfumes and physical practice and mental meditation to hinder other werewolves to sense them.

I follow the scent. No, it's not one but two scents and its familiar. I saw them. They intentionally let me follow them. But why? I think I know who they are. Until they lead me to the hospital's rooftop.

"Why are you here?" I asked the two werewolves. Tyler wearing a black leather jacket with white shirt and shred jeans. His hair was high faded at the side and the top hair was tied behind. David was wearing a Blue green long sleeve shirt folded just below his elbow with white jeans and brown shoes. His hair was now golden light brown parted just at above his left eyebrow like on the 'Oppa's style' he always say that until now I don't know what it means.

"Alpha" they greeted. "Many former Silver Fang rebelled when you left the pack" David explained while walking closer to me.

"Your cousin, James, as Beta protects the pack while your gone" Tyler reported still slightly leaning his back against the wall "and its dangerous, they might attack you or Eris. When one of you gone, the pack will ....." he then stood straight and looked at me.

"I know" I said interrupting his words, "That's why I can't leave him, especially now" my voice's sound was worried but brave. I can't let anyone to harm my mate, not again, not anymore.

"Why? How's Eris?" David asked. David became Eris' first friend to close with and trust among the pack then. He really cares so much to him that he defended him against the pack when many were opposing for him being my mate.

"He really doesn't remember me, us, everything. And there's someone bothering and threatening him" I explained and clutched my fist into stone.

"So you can't return to the pack yet?" David asked and I nodded barely.

"Why not just bring him to the pack and explain to him everything" Tyler said and I looked at him annoyed. He really didn't it huh.

"It's complicated. How can I explain again that werewolves exist and I am a werewolf. And at the first place he's a famous actor, his unexpected disappearance again will alarm the public"

"Like what I said, you're right" Tyler chuckled in awkwardness and tapped David's shoulder. David immediately removed his friend's hand from him.

"Alpha, if you want we can stay here to watch for him" David suggested.

"No, the pack needs you" I said and came closer to him enough to tapped him at the shoulder "Just alert me when the pack is in great need" they nodded and I looked at Tyler and messed his hair. I chuckled when he looked at me with fury. My face instantly turned to serious when suddenly I felt something. It's Eris. Danger. Fear. Shock.

"Eris!" I uttered.

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POV: Eris

"Where did your bodyguard go?" Marco asked me and he's annoyed. Why asking me? As if I know. But where really did Adam go? He didn't message me. "Didn't you find him mysterious?" 

"What do you mean?" I acted like I didn't notice Adam strange.

"Well,... he's an orphan and from a far... far away province with no relative here" Marco explained while we search around the area. "And he act and talk to you like he knew you..." Marco paused. What will I say? Wait.. why am I feeling? its like he's accusing me with something. I walked faster and passed him.

"Wait.. Eris, did you knew him already before?..." I stopped and face him, "That's why you immediately hired him the moment you saw his resume" Marco continued.

I exhaled deep and looked at him straight "I met him before and he saved me from Tom twice" I said just to stop him from talking non sense.

"Yeah... yeah.." he reacted, what is he thinking? "I think... I saw him also before"

"I'll go to the comfort room" and then walked away.

"Wait, I'm coming with you" he said.

"Don't" I shouted in annoyance. Few minutes, I saw the restroom and entered it. I entered the cubicle and sat at the toilet. Having said that, maybe he was really the stranger who saved me with a cap and hood at the CCTV seen at the condo the night after my concert when Tom, the asshole, showed up and abducted me. If it is Adam how did he knew my place and what was happening there? And why he always shows up when I need help? Do he really knew me before? Do I knew him before? Do we met each other and I just forgot him?

In my surprise someone spoke just behind my cubicle's door, "Tom said he is also one of your stalker and he's very strong and dangerous" a voice that seems he read my mind. I immediately stood up and opened my door. In more shocked, I stepped one back. What is he doing here? Is he also following me now?

"Br..Brandon?" I stuttered.

"Don't be scared, I will not hurt you" he said in an always insulting manner.

"What did you say?" I asked him still holding at the cubicle's door to help me with my balance.

"He said, it's your..." Brandon stopped when suddenly the comfort room's door sprung open showing Adam standing firm and tall. "Oh he's here" he chuckled, "speaking"

Then swiftly, Adam strode straight to Brandon and held his shirt up to his face with a fist ready to strike.

"Adam?" I shouted in a voice enough to not distract outside.

"So, your name's Adam" he smirked happily "Nice to meet you" he reached his hand in handshake position but Adam's eyes still nailed on his prey. "Relax I have no intention to hurt your employer" Brandon tried to put away Adam's hand from his shirt. Why I felt a little sadness with his word 'employer' if it is true that that was our relationship. Don't tell me Eris you want more than that. When he finally admitted to himself that he can't remove his hand even a finger from him, he said "I'm his classmate in college. Right Erick?" Brandon looked at me like asking me to tell Adam to let him go. I walked out the cubicle. 

"What's happening?" Marco ushered in.

"Adam" I said and then he looked at me for confirmation. I moved my lips and carved a timid smile. He swiftly let go of him that made him stumble in his posture and balance.