Stuck With Four Alphas

6

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Dr. Juhi Mohan's POV:

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"How about she eats a little first?" Arin spoke from my left.

"Or, I can do both. Multitask?" I suggested. I was extremely hungry but I also needed answers and I figured I would have to play along to get them. However, I did wait for anyone of them to take the first bite to prove that the food wasn't drugged in any way.

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Alpha Rajesh Devgan's POV:

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She had poured the soup first but hadn't even attempted to taste it until all of us had poured our share of the meal.

It was clear she was waiting.

I respected her mistrust of strangers. Being on one's guard was an example of a vigilant individual and I respected that in anyone.

I had a theory about her and was willing to step out of my comfort zone to test if I was right, I always am.

She offered to talk and eat and none of us could deny her our part of the knowledge.

I decided to take the first bite as she had been waiting. She instantly brought a spoonful to her soft lips as she saw me swallow my bite.

She was hungry, but she had kept her guard. The little detail almost made me smile. Almost. It had been a while since I had allowed myself the liberty of joy, so smiling was rarer than a blood moon*.

"We have already introduced ourselves. Ask what you seek." I spoke.

I knew everyone was surprised that I decided to talk. But it was no coincidence that the pretty doctor was among us.

Wait, her attractiveness did not and would not play any part in my acting differently than usual.

"How about we start from the basics? Like what is this place? Where are we? And most importantly why am I here instead of a hospital? Who are all of you? Who brought me here and why?" She spoke in one go and then took a deep breath at the end.

Before either of the three imbeciles I was stuck with, could begin I captained the conversation, much to Rex's displeasure. But I knew by then that he would never take the chance of leaving her alone with us because all of us would do the same. If she was the answer or the key, I needed to figure everything out and be the first one back to my continent. I had serious business left behind me.

"We all have our theories, but I know that this is a Space-Time Bubble. We are currently nowhere. Definitely not on the planet we were born and raised on. As to why you are here, our guess is as good as yours. We have already introduced ourselves, so you know who we are. And Moon Goddess must've brought you here just as we were brought here. Why? We have yet to figure it out. But one thing is for sure, there is no escape or exit that we have found yet."

She was a good listener, I'd give her that.

She had listened to me patiently and calmly but once I was done, she looked like she hadn't believed a word I'd said.

Now that was humiliating. I am the Fire Alpha, I never lie.

Clearly, she was unaware of my reputation as much as she was unaware of our entire existence, further proving my theory about her origins.

"I am a psychiatrist," She began with a deep breath and the tone one might use to calm a rabid beast, it was humiliating that she viewed us, me, as such.

"I have heard a whole lot of bullshit in my career. But nothing comes even close to the tale you just knit. If one of you doesn't start making sense soon, I will call the cops." She stopped to think, then stood up panicked, "Where's my phone? It was in my handbag, if I survived, it must've too!"

"Well done, Devgan, way to go and make the girl panic." Akoni commented glaring daggers at me. I have no idea what he had against me, but he wasn't the apple of my eye either.

Which is why, it irritated me that he stood up to calm her down making it look like I was the one who had made her panic when all I did was speak facts.

I don't know why she reacted the way she did. Hadn't she asked for truthful answers? That was what I had given her. Then why was she upset?

"Maybe a house tour will do you some good, yes?" Hīrō was the one who offered, annoying me further. These were making me a villain in the eyes of the cute doctor.

Wait, why did her cuteness matter? I shook the stupid thoughts away and refocused.

Rex had stood up too, only I was seated and it made me look like an asshole. Which I normally wouldn't care, but I refused to allow the unsolved riddle of the foreign key from this prison, to slip through my fingers. I stood up as well.

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Dr Juhi Mohan's POV:

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As the four men stood up around me, I felt so small and insignificant.

I found no solution but to run away. Somehow my fight or flight was triggered and my head was throbbing as I decided to retrace my steps back into the lobby.

I ran back and towards the fork, I had previously encountered. This time I turned left and opened the only door there.

What I saw made me stop in my tracks. My headache was forgotten.

There was no sky.

Instead was the inside of a very very ginormous cave. Probably taller than the NYC Twin Towers. There was a bright light coming from somewhere like the Sun but how could there be Sun inside?

There was a huge thick forest to my left, and a lake with a waterfall at the far edge, to my right. In the front, was a path that seemed to lead to higher ground, like a hill or something. Even grass covered the ground everywhere else.

Was it really what that man had said?

The influx of information was too much for my brain to comprehend so I felt the ground coming closer as I lost my senses.

There was the final feeling of someone's arms around me and then being carried as I heard someone say close to my ear, "Fragile little one, rest before you rush. We all have a long time ahead of us."