The Lycan Prince’s Love

After the Attack

{Alister’s POV}

I sat around filling out paperwork for hours before I suddenly felt a sharp pain on my head. A headache? I wondered, before I felt something smash against my face, but it wasn’t my pain, it was Willow’s! “s**t!” I spat out and ran into her bedroom. I could see Victoria standing in front of the window.

I looked around the corner and saw her holding Willow by the throat outside the window. “You’re worthless, and now you’ll die!” She said before dropping her small body out of the window.

Willow gasped and flailed her arms about, my whole body ran cold. “NO!” I roared loudly and ran to the window pushing Victoria out of the way knocking her down against the fireplace and looking down at the scene below me outside the window.

{Willow’s POV}

“NO!” I heard a loud roar coming from my room. It was Alister’s voice, he came for me. I closed my eyes and waited for my body to hit the ground. I knew it was only a matter to time, I wasn’t born into this world, and maybe I truly didn’t belong.

Suddenly I felt strong arms around me, my body flinched as the force of the fall hit me. My ribs were killing me, I couldn’t help but let out a whimper. My eyes were closed, and I was afraid to open them. “Willow, you’re okay, I got you!” I heard Jackson say.

“Jackson!” I barely panted out. “It hurts! Everything hurts!” I said bawling my eyes out, and wrapping my arms around his neck.

“Willow where does it hurt, look at me I can’t see you!” He said panicked. I looked up the tears and blood covering my face. My eye was bruised and swelled, while my eyebrow on the other side was gashed open and pouring blood. The back of my head was also agape and bleeding. My ribs made it hard to breathe. Jackson looked as though his soul left his body when he saw me, he sat me down gently and told a guard to stay with me before taking off up the stairs.

“I need.. doctor.. please.. hurry..” I said softly before my vision faded. When I woke up I was in Alister’s arms, he was covered in blood, I’m not sure whose, and his eyes were red and swollen like he’d been crying. “A-Alister?” I said quietly before trying to sit up, the pain in my ribs shook through my body and caused me to fall back down on my back. “Ahh!” I said gripping my side. “What happened? Where are we?” I said looking around. This room was much larger than mine, it was a deep red color with black curtains again the window and a grey and black fireplace in the corner with two chairs sitting facing it. There was three doors in here, one leading to the hall, the others leading somewhere I couldn’t see at the moment, we were sitting on a couch in the corner by a bookcase.

“Willow, you’re okay?” I heard a voice from across the room. Doctor Julius stepped out with a pen and a folder. I looked down noticing the iv connected to my arm, and the blood running into it. The throbbing in my head and ribs told me all I needed to know. That fight was real, she tried to kill me.

I looked over and nodded carefully. “It just hurts.” I said quietly.

“What hurts?” He asked checking me over. His eyes wandered from my head to my ribs and I could tell he was upset about something.

“Everything..” I said, “She came into my room, and tried to fight me, I didn’t fight back.. I should have..” I said cradling my ribs.

“Willow, you’re still weak from everything that has happened, you’re gaining back your strength in spurts but the fact that she attacked you mercilessly, wasn’t your fault. She is a horrible woman, and none of us like her.” He said looking back at his paper.

“If you say so.” I said looking down. “I’m tired, I want to go to sleep in my room.” I said trying to sit up again.

“No!” Alister interrupted. “You’ll be staying here in my room. You’ll be sleeping on the bed, and I’ll take the couch.” He said lifting me up and carrying me to the bed. He laid me down and tucked me in under the blankets. “I’m not leaving your side again, and tomorrow, we’ll take care of Victoria.” He said in a low menacing voice, one that actually scared me for once. His voice has always been so sweet to me, and now he actually terrified me.

I laid down closing my eyes and falling asleep in no time. I was sleeping peacefully until she entered my dream. She ran into the room grabbing me and beating me all over again, calling me worthless, and telling me how happy she made Alister. My heart hurt, my body ached as she continued blow after blow.

“Willow!” She said angrily as she beat me mercilessly.

“Willow!” I heard faintly in my mind. “Willow!” I could hear Alister shouting and I jumped up in bed clutching my ribs and groaning. I looked over to see Alister sitting by me, he had been crying again. “You we’re having a nightmare are you okay?” He asked looking over my face.

“How long has it been since you slept Alister?” I asked him looking over his worried expression.

“I’ll sleep when you’re better..” he muttered under his breath and slowly stood to his feet. “Get some more sleep.” He started, “I’ll be right he..”

“Alister.” I interrupted him. “Please, lay with me. You need rest too, and I don’t think I can sleep alone right now. I keep seeing her, hearing her..” I said moving the blankets and seeing that my clothes were still bloody. “Hand me a shirt please?” I asked looking at him gently.

He walked over to his drawer and grabbed one of his t-shirts and brought it over to me. “Here you go.” He said handing it to me.

I pulled my bloody shirt off of my body slowly and carefully before reaching for the other shirt he brought me. I gasped in pain as I reached for the shirt.

“Let me help you.” He said looking over my body, his eyes explored my body, my bare bre**** down to my ribs where his eyes stopped staring solemnly.

“It’s okay Alister, I’ll be fine.” I said catching his attention. He looked up into my eyes and I could tell that he was heartbroken as well.

He reached over helping me pull the shirt over my head. “It’s not okay Willow, and it won’t be until you’re better. Let’s get you cleaned up.” He said packing me to the bathroom.

I looked down to see my bloody leggings. “Can you help me take these off?” I asked grabbing at my leggings. He nodded and helped me lay flat on my back and lifted my legs up on his shoulder pulling my pants off swiftly and slowly. He was so gentle with me, and I loved the way his hands felt on my body.

He stripped me down completely and helped me into the shower, he turned around on the other side of the glass door and waited for me to finish. I heard a faint knock at the bedroom door. “Don’t worry, it’s just Jackson, I asked him to bring your bag in here.” He said leaving the bathroom. I finished my shower and got out drying myself off. I could see some of my underwear and his t-shirt laying on the sink. I carefully got dressed and walked back into his room. He was laying in the couch again, I carefully got into bed and looked over to him.

“Come lay down.” I said patting the bed beside me.

He pulled his shirt and pants off leaving him in his boxers, he climbed into bed next to me and pulled the blanket over both of us. “Goodnight Willow.” He said gently kissing my temple.

“Goodnight, Alister.” I said back closing my eyes and drifting off into a warm and peaceful sleep.