Saving the Alpha

Not so convincing moments...

Tanner was resting on the bed when we discussed inside the room at the other side.

Elliot puffed her cheeks as puffy as she could and pouted. Crossing her arms, I couldn’t help thinking that she looked like an angry hamster. I stifled a laugh.

“This is not funny!”

She retorted, but even her retorts are cute.

“I’m sorry...”

I cleared my throat.

“What do you want to ask from me? I will try to answer you.”

She heaved a sigh and slumped on the sofa.

“I don’t know, In the morning you said you wanted to rest, then suddenly you disappeared without a trace. I tried not to worry about you because maybe you're just missing in action or something, and now at night you suddenly requested for me, out of the blue, and I was brought to a mansion in the middle of nowhere-”

She paused abruptly and massaged her throbbing forehead. I guess some of my headache got transferred to her.

“Don’t you know how hard it was?”

I looked at her apologetically.

“I’m sorry...”

She heaved a sigh before pacing her gaze between me and Viktor, who was standing not far from the two of us.

“Never mind. It’s rare to have you requesting me in the middle of the night, and as a nurse, I expected these kind of thing to happen, so chill.”

She said briefly and ended with a silence, still crossing her arms though.

For quite some time, we exchanged glances with each other, but no words left out from our mouths. Elliot seemed like she's studying my face, when she suddenly tapped on the seat beside her, her face twisted into a look of concern.

“Doctor, come sit. You look like you need a rest, your complexion doesn’t look too good.”

I chuckled again and was on my way to sit on the place she tapped, before I felt something pulling me from the back. Standing behind me with his towering stature, Viktor overshadowed me while grabbing my shoulders. Judging from the ruffles of my shirt, his grip looked painful, but in reality I didn’t feel any clenching pain from where his hands were at.

My vision suddenly got blurry when I felt my headache came back.

“Pardon me, Miss Trafalgar, but I will have him rest somewhere comfortable, in addition of providing him new clothes.”

He glanced at my outfit—my white shirt and my brown pants—which had entirely painted with the color of blood it was hard to dismiss.

Elliot paused while looking at us with a confused eyes. Then, she mouthed an OH and glanced at me with knowing glances. I immediately denied her assumption and mouthed a NO.

Viktor raised an eyebrow, curious as to what we are signalling about.

“Miss Trafalgar, I will assign some escorts for your journey back home. We will make sure that you are safe.”

As if knowing the situation, Elliot broke into a half grin and shot me an envious glances with her wicked eyes before pulling her usual, normal expression.

“Alrighty then.”

She then narrowed her eyes in a judging manner as she looked at Viktor.

“You better take care of Doctor, or I will sue you!”

Her unprecedented statement ended the conversation, in additional of her usual fiasco of storming outside the room as she flung open the door.

Me and Viktor exchanged astounded glances.

"...Was she always like that?" He asked.

"Particularly, but she's usually more chaotic than this."

He slowly nodded in agreement.

After Viktor asked the chauffeur to send Elliot back home, we slowly tread back to his bedroom.

“Thank you..”

I said while we're halfway to his bedroom. I was thankful of his patience in wanting to hear what I say back when I stubbornly wanted to save Tanner, completely different from the rebellious, forceful image of him that I have in mind.

I felt his hand squeezing my shoulder, before he let them go slowly.

I swayed again for a bit, maybe because I have been in his hands for so long I literally gave up transmitting my strength to my legs. I stood still while slightly bending my knees, trying to reprogram my brain to transfer strength towards my lower limbs when out of nowhere, I felt myself floating in the air. I widened my eyes in terror and tried to asses the situation by darting my eyes around, when I noticed Viktor was having his arms under me.

“Wait, Viktor!”

I clutched his shoulders in panic. Flailing my feet, I pleaded for him to put me back down as being carried like a princess, for an old man like me, is particularly embarrassing. Yet Viktor was insistent in his bravado.

I flailed again. This time, I hope he would finally let me go when he suddenly stopped walking and fully facing me.

“Rishan.”

He called my name.

My eyes wavered, probably because in every occasion since the beginning of our meeting today, I have called his name for countless of time, yet he never called mine. Although I have a clear idea as to why he refrained from calling my name. After that single word, his face glowed in a bright tinge of pink. He cleared his throat in attempt to hide his shyness.

I inadvertently let out a soft chuckle, some part of me was moved, some other was strangely attracted to him. However, I didn’t want to be catching feelings if he didn’t have the same inclinations as I do, so I shrugged off the latter part.

We safely reached the bedroom and I reached the door, opening it with both of my hands while still being carried by him. Inside the bedroom, he placed me down on the table instead of the bed.

“I’m sorry to put you here, but we can’t afford getting the bed dirty..”

He got a point. Now looking back at myself, I was used to having blood stains on my clothes back in my hospital days when I'm working in the ER, but that time I would usually have on my scrubs so washing off the blood was easy. The thought of blood staining the entire length of my polyester pants and also the front of the high end shirt that Viktor have me wear never crossed my mind when I attempted to save Tanner.

I guess that is what you call habitual response.

“Wait here.”

He turned his back on me and went towards the wardrobe to get some clothes. Along the way, I noticed him bring out some clean towels, maybe wanting me to take a bath.

I massaged my temple while waiting for him. I predicted my headache to end in just a matter of half a day because that’s their usual duration, but the more I rest and think of something, the more excruciating they became. I decided to empty my mind for awhile.

I heard footsteps from when Viktor was walking to where I sat.

“Here-”

He paused when he noticed me again pressing my temple. Before long, he handed me the clothes he prepared for me.

“Clean yourself and wear this.”

I nodded and gave him my thanks.

It took me a few minutes to slightly ease the throbbing pain, and another minute to walk to the bathroom that was located inside the very same room. I decided to take a quick shower and would brace myself another dose of pain from a cold shower in the autumn season, but instead of freezing water, sprays of warm water meets my skin from the shower place.

Gladly, my headaches lessened when I have that warm shower. I got out of the bathroom to see Viktor already have changed into his bathrobe and was scrolling the phone on the bed.