Rejected, Mute and Completely Broken

Chapter 5: The strange man

Lana P.O.V

An endless amount of darkness surrounded me. "Hello?!" I tried to call out, hoping that someone would at least hear me or come to my rescue. Nothing ... where was I? I felt cold and uneasy. I tried to force my eyes open, wanting to see my surroundings, but my eyes felt so heavy. I heard the beeping of machines in the background, was I in the pack hospital? Did they seriously just try to keep me alive only to give me another beating? Or even worse ... to wait until I was on life support and then pull the plug on me.

I heard people talking around me, but I struggled to make out what they were saying, everything felt extremely difficult to do. My movements felt restricted. I could barely hear anything that was going on around me. My entire body ached all over. I just want them to leave me alone! Why can't they leave me alone!!! Soon, I felt a warm tingling sensation in my arm, my entire body started to feel heavy again as darkness started closing in on me again, taking me with it far, far away from the reality I was trying to reach. Maybe this was the end for Lana Decker. At least it would be less painful than what I thought it originally to be.

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Beep! Beep! Beep!

A pounding headache welcomed me again once I felt like I was starting to wake up. What is with this beeping noise the whole time?! Can't a she-wolf get some rest?!

"Do you have any idea of when she would wake up, Doctor?" I heard a male voice ask. It took me a few moments to sift through my memories, trying to figure out who this voice belonged to. But wait ... did he say, doctor? How long was I out for? Was I still in the hospital? So many questions were running through my mind, making my headache even worse than it was before.

"I think she might be waking up" I heard another female voice say. Oh no, oh no ... they knew I was waking up, quick Lana, try and pretend that you are still asleep! However, it seemed that my luck stopped right there as I felt someone put their hand on mine. Tingles spread right through my entire body. It was similar to the tingles and warmness that my mother always told me about when you find your mate. But ... how? Justin rejected me? Or did he take it back?

Needing answers, I decided to try and open my eyes, needing to find out why he was with me in the hospital and who the strange voices belonged to. I tried, again and again, to push through the barriers that kept my eyes closed. I groaned, feeling the uneasiness spread through my body.

"Hold on little one, just breathe through it and try" I heard the man say again. Why did his voice sound so melodious to me? Suddenly, it was like a weight had been lifted off my eyes as I started to slowly blink them open again. I immediately shut them closed again as the bright white light in the room felt too much to bear. I took a few deep and easy breaths, trying to get myself to open them up again, I slowly started blinking them open again, slowly opening them up more each time I blinked.

I turned my head a little to the side, to try and see exactly where I was. With my luck, I would most probably be in one of the mortuaries being treated or something like that. My eyes fully fluttered open as I turned my head straight again to look ahead of me. I stared ahead of me, looking for a long time and waiting for my vision to fully adjust and the blur to go away. Seeing a lady, dressed in navy scrubs looking at me with a sympathetic smile, as if she wanted to tell me that everything would be okay. I didn't trust her. The only person I could ever trust in this pack was Carla. All the other pack members always made it their mission to hurt me.

I hesitantly looked to my left, only to see a tall built, tanned, and dark-haired guy with green eyes staring at me. I didn't know who he was, he most definitely wasn't a member of our pack. His eyes had dark circles underneath them as if he hadn't slept at all for a week. A smile that broke out on his face when he saw me looking at him didn't make sense at all. I mean, no one ever smiled when they saw my face. To all the other pack members, I was just the young girl who killed her parents.

"Lana?" The doctor said as she tried to get my attention again. I also didn't recognize her as one of our pack's doctors. Two strangers around me. Where the hell was I? How did they know my name? Panic immediately started to set in again and I heard the monitor next to me start to beat out of control again. Can this thing stop beeping already?!

"Alpha! You need to try and calm her down otherwise I would need to sedate her again! All of this isn't good for her injuries! She'll start bleeding out again!" The doctor shouted over all the chaos. The strange man abruptly stood up out of his chair and placed both of his hands on my shoulders, trying to press me down to the bed in order to get my body still. I was still trashing around, needing to get out of this place. It wasn't safe here. I didn't know these people. For all that I know, my brothers set me up to be beaten and broken down again. Maybe that was because I was in the hospital. They would be able to get me fully healed again and then break me down again.

"Lana, sweetie, I know you don't know me and I know that you don't know us and that you don't trust us, but please ... I am begging you, you need to calm down now." the guy said as he brought his hands up and cupped my face in it, making sure that I was staring deep into those green orbs of his. I just closed my eyes and slowly nodded my head. Knowing that if I don't do what they say, they might end up hurting me even more than the pain that was currently radiating through my body.

"Good, thank you Alpha!" The doctor said before she turned her attention to me. What did she mean by Alpha? Was I no longer in my pack? Were my brothers dethroned and did someone else take over the pack? How long was I out for? Thankfully, the doctor seemed to have picked up on all the thoughts that were coursing through my mind. She just smiled at me before walking over to the open side of the bed. She took a seat right next to me, which was pretty unusual for a doctor to do. She put her hand on mine and softly looked at me.

"Lana, you are in the hospital. You are at the Wanheddi Pack. Our Alpha was at your brothers' Alphas ceremony. He saw what they did to you. Can you perhaps tell me why a pack and its ranked members would treat you so badly?" she asked me, seemingly wanting to press to get some answers out of me. I didn't want to tell her. What if they were working with my brothers and found this to just be a cruel joke in order to torture me some more? I would not talk to her, never. The doctor just stared at me before sighing.

"It's okay if you don't want to talk about everything. This might just be your brain's way to protect you from all the trauma that happened. But, not to worry, we'll help you out with everything that you need. I do have all of your scans and test results. You have broken your wrist, you also have many broken ribs, and from what I can see on the x-rays, this might not be the first time you got injured like this. Your lip also seems to be busted open. It should be able to heal in about 3 weeks perhaps. Then lastly, there is the head injury. You had some bleeding on the brain when Alpha Alexander brought you in, no doubt that the cause of that was also from that night. However, I have managed to drain most of the fluid and do the repairs. We have kept you in a medically induced coma for a month, in order to give your body the chance to heal. It seems like your wolf isn't healing you due to the nature of your injuries, so unfortunately you are healing at the rate that humans do" the doctor said, looking at me intently, making sure that I was taking in all the information she was throwing my way.

A coma? For a month? Alpha Alexander? All of this information felt like too much. I could feel the tears start to pool up in my eyes. This was too much to handle right now. What were these people expecting from me? Why did they save me? They should just have let me go the way I was supposed to.

"Doctor Manna, please leave us alone" the guy, who I assumed was Alexander, said. The doctor just nodded her head and slowly stood up, smiling at me and left the room. Alexander looked back at me, his eyes softened. I saw my own reflection is his green orbs.

"Look, Lana, I am so sorry that all of this had to happen to you. You don't deserve any of it, no matter what the reason was. But, I promise you, with all of my life that I will do everything and anything to ensure that no harm comes to you, as my mate" Alexander said as he leaned din closer to me.

I just stared at him with wide eyes, wait ... did he just say I was his mate?