A Maiden's Dilemma

Uncontrollable

Harris watched the strange girl he had just saved from the stream lying on the bed, immersed in her sleep. He could not take his eyes away from her. Even as she slept, his wolf could not help but want her. His eyes took in her body in its beauty, and made it a thing to be lusted after.

He let out his hand and ran it through her curly hair. He knew that the both of them had had a mate bond, but as much as he wanted it, he was not sure if it was something he was prepared for.

He heard footsteps from outside and retracted his hands back, as fast as he could, pretending to himself that he had not made a move in the first place.

There was a knock on the door that startled him from the solemn moment he had found himself in. A knock that drove him back to the present where it was all happening

"Come in now." Harris said, giving permission.

A middle aged woman wearing a black and white maid's outfit came in holding a tray with a bowl and some other objects on it. She seemed to smile from her eyes.

"Welcome Nanny Fay" he said to her, smiling as well to her.

"Thank you, my child" the woman said, staring at Bella. "So this is the woman the scouts told me to come tend to?"

"Yes, she is."

"Well seems there is a lot she must have gone through to have ended up this way. "

Bella's face was still bloodied. Some parts of it were swollen and covered in nothing but dirt.

Harris was quiet for a while before realizing that the old woman was talking to him. His eyes shot at her.

"Oh, yeah, I think she has quite a story to tell too" he said, rubbing his left shoulder with his right arm.

Nanny Fay took a towel that was right there on the tray, dipped it in the bowl, and used it to rub on Bella's face. The more she cleaned the face of the girl, the more her facial structure was apparent.

"No, mom! Dad please don't go!" Bella screamed in her sleep as Nanny Fay cleaned her up.

"She seems to be having a bad dream." Nani Fay chuckled.

"I see that. Is there anything we can do about that?" Harris asked at once, he was fully ready to try anything at the time.

Nanny Fay chuckled once again. "And there is my sweet boy. Always wanting to help others in need. I know your mother would be really proud of the man you have become and are going to become in the future."

Harris did not say a word to reply or respond to that. His eyes found its way to the floor. "Can we not talk about that woman."

Nani Fay's old face got saddened. "Well if that is what you wish, dear Beta. She picked up the tray and got up from the bed. "I believe she is now good. You said there might be a wound on her torso. Well I believe the wound has healed now. There is nothing much left to make a touch to until she gets awake. Now if you excuse me, I have other things to do."

With those words Nanny Fay took to her leave, bowing before doing so.

Harris said nothing to her. He did not mean to be rude, but he did not like talking about his mother. It only reminded him of things he did not want to to be reminded of.

"It's okay. It's okay. Just sit back and relax." He leaned backwards into the chair to be comfortable, and then he looked back at the girl. Her eyes were opened slightly. She was awake, watching him.

He did not make a move. He did not want to startle her. He watched her as she got back to sleep. She did not seem strong enough to get up. Her eyes were as alluring as they were the very first moment he saw them, blue, light, and sad.

His head spun around as he felt his wolf howl within him—mate! He let out a growl "mine" he said. Soon he got back control of himself and stood up from the chair.

"What am I doing?" He lamented to himself, opening the door. "I do not need a mate now." His waist length hair floated behind him.

"Wait, angel" Bella let a whisper right through her lips as she watched him go out of the door. In her eyes all she could see was a hazy long blond haired figure, walking out of the door. The hair seemed to look like wings. He resembled an angel to her.

He left the room. She woke up a few minutes later.

"Where am I?" she asked herself, as if expecting any real answer at the time. Her face was pressed on the bed. The folds of the cover she was laying on appeared in her eyes like desert sand.

She stood up. Her eye sight was no longer blurry. The wound on her torso had healed. There was nothing to be doing staying here. She could smell the river. It was not far from the room she was in as much as her nose could tell. She found her way to the window. The sun was high above the clouds, crowning itself as the yellow jewel of the sky. It was noon.

"How long have I been here?" she asked herself. She was in a room at the highest floor of the building. She could tell from how high up from the ground she could see. "If I jump, I will surely die. But I need to escape this place as soon as I can."

She heard the sound of footsteps and the door opened. Harris came in. His hazel eyes were as piercing as the light that stabbed in through the window. All of a sudden she could feel the tremendous pull that he had on her. His scent filled up the room immediately. But she had to pretend.

"Oh, you are awake" Harris said in a surprised tone. He froze in speech as he saw that she was standing just by the window.

She looked at him, her blue eyes as alluring as they had always been. He caught himself staring immediately, looked away, and then strengthened his gaze a second time.

"Don't tell me you were about to run away" Harris noted, staring at the window and back. "You do realize that if you jump from there you will die right?'

She stayed quiet for a while, looked out of the window, and took measure of the height again, before turning back to look at Harris.

"Who are you people?" she asked.

"We are the Riverbed Pack, and you can call me Harris Whitemane, son of late Alpha Henry Whitemane, and brother to Alpha Levi Whitemane" Harris replied. "But now you have to answer my own questions. Who are you, and what were you doing on our land, bleeding?"

"You are not the even the Alpha of your Pack, why should I answer your questions?" Bella replied, giving him a shock.