<b>hapter </b><b>134 </b>
Wednesday, January 24th: Opin
<b>(</b><b>Cole’s </b>POV<b>) </b>
<b>I </b>wake up screaming, thrashing and fighting. My body aches as if the beating had just happened hours ago not four days and I’m in an absolute patile arabi. I’m vaguely aware of my door opening quickly, mming hard against the wall.
<b>“</b>Cole!”
I can hear my name being called but I’m lost andpletely unnerved, struggling hard toe to my senses. It’s only as I feel the strong presence of the alpha over me and his voice,manding my attention, that I finally start mentally grabbing hold of where I am.
<b>I </b>start concentrating on one sense at a time, allowing myself the time I need to slowlye back to reality. I stop screaming and still my body as alpha’s tightening hold makes it difficult to move. I concentrate on my breathing next as the slight wheeze I’ve developed makes it difficult to hear.
1 steady my breathing in an effort to take in the smell of the room and those who are in it. The bed is clean. Not a single other scent is on it telling me it’s a medical bed but the room itself doesn’t have the same scent. I take a moment to really think about where I have smelled something like this before and <b>it </b>slowly dawns on me that I’m in the medical room beside the alpha’s room. Just like <b>every </b>pack house has a medical wing they also have a medical room near the alpha for those who are injured but don’t need constant monitoring. <b>I’ve </b>never been in the medical room back home making it a lot easier to rx<b>. </b>
Alpha picks up on my slowly rxing state immediately. He lowers his body even <b>closer </b>to mine<b>, </b>moving his arm even closer to my face.
“I can tell you’re trying to use scent to figure out where you are. Seek my scent Cole. I promise<b>, </b>you are safe here<b>.</b><b>” </b>
His positioning is perfect as I’m suddenly overwhelmed by the strong unmistakable<b>/</b>scent <b>of </b>an alpha male. I jerk my head away from his arm, whining lightly as the back of my head is stopped by his other arm, as I adjust to what I smell. <b>He’s </b>clearly not my father but his <b>scent </b>has delicate <b>and </b>barely perceptible hints of emotions that I’ve never smelled on an alpha before.
“Is he okay, Demetri? He got quiet really quick.”
1
“I think so. His breathing and heart rate are slowly returning to normal. We just need to <b>give </b>him some time to wake up. Whatever he was dreaming was very real to him. Cole, can you show me that you’re awake even if you don’t want to open your eyes yet?<b>” </b>
I start moving my arms to <b>see </b>if one is loose enough to allow me meaningful movement. To my surprise alpha adjusts his full body hold on <b>me </b>enough for me to roll towards my stomach and put my left hand on the bed.
I start sliding my hand blindly on the sheet, searching for alpha’s hand. It’s as I <b>feel </b>alpha’s body and this time his aura closing in on me again that I freeze my movements and weakly whimper as I try to curl into a ball. The only auras I have ever known have been dark, cold and painfully dominating. No matter the alpha, I have always struggled to breathe in their very presence when their aura is ring.
“You seem to be afraid of me. It’s my aura, isn’t it?<b>” </b>
I slowly nod my head before realizing that <b>I’ve </b>answered the wrong way. I quickly cover my head waiting for the blows to follow.
“Demetri,” I hear luna whisper <b>as </b>if it knocked the <b>very </b>wind out of her in shock.
“I know this will be a challenge for you as it doesn’t seem your interactions with alpha’s have been positive in any way but I need you to concentrate on me. Allow yourself to feel my aura, I know that my angry aura can be painful and oppressive but this one isn’t. My kids seek this aura all the time. The worst you will feel is confused if you have never felt it from your own father.”
<b>The </b><b>Son </b>of <b>Red </b><b>Fang </b>