Chapter 26
Karl’s POV
Even though I had always treated Valerie as a toy I could play with and a prize I would win after the bet with Mike was complete, I never imagined seeing her in such a bad state.
Of course, she had been beaten many times before by pack members. Sometimes I would step in and offer some protection, just to improve her impression of me and make it easier for me to win the bet.
At times I would just let them beat her. After all, a good slave needed training.
But I never imagined seeing her beaten to an inch of her life. Even without touching her, I could tell she was breathing out more than she was breathing in.
The air in her lungs was running out, probably because some broken bones were poking her lungs.
If the doctors didn’t move quickly, she would definitely die.
I felt anger that I had never felt before. How dare anyone turn my prey into such a mess?
Now, even if I showed concern, Valerie wouldn’t know because she had been beaten into unconsciousness.
Then I heard Mike calling my name and asking me if I was staying for the exam.
How dare he ask? It was his romance debt that had caused my prey to be turned into such a thing. Don’t think I didn’t see Innocent in the room when we came in. She must have done this to Valerie.
I always wonder how Mike couldn’t tell that the bitch was a green tea.
She was far from being innocent. In fact, she was a devil. I had once come across her ordering thugs to violate a girl just because she had talked to Mike, or done something for him,I couldn’t remember the details.
The way she had emphasized about them letting the girl have a taste of being played by multiple men so that she would stop eying other people’s men made me understand that her innocent and understanding personalities were just a facade she put for the naive to see.
I couldn’t believe that Mike had been deceived by such cheap tricks. But that was none of my business, so I never got involved.
Even when the girl was found ruined and accused of a massacre and executed, I never said anything. After all, she had nothing to do with me.
But Valerie was different. She was supposed to be my prize, my prey. If anything happened to her, someone would have to pay, and that someone is Innocent.
I don’t care if she was Mike’s lover or chosen Luna. I will make her regret ever being born if Valerie did pull through.
I snapped from my thoughts and realized that Mike was looking at me differently. Only then did I realize that I had let my mask drop. I couldn’t afford to expose my thoughts, so I pulled myself together and composed my expression.
“I want to make sure she is okay.” I replied to Mike after he asked me for the second time if I would remain in the room during the examination.
“How can you remain here? You are a man. Men and women should keep their distance.” Mike countered.
“Aren’t you a man as well? Why aren’t you leaving?” I shot back.
Even though Valerie was his mate, I had no intention of letting him have her first. I am not one to eat leftovers. So, I wasn’t letting him have Valerie’s first time.
And I had to take precautions against that without being too obvious. I was still in his territory after all.
“She is my mat Mike shot back without thinking before stopping abruptly as he realized that there was a third person in the room.
However, it was already too late. The female doctor had her mouth wide open in shock looking between Mike and Valerie on the bed.
She looked at them back and forth until Mike spoke again.
“Look one more time and I will dig your eyes out. Also, if what was said in here leaves this room, you can expect a heavy punishment p>
This seemed to snap the doctor back to reality and she immediately apologized and promised to never breathe a word to anyone.
She looked at the two of us and suggested, “Why don’t the two alphas wait outside as well? It might be uncomfortable for Valerie if she wakes up and finds men watching her while naked p>
I didn’t have any objections to that, after all, I didn’t want to piss off Valerie before my goal was achieved.
“But I Mike began protesting but I didn’t give him the chance.
I pulled him by the shoulder and walked out of the room before shutting the door behind us.
Valerie’s POV
I heard the door click and only then did I struggle to open my heavy eyes.
I had lost consciousness the moment Mike and Karl walked into the room, but the pain was too much for me and it brought me back.
I had been awake all this time as the two alphas competed in the size of their ego.
It was sad to see that they had time to argue about whether to stay in the room and watch me be examined or not while I was in agony on the bed.
Both of them only cared about their interests and no one seemed to understand that I was in excruciating pain and I had serious injuries that needed to be attended to.
The doctor lowered herself to move me a little closer for a thorough examination when I opened my eyes.
This somehow shocked her and she looked at me as if she had seen a ghost.
“You can still stay awake with such injuries?” She asked softly as she took a pair of scissors to cut off my dress.
She was afraid of making big movements while taking off my clothes and making my injuries worse. So, she decided to just cut the clothes off my body.
“The pain is the reason I am forced to stay awake.” I answered in what I gathered was almost a whisper.
“You are strong Valerie. Hang in there.” The doctor encouraged me and she was the first person to genuinely praise me since my mother’s death.