This put Liam on high alert and he began sobbing saying "No no no Clara please wake up, I beg you, Clara, please stop, don't scare me like this, please come back to me I beg of you." Liam kept trying to wake his wife up but it is proving futile.
Eric heard his cry and immediately ran to call on the attention of the doctor taking care of Gabe and dragged him inside Liam's room.
"Alpha please move aside let me handle this myself"
"Bring her back to me right this instant doc, you do that"
Liam said and stood eyes teary seeing bruises on every part of her beautiful skin.
"You are disturbing and distracting me Alpha, I can't concentrate on your heartbeat rate, I am not comfortable with that. Please alpha let me examine her alone"
"Alpha let him do his job please, I'll watch over her myself if it will make you comfortable," Eric said
"You better learn to cope with my heartbeat rate cause I am not moving an inch out of her sight I am not leaving her in the hands of any other man, she is my wife and my Luna, so you better do your job doc, else I will end you right where you stand right there permanently, then you will stop being distracted forever is that what you want?" Liam asked in fury
And the doctor had no choice but to do his job of examining Clara, while Liam was standing close to them both.
Hours later after thoroughly examining her, the doctor said,
"Alpha, she is alive, yes but the stress she has undergone all this month together with losing her child has made her unconscious, and this will take a lot of time. She is in a coma and I can’t say when she will wake up, but if you find any changes do well to call on me"
"I don't have to call on you, you should do your job by coming here every day to check on all of the people who got hurt today, as for my Luna I will take care of her myself"
"Okay, Alpha there is just one thing I want to say, please she will be needing extra care and rest. Her body is weak and she has lost the will to fight. Right now she needs you more than any doctor in the world, you need to reach deep within her to bring her back to us"
"I've heard you, you can leave now"
"Alright Alpha, Goodnight." With that said, the doctor bowed and left Liam's room.
Liam kept watching over Clara "I'm sorry this is all my fault I shouldn't have let you go alone that night I'm sorry... I am so sorry"
Eric saw all this and couldn't bear it anymore he left him alone, he saw he needed time alone with his wife. So he left them feeling heartbroken he went down to Gabe's room. His injury was healing slowly, and Jasi was not at all okay. She was scared for her husband Gabe. Seeing all this, his head was full he was the only one who wasn't hurt physically or going through any pain except emotionally. He felt guilty and he left. He needed to clear his thoughts so he went out to the border.
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"Ariana, you will not be servicing the master tonight, he is going out for a business meeting so you are off duty for tonight. You can spend time with whomever you want." Miss C gave her command
"Thanks, Miss C," Ariana said.
'Since the master won't be here tonight now is my chance to do everything I can to leave this good-for-nothing place. Rather than service that foolish Beretta. I better follow tonight's cargo secretly and get out of this hell hole of a place
Just then Alpha Tyler came into her room and said,
"Beauty, I wish you can be with me all through the journey, but you can't it's too dangerous"
"Oh master, I should come with you to ease your stress."
"Come sit on my lap" Alpha commanded and Ariana walked up to him and did as he had commanded.
"Ariana my sweetheart I would love you to accompany me but then this is a dangerous place and I don't want anything to happen to my baby doll. So I will do all I can to end the meeting quickly today so that I return early and when I do we will have all kinds of fun."
"Okay master, I can't wait" and she planted kisses on his face to convince him she is an obedient subject just like she had always been since the day she moved here while secretly planning her escape quietly, she never forgot who she was.
"Oh you have such an effect on me baby, I wish I could spend more time with you but I have to go now see you later my tiger," Alpha said and kissed her deeply on the lips.
"See you later master" Ariana said seductively and Tyler left not until he had kissed her so deeply.
'Now is my chance, I guess the heavens haven't forgotten their own. I am not sure I will get this chance again, I have waited for this moment, longed for this chance to have him off my back for four years. Now it's time to leave.
"Beta it's time to go, leave that room we don't have all day buddy"
"Come on just a minute Alpha"
"Do not make me break down that door"
"Fine, I will be out soon. Just wait for me in the car will be right there with you"
Tyler sighed and went first into the car leaving Axel with his only woman, the only one he had ever noticed and fell in love with, Olivia Cooper, Clara's foster sister.
"Babe, I really have to go now or else we won't have a door anymore, I will see you later love."
"Sure, see you later babe" Olivia then Kissed him on the lips.
She had become fond of him over the years. Actually, they both found love, in each other's eyes.
After that, he left her and went after his grumpy friend and Alpha.
She (Ariana) trailed them until she knew they were out of sight. So she began making plans for her escape. She wasn't going to let this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity pass her by, so she opened a secret wall she had carved out and locked it behind her, then she headed discretely to the cargo. There were thousands of wolves then, she changed into their uniforms and painted her face as they did. She then blended into the crowd, she acted like a man so she could leave before the alarm blares that she had gone missing. So the best thing to do is to get to the first cargo goods and slip in before anyone notices.
Just then a big truck was ready to go so she attached herself under its engines, holding on tightly because her survival depended on this. She has gone through a lot of pain to actually feel the heat, on her face as anything.
The truck drove for close to an hour, she knew then that she was outside Tyler's territory because she wasn't blindfolded when she was brought in four years ago, she remembers every little detail so she gently let go and lay down in the dust so that they don't see her through the rearview mirrors.
When the truck was out of sight, she walked for a long time, to where she was taken and continued her journey, which was going to Alpha Liam's territory to seek refuge.
When she knew she was getting tired, she drank the water she kept in her work suit and ate the little cookie she had taken alongside her, then she changed into her wolf self and began running off to seek asylum at the only place she knew would accept her.
It was one of these times that Eric was at the border, keeping watch because he just couldn't bear seeing his friends falling apart, he loved each one of them.
Clara was in a coma, and Liam no longer cares about anything, he no longer bathes, no longer trains with the new wolves at the training ground, and hardly ever eats. He just sat there unmoved and lifeless for months holding on to Clara's hands all day. It is a pitiful sight.
Gabe finally recovered from his injury but his heart is broken, and he also has his hands full. His wife is almost due for labor. It's been six months since they rescued Clara from Xander's cruelty.
The whole town wasn't as bustling as it used to be, everyone was detached, no happiness at all, and everyone's spirits were broken.
Everyone kept praying to the goddess to bring back their beloved Clara.
Ariana ran as fast as her wolf would, she needed a good life, just then she saw some sentinels from afar. They were in charge of guarding Tyler's border to make sure no one gets in or out of Tyler's boundaries.
'Shit, I forgot about this, oh no, I just need to run around and see how it goes.'
So Ariana ran round and sneaked through the boundaries because there were fewer guards so as not to get caught. She successfully crossed the boundary and jumped up in excitement. She continued running, and after an hour she came close to the sentinels of Alpha Liam.
"Hold it right there, who are you, and state your business?" A guard said harshly.
Ariana had no choice but to change into her human form. She was a beauty goddess. The guard calmed down after seeing that it was a beautiful female. So he asked again this time in a gentler manner.
"Who are you pretty and where are you coming from?"
"My name is Ariana I am from the eastern part"
"Go back to this instance, no one from Tyler's territory is welcomed here," another guard said harshly. This made Eric who was about to lie down stand up abruptly and rushed to where the noise was from.
What he saw was something desirable, a female who was naked and her hair very messy covering her face that was bowed down so he got curious as to what was happening.
"What is it Nathan, why raise your voice like that?" Eric asked
"Sir, she made me shout"
"Control yourself, Nathaniel, do not disturb the peace" Eric said scolding him after which he turned to the stranger whose face was still faced down and naked and said to her
"State your business, where are you from and where are you headed?"
Ariana then said, "I am here to seek refuge, I am from Alpha Tyler's territory and am headed to Alpha Liam's territory for refuge."
"We don't accept people from Alpha Tyler's pack. So do well to leave now"
"Sir please I am not originally from there I was taken four years ago I managed to escape today because he isn’t home please give me refuge I beg of you"
"Get her some blankets it's getting too cold for her" Eric ordered and was about to leave when Ariana held onto his arms this took Eric by surprise he was startled.
"What else do you want?"
"I want to say thank you for accepting me" This time she raised her face Eric's eyes lighted up, and his body began feeling anxious. He managed to ask,
"What's your name?"
"I am Ariana and you good sir?
"Eric." Immediately she smiled at him and they locked eyes with his wolf self, and shouted 'mate.'
It was at this same time, that her wolf self-shouted 'mate.'
Just then the guard brought the blanket and Eric collected it from him and covered her himself, he was already being possessive.
Ariana's POV
"Wow!! Our mate is so handsome. Look how muscular he is, gray eyeballs oh my! He is even in a high position in this pack." Ariana's wolf said
"How come all the men attracted to us are people with high authorities?" Ariana asked her through a mind link
"It's a good thing we came here just in time to meet our fated mate, can't wait to get married to him and make love with a real man"
"Just shut up, we are yet to know each other and you are already talking about marriage. And where have you been for months?"
"Nowhere I thought you were getting used to living there with Tyler"
"You can use this tent for the night, or until I go back to town," Eric said, disrupting her conversation with her wolf.
"Thank you, um Eric"
Eric only nodded and went into his tent.
'Mate, so I have a mate? I wish it had been under better circumstances, I would have shown off to Gabe and Liam' Eric thought and drifted to sleep