Sold To The Alphas I Hate - Chapter 157

Chapter 157: I Took Her Out For Walk
Rafe’s POV

We reached home. Just as we stepped out of the vehicle, Fluffy came towards us, barking, almost jumping on Eira.

My hand moved to her back to keep her steady and warned the overly excited dog. “You better be careful around her, or I will cut that wagging tail of yours.”

Fluffy clearly understood my warning and cooed pitifully, shrinking to her side.

Eira petted his head gently. “It’s alright, Fluffy.”

She was still far from smiling or showing any visible happy expressions on her face, but at least she talked, and there was ease in her actions.

“You need to rest a little,” I told her, “Also, eat something… sweet maybe… You will feel better.”

Surprisingly, she didn’t deny my suggestion and followed me inside the home, with Fluffy tailing behind us. When I entered, only Kael was in the drawing room, still working on his laptop and busy on the meeting call.

He had his eyes on us through the wall-size glass window since the moment we arrived, but he continued his work.

I made her sit in her place, where Vixen was waiting for her on the mattress where Eira always sat. The moment she saw Eira, the fatty got up on her paws and looked at Eira, as if asking her where she had gone and why it took her so much time.

Eira sat down and picked up Vixen in her arms, snuggling her against her chest with care. It was as if it wasn’t Vixen who enjoyed cuddling Eira, but the other way round.

My decision to bring that pitiful cat home with me was truly worth it.

I looked for something sweet in the kitchen and found chocolates. Among us five, there was that one gigantic guy who strangely loved eating chocolates often.

Lucian.

We had one grown-up kid with sweet tooth with us.

I picked up a few chocolates and offered them to Eira. She looked at them for a while, as if thinking or maybe remembering something, and then took all of them from my hand. I raised a brow. It felt like she liked these chocolates as well.

When it came to her eating preferences, Lucian always seemed to have all the answers. Not only did he know what she liked to eat, but even his preference of chocolates matched hers.

Kael had finished his meeting by that time. I went to him and settled on the sofa.

He looked at me.

I raised a brow, asking ‘what?’

“That was the first and the last time you did it,” he told me in a strict tone.

I sighed inwardly. So he already knew where I was taking Eira.

Of course he knew, as it was his estate and nothing should miss him. But the fact that he didn’t stop me meant he approved of what I did.

Of course he will as this was how he helped me, and I have learned it from him.

“Don’t worry, she can remain sane enough to understand right and wrong even when she is angry,” I told him, “She won’t turn into a monster that you are worried about. You can pass the message to that doctor as well.”

I had tested it when I asked her to hurt me. She hadn’t lost her mind even after killing someone.

Kael didn’t respond and looked at Eira. After a moment of silence, he finally spoke.

“You did well yesterday,” he said and looked at me, “You handled her really well. I am thankful.”

He was referring to when I went to her in the prison cell.

“I couldn’t see her in pain,” I said, taking a little pause, “…and you as well.”

He stilled for a moment, but then got his composure back. “You know?”

I hummed and explained. “That night you left home in the middle of the night, and I followed you. I was just worried for you, but didn’t expect the next.”

He didn’t comment and lowered his gaze to the laptop screen. He had nothing to say in response to his own guilt now.

“Aren’t you going to tell others?” I asked anyway.

“Not for now,” he resumed his work.

“Well, that’s fine as well, or they will be buried in guilt to know why you were so pale the next morning after they tortured her in the stable that night,” I commented.

Kael didn’t comment on it. He had experienced every bit of pain she had ever suffered, the reason for all of his painful nights for the past six years. But how could that be? Even I was confused now, and he must be as well.

That night, if I had known what Jason and Lucian were going to do with Eira, I would have stopped them. At that time, I was upset with her as well, but I would have stopped them in my indifferent way…at least for Kael’s sake I wouldn’t have allowed them to torture her.

Whenever my brothers tried to harm her, I always had some logical reasons for them not to hurt her. Though my comments felt like they were coming from my hate towards her, in fact, I never wanted them to hurt her.

When Jason added celery in her meal, I was the one to notice it first and passed the comment that she was allergic to it. As I had expected, Roman hurried to save her.

All I had to do was drop a hint for any one of these four, and one of them would hurry to save her at that moment.

“Other three?” I asked Kael.

“Getting ready in their rooms,” he replied, “Roman is leaving for the office, Jason and Lucian are going to resume their work on what we are looking for.”

I hummed, only to hear him speak, “What about the cellphones you were working on?”

“I managed to get the last calls Eira and Alice made to someone. Alice’s last call was to Eira. Their last talk on call was with each other. Given the timing, it seems like Eira went to her after Alice called her,” I explained further, “The devices are truly broken worse. It seems like Alice’s cellphone was smashed on purpose and left in water for long. While Eira’s cellphone was too old and ragged and then got damaged that night. But I am trying to get any message history I can.”

“How long?” Kael asked, a little impatient.

“It’s been only a day since I started working on it,” I replied calmly, “I want to work on it faster, but things take time, and I am not a God to fix it with some finger-flick magic. It might take a little while.”

Just then the others came out of their rooms, all dressed up to leave. All three of them passed me suspicious gazes and then looked at Eira.

Seeing her normal and busy with her pets as usual, they were assured she was fine, and stopped glaring at me.

“Liam is coming to check on her,” Kael told us all, “you guys can leave or wait for him, as you wish.”

As Kael said, obviously they were going to wait. Every one of us felt responsible towards her and needed to know her situation.

Liam arrived shortly. Isla wasn’t with him.

He checked Eira as he tried to talk with her, but she didn’t respond to him and paid all her attention to her pets. She still held a grudge against him, despite he had already explained it wasn’t him who told us about her son.

“We have to be careful not to upset her afterwards,” Lucian mumbled, as we watched her while sitting on the sofa.

“We are yet to pay for the past ones. The new ones will surely call for our deaths,” Roman commented.

All of a sudden, it felt like we all had to walk on thin ice while being around her.

Liam returned to us after he was done with her. As he settled on the sofa, we all waited for him to talk.

“She looks much better,” Liam said, “unlike how I expected her to be after last night. Wasn’t she breaking into frequent cries or anything? Seeing her so calm is like a miracle at this moment. Isla would be pleased to know it.” He smiled teasingly. “I want to believe you guys had a share in it, but somehow I can’t.”

“Not sure a miracle, but I took her out for a nice walk,” I commented with a smirk, “she seemed to have liked it a lot. I will make sure I have such frequent walks with her.”

I felt Kael’s cold stare towards me. Yeah, just a while ago he warned me, but… I am just me… I do what I do…

There was a saying in the werewolf world—never trust a Vampire, and I could be just that.

“Alright!” Liam said, “Now her wolf looks stronger and her mental situation a little improved, we can try her first shift and then go for her first heat.”

The moment he dropped those words, one particular word caught all of us. Heat.

I could feel, just like me, all the others had gone stiff.

If she went into heat, then she would have to mate with someone. Damn! Not sure what to think about it when she still hated all of us.

For me, I wouldn’t be mating with her, as I didn’t trust myself and I didn’t want to hurt her if my bloodlust took over.

Anyway, I wasn’t going to stay around her for long. After we took revenge for her, for us, and she was settled well with my four brothers, I would disappear.

If I stayed, I knew I would end up doing what my father ended up doing with my mother, despite the fact they were mates and he loved her with all his heart.

And I refused to turn like him. I will never be my father. I will never harm the woman I loved.

I will protect her from myself.