SWNOVELS Chapter 0307
As soon as I enter my car, Jace's scent overwhelms me and tears start to brim in my eyes...I know it was more the pain, but he was my safety net and smelling him made me miss him even more right now. My hands stroke across the steering wheel, the leather cold under
my
touch.
"I'll follow closely behind." Knox crouches down by the open car door, his fingers like knots in his hands. He felt guilty, it wasn't his fault. None of this was his fault.
"There's really no need, feel free to go ahead."
"Not a chance Red, Alpha Hector is already going to kill me as it is."
"He doesn't need to know."
"Hmm..." He closes the door for me. I whince as I reach over for the seat belt, his hand tapping the back of my car as I watch him in the side mirror dart back towards me before changing his mind and moving to his bike.
He's very attentive. Every time we arrive at traffic lights he pulls up next to me and checks on me, he must be able to smell my wound still, smell the blood.
He's right, I should have healed by now.
The drive back is long, and I have to play music and keep the air conditioning on just to keep me fully alert. Thankfully the guards at the Dark Phantom's gate continue to recognise my car and don't expect me to wait, I really didn't want to explain the blood stained denim barely around my legs. I really didn't want my parents finding out about this.
But too late.
As I pull up to the house, Dad is on me, ripping my driver's door open, the engine still running. His eyes that of his wolf, my already weak body now frozen under his aura as he smells the air around me. He was angry at me for leaving without a word, but the anger that hums off him from the sight of my legs is like nothing I've ever witnessed before.
"Where were you?" I hear Mum ask Knox as he cuts his motorbike engine and removes his helmet, Doctor Abel walking by her side.
"We went to collect Josie's car." Knox responds.
"And you didn't think to tell me that you might have known where Jace could have been?" Dad growls at Knox, but his eyes remain on me, on my wounds. A whimper leaves me from his powerful aura before he but lowers it. Unlike my recent encounter with Jaxon, I don't dare fight Dad's aura.
"I asked him not to, I didn't want to scare Jace off. He called me, I didn't want him not to call me if he ever really does need help." I respond through gritted teeth, preparing to move but Dad's hand pushes my shoulder against the seat, preventing me from exiting. "Abel, here!" He roars, his eyes darting behind to Knox with a deathly stare.
"Holy crap, Josie, what happened?" Doctor Abel moves in, his usual calm tone turning slightly frantic.
"We came off the bike..." I start to explain but am cut off.
"You put my daughter in harm's way, I want you to pack your packs.." Dad venomously roars.
"No Dad, it's not his fault." Panic washes over me at the thought of Knox leaving, of being banished. I knew the time would come that he would need to leave but not yet, not from my doing. "Please, Dad, I made him take me...this isn't his fault. I'm the one to blame." I plead with Dad as Doctor Abel moves past Dad to crouch down by my side, his hands touching my wounds.
"We need to get you to the hospital huh?" His hands reach for me, as he assists me with stepping out of the vehicle. Mum gasps by Knox's side as the full extent of my injuries are on display. "You didn't think to call me?" Dad seethes through gritted teeth at Knox.
"I...I thought she would have healed...." Knox jumps off his bike and takes a step towards me, only to be blocked by Dad.
"Why isn't she healing?" Knox makes the mistake of growling at the notorious Dark Phantom Alpha. My heart beats too fast as Knox continues, now squaring up to Dad. Both males flashing their teeth at one another.
For once I was grateful to Jaxon for his interference. From out of nowhere he comes running over...pushing Knox at the shoulders and telling him to walk it off.