Pills! 

Nora was left in a state of confusion and daze after Robin left, because of this sudden act. She had always been aware of the fact that no matter how tough he presented himself to be in front of everyone, he was the softest person anyone could ever meet.

She might have taken this train of her thoughts to another platform, had she not felt some uneasiness in her body and itchiness on neck and right shoulder. Thinking that Robin was indeed right- she definitely needed to take a shower, she stood up from her chair and went towards the bedroom.

Thinking that it was already late at night and nobody was really going to be there, she decided to come back only in a bathrobe. After that, she would have plenty of time to decide what she would wear after that, as the itch was spreading angrily at every part of her body.

That's why she entered the bathroom, with the thought of getting rid of whatever was going on, but ended up noticing red patches on her body.

"Gosh! I might need to take an anti-allergic," thinking this, she opened the tap for a good relaxing hot shower.

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David realised that what he was doing should never have been his concern, and it could be a fair chance to eliminate Nora… or say, the entire Moon pack from this competition this time, by just proving that Frederick had misused his power and used the drug for lower rank wolves. Meanwhile, he was about to jump off the boundary wall. The realisation that Frederick would never do anything like this to his own daughter made him want to bang his own head against that particular boundary.

Like, what the hell was he thinking! After all, how could a father be this cruel- it was just that the whole competition thing and politics was corrupting his mind.

And with this thought, he was about to jump back and return to his palace when he saw Nora coming out of the bathroom and searching for something. It did not take her more than a minute to find the box she was looking for, from which she pulled out a strip of medicine. From this distance, the composition of that medicine was not clear to him.

It did not take him more than fifteen seconds to cross all the distance between the boundary to the balcony of her room, because even before he could have decided what he was supposed to do, his wolf had taken the required action to save the same person whom he needed to kill at the first chance he got. 

But while he was finally realising what he had done and where he was, he saw Nora getting out of balance because of seeing a large wolf on her balcony.

And again, before he could have realised that his wolf had decided to shift back and his human feet had already crossed the balcony and held her before she could fall.

Grabbing her waist and pulling her towards himself, he held her right hand to take the strip of medicine to throw it away. And before he could have said anything, he was captivated by her beauty for a moment, as her wet hair had just reached her shoulder, in a completely messy state and water was dripping down from the tangled locks. Her bare face was looking like a pink apple, with some redness spotted haphazardly while her sapphire green eyes were glittering.

And this moment of him being lost somewhere in this beauty would definitely have gone on for much longer, if she had not screamed her lungs out, because- well, only Moon Goddess knows why! 

"Aaaaaaaaa! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" 

"SAVING YOU?"

"FROM WHOM? YOURSELF?"

Saying this, she pushed him and managed to stand on her own feet, while trying to figure out what he really wanted to do after snatching the anti- allergic pills from her and appearing there in the middle of the night in a half opened shirt and blue jeans. But while she was trying to figure out what was going on, she saw him rubbing his ears, as he opened his mouth. 

"Ahh! Why do you always have to be so loud?"

"LOUD? ME?"

"No, I am sorry, it was me who was screaming at the top of my lungs! Like Lady! Has nobody ever taught you to be gentle and graceful -"

"Oh, really! That's rich, coming from someone who himself didn't have any single clue about how a gentleman would act. If you did, then tell me, what are you doing in my room in the middle of the night, in this get- up of yours?"

Nora interrupted David and made him aware of his own messy state, making him hurriedly close the buttons of his shirt and regret his decision of getting in the blunder he currently was in. 

While quickly buttoning his shirt in a huff, he spoke again;

"It was just a mistake, otherwise I was here to save you from taking these -"

Saying this, he placed the strip of the medicine in front of her and was about to continue, when he heard her finish his sentence with a dry voice. 

"From taking the anti- allergics , so that I can die because of this stupid allergy?"

This was the time when he realised that she was not lying, but he was really holding a strip of anti-allergic pills, and she had red rashes all over her neck and shoulder.

He didn't know what got into him once again as he took two steps further, filling the gap between both of them as he asked, 

"How did you get them?" 

"I don't know…probably after eating that Alpha pudding -"

"Take a good cold shower, and you will be good- and don't mention it in front of anyone."

Giving her this brief advice, he turned his back and jumped off the balcony, covering the same distance that he had just covered a few minutes ago, but this time with much more anxiety. 

How was it possible for Nora to be allergic to Alpha pudding? No Alpha could be allergic to the Alpha pudding, and no lower rank wolf could survive after eating it… so then, once again, all the fingers were pointing towards one thing, but it was also not possible- then what was hiding under the cover of reality? 

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