The deal with Alpha Grimes

Kate's POV

Mitchell's face had transformed to look just like mine. My face was comparable to a sick patient, drained out of blood, and similar to a person that could be regarded as a walking corpse.

"The man she told me about?" She muttered to herself.

I was the only person who heard her.

She ordered a stretcher to be used in carrying me to the sitting room.

"What really happened?" She asked.

They had brought a bowl filled with water, and a small towel was placed in it.

She dipped her fingers into it, and raised the towel out of it, allowing the vapor to go off before placing it on my head.

"You haven't said anything," she said to Ellen.

"I don't know, but I had seen her kiss the man who called her mate."

Ellen's statement felt like nails piercing into her ears, and she moved her head closer to my ears. "Is that true?"

I could not speak at that point, and there was no way she was going to believe what Ellen had said.

Derek came out of the room to see me.

"What happened to her?" He directed his gaze from me to look at Ellen.

"I... don't know." Her voice was breaking.

It was too much trouble for her to answer a question that she had no meaningful answer to, and fear had also gripped her. The first instance was because I wasn't okay, and the next instance was because she was a maid assigned to watch out for me. It was a heavy weight for her.

"How is she?" He asked Mitchell.

The towel felt warm to my head, and she rubbed it softly to give me some relief. The stress in running from the mating ball was not the only thing that had put me in such a state.

I was not okay before going, but had simply gone because Mitchell had asked me to. I had been on my bed for about three days. The dream had kept recurring to me, and it was always painful. The man in my dream had kept appearing in different ways, turning the fear he caused in me to the physical pain I was feeling.

Mitchell and Derek gave a suspicious gaze at Ellen. No one could explain except me.

"I do not understand what transpired."

They did not take their eyes off her, and anyone would have thought that they were trying to read her mind. They couldn't as their abilities were not up to that.

"Ellen do not know," I said with a muffled voice.

"Then what happened to you?" Mitchell asked.

Unfortunately for her, I could not speak more words. In that state, I was carried into my room, and Mitchell would not leave my side. Ellen came in after, and she sat on the bed, closer to my head. Seeing her by my side, I held her hand in a soft grip.

I could hear everything that was being said. My eyes were also opened, and everything happening was clear to me. What I lacked was strength to speak.

Mitchell was still pressing the towel on my head, but her eyes were still on Ellen, trying to plead with just a gaze.

"I was a bit far from her," Ellen started. "She kept on saying pale blue eyes, moving away from her mate."

"Pale blue eyes?" Curiosity endowed Mitchell's face.

They knew about the details of my dream, but could not reason out why it was related to my mate.

"Yes."

Mitchell sighed, and focused her eyes on me. She would wait till I was able to explain everything myself.

At least the suspicious gaze on Ellen had reduced. Mitchell tried to wrap her head around the possible reasons why I'd said "pale blue eyes".

"Did you see this mate of hers?"

Ellen shook her head. "When I got to where she was with him, she had already run outside. I had to focus on meeting up with her."

"The dream is having an effect on her," Derek said.

"The dream she told us?"

"Yes." He left my side. "That's the only thing I can do. She keeps saying "pale blue eyes."

A cold shiver went down Mitchell's spine. What she feared could be a fact, she would have thought.

Derek left the room.

The room turned dead silent, and it heightened the fear that was already visible in my face, allowing it to toil deeper into me. But then, I was not the only person that was being tortured by fear, Mitchell was also a candidate. It was scary to see me going down that day.

Derek opened the door, and was holding a scroll.

"We can check out some things in this scroll."

It was a scroll containing details about me, details about my birth and so many things that revealed my abilities. With time, we had written important information that concerned my abilities, and affinity. Should there be a problem with me, the scroll was the first thing to consult.

"Check for the last dream she had," Mitchell said.

Derek turned on a torchlight, pointing it on the scroll to find it.

"The last dream she had was about the pale blue-eyed man she told us about."

"And we had told her to attend the mating ball."

The scroll had become useless in regards to me.

"But what does the dream have to do with the ball?" Derek was closing the scroll. "It's most likely that she's hallucinating. The same man in her dream cannot end up being in the ceremony."

Mitchell took the towel to my swollen legs, pressing it softly. "We have no other way but to hear from her once she gets better.

Just then, one of the guards came to knock on my room door. It was taken to be something urgent, as he didn't wait for Derek to leave my room.

"What's it?" He asked the guard.

The door was still open, and I could hear everything.

"The Alpha of the Crest pack, Alpha Grimes, is here, he claims he wants to take Kate with him."

Derek quickly closed the door to stand on the other side of the door.

Mitchell stopped pressing the towel on my leg. She stiffened, and the look on her face changed. Ellen, who was beside us, wanted to ask her what exactly was the problem, but she didn't, considering her status as a maid.

I felt whatever was happening was worth my immediate attention. The guard had mentioned my name, but I didn't hear the other things he said.

"Mum.... What's the issue?"

She didn't speak, but instead, held my hand tightly. I gave up asking what the issue was.

Derek came into the room again. "The Alpha of the Crest pack is here, and he wants Kate to go with him."

Things felt confusing for me. I had just returned from the mating ball in a bad state. I was yet to explain to Derek and Mitchell what exactly happened, but another problem had come up.

"He promised to let go of the tribute. Why is he here again?"

Derek sat on the other side of the bed, gently stroking my arm. "I told him she was too sick for anything."

"But we don't know the exact problem Kate is having, and we still have a problem changing the bad fate that has been decided by her dream."

I had a clue of what they were talking about, but I could remember the event when Alpha Grimes had a deal with Derek to help protect our pack from invasion.

Derek had made predictions for the invading pack, and for some reasons, some of his predictions didn't turn up. The invading pack failed to understand it, and decided to go against us. Alpha Grimes saved us from the chaos.

He had asked us for a price, and that price was me, but how was it possible for Derek to give me out as a price?

"Grimes is outside, waiting to meet her."

I just listened to them, clenching my fingers.

Ellen went between them. "Kate found a mate! And she ran from him!"

The room went silent, and my heavy breathing was the only sound they could hear. No one had taken Ellen's statement about my finding a mate to be true. Since she could not tell what happened, they felt it was likely that I hadn't got a mate.

"Is he the same man she called 'pale blue-eyed'?"

Ellen nodded.