28- Hiding Her

                                    

                                          
The broken shards of glass were still digging inside my skin. My feet were hurting badly, but I could not stop running. I ran outside the hall and towards the car standing outside.
                          
As I stopped, heaving heavily while my hands trembled on the hood of the car, I realized I did not have the keys. Tears were slipping down my cheeks freely.
                          
I could not stand there. I wanted to go home. I wanted to sleep this bad dream away. 
                          
I turned around on my heels and stumbled forward on trembling legs. 
                          
A few steps ahead and I was falling down on my knees. 
                          
"What are you doing?" A sensual, low voice that I had come to recognize easily fell into my ears.
                          
Clenching my eyes tight shut, I refused to open them and look at the person standing in front of me. I hated her.
                          
"Are you hurt?" Her words did not contain worry, but there was no humour or laugh either. Just clear seriousness.
                          
"What do you care?" I mumbled through clenched teeth as my fuming gaze snapped up to her.
                          
"I do not." Aster rolled her eyes, "But the stench if your blood is too harsh to remain in my house."
                          
I gritted my teeth and managed to stand up on shaking legs. As soon as I was up, she stormed forward and grabbed my arm, dragging me towards the fountain that was in the middle of the pathway.
                          
"What are you doing!?" I struggled to get out of her grasp. 
                          
She pushed me down on the edge of the fountain and made me sit. Once I was seated, she grabbed my legs and turned me around, throwing my legs in the water.
                          
I immediately winced in cold and pain as the chilling water washed away the blood that was coating my feet.
                          
A minute later she turned me around again and sat down on the ground with my feet on her knees. I instantly snatched them back. 
                          
"What do you think you are doing?"
                          
I hated her. I loathed every fucking thing about her. She had snatched my happiness, my life away from me even after knowing that Liam is my mate. What was she trying to do now? Kill me with her kindness?
                          
Aster sighed in frustration and stood up from the ground. Her face was a mixture of annoyance and anger.
                          
"As you please." She stated, and turned away from me.
                          
I kept staring at her back but she did not go anywhere. I obviously could not demand her to fuck off considering it was not my house, I cursed under my breath and looked away. 
                          
Wincing in pain I put my left foot on the ground and put the right one on my knee to pull out the shard.
                          
"Fuck!" I hissed as the shard of glass came out and fresh blood started to spill out of it.
                          
I harshly wiped off the tears that were staining my cheeks but fresh ones unknowingly took their place again.
                          
"Fucking hell!" I cursed while trying to pull out more tiny pieces of glass.
                          
The blood was dripping down on the ground freely. As I was about to pull up my other feet to take out the shard, she turned around swiftly and grabbed my hand in hers.
                          
"Stop it!" She snapped.
                          
"What the fuck is your problem!" I shouted and snatched my hand back.
                          
"You are bleeding so fucking much, you idiot human." Aster spat in anger.
                          
"What is it to you?" I seethed. My gaze went to look downwards to pull out another shard.
                          
Just as my gaze dropped down, my head started spinning, making my head go blank and blackness covering my vision.
                          
"And here you go." Aster snapped in frustration.
                          
I opened my mouth to shut hers with another response but nothing came out. Instead, despite trying to take control over my mind, I started falling into unconsciousness.
                          
As I started falling backwards, into the cold water of the fountain, I felt a hand coming around my waist and lifting me up.
                          
"Fffuuck off!" I managed to mutter while fruitlessly fumbling with the arms that were lifting me.
                          
"Shut the fuck up or I am going to throw you into that fucking water and let you drown."
                          
I did not hear her last words. Before I could even process the words that had come out of her mouth, I was falling into unconsciousness.
                          
*****
                          
I
                          
opened my eyes as loud, shouting voices entered in my ears. I still was not conscious enough. The words that were being spoken angrily were feeling like they were echoing from the farthest corner of a hall. Irritating and upsetting me.
                          
"What the fuck were you thinking!" A male voice shouted, "I have been searching for her since last fucking night like a fucking dog! You even covered her scent so I would not be able to find her!"
                          
"So you are a dog." A girl snickered.
                          
"I am going to fucking kill you!" 
                          
"Just try! I want to see. Come on!"
                          
Coming slowly conscious, I looked around, trying to find what was going on. 
                          
My gaze fell upon Aster and Rush standing smack into each other's space. Eyes full of fire, they seemed to be about to kill each other.
                          
"Rush." I croaked out through dry lips. I did not want them to fight.
                          
Although my words were spoken in an almost inaudible tone, he heard them. Running towards me with hasty steps Rush fell down on his knees beside my bed. Worry was covering every line of his handsome face.
                          
"You alright?" He softly asked.
                          
"Yeah." I replied, "Do not fight with her, please."
                          
He clenched his teeth. He was furious and by the looks of him, obviously did not want to let the matter go so easily.
                          
"She hid you from me!" Rush fumed without raising his voice.
                          
"Hid me?" I asked, confusion was lacing my words.
                          
"Yeah! I could not find you from last night. No scent, no trace. Not a fucking thing to give me a clue except the pool of blood that was found beside the fountain. Do you even know what I have gone through in just a few hours! Do you even know what I was about to do if I had not gone mad searching for you through the whole damn pack?"
                          
His last words were spoken in a shout. Seeing me wince, he calmed himself down and continued, 
                          
"And Aster did not say one fucking thing! She ignored me and did not utter even one word about you!"
                          
My confused gaze went to Aster who was standing leaning against the door. 
                          
What even ran through this woman's mind?