Alpha Owen (Broken Series)

7. An Alpha Owen’s punishment

Owen

“Alpha, please take your medication on time. Don't make me worry anymore than I already do,” Dr. Reed started to lecture me while dressing my back wound. He had seen me having a headache in the room earlier.

“It has been two years now. I f*****g hate it. I don't need them. I am alright with out the stupid medication,” my response made him look at me in the mirror. He narrowed his eyes at me but then he focused on my wound when I raised my brows. He was the only one allowed to give me that look as this old man was the one who had helped my mother during her delivery. He had been my beer buddy and friend as well. He had treated me like a son since my birth. No matter how much I tried to push him away, this old man would nag me and stand by my side. Two years ago, an incident gave him even more opportunities to do so.

“If you don’t take the medication then…” I just got up from the table in irritation before he could say anything more. I was not in the mood to have this conversation yet again. I had not let him dress my wound properly, I just began to put on my shirt.

“Do you want to die!” He shouted while glaring at me. His worried eyes were fixed on my back.

“Yes,” I replied in an exceedingly nonchalant tone.

“Then why do you need to keep that female here? Just send her away with Adam. She loves him like she is his real mother and is not some weak wolf either. Just let her go if you are not planning to keep living. Don’t snatch Adam away from her. I don't know why but I think it's not just the child that you want but that female as well,” he grabbed his medical bag and decided to leave but earned a glare for his big mouth. I wanted her? No! How could he say something like that so casually! I threw the medicine bottle on the floor at his feet. He filched, looking away quickly.

“He is my son, I will decide what is best for him. As for that female, I will decide when she will be leaving. I am only keeping her in the pack for Adam’s benefit. You better only show your face around my room in the morning to check on Adam,” he nodded weakly, not daring to meet my gaze. I stormed out of my office to head for my room. Everyone in the pack was f*****g with my mind tonight. Where the f**k had Victor gone? Hadn't he been dying to tell me something important?!

“Hey, are you hurt?” My step brother Kai stood in front of me. His blonde hair appeared dirty in the light as he looked akin to a beggar in his ripped shorts. I just pushed him out of my path avoiding him in a similar fashion as I had slammed the door on his face earlier.

“Stop ignoring me!” He yelled but I did not give f**k. My feet froze as soon as I realized that neither Erika or Adam were in my room! I raced through the door that had been left half opened. As expected she was not here. f**k! This female was so bold and brave! I had no need to check the bathroom or anywhere else in here. The food seemed untouched along with the dry clothes that had been brought for her. Her scent had not faded away completely though; that meant she ran away only a few minutes ago!

“What’s wrong, Owen?” Freya ran into my room.

“She ran away with my son!!!” I shouted sprinting out of the room but she grabbed my hand.

“You can't cage an unknown female here forever. Let her go,” she urged, making me frown.

“You have f*****g gone insane right?” I pushed her hand away, running out of the pack house. I had noticed that her smell was only present in my room but not leaving it. I was already in the woods. I was well aware that she would be fleeing to the borders in order to escape, but must be slow due to the added weight of carrying Adam. She must have applied a perfume to hide her scent but how had she gotten it? Someone must have given it to her. That meant someone helped her to escape!

I stopped at the crossroads. The four ways that can be used to lead you to my different borders. With the absence of her scent I could not smell where she was at this moment and I had no f*****g time to make an assumption. I just closed my eyes and concentrated. I heard her uneven breath, rapid heartbeat and her… My eyes shot open when my wolf Adel sensed her, I felt connected to her in some way. I began to sprint straight in that direction but I could not help but wonder how and why I could feel her like that? Why had I felt connected to her? In less than a minute, I spotted her running. She was extremely close to my border. She was going to f*****g cross it. I turned to my right, standing right on my border blocking her path as she gasped to me. Our eyes locked as the both of us were sucking in deep breaths.

“How dare you!” I growled, making her take a few steps back. She ran to her right, insighting my fury even further. How dare she think that she could run when she was standing in front of me?! I just grabbed her clothes from behind, tearing them. My eyes fell on the milk-like skin of her shoulders and back. I could not help but stare at her beautiful curves of her sensitive body that shivered when I touched it. She tried to run again thinking it was yet another opportunity. My arm snaked around her waist while the other hand grasped her neck.

“AAAA!” She screamed in terror thinking I would kill her or snap her neck. I turned her face towards me, staring into her chocolaty eyes that were full of fear.

“What did I say about running away?” I yelled in her face as she closed her eyes tightly. I could not help but read every nuance of her beautiful face closely. Every f*****g detail of her small face was enough to seduce any male. Her trembling hand tightened on Adam as if she was preventing herself from showing me her fear but I could still feel it. Adam chose that moment to wake up due to my shouting and began to cry. She opened her fear filled eyes to meet mine.

“You scared him,” her red lips were shaking as she was equally afraid of me right now but she only cared about him.

“He should be scared of me as he would be punished,” my breath fanned against her face. Her eyes widened at my words.

“What? You… would punish a child? For… what? What… he did?” She was shaking in fear like a dry leaf. It was clear from her eyes that she had already thought of me as a monster. She was scared that I would harm my own child. But the way she was worried for his well being made me jealous of my own son. What was this feeling?

“Punishment for running away from me, because of you I will punish him,” she gave me a horrified look imagining that I might lock him in the room crying, throw him in the woods, starve him or maybe something even more horrific.

“Punish me!” She cried out of blue in panic. I c****d my eyebrows. Had she really believed me?

“Don’t harm him. It was my mistake so I will take responsibility. I will take the responsibility but please… don’t punish Adam,” I did not know if she was stupid or niave that she had believed my words so easily. How could she think I would punish such a small child, but her innocence made my heartbeat faster.

“Then be ready for your punishment,” I let go of her neck, clasping her hand instead and hauled her back to the pack house. This time she had not dared to scream. Not once was she brave enough to ask me to let her go. She knew what she had done was not ever going to be tolerated. The door of my room slammed closed as soon as she entered.

Adam was already in my arms, this time I was the one who put him back to bed. She looked back at me when I laid him on the bed, she had to stand there watching me. Now she was not allowed to touch him. She had lost her opportunity to care for him after the stunt that she had pulled a few minutes ago.

“Go and change your clothes,” leaving Adam on the bed. I stepped closer to her. She had not moved at all like she was telling me that she did not give f**k about what she looked like. My eyes were on the mirror placed behind her where I could see her backless, torn clothes. She had spotless milky skin and black bra, which were adding fuel to the fire of her effortless beauty .

“I thought you were going to punish me,” she had still been thinking that I was going to punish Adam instead of her so she was reminding me of her offer.

“Yes, I will but if you are okay with walking around the room with torn clothes then I am fine with that as well,” she c****d her head before touching her back then gasped in shock. She was so busy running away and thinking about being punished that she had not even cared about how f*****g alluring she looked right now. She gave me a glare then raced to the clothes that had been left on the bed. There was a flash of lightning then the boom of thunder before the lights in my room flickered momentarily then extinguished. Then there was only darkness.

I grabbed her hand, bringing her close to me before she could run off into the bathroom. “Change here.”

“What?” Even though it was dark I could see her big round eyes had grown larger in surprise.

“Yes, change in here,” I repeated.

“But why? I.. mean… you are… here,” she stammered. My wolf Adel appeared in my eyes, eager to see her face that had flushed crimson when I asked her to change in front of me even though it was dark. I had not replied to her as I had no idea why I had asked her for something like this. It was not like she was my female, mate, or wife.

“I… I think I will change in the bathroom,” she tried to scurry away but I pulled her back again. Our chests crashed into each other causing me to moan. Our close proximity was f*****g with my mind.

“I am afraid that Adam will cry again if you leave him in the dark. Change here so that I can be sure that my son is safe and not afraid. I can not see you in the dark so feel free to change here.” What the f**k had I just said? It was a total bullshit and stupid. Adel vanished from my eyes as I let go of her hand. She stayed in the spot that I had left her, stunned, looking between Adam and I. I had left her with a great dilemma while sitting back on the sofa. I wanted to see if she would leave Adam and go to change in the bathroom or if for his sake she would change in front of me.

“He will wake up soon,” I reminded her as more thunder boomed outside followed by the beat of heavy rain. She just turned her face to the other side and began to peel her clothes off one by one. Adel and I were watching her strip, which caused a plethora of images to play in my mind. I fisted my palms, nearly tearing the sofa with my nails when I got another painful headache.

She allowed her dress to fall to the floor as my shaking hands went to my pocket in search of my medicine. Watching her striping was causing me pain, I was being bombarded with many unfamiliar images that I usually saw. All the images were blurry and painful for me. I needed my medication or I was going to die from the pain but I remembered that I had thrown it away. I dug my nails into my palm in order to bear it as my whole body was sweating. Even in this condition my eyes were unable to look away from her.

I got up from the sofa on shaking legs, I had become completely entranced watching her as she changed into dry clothes. She was trying to zip up the back of the dress but her hand was too small. My hand touched her zip as I began to zip it up. She flinched from my touch as my finger touched her skin while zipping her dress. Her skin was so soft.

“Thank you,” She turned to look at me, trying to free her waist from my grip that I had been using to steady myself so that I would not fall to the floor. If I had not taken my medication then I usually fainted from the pain but this time it had not happen. Her presence, touch, and just her were making it possible for me to be able to bear this pain. I was still standing on my feet and the headache was disappearing.

“Let me go,” her words reached me as a whisper. I pulled her closer to me letting her feel my hardness that she was responsible. She swallowed hard pretending that she had not felt it. She was clever to hide her facial expression but her body could not lie.

“It is time for your punishment,” her eyes snapped at me like she had forgotten about it or thought I had forgotten it.

“Or Adam will be the one to get it,” I added, making her blink in panic.

“No, I will take the punishment!” As soon as she declared that my lips crashed into hers blocking her mouth. She gasped, her body turned into a statue with this sudden kiss. She took a few seconds to understand what I was doing with her. She struggled and tried to push me away but earned a growl from me.

“Take your punishment obediently,” I broke the kiss to say, then kissed her again. She stopped wriggling and stood still. I opened my eyes only to find that she had closed her eyes tightly. It made me chuckle. She was obediently taking her punishment. She opened her eyes thinking that I was done but my fingers grabbed her cheeks cupping them. She gave me a confused innocent look. Her confusion was cleared up when my tongue entered her mouth. I moved one of my hands into her hair, now that it was in my clutches as I kissed her deeply. She gasped for the oxygen when I finally pulled back from the passionate kiss.

She was drawing in heavy breaths while looking at me, wondering if her punishment was over or not but I wanted more. But the lights came back on and everything was ruined! Her face was red as she pulled herself back wiping her lips giving me a stunned look.

“What kind of punishment was that?” She tried to give me a hostile look but could not manage it as she was too shy to even meet my gaze.

“An Alpha Owen punishment,'' I smirked as she finally gave me a glare. The two of us looked at Adam who had woken up with the last clap of thunder. She climbed on to the bed, trying to calm him to the best of her ability.

“I did not give you permission to touch my son,” I stood there, leaning against the wall watching her as she tried her best to ignore my intense stare, pretending nothing had happened between us in the dark.

“I am sure I paid for my deeds as well,” she snapped back. Had she been referring to the kiss? What the!

“What’s wrong baby? Why are you crying so much?” She started to take him in her arms but not once had he stopped crying. I got close to her on the bed, grabbing her little face.

“Your big mouth will get you in big trouble some day,” I rubbed my thumb over her lips but she just turned her face to the side. It was obvious that she was thinking about the kiss. I let her go, glancing down at Adam.

“Why is he crying so much?” I wondered, rubbing his back. His breathing was also very rapis. She and I tried our best to calm him but nothing was working.

“Tell me why he is crying?” I saw her face that looked like she knew the reason but would not tell me. Many footsteps were audible as they were climbing the stairs. Adam’s crying had woken up everyone.

“Let me check,” Dr. Reed entered the room as Victor and Robin stood outside. She was still holding Adam, not handing him over to the Doctor.

“Please let me check,” he asked again, taking him from her. Her behavior confused me. What was going on in her mind? She looked suspicious.

“I think…” He was touching and checking Adam’s stomach.

“He is hungry. His stomach is empty,” he announced, looking at me. I was in a great dilemma.

“As I told you he is sensitive so you can not feed him anything like baby formula. He needs to be breastfeed,” he added. I was worried when I heard his cry. He was still sick, I had never agreed to let my son starve.

“Victor, Robin, go and find someone in the pack who could breastfeed Adam,” I ordered. They nodded, running out.

“It is no use. There is no female in the pack who had given birth recently enough,” Dr. Reed revealed in a worried tone. He got up from the bed and came closer to me.

“We are in deep trouble. Arrange for a female as soon as possible,” He left the room calling a few people for help. I looked at Adam and Erika. She was incredibly panicked trying to calm him. If he continued to cry then he was going to make himself even sicker. I just pulled out my phone to call Noah.

“Hey Noah. I need your help. Do you know someone who could breastfeed a child?” I was sure that his pack must have someone who could feed Adam. My son was hungry, listening to his cries was making me furious but then he had stopped crying. I c****d my brows and turned to look. What had made him stop?

“Hello… Owen…. Are you listening to me?” Noah kept talking but the phone had slipped out of my hand when I saw Erika was breastfeeding Adam...