Chapter 114 You came for me.
His warmth enveloped her whole. She had never in her life felt more safe or relieved from a single touch. It was like all of her fear had melted out of her the second she felt him touch her. Doris had never known what it was like to have someone to make her feel that way.
William lifted Doris into his arms and held her tighter than anyone had ever held her. His strong arms refused to let her go as her feet dangled off the ground. It was like a dream she didn’t want to wake up from. How strange that he once was the reason for all of her nightmares. Now he was the only thing she wanted to see at night when she closed her eyes.
“I thought I lost you.” William whispered against her ear. She didn’t need her wolf to tell her how she should be feeling—for once Doris allowed herself to feel everything towards him. All the relief and pain and love that tried to pull her under and drown her until she was nothing. It was all worth it to hear his voice and how much he yearned for her as much as she did for him.
It felt like a decade had passed as well as no time at all. She knew from one touch that she was all he thought about since he left her. Even if he never admitted it to her face, she knew it was true. How could it not be?
“You came for me.” Was all Doris could say. William pulled away for the first time and set her down in front of him just so he could look at her more clearly. His blue eyes were almost blinding to her tired heart.
“Of course I came for you.” He said as he gripped her waist. Doris caught sight of his appearance and almost fainted with how much blood covered him. She had little doubts that it all belonged to people that had stood in his way. His shirt was tom down the middle and she realized he hadn’t changed into his wolf. He came for her with a vengeance that he fulfilled with his barehands. Every inch of her tingled at the thought. She could almost see him on a battlefield in her mind. All the rage that must have poured from him, she was sorry to have missed it.
“Did they hurt you?” William asked through his teeth. Doris glanced at the door he had ripped off the hinges and saw blood smeared across the walls. She briefly wondered if Joseph was part of that massacre and a sad part of her throbbed. Even with what he had done to her, she wouldn’t have wanted his lift to end that way. No one deserved that.
“No. They just put me in dark places, but I’m okay for the most part.” Doris said.
A flash of anger still touched his features. She wished she could wipe it away with a single caress.
“What happened? I heard part of what they were planning just a few hours ago. I had no idea it was going to happen.” Doris said quietly. She was too afraid to step out into the hallway and potentially see body parts and faces that belonged to people she barely knew. Even if she had only spoken with them for seconds, it would have haunted her to see it.
“Enzo thought it was best to wait at the camp until we were set to meet here, but I thought we should go early in case you were already here.” William narrowed his eyes, but not at her. “I convinced him to go and halfway here we had gotten ambushed by hundreds of rogues. It was like an army had come out of no where.”
“An army? They must have been planning this much longer than I thought… How did you manage to get free?”
“I tore through a line of them and came straight here.” William grumbled. His hands tightened on her body as if he was afraid she would disappear any minute if he didn’t hold on tight to her. Doris leaned against him as if she felt the same.
His head snapped towards the door, he motioned for her to stay silent and she clamped her lips shut on the question that tried to escape. Voices broke out in panicked shouts as they discovered the mess that William left for them. His grip tightened on her hand as he forced her back towards an opposite door.
“It might have guards outside it—” Doris warned. William stopped to think.
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