The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter novel Chapter 1023

Chapter 1023: SIDE STORY (WILL): I AM GLAD YOU ARE HERE

"Jace!" Penny screamed when the beast managed to get to him and threw him to the ground. Out of instinct, Penny wanted to approach him, though it was also a dangerous thing for her to do, since she couldn’t help the beta in any form.

However, she was desperate. There was no way that he would be able to sit her and do nothing when Jace was in danger.

But, as if the beta knew her intention, he took the monster away from her, the brick color beast actually lured the monster into the mountain. He took the fight further away from Penny.

"Damn it!" Penny cursed under her breath. Why would they be attacked by a monster at time like this? She had come to this part of the mountain countless times, but she had never encountered one.

Her luck must be running so low at this moment.

Penny wanted to leave and ask for help, but her leg wouldn’t allow her to do so, she must have twisted her ankle in her attempt to get away from the beast, because right now, a simple move from her leg would send her an excruciating pain. This was almost unbearable.

However, she couldn’t stay here like this. Penny looked around her and saw a big branch that she could use as a support.

The healer then crawled toward the branch and got it to help her to walk, but still the pain filled her eyes with tears.

It was quite an irony that a healer couldn’t heal themselves and had to rely on the other healer to do so.

Penny didn’t walk far when the branch snapped and she twisted her ankle even more. She bit her lip so she wouldn’t scream in pain, because she didn’t know whether there would be more monsters that would come here or not.

Her heart was thumping wildly and her ears were ringing, but the only thing that was in her mind right now was Jace.

She needed to get some help before something really bad happened to the beta. More so, he still needed his treatment because of his previous injury.

Bracing with the pain, Penny tried to stand up, but it was hard to do, thus she resulted to crawl. She didn’t know how long she would find the nearest warrior, but this was the only thing that she could do to help Jace.

Time flew by very slow and when there was no sign that Jace had returned and tracked her down, she cried out of frustration.

Penny wanted to move faster, but her body didn’t allow her to do so. Now, the pain was not the problem.

However, when she thought she was losing it, she heard a footstep and this comforting voice called her name.

"Penny!? Are you, okay?!" Jace immediately approached her and knelt down to check on her. "Are you hurt?"

The beta immediately gave a brief check up on her body until he found her injured leg. He clicked his tongue in annoyance and immediately focused on it.

"If your leg injured, you shouldn’t move. I lured the monster away, why would you need to go this far?" Jace could feel that Penny broke her bone and this upset him, because by crawling this far, it only aggravated her wound.

"I tried to look for help, because I couldn’t help you," Penny replied truthfully, she wiped her tears that kept streaming down her cheek. She felt this sense of relief and didn’t think much about her broken leg, because she was already very grateful that Jace was not injured.

It was not only the beta, who checked on her, but Penny did the same to him.

"Come, hop on." Jace crouched down in front of Penny and gave his back to her.

"But..."

"Do you want to crawl to get back to the palace?" Jace asked impatiently.

He was right, but the problem was, Penny felt this was inappropriate for her to do this. She felt... embarrassed.

"Come on, it’s getting dark."

Leaving with no other choice, Penny immediately got on Jace’s back and hugged his neck. It felt... weird, but not in the bad way.

"Next time, bring warrior with you."

This time, Jace didn’t say it nicely, it almost like a warning for her.

"Yes, I understood," Penny replied. After what happened, she would listen to his suggestion. "Thank you. I am glad you are here with me."

Jace nodded, but he didn’t say anything. He was also glad that he came here to fetch her, or else, he couldn’t think what would happen to her.

And the thought of it filled him with anger.

"Let’s go back to the palace first," he said.

He had Penny on his back and the two of them looked in a mess, of course, all the people that saw them started to ask question about what was going on.

"Monster attack.’

That was the only answer that the bet gave to those people, who were curious about what was going on.