What a Nightmare!

"No…please help me," I pleaded; my voice broke into cry again.

"I am sorry," the doctor muttered; his tone cracked with regret and sadness. He turned around, grabbed his pouch and stepped out of the room, abandoning me with the woman who immediately walked closer to my bed.

Her face was also colored with pale of sorrow. She dragged a wooden chair to the bedside and landed on it.

Reaching my palm and squeezing it, she tried to console me. She spoke in a normal level of voice after successfully removing her dismay.

"I know it must hurt you so much. But, don't worry, Miss. Our Young Master may be able to help you with his power."

My eyes lit in excitement as this woman with dark hair in a bun to whom I hadn't introduced myself yet just gave me a hope.

"Is that true?" I asked spontaneously and her chin ducked, confirming. Her lips turned up into a small smile. "Young Master? Do you mean Kane?" I was trying to make sure that it was the same person who was now probably still in battle with the critter. Her nod answered my curiosity.

"Yes, he is our Young Master, the King's most trusted person in the kingdom. He is a werewolf, an alpha with magical power." She told me his profile. "May I know what your name is, Miss. And how could you be here? I mean you don't look like one of our people."

She observed my black thin mini dress which had different style from what the women in this place wore, the loose long dress with a belt and long sleeves. I had no idea if the royals used the same gown as this woman put on.

"I am Xima." I chose not to mention my full name. "Yeah…I am not from here; I live very far from here. Do you know when I can meet Young Master?" I genuinely questioned her as I couldn't wait for Kane to cure me so that I could walk again.

"We haven't heard of him yet since he went for hunting this morning."

The fact that Kane hadn't come back yet worried me. He might be still in a war with that creature. What if something bad happens to him? No, that couldn't be; he had to be safe for I relied on him to help me.

As I was trapped in silence, busy with my own thoughts, the woman looked perplexed and anxious.

"Miss Xima…are you okay?"

"Yes…I'll be waiting for Kane here."

"Young Master…You should call him that way. That's how we refer to him. He is one of the respected persons here, a son of the king's cousin."

"I see. Sorry," I mumbled.

"That's alright."

Someone's footsteps outside quit at the doorway as we were in a conversation. The door screeched open and a man's head slid through the half open door and looked inside.

"Amber….Young Master has arrived."

We both turned our gaze at him in surprise and joy. It meant that he managed to defeat that monster, his enemy and I would be able to walk again. I watched over my torso with my hopeful eyes.

Amber surged from her seat and hurried to the man who still stood at the doorstep. She couldn't hid her excitement too.

"Really? Miss Xima needs him right now. Where can I see him?"

That cute young man with golden hair in the same costume as the body guard, long dark robe with pants and shirt, shook his head.

"Unfortunately, he is seriously wounded."

His words destroyed all my hopes.

The maid stayed still there even after the man left the room. I saw uneasiness and distress on her mimicry which she tried to hide but failed.

Lying on the bed, I struggled to move my body but it ended up futile, I felt pain wrecking my bone, instead. I moaned as the wound was killing me that the maid who never left the room hurried toward me with her worried and panicked face.

"Are you okay, Miss?"

Is there anyone who can cure me?" I asked in homelessness as I could no longer endure my backache. It tormented me that I could only surrender to my fate.

"Wait a minute, Miss. I will see the physician for the medicine you can consume to reduce your pain."

"Hurry up!" I ordered; I didn't want to sound bossy or rude but this injury did torture me.

"Sure,"

In panic, she ran out of the room, leaving me alone inside this cold chamber, the fancy place I could not enjoy because of my bad health state right now. But, no matter how luxurious this room was, I planned to go from here as soon as I was in fit condition.

I doubt my mother would look for me but staying in this weird kingdom any longer was not a good choice. I never knew what kind of creatures lived in this palace. The monster I saw the last time which managed to hurt Kane, the strongest werewolf in this kingdom was surely only one of the eerie monsters I could meet.

Even imagining that terrible thing made me shiver. I had to run away from this palace as soon as Kane could help me walk again.

"Ouch…." I groaned as the pain came again and this time, it hit me stronger. "Where is Amber? What does it take so long for her to call the physician?" I kept grumbling because my torso could not tolerate the pain anymore.

The footsteps let me breathe in relief as it must be that woman who came to the chamber with the old man, a palace psycisian.

The steps halted outside the door. I heard the conversation between Amber and the man whom I was not familiar with despite his loud voice. He might not be one of the bodyguards who once saved me.

"Young Master asked us to save her. The King suspected her as the culprit of the abduction of the Prince of the Kingdom?"

"Whom are you talking about?"

"The stranger, the girl Young Master took here."

They conversed about me; it seemed I was in jeopardy now as the King of the werewolf assumed that I had abducted the Prince of the kingdom.

What should I do now? Where should I go? I couldn't even move. I was in tears when the door cracked open and reveled the figure of the woman, Amber and Arthur, Kane's bodyguard.

However, it was too late; behind them, a troop of soldiers had gathered, ready to arrest me. I hope I would see the miracle at the verge of my helplessness.