CHAPTER HUNDRED

MALACHI’s POV.

I had just finished signing a document when a soft tap comes on the door and it pushes open to reveal her ever gorgeous face. The day for the release of survivor is fast approaching and I have a lot of work to be done. The movie is already promising to be a big hit, I can only guide it on the right part.

Just yesterday, I received news that Bryer injured her eyes and was rushed to the hospital. She never amazes me, she has always been someone who would rather die than let herself be embarrassed. Wolves don’t have the ability to heal themselves when it comes to their eyes so she knows exactly what she is doing and I know exactly why I have let her be in the hospital in cuffs.

“Hey baby” Odette leans into my embrace and presses a light kiss on my lips, “I brought you lunch, you should take a break and eat. You have been really busy”

“Okay sweetheart” I am not hungry but I don’t want to argue with her. She has become really sensitive these days. Even after she was done with Bryer yesterday, we went home and she started feeling bad. I didn’t blame her, I knew it was her pregnancy hormones working.

“What did you bring?” I ask as I let her pull me off the chair and lead me towards the couch.

“I made your favorite”

“Wow” my lips tilt slightly, “I can’t wait to eat it then”

I haven’t told her about Bryer yet, I don’t want her to keep stressing about that bitch so I will keep it to myself for now. It’s not like she can escape from the hospital, she is under twenty four hours surveillance, she won’t be able to try anything funny.

She starts to dish the food while telling me about something but my whole attention is on her face. She has changed over the last few months in ways that I am more attracted to. She looks more rounded, more beautiful and her skin is more glowy and pretty. She looks really cute in her dress which is hugging her figure perfectly. I can’t take my eyes off of her no matter how much I try, I am smitten by this goddess.

“Are you even listening to me, Kai?” Her voice jolts me out of my thoughts as the realization of the name she just called me became fresh in my head.

“What did you call me?” I ask her, I want to be sure I heard that name correctly. All my life, mother was the only person who ever called me that and when and died, it was like that name died with her but hearing Odette call me that makes my heart swell in joy.

“I shortened your name to Kai, don’t you like it?” She sounds so happy, the swelling in my heart continues to increase. Now I do not even have the heart to tell her that someone special used to call me before she passed away.

“You like it right?” She asks me again and I nod.

“Of course babe, I love it”

“I knew you will” she leans forward and kisses me lightly on my lips, “now eat up, Emma told me you have a meeting later”

“Okay, baby!”

She continues to feed me and I let her, I let her do anything she wants because I love her with everything I have ever had.

A few minutes later, Emma knocks on the door and ventures into the room.

“It is time for your meeting sir” she says.

“I will be there in a jiffy”

“Okay sir”

After she leaves, I return my attention to my wife again.

“Gotta go now, baby”

“Yeah, I will wait for you here. I’m tired, I will take a nap”

“Take a nap in the room, okay?”

“Sure”

After kissing her, I finally make my way out of the office and into the conference hall. Everyone is already seated and waiting for me. I need to get this meeting over and done with, I miss my wife already.

The thought of it makes the smile on my lips intensify. I want to be with her every step of the way during her pregnancy. I want to walk every path with her, I want to be with her every second of her pregnancy because I don’t want to miss any part of it. I want to be able to tell my child that I was around when he was still in his mother’s womb.

“Sir?” I hear someone call out and I raise my head to meet his gaze. Apparently I have been smiling widely and everyone has been looking at me.

“What?”

“We have started the meeting sir” Emma whispers.

“Oh, of course! You can go on”

“Okay sir”

The man on the podium continues talking but my mind drifts off to Odette again, she must be sleeping by now. I want to lie beside her and caress her tummy until she feels all the peace in the world.

“Can we round this meeting up in twenty minutes?” My voice rings in the room and all eyes turn to me, “I need to get back to my wife”

“Sir, we have a lot to talk about and you..

“Twenty minutes, that’s what you get0

“Okay sir” Emma answers and gestures to him to speed up but at this point, I genuinely don’t want to be in the meeting anymore.

“Can you wrap this up for me?” I ask Emma and she nods, despite the confused look she has on her face. She knows how much this meeting means to me but right now, my wife means more to me.

“Of course sir”

“Good”

Without waiting for her response, I stand up and make my way out of the room but when I get to the door of my office, her voice filters through. She is on a call with someone and from the tone of her voice, She sounds upset.

“I am not his wife” I hear her say and a slight frown forms on my face. I don’t wait for her to say anything again before stepping into the office but she doesn’t drop the call and she doesn’t look fazed.

“What? She asks again, “I have told you times without number that I am not his wife, don’t you get it? You should call someone else to come see him” she angrily ends the call and throws the phone on the table, her chest rising and falling in quick succession. She is upset, very upset. Without saying anything, I pull her into my embrace and she remains there, trying to calm her mind. I wonder who called her to put her in this kind of a mood.

After a few minutes, she pulls away from me but her hands remain on my waist and her eyes remain glossy. Whoever it was, I want to rip his head off his body and make him pay for whatever he did to her.

“Did something happen?” I ask her, “Did someone say something to you?”

“I hate that I still get linked to him after everything that he did to me, Kai”

“Tell me princess, what happened?” I think I already have an idea of what happened but I want to be sure.

“The hospital called” she says, “Zachary was involved in an accident and I am the one stated under his emergency contact. I kept telling them and they…

“It’s okay” I gently cup her face, “you don’t have to be bothered about that, my love. I will handle it”

“How..

“Trust me, okay?”

“Hmm” she nods and I pull her into my embrace again, this time anger wash over me. That Zachary is like a fucking glue, he never wants to come off.

“Can I go out for twenty minutes?” I ask after a while, “I will be back before you know it”

“Sure”

“The address of the hospital, send it to my phone”

With that, I pick up my phone and walk out of the room. That skank! How dare he still have her as his emergency contact? Is he trying to play games here? The lot of us are too tired to be playing around in circles.

The drive to the hospital lasted for about seven minutes and I angrily make my way into the hospital towards the reception.

“Welcome sir, how can we help you?”

“Zachary Brown, I have come to see him. I am his emergency contact”

A look of confusion appears on her face, she stares down at her computer then back at me.

“The Zachary Brown we have, his emergency contact is a lady and she is his wife”

“Can you tell me where his room is?” I seethe to her, “I don’t have all the time in the world”

My wolf is also warming up, he hates Zachary just as much as I hate that bastard who keeps bothering my wife like he doesn’t have any life aside from making trouble for my wife.

“Room 304” the receptionist says and I angrily walk off, each stride full of more anger and more frustration.

I don’t bother to knock on the door and just push it open, all eyes turn to me but I ignore them and cover the space between me and the bedridden Zachary and my fist collides with his jaw. The doctor immediately grabs me but I shove him off and return my attention to the man on the bed.

“Asshole” I mutter under my breath before grabbing his phone from the bedside table. I grab a hold of his hand and yank it towards his phone.

“Unlock it!”

“Sir, you can’t.., the doctor’s voice trails off when I glare at him.

“How dare you touch me on a hospital bed?”

“I will fucking send you to a morgue if you don’t unlock your fucking phone now, Zachary!”

“Do your worst!” He growls, his eyes darkening.

Snaking my hand around his neck, I yank him off the bed and I fling him across the room, he lands against the wall, his casted leg twisting in the process and he cries out in pain.

“This will be the last time I ask you, Zachary. UNLOCK. YOUR. PHONE!” And he knows it, I mean every single word. I haven’t forgiven him for hugging my wife, this is my revenge on him.

By now, some security guards have rushed into the room but none of them dares to touch me, I will fucking sue this entire hospital if anyone of them dares.

“Won’t you do something?” Zachary cries out in pain but instead, I press my shoe on his injured leg.

“Will you really not unlock your phone?”

“You can do your worst, bastard!!” He grits, he is in so much pain and I can see it. For him to have a caste on his leg, his wolf must be pretty hurt.

“Very well then!” An angry smirk forms on my lips. In front of him, I throw the phone on the floor and start to smash it into tiny pieces. After that, I grab the sim card from the ground before holding it up to his eyes.

“No sim, no calls right?”

“What the heck!!” The color drains from his face, he looks surprised. He didn’t expect me to do that and I can not relish the look on his face enough.

I put the sim on my tongue and smash it between my teeth.

“Get well soon” I say to him before spitting the smashed card on the ground.

“My wife is too pregnant to tolerate your calls. You can as well die, no one cares. The only reason why I tolerate these shenanigans of yours is because she has not given me the go ahead yet so stay the heck out of her business or I won’t bother waiting for her permission”

Then Zachary starts to laugh, the most annoying kind of laugh I have ever heard and the urge to smash my shoe into his fucking face.

“You are just an unsecured prick” he mocks, “and you know th…” the words hang in his mouth when I actually smash my shoe on his face and he immediately loses consciousness.

“Send his bill to Echo” I tell the doctor before storming off.