Page 79 of Her Cold-Hearted Alpha: Part 1

KIARA

The next day, I awoke with a spring in my step. The only downside was that I had a dream that Alejandro had kissed me. The thing was, it had made my entire body ignite with a need that I was so desperately trying to ignore.

It wasn’t like he would have come to visit me; he was engaged to Jasmin. In my half-asleep state, I had even imagined his scent. I really needed to sort myself out and I had a plan! This hospital would be my escape.

I borrowed a phone before texting Raven to have some clothes and my phone dropped off to me. I was then relieved when a nurse came in with some food, I was ravenous. After missing dinner last night, I didn’t even realise how hungry I really was.

Raven came soon enough and dumped my bag on the bed.

"Ok, I'm off to shower!" I said, sliding off the bed.

"Ok whoa! No! I need to talk to you. We need to talk." She grumbled.

"Can I go shower first? Then we can talk. Promise."

She sighed and nodded in defeat. I took a quick shower and pulled on the black lingerie, black leggings and a fitted long-sleeved black top that she had brought for me. One thing about Raven is, if you ask her to get you clothes - she will choose black! Followed by purple or red… Once I had slipped my flats on I returned to the room, towel drying my hair.

"Alright shoot, what is it?" I asked as I sat on the bed and put some moisturiser on my hands and face whilst looking across at her.

"Kia. Tell me, are you ok?" She asked with concern in her different coloured eyes.

"Yes, perfectly. I was upset because if I knew he was engaged, I wouldn’t have gotten with him. I'm not that kind of girl Raven. I would never steal someone's man, not unless he was my mate." I joked.

She didn’t smile, as she picked up my Fenty lip gloss and put some on herself.

"I don’t know, you hide how you feel often… please don’t." She said quietly.

I sighed and looked towards the door. Raven was the closest to me, like she knew literally almost everything about me apart from that one major secret about Damon and me that I had kept. I didn’t want to keep on hiding stuff from her.

"Fine, I am attracted to him, but I’ll get over it. I am not going to let him mess with me when he’s going to get married and mated soon enough, I'm guessing." I said, applying my gel liner to my eyes and trying not to imagine Alejandro with Jasmin.

"Hmm ok. Thanks for sharing, but if things get hard, remember we’re all here for you." She said.

"I'm planning to avoid him as much as possible. Besides… the blood moon is so close. I think I’ll find my mate."

She smiled at me and nodded.

"I’m sure you will."

"Who’s finding who’s mate?" Rayhan said walking into the room.

I frowned at him.

"Ever heard of knocking Rossi?" I asked.

"No, I kind of lost my manners as I got older." He said, before holding out a bag. "Darien went into town earlier and got fresh doughnuts. I thought’ I’d share... But if you girls don’t want any-"

Doughnuts. Hot, fresh doughnuts. My mouth watered just at the very thought, I rushed across the room and grabbed the bag.

"Thank you, of course we’d like to share." I said, opening the brown wrapper and pulled out a sugar-coated doughnut before taking a bite. "Goddess, this is amazing."

He chuckled as Raven took one too before I handed the bag back to him.

"Not sure if I should have shared with Raven, after those deathly cakes." He said, making her glower at him.

"If you hadn't nearly died, I wouldn’t let you off with that." She said.

"How do you feel now?" I asked him. He was dressed and I couldn't really see the bandages underneath. He tossed the doughnut bag on the bed and lifted his shirt off over his head, making Raven whistle.

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