The Beast's Possession

**Bane

pov**

The main problem that I had was the constant tiredness. Everyone around me treated me like a ticking time bomb, and that too, was getting on my nerves.

Barely a day had passed since the call with Zion, I was more than ready to leave this place and return home, but no matter how many times I insisted I had to leave - nobody listened.

Sure, I didn't have to explain myself and the things I was about to do to others, but while I understood that much, I also couldn't get rid of the fear within me.

He was getting stronger, he sought revenge, and for some twisted reason, he decided to target Aife. As much as I wanted to go home, deep down, I was scared. Terrified.

Aife's safety mattered more than my whims and needs. I couldn't live with myself if anything happened to her just because I was too stubborn to listen to the warnings.

Sitting up in the bed, I stretched my sore muscles and groaned right when the door to the room opened and a nurse entered. She flashed me a quick, shy smile, but didn't keep her eyes on me for too long. That was a thing in this pack, as it seemed. They never held eye contact with me, never looked at me for too long and never bothered to try and start a conversation. At best, I got a couple of generic questions. "How are you feeling today, Alpha?" She muttered the line that really was starting to get on my nerves. So professional and uptight...

"I'm much better, thank you. And you?" I grinned, fighting the need to toss something her way or go berserk.

My issues weren't something that would bother most people, but the stress of this situation coupled with nothing but boring walls and a few words from the staff every four hours was getting to me.

"Glad to hear, Alpha. I will leave your prescription pills here, please take two after every meal." She added, placing a small pill container on the nightstand next to my bed.

Seeing how she wasn't going to focus on conversations with me and probably planned to run out of here as soon as possible, I knew I had to do something.

I reached out and grabbed her wrist - barely tightly enough to ensure she wouldn't be able to flee, but lightly enough for her not to feel any pain.

The nurse jumped and let out a yelp. She attempted to pull away her hand, but I didn't let go and spoke before she could start screaming bloody murderer. "Please. All I want is to talk. Some answers would be amazing - you can leave this place as soon as I get them. I won't hurt you, promise."

"H-how do I know y-you won't hurt me?" She stammered, eyes focused on my grip around her wrist.

"If I wanted to hurt you, I would have done it ages ago. Think about it - how many opportunities I already had? You've been in this room what, like five times, six? Every time, I could have, but I didn't. Yet, I did try to start a conversation. If that doesn't speak volumes to you, I don't know what will."

I had a feeling that I could reason with her if only I chose the right words.

Back in the day, before he started surfacing so often and ruining my life, I was a different person. Then, I was able to communicate with anyone and hold a conversation if only for being pleasant without fearing the risk of showing the other side of me.

Now, I had to learn how to do that all over again, if I wanted anyone in this pack to talk to me and give me the answers I so desperately needed.

The nurse gulped so loud, the sound echoed against the walls of this damned room. Then, she nodded her head and carefully pulled her hand out of my hold, realizing I wasn't holding her tightly enough to have her trapped to begin with. "You're right, Alpha. I know that if you wanted to hurt anyone here, you could do that any given moment. I would apologize for my behavior, but I won't. We all act out of our character when strong emotions are involved. And with you, I can't help but feel terrified. Let's face the fact - the stories about you aren't exactly the stories about a nice man. I'm sure you understand." She muttered, still standing near the bed.

First of all, this was the most amount of words I have gotten out of anyone here. Besides the Alpha of the pack and the king, of course. Second, the fact that she wasn't running away while screaming gave me the impression that she wasn't as scared as she claimed to be.

Nodding, I offered her a quick smile. "I understand."

My eyes didn't leave the nurse as she scanned the room and started switching her weight from one leg to another. Clearly, she was nervous, but at least she didn't leave again.

"You may ask any questions, but first, I want to ask one of my own," she blurted out and the next moment, her eyes grew wide as she slapped a hand over her mouth.

I supposed the old pack rules were still working over here. No one was allowed to question the Alpha while back home, I welcomed the questions for most part. Open communication builds a better society than secretive behavior. "Okay, sounds fair to me. Go on, ask the question," I agreed, ignoring her reaction and laying back on the bed to get a little more comfortable.

I had no idea what had happened exactly, but my spine was killing me. Maybe that was something silver had affected the most in my body, but if I sat up or stood for too long, insane waves of pain traveled through it, making it nearly impossible for me to remain in the upright position for longer periods of time.

"Why are you doing all of those things? Attacking the packs, taking women? Are you planning to do the same thing here?"

From the corner of my eye, I could see the look of disbelief on her face. The poor thing was in shock for her own bluntless. Little did she know I appreciate honesty and straightforwardness more than anything.

"I have my reasons," I chuckled. "The stories you hear are nothing more than that - stories. You see, sometimes to build respect, you must be feared so when people speak of my doings, I don't bother to correct them. For the outside world, I am a monster, a soulless creature who attacks the packs for no reason. For my own world, that of my pack, we do things for a reason - we help. Ridding the world of awful leaders who torture their people seems like a good deed to me. I'm not here to excuse my behavior, so don't take my words as such. Just know that everything I do, I do for a reason."

The nurse nodded and remained silent, as if she needed a moment to process my words and the information she had just learned.

Once again, the room grew silent. While any other day I would appreciate the silence, today, I was sick and tired of it. I have had too much of it already, it was driving me insane at this point.

"You can ask your questions now, I promise to answer to my best ability," she finally spoke, startling me a little.

"When can I leave this place and go home? I'm sure the rest of the pack is waiting for the day of my departure as well."

And again, she became visibly nervous, doing the same thing as earlier - looking anywhere but at me.

"So you haven't noticed the restraints on your bed yet? I'm sorry, but I don't think it will happen as soon as you or some of this pack members hope it will. Alpha, whenever you fall asleep, something happens to you and you start raging. We know it's not you because the eyes are not the same, but you're not ready to leave just yet. Whatever is happening to you, it's not safe for anyone and especially a woman named Aife. You scream her name in a demonic voice and promise to kill her."