Because Rafael and Niko had been watching the home camera, they saw the entire ordeal Isabella was going through at the house, they saw the woman slam her into the wall and the way Isabella's fingers clawed at air for breath and on seeing this, Rafael and Niko moved with an unnatural speed that was faster than sound and before you know it, they were in the foyer.
Rafael was so furious that he reached Anastasia first, he grabbed her by the neck and slammed her into the nearest wall with such force that the plaster dented, there was dust and a thin crack that spidered out like a wound, she hit the wall hard enough to make a sound, blood trickled down her forehead and the corner of her lip and for a second she looked stunned.
While Rafael faced Isabella, Niko ran straight to Isabella, she was bleeding from her mouth and her eyes were starting to roll, the color began fading as consciousness slipped away from her like water down a drain; Niko caught her like she was made of glass and he was the only hand steady enough to hold her and for a second the world narrowed to the weight of her in his arms.
"I got you" Niko whispered.
she let out a tiny smirk "I know" that tiny affirmation from Isabella warmed Niko's heart in a way that made his chest ache and his breath harden.
With Rafael and Anastasia, claws and fangs were out for both parties; they tore at each other with the kind of violence that left marks, Anastasia who was furious and already wounded, moved with speed that blurred and she grabbed Rafael and threw him too, the two of them crashing into furniture, knocking over a lamp and the bottle of expensive scotch that was on the table, the room a mess as they fought.
Niko didn't look up; he focused all his care on Isabella, her breathing was shallow, the rise and fall of her chest was faint and he could feel the intense tremor of her pulse.
He knew he couldn't take her to a hospital, she couldn't be seen by humans and it was also impossible for a predominantly human hospital to treat a wolf, if it were any other wolf, by now they should have been healed from all the injuries, but Isabella was different, although she hadn't turned or shifted since birth, she still had an intoxicating scent and some wolf properties that undoubtedly confirms her wolf...she cant heal herself just yet but he knew his blood was able to help heal her although something bothered him, an old prophecy.
He remembered the old prophecy and story: only a mate's blood could heal a marked omega, but if she was not marked, any wolf's blood would work; eager to heal her of the injuries, he carefully carried her back to the basement, the voices and the sounds of the fight above thudded but grew distant as he moved.
He laid her gently on the bed, her forehead was bleeding, her eyes still struggled to remain open, her nose bled and she coughed up blood from time to time, she also had a bruise starting to bloom along her ribs.
He was eager to feed her his blood but first, he had to examine every part of her body to ensure she had never been marked by another wolf in the past because if he were to give her his blood and she was marked by another wolf, his blood would be toxic to her, it would kill her slowly or burn through her veins and she would die from the cure itself, because only a mate's blood can cure you once you have been marked, but if you have not been marked, as an omega wolf, any wolf blood can cure you.
Niko's hands shook slightly but he forced steadiness into them as he searched, parting hair, lifting a shoulder, checking hips, the hollow at the base of her throat, in between her thighs, he checked all the places where a mark would hide.
He found nothing, no mark.
Without hesitating, he tore into his own skin, he cupped his palm and let the blood flow, then leaned down and fed it to her, he stayed there for a few minutes and watched as the color creep back into her cheeks, watching the shallow breath deepen until it sounded like her again.
All the while the loud ruckus between Anastasia and Rafael continued upstairs,
Once he confirmed she had healed enough, he wiped his hand clean on his pants, rose and stepped back up into the foyer, he noticed that the fight had changed, what had been a scuffle was now a show of teeth, Niko's claws and fangs came out too, he moved without thinking and grabbed Anastasia, he pinned her to the floor because she had to be stopped,
"If you dont calm down, I will snap your neck and I will take out your pearl and feed it to the dogs" Rafael said to her as Niko held her down, Anastasia recognized that this was not a threat, Rafael doesn't make threats, he really just tells you EXACTLY what he is going to do.
She retracted by putting her claws and fangs out; Niko mirrored the motion on instinct, his own teeth bared, he let her go and she sat up slowly with her hands trembling from the force of being held,
"What are you up to Rafael? why is that woman here?" She asked with angry tears in her eyes and her voice cracking with a mixture of outrage and fear.
"She is my bride, I intend to marry her and make her my mate" he said,
Anastasia's face contorted, fury made her features hard and Niko didn't look too pleased as well but he hid it under the set of his jaw; he kept his mouth closed because his duty was to Rafael even when his heart argued otherwise.
"Then what about me? What about me?? What about me" she kept repeating,
"Yes, what about you?" Rafael smirked, like he had all the time in the world.
Anastasia smirked back and got up, walking straight to Rafael until she stood in his face with all the bravado she could muster.
"You are gonna regret this, im gonna make you regret this and at the end of the day, you are going to marry me, YOU WILL MAKE ME LUNA on your own accord" she said with fury and hunger bleeding in her voice.
he laughed out loud hysterically, like she was crazy...Anastasia didnt look too pleased
"Actually youre wrong love, I infact will not" he scoffed calmly.
"Then…I will kill that bitch with my bare hands" she said with blood shot eyes,
Rafael laughed out loud again, a sound so loud and easy that it made Anastasia feel embarrassed and it made Niko want to step backward because there was something dangerous in that laugh, a kind of madness.
"Please, id like to see you try" Raf said in amusement.
There was a little silence after he was done laughing, like the air had been sucked out of the room and then his face went psychotic,
he violently dragged Anastasia closer to himself, he reached down, dug his hand into her core and grabbed her wolf pearl; the white light that burst into the room when he touched it was blinding, it was as if the room itself had been filled with lightning; Anastasia's eyes rolled to the back of her head, she gagged as a sound of pain tore out of her throat, she was struggling to breathe and her whole body writhed while Rafael kept squeezing onto her pearl and the light kept increasing, making the air taste metallic and terrible.
Niko noticed that Rafael was about to kill her; his breath went cold because there are many ways to kill a wolf, one of which is to take out their wolf pearl: the source of every wolf's power and life, only an alpha can take out the wolf pearl of other wolves and Rafael was doing what only an alpha could do, and for a moment Niko thought he would intervene and stop him, but he didn't; something in Rafael's hold made him hesitate.
as Rafael held on to her pearl, Anastasia continued to gasp in pain, he smirked and said to her without tenderness, "Dont ever try to threaten me again Anastasia or else, I wont be letting the pearl go, I will rip it out."
Rafael released her, Anastasia let out a huge gasp and fell to the floor, coughing and shaking and clutching at her chest, she staggered toward the door, clutching at her throat with so much tears and anger, she looked back at Rafael,
He smirked and waved "byeee"
"oh and dont forget...I own you." he added