Chapter 12
“You don’t even know me.” I say going back to my work.
“I know that you’re intelligent, youre compassionate, you’re brave, and I know that you’re lonely.”
he says.
The intelligent and compassionate parts I get. That could easily be discerned from me being a doctor and helping him, those two make sense. The brave part I’m not sure about, but the lonely part..
“Why do you say I’m lonely?” I ask him, wiping off the blood and turning to get the scalpel. I lift it up. showing him that I’m about to cut into his leg. He nods and continues.
“The closest university with a medical school is about an hour north of here. Between here and there, there are many areas where a lone wolf could run, if she wanted to. But instead,” he stops. grunting as I carefully slice into his leg. “Instead, you chose to come to an area that is full of wolves.”
He’s partially right. Annika misses being in a pack, she misses the companionship of being with other wolves. Me, I’d be fine living alone the rest of my life, but my wolf likes the smell of the forest
and it makes her feel more settled to smell the scent of other wolves.
Warren hisses and I glance up at him, watching him take deep breaths to control his pain.
“How do you do that?” I ask.
“Do what?”
“Manage this level of pain?”
“Mind over matter. Physical pain will break you mentally if you let it. That’s why people get tortured for information. If you can break the body, you can usually break the mind. My mind is stronger than my body and my body is very strong.”
I glance at the scars on his legs again. They’re a testament to the accuracy of his words.
“You’ve been fighting for a long time?” I ask, cutting and pulling the muscles away from where his bones have snapped into pieces.
“Since I became an Alpha, nearly twelve years ago.”
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That eyebrow shoots up again. It’s an arrogant look, but on Warren, its oh so sexy.
“I took over the pack when I was eighteen, I’m now thirty, that’s twelve years, little wolf.”
“Annika’s not that little,” I say, returning my attention to his leg.
“She is compared to Arric.”
“Well, Artic is an Alpha wolf. Only another Alpha would be larger than an Alpha wolf,” I say, as I carefully pluck out the first bone. I look at it, checking to see where it goes and then I press it against
the bone it snapped off of.
“Okay, Arric, let’s see what you’ve got,” I say, carefully holding the bone in place so Arric can begin to heal the fracture. I watch as the bone begins to connect and seal in front of my eyes.
“Cool!” I say, forgetting where I am and who I’m with. I’ve been working with humans for so long that I forgot how quickly wolves can heal, especially Alpha wolves.
“Is it that exciting?” Warren asks me drolly.
I shrug. I know not everyone finds medicine and surgery thrilling, but I do. “It is for me.”
“Then it must be my lucky day,” he says, just as there is a knock at the door.
I look at the door, then at Alpha Warren, wondering who could possibly be knocking.
“I told you I would protect you,” he says smiling. His smile is so beautiful that it nearly takes my breath away. “Come in, Charlie,” he says, not taking his eyes off of me.
“Alpha…what the fuck are you doing in here?” he astriding quickly to the table and
looking at Alpha Warren’s leg, filleted and open on the table.
Warren
As much pain as I’m in, I’m enjoying watching and talking to my mate. She’s unlike any woman or she wolf I’ve ever met. Besides the crazy notion that I would reject her, she’s funny. I love how she’s constantly murmuring to herself, talking to herself as if no one else can hear her.
I can hear every word and without being marked, it’s a good second option to knowing what’s going on inside that interesting mind of hers.
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Her face is nearly as expressive as her murmurs. She hasn’t learned or doesn’t care about hiding her facial expressions. Once again, I find it refreshing. She isn’t trying to be coy or impress me because. I’m an Alpha.
On the contrary, it’s almost as if she’s trying to get away from me BECAUSE I’m an Alpha. It’s not going to happen. I’ve searched for this little doctor too long to let her go now.
“To answer your question, Charlie, Dr. Yara here is piecing me back together, slowly and painstakingly, which is preferable to Dr. Stevens plan which was to remove my leg.” I say and my Beta’s eyes flash up to mine.
He understands the ramifications of what I’ve said. And as my Beta, he’s in line to take over the pack.
Thankfully, I trust my Beta and I know that he has no desire to be an Alpha. It’s not an easy job and he makes it easier by being an incredible Beta.
“Are you at least numb?” he asks, his lip curling as he looks at what Yara is doing.
“Utterly ridiculous Alpha,” Yara murmurs, obviously listening in to our conversation and giving her own opinions of me that she thinks we can’t hear.
Charlie looks at me frowning. ‘She knows we can hear her, right?‘ he asks in the mind link.
‘Apparently not,‘ I say, smiling.
“No, no numbing,” I tell him out loud.
‘I might agree with her,‘ he says, scowling at me.
“Give me the run down on Brady. Did you kill him?” I ask, watching my mate.
“Arric, you ready?” she asks softly, all her concentration on her work.
“Yes, mate,” Arric answers and Charlie turns to look at her again, leaning over to watch as Arrie heals my bone.
“Oh shit! That’s fucking awesome!” he says.
“I know right,” my mate says, smiling a huge fucking smile at my Beta. Without thinking. I snarl jealously.
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Both of them jolt and while it fucking hurts that she tugs on my newly healed bone, it doesn’t break
again.
“Sorry, Alpha,” Charlie says, showing his neck.
She looks at Charlie submitting and then at me and her lips press tightly together. She doesn’t approve. I lean forward so she’s sure that I’m talking to her.
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