Chapter 14
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“But who is going to assess the warriors?” he asks me.
“Have the nurses give a diagnosis and recommended treatment, then bring it in here to ask Dr.
Yara’s opinion.”
“My opinion?” she asks me, obviously surprised.
“Yes, Yara. Your opinion. I’m beginning to think that you are the perfect replacement for Dr. Stevens.”
Yara
Replacement? I can’t be a replacement. I’m not staying. As soon as Alpha…as soon as Warren’s leg is
done, I’m out of here. I glance up at the broody Alpha and wonder if that’s true. Is he going to let me
go?
The news about Simon has me worried. If there is a paper trail of his father helping me though
medical school he’ll find me.
“Arric?” I say distractedly, holding the bones together while he heals them.
I have to get my car, my clothes. I have to get back to school, I’m a resident, I can’t just up and leave.
“Tell me where your car is and I’ll have someone go get it. Same with your clothes. As far as your schooling goes, we’ll have to talk about you taking classes online and working your ‘residency‘ did you call it, here,” Warren says.
I frown at him. “How did you…?”
“You were talking to yourself. It wasn’t hard to hear you.”
“I can’t leave school, Warren,” I say, looking at him like he’s crazy.
I didn’t say you’d be leaving school. I said you’d be doing your residency here. You can take classes online,” he says as if that settles it.
“Excuse me? You can’t keep me here!”
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He merely raises that damn eyebrow at me again.
“You’re not my Alpha…” I begin.
He leans forward. “What I am is your mate. Tell me truthfully, if I let you go back to school and I
come to visit you in say a week’s time, will you still be there?”
I look away, beginning to work on his leg again and refusing to answer him. Even if he wasn’t my mate, knowing that Simon may be able to figure out where I am, would have me transferring immediately.
“That’s what I thought and that, my dear mate, is why I’m not letting you leave.”
He sits back and both of us get lost in our own thoughts again as I let Arric know when I’m ready for him to heal the bones.
“Why did you say I was brave earlier?”
“What?” he asks, and I can tell the pain is getting to him.
“Earlier, you said you knew I was intelligent, compassionate, brave, and lonely. The intelligent and compassionate I understand, the lonely you explained, but why did you say you think I’m brave?” I ask him.
“When you heard my pack, you didn’t run. You could have. You didn’t know they were my pack members. You looked like you were ready to fight, to defend me. For someone who’s not a fighter, that takes guts.”
I look up at him, frowning. “How do you know I’m not a fighter?”
“You’re not built like one,” he says simply.
“Are
you saying I’m fat?” I ask, insulted. I work out at the human gym. I know I need to let Annika out more often to run, but I’m not overweight, even by werewolf standards.
“You know you’re not,” he says, watching me. “But I saw you naked. Those of us who have been
fighting in pack wars almost daily for years don’t have the softness to their body that you have. And before you go jumping to any conclusions, I find your body very attractive, very sexy.”
I stop what I’m doing, not sure how to respond to that.
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“Sexy. That’s not a word that has been used to describe me in the past,” I say, and realize that once. again I spoke out loud.
I look up at him and see him smiling at me. “Some people, like myself, find intelligence sexy. But, I’ve been itching to touch you, to run my hands over the softness of your body, since the moment I saw you.”
“Some people, like myself, find it hard to believe that someone caught in a bear trap was ‘itching to touch me,” I say, rolling my eyes at him.
“Then that should tell you just how strong the pull of the mate bond is. As much as what you’re doing hurts, just having you touch me helps with the pain. Your scent in this room, which gets stronger the longer you are in here, is helping me manage the pain. As an Alpha, it’s one of the benefits of finding your Luna, your fated mate. You are the other half of my soul, and at the risk of sounding cheesy. you complete me on more than one level. Now, I have a question for you.”
“Okay,” I say, still focusing on his leg.
“Why didn’t you run?”
I stop and look at him like he’s crazy. “You were injured. If they weren’t your pack, they would have killed you.”
That damn eyebrow goes up again. “And they would have killed you
too.”
“I didn’t rescue from a bear trap to leave you to die at the hands of the assholes who set it in the first place!” I say.
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