hapter 154
Chapter 154
Quirin
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I knew Wendy must have been badly injured for Henry to be so distraught and for Luna Yara to have lost her carefully maintained control. But I had no idea that my mate would be able to save her. I was sure she would try, but I didn’t know that she would be in surgery for eight fucking hours and somehow manage to save her sister’s life.
I’ve once again managed to underestimate my mate. I don’t know how I keep doing it, but here I am. Again.
As I carefully strip off her clothes, I think about what she said, that I don’t like her father. Alpha Warren and Alpha Connor didn’t hesitate to answer the call of attack. Alpha Warren landed on the first floor immediately after I did. Yorick and Kier had leaped at the same time I did and I’d had to twist mid–air to avoid colliding with them. Their family didn’t hesitate to enter the fight, even though this isn’t their battle, and they nearly lost their daughter because of it. I’m not sure how to feel about them protecting my pack as if it were there own.
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I’d stood aside in the hospital, watching as Luna Yara took care of my pack members. Alpha Warren had consoled his pups, the twins and Yana, while my mate worked on her sister and Connor sat with Madison. When Harold and Farrah arrived, they sat on either side of Henry, trying to console him and let him know that he did everything possible to protect and save Wendy.
Yana eventually began helping her mother, while Warren held his youngest daughter who couldn’t seem to stop crying. Both twins eventually fell asleep, exhausted.
I’d distracted myself by listening to Luna Yara’s murmurings about ridiculous Alphas who are too stupid and cowardly to fight their own battles and have to use silver to try and weaken another pack. She went on to say how my pack is utterly ridiculous not to use one of the best up and coming doctors that she’s ever had the pleasure of meeting, just because they’re stubborn and used to be rogues. Then she talked about the lack of supplies in our hospital and how we need to stock this hospital properly. Finally, she mumbled about how smart her daughter is to have found the silver, and how she needs to remember to tell Kennedy how proud she is of her, especially knowing how hard she’s working to save Wendy.
The entire time she was mumbling, my pack members kept frowning at her and looking at me. I’d just shake my head, telling them to leave it. It was obvious that she wasn’t talking to anyone other than herself.
I’d watched Arianna help Kier walk in and then watched him charm Luna Yara while she treated him.
Finally, when the last of my pack members, Luna Yara’s family, Harold, Henry, and Farrah had been treated, she looked at
- me.
“You’re up next, Alpha.”
After she asked Raif if he was healthy and if he thought he couldn’t heal me because of silver powder, I’d listened to her murmuring about me. She talked about what she considers my lack of confidence in myself, always chasing the ghost of my father and trying to fill his shoes when I don’t need to because I’m my own person and doing a much better job than my father ever did. I don’t know why it’s easy to listen to her, easier to hear what she’s saying than it is to hear others. Maybe because she doesn’t realize she’s saying it out loud or maybe because everything she says comes from a place of kindness. Her words impacted me, made me feel vulnerable. I AM trying to live up to my father’s expectations and since I don’t truly know what those expectations are, I feel like I never quite meet them.
Somewhere during all of this, Deborah had come out saying she needed blood. Luna Yara had immediately pinpointed which of her children and her mate had Wendy’s blood type. Henry asked if he was a match and was told that he was, but that he needed the silver out of his body before giving blood. As soon as she cleared him, he went to Deborah and put out his arm. I’m pretty sure he’d have let her drain him dry if it meant saving Wendy.
I was not a blood donor match for Wendy, but Luna Yara told me that I’m a match for Kennedy if I never needed to know
that.
After that, it had been a waiting game.
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Chapter 154
I finish bathing Kennedy, noticing the dark circles under her eyes. She’s been through so much since she came to my packs wrap a towel around her and carefully pick her up. I don’t often have time to just hold my mate unless we’re in bed and minutes away from falling asleep. And as exhausted as I am, I know that I should get some deep. Bant instead, I just wand there, holding her and looking at my mate’s sweet face.
I smile as she snuggles closer to me, pressing her face into my chest and breathing in my scent. Voen in her sleep, the wants to be close to me. I have no idea what I did to deserve a woman like Kennedy, but I’m so glad that I did,
1 press a kiss to her forehead and take her back to our bedroom. I pull one of my shirts over her head and settle her in bed before stripping down and climbing in behind her. I’m thankful now that the hospital has showers, but I noticed that was not part of the hospital that Kennedy upgraded. I’ll talk to Kier and have him order shampoo and shower gel containers for the showers as well as getting our guys in there to retile the place. If we’re going to need medical attention every time paper attacks, my warriors will want to shower while they wait to be treated.
I crawl into bed behind my mate and pull her against me, burying, my face in her hair. “I love you, Kennedy, I say, before joining her in a deep, exhausted sleep.
Henry POV
I can’t sleep. I keep seeing Wendy in my arms, bleeding out. I can smell the scent of her blood while I was fighting against that warrior. It shouldn’t have taken me so long to kill him, but I was standing over her body, trying to protect her in case someone snuck up behind us while I was fighting. Her skin had become so pale when I was finally able to pick her up and race to the hospital that I was sure that she was dead.
The moment Luna Yara saw her and lost her calm demeanor, I knew it was as bad as I thought.
I’d sat in that waiting room, feeling helpless, waiting for Kennedy to come out and say that Wendy hadn’t made it. I’d been relieved when Kennedy said she was stable and I thought I could finally get some sleep, but I can’t get those images out of my head. I can’t stop thinking about her pale, much–too–cool skin against my body.
I finally give up and get dressed. I have to see her. I have to know that she’s still alive and fighting to survive. I’m pretty sure I’d have heard the mournful howls of Alpha Warren and Luna Yara if she’d passed away overnight, but I won’t be able to rest until I see her with my own eyes and know for sure that she’s safe.
I make my way back to the hospital. There are very few people around. Nearly everyone fought after a long night of celebration and the entire pack is exhausted and healing from their wounds.
When I get to Wendy’s room, both Alpha Warren and Luna Yara have their heads on the bed. They are on opposite sides of Wendy, each holding one of her hands. When the door opens, Alpha Warren’s head snaps up.
“Henry, is everything okay?”
“I just came to check on her,” I say, as Luna Yara sleepily looks up at me.
“Oh, Henry. That’s so kind of you. She hasn’t woken up but she’s remained stable all night,” Luna Yara says.
“If you want to go get some breakfast, shower, change, whatever, I’ll stay with her,” I say.
“Are you sure, Henry? Yara and I can take turns going to shower,” Warren says.
“I’m sure, Alpha. I’d be happy to do it,” I say.
They both lean in to kiss Wendy’s head, telling her they’ll be back soon, before heading out. I take the closest seat, the one Luna Yara was sitting in and take Wendy’s hand in mine.
I pull her hand to my cheek and take a deep breath, finally feeling like I can relax. She’s alive. She’s still fighting.
I kiss the back of her hand and carefully lay it back down, keeping her hand in mine as I do.
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“I don’t know if you can hear me, Wendy, but I’m right here”
I lay my head down beside her hand and I’ve just started in fall weleep when I feel her body work and demode
My head snaps up and I watch her eyes Blutter open, I stand up, gently pushing her hur ow of her tere
“Wendy! Oh my goddess, Wendy. You had me so scared!”
“Henry?” she says sofily, her voice cracking.
“I’m right here,” I say, looking around. “Here, let me get you some water”
“I feel awful,” she says, her eyes filling with tears as I grab the water. There’s a wraw in it and 1 pwww serie
“Do you remember what happened, I ask as she sips.
She nods. “You saved me,” she says as she releases the straw,
“I was terrified that I was going to lose you,” I whisper,
“You’re too strong for that. You would never let me die” she smiles, but it fades quickly as pain return Werture.
“I’ll go get your mother,” I say, only getting one step away before she stops me
“Don’t leave me, Henry, Please don’t leave me,” she pleads, her voice becoming, panicked,
I turn back and take her hand again, leaning over her to look in her eyes, “Okay, I won’t go anywhere?
She breaths out a sigh of relief. “Thank you”
I mind link my Dad, letting him know that I need Luna Yara back at the hospital. Once he tells me that he’ll find her and send her over, I lean against the bed,
“Why can’t I hear Dasha?” she asks, her lips trembling.
“Shhh, I’ll tell you what I know. But you almost died. I wasn’t kidding when I said you scared me to death. Until your mom gets here and can give you something for the pain, just relax. Dasha has to heal too. But you’re a strong Alpha female. I’m sure she’ll be back before you know it.”
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