We were about to follow her out of the room when Dr. Hunt stopped us.
“Her condition is very critical alpha. The knife is embedded deep in her chest probably pierced a part of her heart, she needs to be taken to surgery immediately. However, if you want to save her I need to know if she has a wolf, do you know?”
“No, Dr. She doesn’t have a wolf” answered Joseph in concern.
“This increases the severity of her condition. If she doesn’t have a wolf, her healing abilities are most probably too slow to get her through surgery, she will bleed out as soon as I take out the knife” says Dr. Hunt.
“What if you transfer pure blood to her system before you remove the knife. Will her condition improve?” I ask in despair.
“Yes. If she has pure blood in her system, it will increase her chances of surviving the surgery, but not for sure. Problem is, we need a donor. We don’t have a blood bank”
I stare in surprise and almost bite his head off “What kind of hospital doesn’t have a single blood bag in their blood bank?” I seethe in rage.
The doctor seems surprised by my hostility. He recovers quickly and answers in an apologetic tone “It was alpha Grey’s orders not to draw blood from any pure blood in the pack. If a half blood got injured, they weren’t allowed to receive blood from pures, they would either make it and recover on their own or die, and pure bloods don’t need a blood donation as you know”
I close my eyes and try to calm my breathing. I open them again and fight the urge to alpha-command him to do whatever needs to be done to save her life.
“From now on, you will have regular blood draws from pure bloods and stock up that blood bank. I will donate blood to her myself. Make sure someone is ready for the blood draw as soon as we arrive. And Dr. Hunt, I want you to do what ever you can to save her life. She is very important to me, do you understand what I am saying?”
“Yes alpha. I will do my very best”
We all head out to the pack house front door. I watch them load her into the ambulance. Joseph sprints into the garage to get us a car to follow them back to the hospital.
We ride in silence. I was still surprised at myself for admitting that she was important to me. Was it because I still wanted the chance to get my revenge? Or because I wanted to find out who did this to her? Or was it something else?
One thing I did know for sure. It was important to me to keep her alive so I could find out what the hell happened to her. So I could find out who would do this to her, and truly and publicly make an example out of him.
Klaus’s POV
We arrive at the pack hospital five minutes later. Ella went straight for the OR to be prepped for surgery, and I was taken to a private room next to the OR. There was a nurse waiting for me there, and started the blood draw process immediately. Joseph stayed outside to keep an eye on Ella’s condition.
When I was done, I went outside and stood against the wall next to joseph. We were standing outside the OR door.
About ten minutes later, a nurse walked out and headed towards us.
“Alpha Klaus, beta Joseph, Dr. Hunt needs you inside” the nurse motioned us to follow her inside.
My heart dropped. Did she die before he could get started? I looked at Joseph and saw that he was thinking the same thing.
The nurse gave us sterilized medical gowns and face masks to put on. I took that as a good sign. If she were dead they wouldn’t bother with sterilization. Once we were done, we followed the nurse into the OR. I saw an intubated Ella, laying on the operating table. The knife was still where it was embedded in her chest. I looked at the heart monitor and saw her pulse dangerously low.
“Why haven’t you started the surgery yet?” I asked the doctor.
“There is something wrong. We gave her your blood and waited ten minutes for her heart to beat stronger, but it never did. For some reason your blood isn’t healing her alpha” Dr. Hunt answered.
“That doesn’t make any sense. Why would her body refuse my blood? A pure blood?” I asked incredulously.
“I could only think of one thing that would prevent the body from healing itself, even when injecting it with pure blood. She must have wolfs bane in her system. That’s the only thing that makes sense. I drew some blood from her and sent it to our lab for quick examination”
I stared at Joseph in confusion and saw my expression mirrored on his face.
“Why the hell would she have wolfs bane in her system?” asks Joseph.
“Add that to the list of unending mysteries to seek answers for” I reply in a dry tone.
Dr. Hunt cleared his throat “Actually alpha, there is another mystery I am about to add to your list” he looked at the nurses and nodded at them. They turned her body to the other side giving me a full view of her back.
Not a single word can describe how I felt when I saw her back. Horrified? Shocked? Stunned? Agonized? Crushed?
Combine them all together and multiply them by a hundred and it still won’t nearly describe how I felt.
Her back was covered in different whip marks. Some tore her skin right open with deep cuts.
“Her back is not the only place with those marks. Most of her body is marked. However, only her back has those deep cuts that were probably caused by what appears to be a bull whip. I was present during the public whipping this morning, and I was pretty stunned to see her bleed through the shirt, now it all makes sense” Dr. Hunt said in a sad tone.
“Are you saying she was tortured before the public whipping this morning?” Joseph asked in a shocked tone.
“I would say this happened about two nights ago. You can clearly distinguish between alpha Klaus’s marks and the old ones. His are pinker because they are still fresh. She should have healed from the first whip lashes the next night, but the fact that she didn’t confirms that she probably ingested wolfs bane around the time those old lashes happened”
Two nights ago? Two nights ago, the pack wasn’t ours yet, it was still alpha Grey’s pack. She tried to run away the next night. Was it to escape from who ever tortured her and not because she was running away from me? Or was it both reasons? My head was full of questions. Why wouldn’t she tell me this? Why would she let herself be punished when she was already put through hell the day before?
Dr. Hunt cleared his throat again “There is something else I am afraid”
I didn’t think this could possibly get any worse, but from the look on the doctor’s face, whatever he was about to say was worse.
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