Graham spun around ready to fight but suddenly crumpled in pain. He sank to his knees unable to stand.
“What’s wrong?” Michael asked.
“She’s with him!”
Realization hit Michael. Graham’s wolf never relinquished its bond and now he was feeling her betrayal as she mated with another. If his wolf was this obsessive to have maintained the bond there was no way to convince it to break it now.
“Doc!” Michael opened his mindlink to the pack doctor.
“Beta?”
“How much wolfsbane would you need to temporarily break the bond of one’s wolf?”
“That depends. For how long?”
“At least a few hours.”
“Why would you need to?”
“It’s for the Alpha.”
“..I see. I’ll be right there.”
Michael waited until he heard the knock. Letting in the doctor they hesitated as their Alpha writhed on the floor.
Grimly the doctor prepared a syringe with a clear liquid.
Once ready he nodded to Michael. The Beta held down their Alpha as the doctor injected the syringes contents.
They stepped back as Graham snarled before falling silent.
He lay sprawled out on the floor. Breathing sighs of relief they watched as he lay passed out.
“How long will it last?” Michael asked
“I’m not sure how long he will stay out but his wolf should stay quiet for a couple hours…maybe.”
“Only a couple?”
“Alphas have a much higher tolerance for wolfsbane than other wolves and he’s been a heavy drinker for years. Given the disconnection between him and his wolf it’s difficult to estimate how his recovery will be affected.”
“Let’s just hope Alpha Jason decides to take it easy given it’s his Luna’s first time.”
The doctor hesitated then asked, “Then it’s true…Phoebe really was his mate…and should have been our Luna.”
Michael nodded.
“I guess that makes sense. Certainly explains a few things.”
“What do you mean?”
“Only that there always seemed to be a particular aura about her. It was calming. She wasn’t like the other low ranking she-wolves.”
“You knew her well?”
“No. She came to the pack hospital regularly to visit her friend, a nurse. Betty, no Brittany. They were really close.”
“Is that nurse still here?”
“No. She’s gone. You didn’t know? One of the Alpha Jason’s warriors was her mate. She went with them.”
“Hmm. He took those orphans she was caring for too,” Michael sighed. “That means all her close bonds are with her in her new pack.”
“Were you thinking of trying to lure her back?”
“The thought crossed my mind but Alpha Jason definitely isn’t letting her out of his sight.”
“Alphas are very possessive.” The doctor shuddered with the memory of Jason’s aura. “Especially ones like him.”
“Fire! Fire!”
The panicked call stirred both of them to action. Leaving the unconscious alpha, Michael and the doctor darted outside and followed the link eventually coming to Phoebe’s cottage or at least where it used to be. It was engulfed in angry flames. The flames had spread to the garden. The burning herbs added an odd aroma to the rising smoke. Standing in front of the conflagration was a proud Kristie.
Marching up to her Michael gripped her arm, “What did you do?”
“I took care of the problem,” she smirked.
“Do you have any idea what this is going to do to him?”
“This is all that bitch’s fault,” Kristie huffed. “This pack is better off without her.”
“She was the only one holding this pack together!” Michael growled
“Watch it Beta! I’m Luna!”
“You were never Luna!” Michael declared to the stunned pack members. “You’ve done nothing but tear this pack apart! And I will not protect you any longer! I renounce you as my Luna!”
He marched away from her toward the growing crowd.
“Get back here, Beta!” she ordered.
Her Luna aura washed over him without affect. The disconnect between her and the pack was too great. She had no power to make demands of them anymore.
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