“I imagine you hate these wars almost as much as I do,” he says astutely,watching me closely.
“These wars took my parents, left me an orphan. I’ve seen good men and women lose their lives because of these wars. I guess that’s why I decided to go into medicine. I mean, we’re obviously short on doctors with the number of injured that are constantly coming through the door,but I wanted to do something,something important, to try and help save at least some of these warriors.”
When I look back up at him,he’s smiling that dangerous smile again. Spoken like a true Luna,” he says softly, He points to my plate. “Eat. Don’t let this conversation destroy your appetite. You still have quite a few patients in your hospital to take care of.”It’s not my hospital.” I mumble as I take a bite.
“As the lead doctor, it most definitely is,” he says, the taunting smile back in place.
T roll my eyes and finish the food,which is surprisingly delicious, or maybe I’m just hungrier than I realized.
When we’re done, Warren drops the towel, walking naked to the bathroom to get the clothes I brought in for him. Yep, the backside looks just as rock hard as the front.
“We need to get downstairs. I need the pack to see that I’m perfectly fine. After that, we’ll come back up here and get some sleep.” I turn, looking at the room. There’s only one bed in here…
Warren—
While I had hoped that my invitation to come get her towel, and therefore me, would have worked, I didn’t expect it to. My mate isn’t the type of woman to jump on an Alpha just because she can. Actually, she’s pretty much the opposite, more likely to run from me because I’m an Alpha. And while I wouldn’t say no if she did offer herself to me, I’m kind of thankful that she isn’t. I’m exhausted and when I say we’re going to sleep when we get back, I truly mean it.
I watch her eyes go wide when I say we’ll be sleeping in here, but I meant what I said about her sharing my bed. Besides wanting my mate, I also know that having her close will help me to heal and I need to heal fast.
I grab the crutch with one hand and Yara’s hand with the other, before leading her back down the stairs. When we get to the dining hall, the room goes silent again. I can fel Yara getting nervous, the palm of her hand against mine gets sweaty. She doesn’t like being the center of so much attention.
I know we just ate, but I’m going to get some more food. Charlie didn’t bring enough to fill me up, which is good. I need to spend a little time with the pack and see how they are feeling about me and things in general. One important thing that I have to always do is keep my finger on the pulse of the pack. If they start to tum against me, woried that I’m not strong enough to lead them, I have to nipit in the bud quickly. It doesn’t happen often, mostly when I’m injured, like Chaer 14nction I am now.
I’ve just turmed to go get food, when Yara’s nose goes up in the air. I watch as the skittish woman of a moment ago transforms in front of my eyes to the exceedingly confident and sexy woman from the hospital.
“Yara? I ask, as she begins to move through the pack members, till Sniffing the air.If didn’t already recognize this as her doctormode, I’d be worried that she was sniffing someone that smelled good to her. Since she’s my mate, it shouldn’t happen, but she’s not wearing my mark so I’m uncomfortable having her around so many unmarked males.
I watch her as she approaches one of my warriors I ollow her. wondering what she’s doing, what she’s smelling. She leans over him, sniffing him, and he pulls away from her, looking at her like she’s crazy.
“What are you doing?” he asks her gruffly.
Without answering, she reaches out to put her hand on his face, but he slaps her hand away and that’s allit takes for me to be in his face.
“Haynes, you lay a fucking hand on my mate again, and it will be the last thing you do,” I tell him. One of the other warriors gets up as if to support Haynes, and I swing the crutch around jamming it into his throat and pressing him against the wall.
Don’t fuck with me,” I snarl, staring the two of them down. “Yara, What is this about?”
“Haynes, is it?” she asks as Charlie moves into a position to fight if my warriors turm on me.
“Yeah,” he says, not taking his eyes off of me.”Where’s your infection, Haynes?”
“What the fuck are you talking about?” he growls. As quick as a viper, I have him by the throat and on his feet.
“Did you not hear me earlier say when I said that this is my mate and the new lead doctor at our pack hospital? Do you have wax in your ears, Haynes?” I snar, getting his face. However, I realize that his body temperature is too hot. Yara’s right, he’s got an infection and now that I’ve pulled him closer, I can smellit too.
“Warren,” Yara says softly, putting her hand on my arm and calming me instantly.
“Answer her question, Haynes.”
He looks pissed that he’s been caught. What the fuck, do my warriors really think they need to fight until they die?
“It’s nothing.” he says, but he looks away. I let go of his neck but growl a waming to him to behave himself.”Your arm, right?” she asks him. “May I?””Do I have a choice?”
“No, you fucking don’t,” I growl.
He holds still and Yara pushes his shirt up to his shoulder.
“What the fuck? I say, seeing the festering wound on his arm that he’s tried to hide by covering it with gauze and cloths.
“How long has this been infected? Yara asks, much calmer than I am.
A while,” he grumbles.
“Why haven’t you had it cleaned? Been to the pack hospital.””No offense, doctor” he sneers at her,”but I’ve been a bit busy fighting a war.”
I’m about to snarl at him again, but Yara snaps before I can.
“Now you listen to me, warrior,” she says in the same sneering tone he used with her. “That infection,if not treated,will ill you. You aren’t any good to this pack or your Alpha, much less your friends and fellow warriors if you’re dead.
She surprises me by turning to warriors in the dining hall and addressing them. “None of you are. If you really want to help your pack, stay alive. The only way to do that is by staying healthy. Waiting until you get this bad, mean I’m pulling you off active duty until he infection is gone.” she says turning back to Haynes, putting her hands on her hips and getting in his face. And since your wolf is so weak that he’s not healing you, I’m guessing that’s going to be a minimum of three days.”
“You can’t. Haynes exclaims.
Want to rethink that comment, I say. This time I keep my cool. He’s sick. I’m sure his fever and probably his fear of not healing is impacting his interactions with Yara If she’s staying calm, I will follow her lead.
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