Damien and my father had been caught. I did not have to fear them laying their hands on me and killing me for my betrayal. /could not relax yet. The pack would blame me. for my actions. Would blame me for turning against their Alpha and soon-to-be Alpha. Loyalty was everything to a pack. You lived and died by it. Even if you disagreed with your Alphas actions. But did that truly matter when the pack abused you? Were you meant to be loyal then? Where did the line get drawn? Where did the option of saying no begin and end?
“You say this girl ingested the poison rather than kill you?” the nurse queried, her voice sharp and loud.
“I’m saying exactly that. She risked her own life to save mine, so I will not tolerate her dying on your watch” Alpha Jaxon snarled
“If she went to such lengths to save you, then she deserves nothing less” the nurse countered back with a growl “but it does prove fascinating that she went against her pack, for the likes of you, considering your reputation”
“I know” Alpha Jaxon confessed, sounding just as confused “which begs the question…” he trailed off.
Question? What question would that be? What was he proposing? I had done this of my own free will. I didn’t want his blood on my hands. I did not want to be responsible for an Alpha’s death or the forcible taking of his pack. I had merely wanted a chance to prove that I was not as bad as they claimed I was. That I had good in my soul. The collar still lay around my neck, but Damien must have lost it as he ran because I had experienced no shocks.
“How worse is this Alpha Maxwell if she was willing to betray him for you instead?” the nurse supplied
“Exactly” Alpha Jaxon growled and that collar on her neck, is it…?” he trailed off questioningly.
The nurse sighed “It’s exactly as you thought. The bastards put a shock collar on her. It’s been used more than once I would say, judging by the extent of some of the injuries we found on her body. It must have been a way to force her obedience. You said she couldn’t speak?” she asked amusingly.
“That’s what that bastard Alpha claimed. She didn’t speak a word before she drank the poison” he uttered with a growl.
*Hmmm, we might do some more tests. But she has bruising all over her body, broken bones that have yet to heal, and those that have healed only to be broken over and over again. This girl is almost eighteen judging by our calculations and yet her life has been anything but easy.
She’s been heavily abused Alpha Jaxon. Perhaps that’s your answer to why she did what she did. There’s only so much a person can take before they snap.”
There is only so much a person can take before they snap, I thought wishing I could crane my head or move my body slightly instead of listening. I had finally cracked
“What kind of man hurts a girl incapable of fighting back”
Alpha Jaxon said, disgust dripping from his voice “it says a lot that he picked a girl with no wolf and much weaker than himself. Do you suppose..” he trailed off and the nurse made a strangled sound.
“Suppose what?” she asked eagerly.
“It’s impossible,” Alpha Jaxon said dismissively “there is no way that she could be. I mean, her hair for one is different to his.”
“Oh. You think this could be his daughter” the nurse said quietly “Alpha Jaxon, the girl may resemble her mother more than her father.”
“But is a father capable of treating his daughter in this manner?” Alpha Jaxon sounded uncertain.
The nurse snorted unladylike “You haven’t been in the hospital wing often enough to know what any father is capable of. Shifters are just like humans, some of them are rotten to the core, like this Alpha Maxwell. You might not want to believe that he and his own wolf is capable of hurting his own pup, but I guarantee you that it’s entirely possible and plausible that this girl is his daughter. No wonder nobody ever really know who she was. He must have been keeping her hidden from other packs or everybody made the assumption she was merely a servant because of her looks and clothes.”
“That’s enough blood Alpha Jaxon” the nurse said tightly.
I’ll say when it’s enough” he growled
“No. You’re planning on going to that pack afterwards, so – you stop here, before you lose too much and make yourself vulnerable” the nurse snapped.
I felt the needle pulled out of my arm as my body lay there, my eyes still refusing to open. I felt sleepy, drowsy now, as though my body had woken for a short time and now needed to rest again. It was infuriating. I wanted to sit up, I wanted to see for myself the expression on Alpha Jaxons face. I felt this overwhelming desire to reach out and touch him.
“I was going to go to the pack first, but I felt the need to check on her” Alpha Jaxon said and I sensed he was in the doorway.
“I’ll keep her alive, you do what needs to be done young man and come back safely” the nurse said sternly.
Their relationship was almost like a mother and son, I thought absently. I heard Alpha Jaxon grunt before his footsteps began to fade down the hall. Don’t go, I wanted to shout out, don’t leave me. I need you, I need you to stay!
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