Wynta turned to face him fully. “I don’t know you,” she stated plainly, and it wasn’t a lie. “I’m also not going anywhere with a stranger.” She told him.
“Ah come on, Wynta, don’t be like that, I get it. Mum was really harsh on you, the estate angry. I understand you’re mad about what happened, likely have a right to be even, but we’re family, you know that.” He sighed. “Now let me help you back into bed while I sort the paperwork out.” He offered and took another step towards her.
“Don’t you touch me,” she snapped at him. “I don’t know you, not even your name, so I am not going anywhere willingly with you. Leave,” she stated firmly.
“Wynta, please don’t be like this. You do know I am your brother, Dwane. Uncle Edward is very upset that you’ve been missing, and he’s already had words with those that need it, about what happened to you that saw you leave before you arrived home.”
“I don’t know what you want from me, Dwane, if that is even your real name, but I do know you are not my brother. Leave or I’ll have the nurse call security.”
“Come on sis, don’t be like that now.” He frowned at her.
She called out for the nurse and when she came in she looked at her “Kim, I don’t know this man. I don’t have any family. I’ve already told you I’m an orphan. Please remove this stranger from my room. I don’t know who he is or what he wants, but he’s starting to scare me with his act,” she told the nurse.
She saw Kim look from her to the man and frown, then ask him to leave. Dwane frowned, She’s just upset, she got into a big fight with our mum is all. She is being difficult is all I assure you, Kim, I am her brother.”
“Prove it,” Wynta stated. “Get out your ID and show you’ve got the same last name or produce a family photograph of us all together, you and I and this so-called family I’m supposed to belong to.”
She watched as his jaw tightened, and he turned hard eyes on her.
“No. I didn’t think you could. He lies Kim. Please call security.”
Jared
Finally, on the fifth day, a lead had come through on Wynta Morgan’s where abouts, some human hospital was putting a claim through for her medical bills. Something he’d asked the pack doctor, Gordon, to monitor for and alert him to if it happened. He was now headed to the pack hospital to see what had happened to her medically.
But he’d already sent Dwane on ahead of him to that private hospital to confirm it was actually the Wynta Morgan he was looking for. He wouldn’t take any chances in just having her blindly transferred into the pack. What if someone had found her medical insurance card and claimed she was Wynta to get medical treatment?
He stood listening to Gordon as he read out that itemized bill, which stated she’d had surgery, one unit of blood had been infused, she’d spent three days in the ICU ward, two of which she was kept in a medically induced coma and there was now a post-op ward fee. There was a list of the medications and the items that were being used for her care. One of them was a full leg brace and crutches as well.
He could only sigh a little heavily, there was no actual diagnosis on there, and he stood and watched Gordon put in a call to the hospital to clarify the finer details and confirm they would be paying the bill after Jared nodded to say they would be.
He listened to the lady at the other end tell them in detail, emergency surgery for a penetrating abdominal wound, and an MCL sprain, as well as many other scratches and lots of bruising. They’d also been told she’d been brought in by ambulance, had been rescued from floodwaters by an emergency crew working nearby where she’d washed up. She’d also suffered from exposure to the elements. Had come in with mild hyperthermia.
He sighed when Gordon got off the phone after asking for the medical file to be sent over, and telling her they’d send someone to transfer her to their preferred hospital by no later than tomorrow. He’d sort that paperwork out and send it with the escort.
He waited for it to arrive and took a copy for himself and made his way to his father’s office. That man was still mad at him for not only losing Wynta, but for how long it had been now without anyone finding her. She’d not returned to the office or her apartment he was having both places watched.
It hadn’t been looking so good in the finding her. He’d taken six lashings from his own father for not being able to attend the Luna Ceremony and for ditching one of the guests outside the pack, and now she was missing, and for not following his father’s orders when he should have put that above everything else.
His father had announced what each lash was for right before he’d given it, and he’d been put on that shaming post for them all, that had happened the following day when he’d come back. without her for the first time.
Though he’d not been the only one to take a lashing, Lotti had been hauled in and asked about why she’d left the pack and called Jared to come and pick her up. Which had seen him leave Wynta outside the pack. She’d taken three lashes with the cat of three tails, one for leaving the pack, one for calling Jared and one because it was her call that had seen Wynta not make it to the pack.
He looked at his father now, who snarled at him to get out and go find Wynta. As he walked into his office, it was the standard response to seeing him right this minute. There was something about Wynta that his old man knew and wasn’t telling anyone about, or he generally liked the she-wolf and really did just want to see her become a pack member and be granted the safety of a pack.
“I have,” he stated simply. “Dwane is on his way to confirm it right this minute. I just thought you would want to know this and see the medical file on her before I followed him, to speak with her and bring her back to the pack as you asked me to.”
“She’s in a human hospital…” his father huffed as he took the file and looked at it. “So she was washed away in that flood.” He muttered and sounded angry once more.
“It does appear so,” Jared answered. “I’ll ask her directly for clarification.” He stated, knowing that if she was, he was likely to take another lashing, likely one for everyday she’d been missing now.
“I want Wynta in this pack’s hospital by the end of the day, Jared. This bringing her into the pack will also not count as her being willing to enter the pack either, Jared. Because I am insisting on it, and you’ll be making it happen. So this trip into the pack is not to be considered her coming into it of her own free will.”
Jared frowned at his father now. “What is she willing accepts coming?” he asked. That surely had to count.
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