Chapter 03

Alpha Lucas’s POV

The calls continued late into my drive back home, my beta, Callum briefing me about the deal we had managed to close with  the dark moon pack.

" If their Alpha does not send the next payment, deploy guards to the pack grounds so they know how serious we are about our deals. I'm tired of giving them chances and watching them abuse it." I said into the speaker.

I heard calling scribble a few words in that jotter of his that he always seemed to carry around.

" We should get the...."

His words seemed to fade as my headlights caught sight of something laying in the middle of the road.

 A deer perhaps.

I lost control of the wheels trying to dodge hitting it, the phone falling out of my hands and Callum's voice asking if I was okay floating out of the phone.

The car engine screeched to a stop as I heaved in shock. Where the hell did that come out of?

" Callum, I will call you back" I said simply, dropping the phone and getting out of the car.

The air was fresh, the wind blew in the most unnaturally refreshing way, and with it came the most lovely scent I had perceived all my life.

My steps faltered for a minute as I took on the scent, sweet and refreshing, a mixture of vanilla and honey, fading gradually, but still prominent enough to leave my wolf spinning with dizziness.

The closer I walked towards the figure I just nearly hit the more I realized it was not a deer as I had thought. It was a human.

My legs quickened as I ran towards where the person laid, grabbing her into my arms as I stared at the trail of blood she had left crawling out from wherever she had been injured.

Her yellow sundress was soaked with the blood gushing out of her, and her eyes seemed to not be able to hold open, but one thing was clear now, this woman was my mate.

" Please help me" she managed to mutter out, her eyes closing as she lost consciousness.

The panic set in almost immediately. Shit.

I ran towards the car, bundling her now limp figure into it as I sped through the forest, the hospital I had in mind playing with my vision as a thousand and one questions ran through my head.

I have tried searching for my mate for the longest time. I had searched packs, all far and wide for this one woman that was supposed to complete me.

It has been hard, but slowly I had come to the acceptance that a mate was just not in the cards for me. And now I find her, but she is bleeding quickly to death and I may lose her the same day I found her.

" Where the fuck are the doctors?!" I yelled as I barged into the hospital, her body still clad in my arms even though the nurses had rolled a small bed for me to place her on.

A doctor came running out, his eyes darting first to my face in shock and then to the woman in my arms.

" Alpha Lucas...such a pleasure to have you in my hospital..." He was talking but his formality irritated me.

" Cut that shit, help her. She is dying, if she dies I will burn this hospital to the ground with all of you in it! So stop trying to suck up to me and fucking help her!" 

It was only then that he registered the gravity of the situation, his lips forming into an o as I placed her on the bed and watched them roll her into the theatre room.

Fuck.

What was going to happen to her?

I was pacing the halls nervously, not minding that everyone was gaping at me the whispers of how great my pack was filtering into my ears. But I did not care. I just wanted her to be fine.

For what felt like the seventh time, my phone buzzed in my pocket but this time it was not a call from Callum, but a text.

" Where are you? The alphas just arrived and the conference is supposed to have started ten minutes ago! Call me when you get this"

Oh shoot. I forgot all about the conference to expand borders.

But again, all that did not move me. I was too preoccupied with the thought of her to even care what was going on with the pack.

A doctor ran past me, a worried expression on his face as he made to enter back into the theatre.

" What the hell is going on?! Where is she?!" I asked, yelling into his face as he whimpered.

" We are working on it sir ...I...I have to go back in now, please give us a minute" 

He bolted before I could ask again, causing my heart to sink.

I would not be able to bear it if I lost her. I would kill the entire world if I lost her.

Maybe it was hours, or bare minutes, but finally, the doctor came out, a weary expression on his face.

I could feel my heart begin to thump faster as I waited for him to speak.

" So?" I asked, feeling irritated now.

" You don't have to worry, Alpha, she is fine. We were able to stabilize her and even though she lost a lot of blood, I think she will be able to pull through in a few days and within weeks, she should be back to normal"

It felt as though the weight I had in my chest lifted and all of a sudden, I could feel the air rushing through my nose again, my breathing going back to its normal pace.

She will be fine. My mate will be fine.

" However...." He paused again.

He stared at me as though contemplating his next words carefully before finally, he sighed.

" We could not save the baby...by the time you brought her in it was too late and the..."

" Wait...baby?" I asked, perplexed.

" Yes...she was carrying a baby....it was almost time for it be birthed too. I don't know what happened to her but whatever it was, it killed the baby. We tried saving it by operating on her but it was too late, the baby had been dead for hours before she got on that table. I'm so sorry"

My heart went out to this woman I just met, this mate of mine that seemed to have a past that even I could not save her from.

" She will pull through?" I asked again.

" Yes, she will. You can come see her tomorrow, when she has had enough rest" 

I nodded, trying to control my emotions in front of him.

I could not save her from the past that she was coming from, but one thing was clear, I was going to make that past pay for ever hurting her. And I did not care what it was going to take, everyone involved was going to perish.