MasukTime seemed to be dragging. My mind felt like it was buzzing with the ever-increasing tension. I wanted to get away from Mari. I wanted to get away from the situation. But I knew that she needed somebody with her. She was meant to be resting. And with every drifting glance in her direction, I could not help but notice the color fading from her skin.
But the help I needed was anything but present. Doctor Grayson awaited arrival had yet to occur, and he was not currently answering my mindlinks. The damn man was nowhere in sight. An awkward silence had sat between Mari and me since I had told her I did not like her, despite not truly meaning it. I did not know what to say to her now, but each time I looked towards her, I could see her struggling to keep her eyes open...
I paced the floors of the shelter we were within anxiously, not liking the way her strength seemed to fade and flicker back. It was hard to describe. Even Draven was puzzled. ‘Contact the damn doctor
The doctor had checked me over so many damn times I was getting sick of the sight of him. But anytime I so much as winced in pain, Alpha Carter would call for him, and he would come rushing back into my room. That same warm smile upon his face, and a look of determination that he was there to care for me and ensure that I was okay. I knew he meant well, as did Alpha Carter, but I had had enough of the both of them. Yet neither one seemed willing to leave me alone.I had no clue how long I had remained in the hospital. Nor what the time was, as the room I was within had no window, and the light upon the ceiling was still as bright as it had been the moment I had woken. Clearly, the doctors did not care for your eyes while you recovered from your injuries. I truly wished that they did, because my poor eyes needed to rest. My whole body needed to rest. Sleep was what I needed. And, while I tried desperately to fall asleep, all I could hear was the pacing footsteps of Alpha Carte
My heart pounded within my chest at the slightest of touch she placed upon my chest, and Draven made a strange sound somewhere between a snarl and a purr. A sound I had not heard since my mate had been around. No. This was not happening. My wolf was becoming attached to a she-wolf that was nothing to us...My world continued to feel like it collapsed in upon itself, as Mari’s words echoed within my mind. She had shocked me. That was not how the girl spoke. But the slightly altered tone of her voice told me this was not her. I was near certain of that. This was her fiery little fucker of a wolf. The brave little Beta wolf that she had so desperately needed as she grew up. The wolf that had been held back by the wolfsbane. The wolf she needed to protect her. To make her strong. Seemed she was everything Mari was not. And the little firecracker had seemingly taken a liking to me.“Mari.” I warned again, my tone sharp in hope it would snap her into realit
I had no sense of time nor space. I did not know where I was. Or what had happened. My eyes fluttered open. My body felt like it had been run over by a truck. And that they had reversed right back over me to give it another go. Battered and bruised was an understatement, that was for sure. I ached so badly, yet truthfully, I had no clue as to how that had happened. The lights of the room where I lay were beyond bright, and as my eyes settled upon the man in front of me, I flinched. I did not recognize him. Only reinforcing the fact I did not know where I was.“Mari?” His voice seemed kind. Warm. Friendly. And he knew my name... But I recalled very little. Other than the meeting…My mind flitted through the occurrences of the day in a bid to establish how I had found myself here. Though I had yet to establish where here even was. Had I been captured? Kidnapped? Or had I been caught up in the fight that had taken off? Was that what had happened? Was th
I was pushed to wait within the hallways of my own pack hospital. Wait while they treated Mari. Hudson by my side. I paced the long hallways while my friend threw incessant questions in my direction. Further frustrating me at the inconvenience of being left out in the hallway. I wanted to know if she was okay. Needed to know that the doctors could save her. But there was nothing but silence any time I mindlinked the doctors, and the door to the room they had taken her into remained closed...“You and her good now?” Hudson asked for the fourth or fifth time. I provided him with yet another cold glare.“What does it matter?” I snapped, giving into his demands and actually answering him this time. “I just need to know she is okay. I can't have her hurt while in our care.”Hudson chuckled. “Is that all?”I rolled my eyes, already sick of where the conversation was going. I should have remained silent, and opted
The wait felt like a lifetime as my eyes continued to take in the fallen she-wolf beside me. The need to consistently check she was breathing was persistent. I was terrified her breathing would stop. That she would die within my arms. A bear trap used for my own pack security had taken the girl down and may now well be the thing that killed her. That and the fact she was still not as strong as she should be. That damn wolfsbane she was drugged with so clearly still having some kind of effect upon her and her healing…I held Mari’s body close to mine as Draven whimpered incessantly within my mind. I did not know what else to do, and my mind was flickering back to the day I lost my mate. A day I did not want to relive, least of all now. Yet it seemed fate may be playing a cruel trick upon me, forcing me to go through something similar with the she-wolf that had so recently come crashing into my life. I had no clue what was going to happen, but the more time that dr
Time seemed to be dragging. My mind felt like it was buzzing with the ever-increasing tension. I wanted to get away from Mari. I wanted to get away from the situation. But I knew that she needed somebody with her. She was meant to be resting. And with every drifting glance in her direction, I could not help but notice the color fading from her skin.But the help I needed was anything but present. Doctor Grayson awaited arrival had yet to occur, and he was not currently answering my mindlinks. The damn man was nowhere in sight. An awkward silence had sat between Mari and me since I had told her I did not like her, despite not truly meaning it. I did not know what to say to her now, but each time I looked towards her, I could see her struggling to keep her eyes open...I paced the floors of the shelter we were within anxiously, not liking the way her strength seemed to fade and flicker back. It was hard to describe. Even Draven was puzzled. ‘Contact the damn doctor







