Charlie’s POV I sunk into silence as Alexander flitted in and out of the bedroom, sometimes with snacks other times just to check on me. I was lost in my own thoughts, mulling over my life with my parents. My birth mother died just before my tenth birthday and from what I know and remember, my father did not take long to remarry. Memories of my birth mother were fading and i was finding it harder and harder to remember everything about her, her scent, her fashion sense even how she looked. I'm not sure I even had a clear image of her anymore. When my father remarried, I was the last thing on his mind, I was always a burden to them and honestly I did wonder why they kept me around, they could have quite easily given me up to the system but I guess it was to always clean up after them. “Do you really think he would have killed me?” Alexander has come back in the room to find me out of bed once again. I was sat in his bay window looking out on to the lar

Max’s POVCharlie had still been out cold every time I had visited her to change her bandages or her fluids bag and each time I saw her, the emotions I felt were overwhelming, the sparks that flew when I touched her skin were electric, it was like we were somehow already connected but she had yet to meet me.My mother stopped by the hospital and asked if I would join them for a family dinner, letting me know that Charlie had woken and she would be joining them too. Everything inside me told me to go including my wolf Ripper, he was desperate to be near his mate, but how could we go if she was already mated to my brother?!.I politely declined my mother and she looked disappointed, I knew exactly why she wanted me to go, to show off the future Alpha and the youngest doctor as well as to show Charlie who had helped save her.Ripper was literally shouting at me and it was taking a lot to shut him up, he hated the fact I had been so against believing in

Alexander’s POVI was furious, how could she have been pregnant, why did she not save her self for her future husband, for me? As soon as I found out, I left I just could not listen the information about her anymore, my future mate had not saved herself for me and had humped a stupid human being.Max tried calling me back through mind link but I had had enough of this bullshit, she must have been fucked against her will, she just didn’t seem the type to lose her virginity to anyone. My parents will be furious to find out about this and will never let me have Charlie as a mate as she is not pure, something they were big on.My fist met the bark of the large tree outside the hospital, the cracking of my knuckles told me that I had hit it hard enough to cause damage and right on cue a branch dropped to the floor right in front of me. The lashing out had done nothing to calm my nerves or my anger. I will find out who did this to her and make them suffer.

Charlie’s POVThe idea of me having a wolf was strange and oddly exciting, a wolf that my father had kept at bay for the last seven years and I wondered how he did it. Max told me that I was being drugged but how, I barely ate, I made my own drinks, my bedroom door was always locked at night so how had he done it.“Can you take me to see him?” I knew I was pushing my luck but had to askMax stared at me, I knew he was weighing up his options “Tomorrow, you need to rest right now, you had a big operation”I sigh, I knew I was pushing it but I had questions I needed to ask my father “Okay” I agree with Max, I will rest “How long have I been in hospital?”“Two days” I nod, trying to figure out what day it is, just like he knew what I was thinking “It’s Thursday”Just two days until my eighteenth, at least I would be able to make my own choices then, as much as I

Alexander’s POVI knew exactly where Damon would take my mate, he would take her back home and treat her as a slave once again. I left my brother talking to my father in Charlie’s hospital room, I was not waiting around for them to decide her fate.Leaving, I hop back in my jeep and speed off down the road, screw them, I would find her and save her from her wretched father. Driving at top speed, I run some red lights and some stop signs, that would be no problem, it’s easy enough to buy people’s help when you have money. When I arrive at her house, there is no sign that anyone is here, to be honest it looks as if no one has been here for days.I move around the house searching for clues, there must be some little detail, anything that will lead me to her. The house stinks of cigarettes and beer cans are littered everywhere. I check her bedroom, images of her bloody and beaten flit across my mind, but for the first time I really look at he