Making it back to the doctor's in record time, the first thing he asks before getting him out is, "Is He Dead?"  When I say, "I don't think so." He hurriedly opens the car door and carefully checks him over before removing him.   For the next several hours while the doctor operates, everyone stands around not knowing what to do.  One of the senior beta's walk up to me and expresses his concerns.  He says, "If he dies, there will be a huge fight and you had better leave unless you are strong enough to stand your ground.  Usually when another Alpha gains control, he either takes the luna for his own or more likely kills her.  I have even seen where he banishes her from the pack for fear that she would create dissension among the remaining pack members." Not thinking of any of this, I immediately start to worry after he leaves.  Pacing back and forth, I wear a worn spot in the carpet by the door and when I look up, the doc

"Hold that thought."  I say before getting up to answer the door.When I open it, Janessa is standing in front of me with two of the pups, Rydell and Julian.  "These two want to ask you something."  She smiles and right away looks concerned when she realizes she must have woke up Alpha Eric.I crouch down and ask, "What's on your minds?"The tallest one Julian who surely must be 10 or so, says, "We want to make sure the Alpha is O.K., we had heard that he was hurt really bad and almost died."Smiling, I wave them in and tell Janessa, "It's O.k., he just woke up so they didn't disturb him."Both of them climb up on the bed and surround Eric asking, "Does it still hurt?"  and "Can we see it?"He slides his shirt off and shows them where the stitches are and they get really close to examine it.  "Wow, I bet that's going to leave a scar."  Rydell says before they get back off the bed and run to Janessa's side. 

When I come to, the first thing I hear is Eric's voice.  Sounding irritable, he says, "Bring that over here.  That way when she wakes up, she can be comfortable." Opening my eyes, I glance up at Toby and William carrying a new four post bed made of mahogany wood, over to where the old one was.  It even has a canopy, unlike the old one.  Eric's voice thunders over the sound of everything else going on, "Not there, over there."  He points in the other corner.   The minute Eric notices that I'm awake, he rushes over and asks, "Do you know what happened?  I came back from the initiations and found you along the path to the house, unconscious.  You slept through all the rest of the day and this morning.  I even had doc come over and look at you." Sitting up, I feel dizzy but nonetheless stay upright.  Staring at him, I aswer, "No, I have no idea.  I was walking along the path, when I sat down for a few mi

"Get off of her."  Eric yells at the top of his lungs before throwing me clear across the room. Feeling pain shoot all throughout me, I watch as Eric hunches over Annabelle's lifeless body.  His feet step in the blood pooling on the floor as he doesn't pay attention one bit to anything else around him.  Watching as he sheds tears for her and throws his head back to howl, my wolf still fights to gain control again.  Sitting in the corner, I am barely able to hold on. "Janessa, stares at the scene with a sick look on her face and then she walks into the kitchen.  I on the other hand, find the strength to stand up and walk towards Eric.  I touch his shoulder and try to comfort him, but he turns his head quickly and snaps at me, "Don't touch me.  You will pay for this." Getting up, he grabs ahold of my arm and drags me out of the house.  Alerting the security squad, he has me taken away to be dealt with later.  They wa

"Is she O.K.?"  I hear a concerned male voice say before I open my eyes. Taking a minute because of this steady heavy pounding in my head, I slowly open my eyes and wish that I hadn't.  The pounding suddenly gets twenty times worse and I feel like the very first time I turned into my wolf form, except for there isn't any good side to this.  When I try to open my eyes again, I open them only a little so I see a slight bit of light.  It seems to help my agonizing headache to an extent.   Realizing that it was the doctor's voice, I gradually open them more till I can see where I am and who is next to me.  I turn to my left side where Eric is standing and look down to see that Ryder is nowhere to be found.  So I ask, "Did you kill him?" He lowers his head, so he can whisper in my ear, "No, but I should have killed both of you.  I know something happened between the two of you while he was protecting you.  When you