Lahat ng Kabanata ng Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?: Kabanata 81 - Kabanata 90

The girl had collapsed as she swore allegiance to me, just as I had expected, only now she wasn’t waking up. That I did not expect, and I did not know what to do. I was upon my knees next to her, shaking her body in a bid to make her wake, more panicked than I maybe should be, as I called her name. “Mari.” I urged. “Come on, wake up now.” I told her, reaching for my phone to see just how long may have passed since the girl had crumpled to the floor like a damaged twig.My eyes desperately searched her body for some form of response, but there was nothing. Shit. She was not waking up. I had people collapse on me when they swore allegiance, even had one or two blackout momentarily, but this, this felt wrong. Mari had been unconscious for what felt like an eternity, and nothing I did seemed to be making her stir.‘Hudson.’ I mindlinked my friend, knowing that by now he would be home with his feet up relaxing. He had been desperate to get himself back to his home. To his mate. I hated dis

The pack hospital was like an asylum of chaos. People moving back and forth from ward to ward. It was a place I detested, and one that filled me with a greater sense of dread that was difficult to describe. It reminded me so desperately of losing Gabrielle, and I avoided the place as much as I could. The sense of loss attached to the building was indescribable, but something had made me follow the doctor and Hudson as they took Mari there. The she-wolf had still yet to stir from her unconsciousness.I had lost all sense of time once I had stepped inside the place I detested so greatly. Draven, though silent, was pacing incessantly within my mind, and it was becoming almost as unbearable as the overpoweringly clinically sterile stench the hospital radiated. Doctor Lowe had rushed through to a side room with Mari, Hudson following soon after, while I lingered, on the corridor, unsure what use I could be…My eyes drifted back and forth along the hallways, simply observing as both doctors

The link from our pack patrol had come just as the doctor had gone to check Mari over once again. The moment that I heard Beta Kian had potentially been spotted close to our borders, I knew that I had to get out of the hospital and to the edges of my packlands to join my men. I needed to defend my pack but more importantly, something inside me was telling me I had to fulfill my promise and protect this frail she-wolf currently hospitalized because of me…Hudson argued angrily with me as I attempted to create a reason to leave the hospital, despite the fact he would have heard the mindlink too. No matter how I tried, Hudson was not for backing down and agreeing with me, and in the end it slipped from my lips instead of through the mindlink as I intended, while I snarled at him due to his attempt to get me to stay within the walls of the hell that I felt the hospital was.I saw Mari’s eyes widen in terror. She had heard exactly what I did not want her to kno

I had pushed and pulled the weakling through the tunnels beneath my pack and through the now empty hallways of the packhouse. She had done nothing to fight it, and I was happy to finally get to my Alpha suite. News must have spread that everyone was to be in the safe rooms, or out defending the pack, because as we had rushed our way from the secure tunnels through my packhouse not a soul was around. All will have fled to safety or to defend, just as instructed. It had been such a long time since we had been in this position, and it was a position that I did not like to be in. It was a position no Alpha wished to be in. His pack under attack. But this was even harder for me, when I was not out there defending my own pack. What sort of Alpha did that make me?‘A conscientious one.’ Draven murmured calmly. He did not seem in the slightest bit concerned by our lack of ability to fulfill our roles as Alpha. An Alpha should always be the first in line to fight for his p

Draven was lingering more now than I think he had done in a long time. Perhaps it was because the pack was in danger, and he needed to know it would be okay. I thought he seemed to be struggling as much as me with being holed up within the Alpha suite, or so I had believed, until he started forcing conversation with the weakling.He seemed to want to talk to her when all I craved was my space and silence. These were things I could usually find within my home, but right now I had Mari invading my home. And Draven was evermore present than he had been in a long time. Making the solitude I needed hard to find.The two of us were sitting awkwardly at either end of my large sofa. Barely speaking a word, and sharing only awkward glances. Far from ideal. I wanted nothing more than to abandon the girl here while I went out there. To my pack. Where I belonged. Fighting for the right thing. Being the Alpha that I am meant to be, because right now, I was truly questioning my abil