All Chapters of Discovering the Wolf: Finding the Bond Mender: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

How can we fight this when it keeps shifting and changing the way it is?“Before you ask, they aren’t related, they don’t move in the same circles or have any known connections. Their cases were found three days apart; we have them secured in a forest encloser at the compound hospital for their safety and we have healers watching the pregnancy closely. But there is nothing for us to know why or how they got it.” Colin places another file before me on my desk, no doubt with all the case information inside.“And their families?” I ask, not touching the file yet, I don’t want to see their photos just yet and have them added to the list I already have memorised in my head.“We have provided them with accommodation near the hospital in the compound so they can keep connected to them and try to reestablish their bonds. It’s gives them some comfort to be close right now, but as time goes on and the rogues stay in their wolf forms - we will see that comfort fade.” I nod, we’ve seen it before,

“Wills, this seems a little much for an apology -are you sure there are no strings attached?” Dad's asks.“As far as I can tell and from what he wrote in the card – there are no strings attached.’ He opens his mouth to reply, and I jump in quickly to finish before him. “But I won’t open anything other than the chocolate box until I am one hundred percent sure – that was I can give it all back. And yes, I will replace the chocolates first.”“Good. From what you told me about him, somethings off. So, I think caution is the best approach here.” He gets and takes our lunch scraps to the kitchen, washes his hands and the comes back to kitchen, grabs his shift duffel and then comes back to kiss the top of my head. “Alright I have to go, sweet pea. Thanks for bring lunch home. Be safe and call me or Thomas if you need anything.”“You be safe too old man.” I call to him as he goes to open the door, only to realise I locked it. He pauses for a second, and I hope he doesn’t ask why I locked it w

“So, Zale has to beat a total Boy Scout, that has five years of history with Willow already. Wonder if he knows about her wolf? Could be the one advantage you have – I mean aside from your sexy voice.” Anders goads.“Do I need to remind the both of you that my interest in Willow is purely professional and in the capacity of my role as Regional Alpha.” I point at the two of them even as they grin like cheshire cats back at me.“Colin, do you think he actually believes what he just said and is deluding himself, or is he that clueless to the fact that he is also interested in her in the non-professional sense as we as the Regional Alpha capacity?” Anders turns to Colin, placing his elbow on the arm of the chair and resting his chin in his hand, Colin leans in like the bunch of gossips they are.“Well Anders, from my observations I would say it’s less cluelessness and more deluding himself - it’s very clear that he is attracted to her and despite his abysmal first impression, she is also m

“Hey baby girl, your dad’s just getting a cast put on. Once that’s done and we get his meds we’ll be able to get him home.”“No surgery?” I ask, my voice muffled by his chest as I hug him back.“Nope, it was a clean break, but it does mean he’s on desk duty for the next 2 to 3 months. He also had a dislocated collarbone so is in a fair bit of pain and will need the good drugs for a bit which will be entertaining for the two of us.” He winks and then leads to a curtained bay, pulling it back for me to enter.My dad is lying back on a raised gurney with his eyes closed, a nurse binding his arm in a hard cast up to his elbow. She has it positioned across his chest to ease the pressure on his collarbone.“Your ride is here.” Thomas jokes and pulls the curtain closed behind us, the nurse looks up and smiles at me but doesn’t pause in her task.Dads’ eyes open and he lifts his head slowly, a bemused expression on his face.“There she is, my beautiful little furball.” He slurs, eyes glassy. L

“I get that, Zale but it’s been what? Twenty-five years since she went missing, and he’s still refusing to consider the possibility that she’s dead?” Right now, he sounds more frustrated that I am by all of this. “The betrothal was linked to her linage at the time as she was the only one mated – although it would have had to have been her second born as I think she was pregnant boy when she vanished. If he dissolves the betrothal, it’s him finally admitting that he’s lost hope, and I can’t see him doing that.” Now I’m stuck in this limbo, even if they were to have a female Hawthorne child born now, she would be a child and I would be an old man beofre she came of age - which is even worse. Yet Gerald Hawthorne won’t release me from it, not even under the promise of an unbreakable alliance contract – the equivalent of a betrothal between our packs.“Yeah, I can’t see that happening either, I can’t image what that is like, losing both her and his first grandchild – but still it's been