All Chapters of CAPTURED AS THE ALPHA’S SURROGATE: Chapter 141 - Chapter 150

"Are we done here?" I asked, impatient to get back to Aurora."Wait. There is another thing.." Asher hesitated."What now?" A muscle in my jaw twitched.Asher came to stand beside me.Asher's voice deepened, "Alpha ... It's the...pack members. I get why you didn't tell them the reasons Aurora left, but she's back now, and they still don't know what's going on. Anxiety...is running high."I turned to him, a growl ripping from my throat, "No, I don't share all the intimate details of my personal devastation with the pack. I'm their fucking Alpha. I don't owe them sorid details. All they need to know is that Aurora was gone and now she's back." I added but realization hit me. It hadn't occurred to me that I might get pushback from the pack. Maybe I should have.But worse, I never anticipated Asher and Grace to stand against me the way they were now. "If either of you have shit to say about the matter of Aurora returning, don't fucking hide it. Let's get this out right here and now."Pai

Grace gently moved the sheet and light blanket, recovering Aurora's lower body. With a quick glance at the pump that was pushing much needed nutrition into Aurora's frail body, her careful brown eyes assessed the steadily dripping feeding tube for a moment. "That's it for now." Satisfied with the performance of the medical apparatus, Dr Voss turned back to me. "Okay so ......", Before I could finish my words, the sudden beeping of the medical pump cut through the room. Dr Voss moved swiftly to the machine. With the quick push of a button the sound cut off and she met my gaze panicking. "I need to flush the line, and I suspect she will need your assistance in about twenty minutes or so because she is not responding to the treatment. Her vitals are holding, but barely. She’s slipping further. No reaction to stimuli. If this continues......""Raymond, she has refused to respond even after the human medicine, please bring in her mother maybe it will help." Mackline stopped the doctor's w

Picking up a dead leaf with her fingers, Aurora's mother crushed it in her fist as I stayed silent.“My daughter never deserves all the pain you have made her pass through,” She hissed as her head came up again. Agitation pushed her Wolf close to the surface, the pigment in her eyes darkening to match that of her beast. Both stared back at me. Undisguised malice and hate swirled in her expression, hate I knew was partly aimed at me yet she forced her voice to stay controlled.“I swear to you, she didn’t know the full truth of what her father did to your mother and the unborn pup, all the evil he did. I didn’t know it either. Not until Oracle Memoree visited me.” She spoke and there was no pretext in her words, just simple transparency. She was telling me the truth, even as the anger in her gaze never fully left.At this point, I couldn’t help myself. “I'm really sorry”, The words came out of my mouth before I could stop myself. Aurora’s mother raised her head, soulful green eyes lost

Not wanting to risk stressing Aurora, I continued to use the mind link, "I need you to stay with her tomorrow night."Mackline nodded, no break in her stoic expression, still annoyed at me. But I knew her better than that. The slightest twitch of pain in her eyes didn't escape my attention, revealing her struggle just as all of us mourned such a heavy loss."I don't know how... I'm going to leave her, "I murmured, getting to the heart of the matter.It was Mackline's turn to read my expression, to hear all of the words I'd left unsaid, just as I knew she would. She couldn't repair my stress but immediately, the female alpha in her began to plan, "For those hours, we could increase the Sentinels in number and tighten the perimeter around the pack. Additionally, Alpha Nigel....""Alpha Nigel?" I interrupted her, an eyebrow going up."He has been surprisingly resilient," she admitted wryly, "having gone up against his own pack, not once but twice, and lived to care about Aurora. Right no

Getting back on track, I lapsed into using the mind link and called Asher, "What news is there of any potential attack? Will we have enough sentinels to stand guard during the ceremony?""So far, all is quiet." Asher replied. "I'm not foolish to believe we have no more enemies and certainly, whoever remains knows we are burying our dead tonight so continued vigilance is a must. But both the Diamante and the Northern Stone packs are also burying their lost and their numbers of dead far outweigh ours."I shook my head silently. So much violence, so much needless loss of life, but yet, the vicious cycle always seemed to continue.I turned to Mackline we discussed the details about Aurora for another hour before she left, and I reluctantly got out of the bed to start preparations for the evening.The daylight hours went by far too quickly. Almost routine now, I fed, changed and bathed Aurora. Grace and Carleigh were never too far away, only leaving for short periods of time to attend to t