The next week passed by slowly, I tried to occupy myself by keeping busy with work and training. A couple days had gone by since the disappointing Saturday when I came home from the craft store to find Amber preparing a feast. I spotted serving dishes piled high with steaks, baked potatoes, and corn on the cob. It all smelled so amazing. "Umm I know we eat a lot, but this seems like a bit much for us." I laugh "Oh yeah Jonathan is coming over, so I figured we would need some extra." She responded "Beta Jonathan?" I questioned Apparently, this wasn't very out of the ordinary as him and Amber were close friends, she explained."Oh, I didn't know" I said smiling wondering if there was something else going on there. Amber wasn't as reserved as I was, and she was content "experimenting" as she put it with others until she found her mate. Soon there was a knock at the door. I went to open it. Jonathan was standing there with a tub of ice cream and the movie Underworld. "Up for a movi
I didn’t sleep well that night, me and Amber’s conversation kept replaying in my head. I couldn’t believe she suggested Jonathan and me should be chosen mates when we hadn’t even had a date. Maybe she was just trying to get her point across, when we used to talk about our mates together, Amber would always say why put off your happiness now, for something that might happen later. I understood where she was coming from, but I guess I was still caught up in the fairy tale of finding my mate. I finally rolled out of bed around 10 a.m. the next morning and headed downstairs for some breakfast, luckily, I didn’t have to work today and I decided not to train, I really just wanted a lazy day at home. As soon as I stepped in the kitchen, I was met with a booming happy voice."Hey there sleepy head." Beta Jonathan said surprising me. He was smiling at me while he was cooking something on the stove. I knew I smelled axe body spray and cranberries, but I thought it was just left over from the
Alpha Ethan’s (POV) I had just spent a week at the Alpha gathering in Nashville, and I was on my way home. I was ready to be home, back with my pack. Alpha gatherings can be such tedious affairs, but if I didn’t attend it would look bad not only for me but the pack.I ran into Renee's old Alpha, Joey and his mate Kristi although I don't think they were true wolf mates, more like they got tired of waiting. They were interesting, to say the least. Kristi bluntly approached me asking about, what I thought of Renee. I also couldn’t help but notice Alpha Joey seemed to be intently listening for my answer.I knew Renee was supposed to be Alpha Joey’s beta but declined the position. Amber said it was due to a difference in how they each thought the pack should be ran. To be honest it concerned me at first that Renee would decline such an important role in the pack, just because of a disagreement on how to manage the pack. I asked around to some of my contacts in other packs that had met Ren
Alpha Ethan (POV)They had her in a private room at the end of the hall, in a dimly lit room. The sight inside was heart wrenching, Amber was sitting right at Renee’s bedside holding her hand and Jonathan was standing in the corner looking far more stressed than I had ever seen him before. Renee looked so helpless on the bed. Her face and what I could see of her body was covered in a red rash, her eyes were swollen closed and very puffy, she had an oxygen mask strapped across her face covering her nose and mouth. Her breaths were shallow and weak."How is she?" I asked "I don't really know, the last time I talked to the doctor he said she was stable, but not healing how she should." Amber answered, her face was stained with tears. "I will go talk to them now." I said as calmly as I could, but I was annoyed what was taking so long why weren't the doctors doing more! As I was basically stomping out of her room, I almost ran over her doctor. "Doctor what is going on?" I asked my voi
Alpha Ethan (POV)Amber grabbed my fist and looked in my eyes and spoke. "Look first things first, let's find out what the doctor can do for her." I took a deep breath and nodded my head. I guess during the commotion the doctor slipped into Renee’s room as he was standing next to her bed changing out the IV bag.We all went back into the hospital room. It felt like someone was stabbing my heart when I looked at Renee. How could anyone do this to her. Even through the swelling and redness I could see her soft and sweet facial features. "What are our options doctor?" Amber asked "Well, they aren't great, her wolf side is incredibly weakened and therefore she isn't healing. If she was a weaker wolf, she probably wouldn't be alive right now." He sighed "but as much damage as there is, she needs to heal soon or she might not make it." Amber burst into tears. Jonathan pulled her to his chest comforting her. “Can’t you give her something to counteract the wolfsbane, so she can heal?”“N
Alpha Ethan’s (POV) I sat down next to Renee’s bed to await the doctor, less than minute later he arrived with a syringe of medicine. “This medicine will induce her heat; it might take some time for it to take affect due to her current condition. Her burns will probably start to heal first and after that hopefully she will start to regain consciousness, although with the pain medication, I am also administering she most likely won’t be clear headed. Her eyes will be the last thing to heal as they take the most time.” “I understand” I answered“A couple minutes after I inject the medication, I will remove her IV so she doesn’t tear it out during the heat.”I watched as he pushed the medicine into the IV tube, he waited a few minutes as he said he would and pulled the IV from her arm. “Will she be aware that I’m here?” I asked before he left the room, I was getting increasingly nervous about the situation I barely knew Renee and who knew where this heat would lead. I didn’t want to
Alpha Ethan (POV)I could feel my wolf side surging forward the scent was overpowering, it was Renee’s normal scent of warm vanilla but sweeter, before I even knew what I was doing, I was back beside her bed and nuzzling my nose against her neck, inhaling deeply as if my life depended on it.I wanted Renee before she started flooding the room with hormones. Now I more than wanted her. I wanted to be one with her, I wanted to enter her body and never leave. I forced myself back, she didn’t need my help yet, I had to control myself. I pinched my nose closed hoping to block the amazing aroma that was filling the air. I focused on her injuries, doing my best to control any other thoughts. I did notice that the burns on her arm looked less red and inflamed, which meant this must be working she is starting to heal. Every inch of her skin, that was exposed was now glistening with a thin layer of sweat. I watched a bead of sweat run down her neck and in between her perfect breasts disappear
I could see a nurse running down the hall towards us."Lay her on the bed!" She instructed, I quickly laid Renee down on the hospital bed. Renee started was convulsing and screaming. "What's happening?" I shouted "Her heat pain and the pain from her internal injuries is overwhelming her. She has burned through her pain medicine! At this rate her heart will give out! You must hold her down, so I can get this medicine into her veins" The nurse all but screamed at me. “I grabbed her arm and did my best to hold Renee, but she was a lot stronger than she looked, no matter what I did she was still moving too much. I leaned in close to her ear and I tried to calm her by talking.“Renee please hold still; we have to give you some pain medicine.” but no response.Then I used my Alpha Tone “Renee HOLD STILL” but somehow that didn’t work either.“Alpha, you have to hurry!” the nurse shoutedI didn’t know what to do, my wolf was surging towards the surface, seeing Renee in so much pain was cut