27 Grateful
Luke.
I heard a beeping sound continuously as I struggled to open my eyes. My eyelid was heavy, and I felt my bones snapping into place. I tried to remember what had happened, but my mind was blank. I struggled to open my eyes, and I finally did There was light above me, and something stuck down my throat. I blinked a couple of times, and a woman wearing a nose mask in scrubs looked at me.
“Alpha Luke, Alpha Luke,” she said, and I tried to respond. She brought her hand down towards my face and towards my mouth, then pulled at the thing in my throat. She pulled it out, and it was a breathing tube.
I took a deep breath by reflex, and suddenly the event flashed in my memory. I tried to get up, but they held me down
“Tia, Tia”, I managed, and they held me down. “My... my wife?” I asked.
“Alpha Luke, You and your wife, sustained massive injuries in a car accident, and some silver was involved. Luckily both of you were still breathing when you got here,” the doctor explained, and I tried to move my legs. They weren’t fully healed yet. It hurt, but I needed to see my wife. “My wife?” I asked again.
“Relax, Alpha, she is receiving treatment,” The woman said to me, and I could not relax. The event that transpired played in my mind repeatedly until I passed out
I woke up in a hospital bed. My mind was still foggy, but it gradually came back to me. I got off the bed and figured I was fully healed. There were some joggers
and t-shirts made available by the hospital. 1
- managed to put them on and exited my room. Finding
the front desk, the medical staff was shocked to see me. She was tongue-tied. I looked around and saw Tia’s mother.
“Mrs Lockwood,” I said, rushing to her. She was relieved to see me.
“Where is she?” I asked her. I knew I sounded desperate, but I could not help it.
“Follow mę,” she said calmly and led me to a room next to the one I woke up in. I rushed in. She was wrapped in bandages and hooked up to a machine. I went to her bedside and kissed the top of her head.
“The impact was on her side, Luke. She came here almost dead, but she held on to life long enough for us to get the silver bullets out of her.” She said, her voice cracking
“Silver bullets?” I asked, and she nodded.
“The assailants alighted their vehicle and shot several rounds at you and her, but her body was over yours, so she got the brunt of it. They were not able to
get close enough to aim for your heads. That was what saved the both of you,” She said with tears streaming down her eyes. I went to hold her.
this, Luke,” she said, breaking down in
life before all this,” Amy said between
I asked, and she pulled away from
She cannot heal as fast as you, but she should be awake soon.” She said, drying her
her to you, he promised she would be safe and cared for,” she
am,” I
and she
the couch and
father walked in
and I did not know I had tears in my eyes until he entered the room. I wiped away my
see them? The assholes that did this?” he asked me, sounding angry and scared.
he held my head with his hands to help me focus my attention
is part of the job. She is fine. She will pull through,” he said, assuring me, and I looked at Tia. I was more angry than scared. Angry that I couldn’t protect her, I let some assholes get the best of us.
everything he told me. My father was angry but believed this was a well-planned attack, and Miles did not have the time to
and he bowed his head, and I knew he did not
this what you went through with my mother? Was this what you
is mine different? I have never had peace for one second in my life, father. Why? What
bear seeing Tia suffer like this. What if they had succeeded? We would both be dead by now,” I
an investigation,” he assured
because I had never seen my father solve a puzzle all my
“I told him, and I knew the best person to use for this very purpose.
LLLL
her,” I told him point–blank, “At this point, both of us cannot exist together,” I said, and my father shook his
to conclusions, son,” my father said, and I could
I cannot sacrifice myself and my wife so your mate can
came to disconnect Tia from the machines. They said she was fully healed, and I should wait
her and kissed her forehead. I watched her blink a few times. I knew she was trying to recollect, so I remained
her eyes
kissed her forehead again. She blinked a
she always made
asked her, and she smiled at me. She got off the bed and wore the joggers the hospital provided her. I wanted to carry her, but she insisted on walking out of
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