The Pack's Doctor by Cooper

Warren

I can’t believe that Arric and I got caught in this bear trap. Fucking Brady! I know he’s the one who set this trap. He knew that he and his pack would retreat this way. I raced around, attempting to cut off their escape route, but I’d ended up caught in the trap.

I know my pack will come back for me, but they’re in a battle and I’ve been waiting for them to find me for hours. When I wasn’t able to cut Brady off, they continued following his pack, hunting them down like the fucking dogs they are.

I knew immediately that I couldn’t shift. While I could use my hands to spring the trap, it was too risky. I wasn’t willing to lose my leg and therefore my rank as Alpha. While the pain is significant, Arric and I are strong Alphas, and I know it’s only a matter of time before the pack finds me and gets me out of here.

We’d been struggling with a way to get the damn trap off when we’d smelled her. I’ve been looking for my mate for over ten years and now, here, in the middle of the forest, in the middle of an area covered in blood from a recent battle, I find her. Her cinnamon and nutmeg scent instantly calms Arric.

Her wolf is a beautiful reddish–brown color and she’s obviously skittish little thing. Through all of her conversation with Arric, she never once gave us her name. So, as soon as she releases the trap, 1 step back and begin to shift

ft so I can talk to her.

The shift hurts like a fucking bitch, my bones trying to reshape but unable to in my leg because they’re in pieces. I watch her eyes go wide and she scoots back, farther away from me.

Easy there. You just got me out of a trap. I may be a vicious Alpha when I’m hunting my pack’s attackers, but I’m not the kind of man who kills someone who just helped me,” I say. Because she didn’t give me her name, I’m resistant to giving her mine until I know what pack she’s from.

“You said you’re a doctor!”

“I’m studying to be one,” she says, watching me carefully.

“For humans and wolves?” I ask her. It’s unusual and I’m in desperate need of a good doctor in my pack. My doctor needs to retire. I need someone young, someone intelligent, someone like my httle mate here, to take over my pack hospital.

“What pack are you from?” I ask, not sure I care. I’m at war with so many packs that the odds of her being from one of them, are highly likely. Of course, she’s out here on her own, not fighting with a pack, which is also unusual.

“I’m not from a pack. I’m a lone wolf. Did you want me to look at your leg?” I notice that she changes the subject away from her. Interesting. Or maybe not, lone wolves are alone for a reason. It makes me wonder what happened to make my mate at lone wolf.

I would appreciate your medical assessment,” I say, wanting her closer to me. I know her

intoxicating scent fills my nose as I take in her beautiful body. She had looked shy but determined when she’d shifted. Her lean body isn’t as muscular as the wolves in my pack, which makes me think she

the softness of her only adds to the allure. My finger

a lone wolf doing out here

other hand, can’t look away from her. She’s beautiful. The reddish–brown fur of her wolf is now long reddish–brown hair on the woman. It falls over her shoulder as she looks at my leg and I watch as she distractedly flicks it back over her shoulder and out

are pack wars going on around here,” I say. She may not be mine yet, but I

Chapter 2

and risk hunters

going to need surgery. I could see Arrie’s buses sticking out of his leg

name means merciful? How appropriate for a doctor,” I say, still studying her. Her fingers on my leg are gentle. She seems to inherently know where

yes. And Annika is a wonderful wolf,” she lays

that Aric agrees when I hear my Beta’s

scent of her fear as her heart rate spikes. However, she doesn’t run. She looks like she’s about to take a protective stance

pack coming back for me, I tell

good, you need to get someplace safe. Hopefully, they won’t attack

I say, smiling at her

surrounding us as my Beta, Charlie, shifts and snarls at my mate.

are you?

the bear trap I was in. Stand down!” I command. I

at her, then turns back to me frowning before crouching to look at

“How bad is it?”

“Bad.”

warriors to help me up. I wrap my arms around their shoulders and

“Ready, Alpha?” Charlie asks,