The Pack's Doctor by Cooper

Chapter 4

Yara

I’m not sure if Alpha Warren brought me here because he recognized me as his mate and he didn’t have the strength to reject me in the woods, or if he knew that his pack doctor was well past his retirement years. Either way, I’m here and since 1 am, I’ll help this Alpha. This is the reason I chose medicine. He doesn’t have to lose his leg. It will take a lot of effort on my part, but I’m excited to finally get to work on a werewolf, an Alphia no less.

“I’m assuming you want to do this now, Alpha?” Task him.

“Yes, the sooner the better.”

“Okay.” I give him the list of items that I’ll need to get his bones put back together properly. “Oh, and we’ll need to sedate you.” I say, looking around the room to see how they have their hospital rooms set up. “Is this where…”

“No,” Alpha Warren says. I turn to look at him.

“No?”

“No sedation”

“Okay then, a nerve block, I’ll just need…

“No“he says again.

“Alpha, please, I’m going to have to wash the area, scrub it clean, I’m going to cut your leg open, pin your skin and muscle. back so that I can get to the bones and then slowly put them back where they belong. The pain will be excruciating. You need the nerve block.”

“No,” he says again, holding my gaze. I finally look away, mumbling about stupid, stubborn Alphas.

When I turn back, he’s watching me with a raised eyebrow as if he heard me. I wasn’t that loud, was I? Crap, I’ve been hanging around humans who can’t hear anything for too long. How much can he hear of my mumbling.

The irritable Dr. Stevens comes in, throwing the things I asked for on the table. I jump when I hear a warning growl, looking up to see Alpha Warren glaring at him.

“Will there be anything else, doctor?” Dr. Stevens asks. He somehow makes my title, which is the same as his, sound like a dirty word.

“No, thank you, doctor. I’ll take it from here.”

I go to the sink and begin scrubbing my hands. I’m nervous for a lot of reasons. First, I’m in an unknown pack with an Alpha who is my mate. I have no idea what to expect from him, or really why I’m here. And almost worse than that, he wants me to operate on him while he’s awake! What the hell kind of crazy Alpha is he?

“You’re thinking so hard that there’s steam coming out of your ears, Yara. What are so worried about?” he asks me.

I turn and look at him over my shoulder. How does he even know I’m worried? Why is he paying so much attention to me? Is this the mate bond? I’ve only had exposure to two Alphas in my life, Alpha Solomon and Alpha Simon. Alpha Solomon is a good Alpha, but he was never this in tune with what I was doing or thinking. And Simona shiver of revulsion rolls through me. He was in tune for a whole other reason. The man gave me the creeps.

When I finish scrubbing my hands, I turn back to Alpha Warren. I see he’s waiting for a response to his question. “This is going to be very painful. Can I at least give you a local anesthetic?

“No. I need to be alert so I can protect my pack,” he says.

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protect your pack with only one leg, Alpha,” I snap, my nerves making

me Warren, and you said you could

you are under sedation and I’m not worried about you inching or yanking

very high

and I found him. He also has multiple, very faint scars all over his body. The man

strong is your wolf right now?” I ask,

little one,” a deep voice says, and my eyes snap up as Annika begins

effect his wolf is having on

shake my head, trying to clear it. I need to focus

how

practically a purr. “I am a very strong, powerful Alpha wolf.” The way he says it isn’t bragging, but more like preening. My brain flashes an image of

chosen mate.

say, feeling my body responding to the deep tenor of his voice. It feels like his voice is caressing the nerves in my body, making them all light up with

the intense, jade green eyes of Alpha Warren. “Are you ready,

he corrects. I

“Are you ready, Warren?”

“Yes, Yara.”

grit my teeth, hating that I know this is going to hurt him, but if he won’t let me at least numb his

blood, guts, and bits of bone, just like I thought it would be. Under the teakwood scent, he smells like war and death. It’s good practice for me, learning how to ignore the smell of battle while I work.

he says

not looking up as

he asks, although it’s more

into knots.

your healing.” I don’t know why the thought of this man rejecting me feels so painful. I don’t even know him. I have no intention of becoming his mate and returning to the packs, at least not until I’m done with school anyway. And this pack is much too close to Simon for

he asks, sounding offended. Now I do look

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a lone

is my

even know me” I say going

know that you’re intelligent, you’re compassionate, you’re brave,

be discerned from me being a doctor and helping him, those two make

41%

I lift it up, showing him

is about an hour north of here. Between here and there, there are many areas where a lone wolf could run, if she

Annika misses being in a pack, she misses the companionship of being with other wolves. Me, I’d be fine living alone the rest of my life, but my wolf likes the smell of the forest and it

and I glance up at him, watching him take deep