Chapter 6

Yara

Replacement? I can’t be a replacement. I’m not staying. As soon as Alpha.as soon as Warren’s leg is done. I’m out of here. I glance up at the broody Alpha and wonder if that’s true, Is he going to let me go?

The news about Simon has me worried. If there is a paper trail of his father helping me though medical school.he’ll find

me.

“Arric!” I say distractedly, holding the bones together while he heals them.

I have to get my car, my clothes. I have to get back to school, I’m resident, I can’t just up and leave.

“Tell me where your car is and I’ll have someone go get it. Same with your clothes. As far as your schooling goes, we’ll have to talk about you taking classes online and working your residency did you call it, here,” Warren says.

I frown at him. “How did you…?

“You were talking to yourself. It wasn’t hard to hear you.”

“I can’t leave school, Warren,” I say, looking at him like he’s crazy.

“I didn’t say you’d be leaving school. I said you’d be doing your residency here. You can take classes online,” he says as if that settle

“Excuse me? You can’t keep me here!”

He merely raises that damn eyebrow at me again.

“You’re not my Alpha…” I begin.

He leans forward. “What I am is your mate. Tell me truthfully, if let you go back to school and I come to visit you in say a week’s time, will you still be there?”

I look away, beginning to work on his leg again and refusing to answer him. Even if he wasn’t my mate, knowing that Simon may be able to figure out where I am, would have me transferring immediately.

“That’s what I thought and that, my dear mate, is why I’m not letting you leave.”

He sits back and both of us get l

lost in our own thoughts again as I let Arric know when I’m ready for him to heal the bones.

did you say I was brave

and I can tell

knew I was intelligent, compassionate, brave, and lonely. The intelligent and compassionate I understand, the lonely you explained, but why did you say you think

run. You could have. You didn’t know they were my pack members. You looked like you were ready to fight,

frowning. “How

built like one,” he says

ask, insulted. I work out at the human gym. I know I need to let Annika out more often to run, but I’m not

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wars almost daily for years don’t have the softness to their body

what I’m doing, not sure

that has been used to describe me in the

I’ve been itching to touch you, to run my hands over

people, like myself, find it hard to believe that someone ught in a bear trap was “itching to touch me,” I say, rolling my eyes at

should tell you just how strong the pull of the mate bond is. As much as what you’re doing hurts, just having you touch me helps with the pain. Your scent in this room, which gets stronger the longer you are in here, is helping me manage the pain. As an Alpha, it’s one of the benefits of finding your Luna, your

say, still focusing

“Why didn’t you run?”

crazy. “You were injured. If they weren’t your pack,

damn eyebrow goes up again. “And they would

trap to leave you to die at the

more stubborn

going to leave you to die,” I

“Thank you.”

and when there isn’t, I look

not leaving when I could have been killed, and for not letting Dr. Stevens take my

needs to retire,”

is why you’re going to replace

Warren. I have school. I have…labs and exams

here in my pack than you will in some human school’s laboratory. And exams can be taken online. People

I

-Confident,” he says.

“What?” I ask, frowning.

not arrogant, I’m confident. There’s a

keep hearing what

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