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.

you say I was

and I can tell the

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

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

him, frowning. “How do you know I’m not a

built like

I ask, insulted. I work out at the human gym. I know I need to let Annika out more often to

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Chapter 6

“But I saw you make. Those of us who have been fighting in pack wars almost daily for years don’t have the softness to their body that you have. And before you go jumping to any conclusions, I find your body

not sure how

describe me in the past,” I say, and realize that once again I

at him and see him smiling at me. “Some people, like myself, find intelligence sexy. But, I’ve been itching to touch you, to run my hands over the sofiness of your body, since

ught in a bear trap was “itching to touch me,” I

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 fated mate. You are the other half of my soul, and at the risk of

I say, still focusing on

“Why didn’t you run?”

him like he’s crazy. “You were injured. If they weren’t your pack, they would

damn eyebrow goes up again. “And they would have killed

to die at the hands of

more

it what you will. I wasn’t going to leave you to die,”

“Thank you.”

more, and when there isn’t, I look up

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

really needs to

going to

replace him, Warren. I have school. I have…labs and exams and things like

to the school and figure out the labs. As I said, and you must know, you’ll get more opportunity to practice your skills here in my pack than you

I

-Confident,” he says.

“What?” I ask, frowning.

not arrogant, I’m

do you keep hearing what I’m

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