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

and I can tell the pain is getting to

lonely. The intelligent and compassionate I understand, the lonely you explained, but why did

they were my pack members. You

at him, frowning. “How

like one,”

out at the human gym. I know I need to let Annika out more often to run, but I’m not overweight, even by werewolf

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watching me. “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

doing, not sure how to respond to

me in the past,” I say, and

see him smiling at me. “Some people, like myself, find intelligence sexy. But, I’ve been itching to touch you, to run my

in a bear trap was “itching to touch me,” I say, rolling my eyes at

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

say, still focusing

“Why didn’t you run?”

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

eyebrow goes up again. “And they

from a bear trap to leave you to die at the hands of the assholes who

you’re more stubborn

I wasn’t going to leave you to die,”

“Thank you.”

for more, and when there isn’t, I

getting me out of that bear trap, for not leaving when I could have been killed,

needs to

to replace him,”

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

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 will in some human school’s laboratory. And exams can be taken online. People

I

-Confident,” he says.

“What?” I ask, frowning.

arrogant, I’m

keep hearing what I’m saying?” I ask

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