The Pack's Doctor by Cooper

Chapter 125

Kennedy

I spend some more time looking through the pup play area, not finding anything, so I head back imide. Before dinner, 1 yo upstairs to change into easily removed clothes so that I’m ready for our run after dinner,

As I’m changing, I realize that I never opened the other gifts from my birthday. I begin pulling them out of the closet and putting them on the bed. I’m not even sure I want them. They’re all from the other Alphas who were invited to my party.

I open the first one and find some lacy, barely–there lingerie. What the

I quickly shove it back in its box and open the next one. This one is a nude sheer one–piece outfit that has a thong for the bottoms. Uh, no!

I shove that one back in the box too and open a third. This one is a black version of basically the same thing, Lingerie.

I decide that I don’t want to open any more of them and I shove them all back into the corner of the closet. What in the world were those Alphas thinking??

“They were thinking they wanted to peel those clothes off their potential mate, Echo says.

‘Can you imagine what it would have been like to open those gifts in front of my family and friends? I ask, mortified.

I reach up and wrap my hand around the pendant that Quirin gave me. I haven’t taken it off since he put it on me. I look back at the boxes of lingerie. My mate, for all of his faults, knows me better than any of those other Alphas did. Unlike the other gifts, Quirin’s gift was thoughtful, and it was about me. Okay, maybe it was a bit possessive making the necklace into Raif’s image, but he knew that diamonds were my birthstone, and he made the eyes from my birthstone.

‘His gifts have always been thoughtful. That’s why we still have them all,’ she says.

That reminds me that I never put that picture of him from my birthday up on my nightstand. I get it out and put it up, smiling at his very unhappy face. My mate hates having his picture taken, but he did it for me, because it was my birthday. I remember his unhappiness from that day. It was my fourteenth birthday.

“Please Quirin, will you be in the picture? It’ll be my birthday present,” I had asked.

“I already got you a birthday present, Little Pup,” he said.

“You can take it back and save it for next year. Pleeeeease!”

He had rolled his eyes, then come to stand in the picture. Because he did, very few other people were in the picture with me. Connor was, obviously, and so was Henry, and just a few other daring individuals, like Yorick and Wendy. Quirin’s face was a mask of irritation, but I didn’t care. I’ve always loved this picture.

I set it on my nightstand and smile. I wonder if he’ll remember this. It was four years ago.

‘Kennedy, where are you?‘ Quirin’s voice floats into my mind.

I look at the clock and realize it’s dinner time.

‘On my way,‘ I say to him.

hello to everyone I pass. The omegas are all very friendly to me. The warriors range from lukewarm to practically hostile, especially Slater and his friends. I wonder if he’s still

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and lift up on my toes to kiss him. After seeing that warrior yesterday and not having any kind of intimacy with my mate, I’m feeling a bit possessive. Echo

him like I’ve seen my father do to my mother hundreds of times in my

down, I can tell he’s

your family’s pack earlier on Saturday for your brother’s Alpha ceremony. I figured that you’d want to spend some time with your family and

know that I’m alive and well,” I

over and I thought you’d want to

know the feelings that he has for my father, so staying in my family’s pack will already be a hardship for him. But he also hates parties. I’ve watched him for years putting up with them for as long as he can manage, doing

stay the night?” I ask him.

you?” he

love to see my family

we’ll stay,”

you. I know that will be tough for you,” I

I’m guessing that you’ll want to invite your family to your

warriors around us

say, uneasily.

parents and brother while we’re there,” he says, as we

dinner before we go for a run,” I say, wanting some privacy to discuss

says, standing up. “Anyone running

say that they’re in for dinner then going back to patrol

running laps tonight. Try to keep up,” he says, with the Quirin equivalent of a grin

of the patrols groaning while others start asking if Echo is

Little Pup?” he asks as we

really just make a joke?” I ask

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faster. Raif does too. But for us, this is more about you gaining stamina. I want to see Echo run for two hours and try to keep up her fast pace. I’m going to have Raif nip her heels when

has to catch me first,” Echo says and now Quirin gives me a

catch you. Never doubt that. It’s just a matter of how

go back to my family coming for my

“What about it?”

idea. There are a lot of warriors here who blame my father for the deaths of their