The Pack's Doctor by Cooper

Chapter 155

Kennedy

I slept until late in the morning the next day. Surprisingly, so did Quirin. Or at least, he was still in bed when I woke up. The moment I stirred, I felt his lips press against the top of my head. “Did you sleep well, Little Pup?”

I shift. My body is still sore as the memory of last night returns to me.

“Wendy…” I say, starting to get out of bed.

“She’s awake. Kier told me that Henry went to stay with her while your parents came to get some food and before they’d finished eating, Alpha Harold came to get your mom, letting her know that Wendy was awake.”

I feel him press his lips to my head again. It’s so unusual for my active mate to just lie here in bed with me that I assume we’re about to have the ‘talk‘ of me not going to the safe room.

“You scared the shit out of me yesterday,” he says softly. “When I realized that you weren’t in a safe room, that you were exposed to the fighting, I struggled to focus on the fight. And then, I saw Wendy in Henry’s arms. She was awake but had already been slashed across her chest and abdomen.”

He stops and I wait for him to continue.

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“She looks enough like you that I had a terrible moment of absolute fear. And then, I couldn’t stop fighting to make sure you were safe. But the thought of losing you, Kennedy… it terrified me. I know I’m not perfect. I know you deserve better than a mate like me, but I can’t lose you, Kennedy. I can’t,” he says, his voice getting tight.

I turn over in his arms to face him. “I’m right here, Quirin. I’m not going anywhere.”

He looks down at me, his teeth clenched tightly, and I can see the war in his eyes. “I know you’re going to tell me that you have to be in the hospital during battles, aren’t you?”

“You saw why I have to be there, Quirin. If my mother and I had been in a safe room, Wendy would have died.”

“While I don’t agree that a pup her age should have been in the fight to begin with, I also know that our pack is suffering with this silver powder, so I know it’s important for you to be there. I don’t want our pack members dying, Kennedy. But, I can’t lose you. So I’m going to give you a short list of warriors that I trust to protect you and you’ll pick the one you’re most comfortable having as your guard.”

I look down at his chest, trying to collect my thoughts.

“Kennedy,” he growls, reaching up to tilt my chin to look at him. “This is not negotiable.”

“I don’t have a problem having a guard, Quirin. But… well, do you think anyone would really want that job?”

“What are you talking about?”

“It’s a shit job, Quirin.”

“I dare you to say that to Bradley,” he says, his Quirin crooked smile coming out. I gently smack his chest.

“I don’t mean because it’s not a worthy job. It’s just…” I shrug. “Connor’s pack loves my mother. Our pack… doesn’t love me the same way.”

He looks at me thoughtfully for a moment. “In any pack, the Luna guard is an honored position, whether she’s a warrior or not. She’s too important, YOU’RE too important, to leave unprotected. Even Farrah has a guard when Harold isn’t around. And while I know that not every person in this pack has learned to respect you and you may have had a tough start to your

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time here, you’re winning over the pack quickly.”

“You think so?” I ask. I hope he means it.

“Kennedy, I know you were busy during your Luna ceremony party, dancing with your friends and family, but the pack had a great time. They were dancing, talking with your family, and enjoying themselves in a way that I’m not used to seeing. The pack is changing because of you. They are getting stronger, because of you. They are learning what it means to have a Luna who heals them, in more ways than one.”

I hope he’s right. “Who’s on

warriors who stayed for my Luna ceremony and all warriors

think about it?” I ask.

take too long to think about it. I have no intention of feeling fear like I felt yesterday ever again,

“Okay.”

there’s one more thing. Your mother said our hospital isn’t stocked well. I’m not sure why you didn’t order what you thought we needed, but put in the request to Kier. I’ll

again. “Quirin, I need a budget. Some of

me. “How expensive?”

cheaper, but it wouldn’t be

“Little Pup,

mean, we never run out of food or have to worry about water or electricity, or things like that. But I don’t want to bankrupt the pack to get an x–ray machine. The one that’s here works and when we can afford it, I’ll get

throws off the covers and stands. “Come

are we going?”

didn’t know this about our pack. I mean, how is that even possible? Everyone knows,” he says. I think he’s talking to me, but since I’m

me. “Why do you think Jasper is attacking our pack?”

“To take over the land and accumulate our

a moment, then shakes

“Get dressed, Kennedy.”

Kier and Arianna on the stairs. Based on

serious,” Kier says,

we needed for the hospital because she’s afraid of bankrupting the

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“Seriously?” he asks

bankrupting the pack such a surprise?” I

the pack?

That’s what I’m saying. That’s why I haven’t purchased the

having everything a hospital needs while she was fixing us up last night?” Lane asks, walking up.

talk to her. She knows you don’t use the hospital here like they do in her pack.” I say as Quirin continues to lead me

“Alpha Terrance asks.

it.”

nothing to handle Quirin. If I can’t order more supplies right now, I won’t. I just need you to give me a budget.” I

me into his lap, his arms wrapping on either side of me to hold me steady while

investments in multiple things, Kennedy. My father started some of these investments before I was born and he diversified until his death,” he says

on my shoulder. “Do you see this number

“Yes.”

this pack is worth, Kennedy. Your $30,000 x–ray machine won’t even make a dent in

the number on the screen.

lot of zeros.”

feel him chuckle

“Yes, it is.”

Jasper is after our pack?”

the region, possibly the country. We could live off the interest that this money makes

all those zeros when he turns his head and looks

shake my head. “How would

maybe your father

shake my head. “Connor might know, but I was never involved in the finances of our pack. I just knew that Mom’s school brought money into the pack, and

his arms around me, holding me tightly and pressing another

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