The Pack's Doctor by Cooper

Chapter 164

Chapter 164

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I didn’t want to leave the hospital and Kennedy this morning, but when I heard that Slater was missing. I woke Kier and we went hunting. I’m not sure how the fuck he got out but when I return to the hospital later and realize that Terrance is there with his wife who is struggling to deliver their baby, I wonder if he was distracted and didn’t lock the door properly at the end of his shift.

David was no help, swearing that he didn’t see anything because he was asleep. I used my Alpha command to make sure that he was telling the truth and he was.

Slater attacked the guards on duty, knocking them out before racing off. Kier and I tracked Slater to our border, then continued on, following his trail to see if he stopped anywhere. We tracked him for about an hour before deciding to return to the pack. I don’t like it that Slater is gone, but he must have known that I was going to kill him. He and Arlo were very close. There’s no way he wouldn’t have known or tried to help cover up what happened to Christy if he hadn’t been in the cells at the time. He’d already be dead if I wasn’t focused on trying to fix things with Kennedy.

When I got back to the hospital, I realized what was going on. I heard my mate, sounding exhausted, talking to her mother on the phone.

I sat in the waiting room and mind linked Susie.

‘Yes, Alpha?‘

‘When’s the last time anyone saw my mate eat?‘

She was in surgery all day yesterday and she fell asleep beside Christy before she could get any food last night.

‘Yesterday morning, Alpha.

Shit and she’s about to go into surgery again from the sound of it. I’m just about to ask Susie to bring something for Kennedy to eat when Kennedy opens the link between us, barking that she needs me.

I’m up and moving in an instant and I see the surprise on her face when I walk in faster than she expects. I quickly assess what is happening and take the phone from Terrance. Then I watch, fascinated as my mate follows her mother’s instructions and saves Lillian and her pup. I’m so fucking impressed with my mate. She just keeps surprising me, making me realize how much I’ve underestimated her.

It’s not until she’s covering Lillian’s stitches that I see her hands begin to shake. The adrenaline in her system is wearing off and now the lack of food and probably lack of sleep are making themselves known.

I’m not surprised when Luna Yara realizes that her daughter is struggling too. She’s been focused on her this entire time, making sure that she knew how to save our pack members.

After Lillian is settled, I’m about to follow Kennedy out of the room when Terrance rushes forward. I listen while he thanks Kennedy for saving his mate and pup. I can tell that his words are genuine and that he means what he’s saying about the pack starting to love and admire her.

As I scoop her into my arms, I think about that. I’ve never felt quite so disconnected from my pack as I do now. Or perhaps, I’ve always been this disconnected, but it’s taken Kennedy’s involvement to help me see that I may not be as good of an Alpha as I thought I was. I didn’t know what happened to Christy. I didn’t even feel it. And Arlo using Kennedy as a threat should have given Christy more incentive to link me or Kier, but she didn’t. That tells me that my omegas either don’t trust me to protect them, or don’t trust me to listen to them.

I look down at Kennedy, passed out in my arms. Listening is definitely not something I do well, just ask my mate.

“How is she?” Kier asks, walking over. I’d mind linked him that I was helping Kennedy with surgery and to cover any pack

issues.

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“Exhausted. What the fuck is that smell?*

“Leo started a fire again. None of know how to cook, Alpha”

“How the hell did a pack full of rogues survive in the wild? I growl softly so I don’t wake Kennedy

fire, not a kitchen stove. It either isn’t cooked enough. it’s burned.

Kennedy’s lesson is well

“It is.”

sure someone is with Christy at all times. She is afraid of being alone and after what happened, I don’t blame her. Talk to Susie and Arianna and find out who her friends are, make sure someone is with her

How’s

thanks to Kennedy. Let’s talk to Deborah and Lane. If they know how Kennedy wanted the hospital set

do you want to do with David?”

in the

we doing

him. Have you felt your tether to him

in surgery with Luna,”

reach out, feeling for the bond to Slater and realize

did I not feel that?” I wonder out loud, feeling even

important,” he says, but I know that it should have. It makes me wonder if the connections that with have with all my pack members is

all of this is done, we’re having a recommitment ceremony. I need to make sure that every one of our pack members is fully vested in this pack. If they aren’t I want them

what do you want to

she wakes up, she needs to eat,”

ask Arianna to make her a sandwich or something. If she’s mad

the one saying she needs food that is edible.”

and their son. Underneath that is the

mate.

her clothes and start a warm bath. I carefully wash the scent of everything and everyone off of her but mine

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auding around with prained books on the fares.

her body

st she’s ready.

say, watching as Randall drops a pan, sending some

cooking Susie says, watching her mate, Kelvin, as he too tries to

help them. It’s painful to watch,” another

threatened us if anyone asked for your help, but she didn’t say anything about you offering your

to burn and turn the heat to low,” Susie says and Kelvin

presta goes in AFTER the water starts to boil, Arianna

Should I take

they start directing the warriors to add

someone who snuck me some food last night,” I murmur. Arianna gives me a

one of the omegas asks me, but now, all of them are focused on the warriors, helping them to make something that

he wants something she can eat. He said he’s willing to take her wrath for going against her wishes,” I

made her a couple of things,” Arianna says without looking at me, before giving another instruction to Cameron. They seem to have focused on one or two

realized that she wasn’t eating, we started setting aside small meals so she can eat as she gets hungry,” Susie says, telling Kelvin to take the pan of meat

look at her like she’s

I’m starving. I want something that I can actually choke down tonight,”

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