The Pack's Doctor by Cooper

Chapter 175

Chapter 175

Quirin

“She’s still asleep?” Luna Yara asks, coming into the room.

“Yeah, I think she’s starting to wake up. Her mind is feeling a bit more active,” I say, looking down at my mate who is still sleeping in my lap. I didn’t want to move her and I knew that she’d sleep better in my arms, and well, I just needed to hold her.

“I think she might be a bit too comfortable. She needs to wake up to cat,” Yara says, smiling as she comes over to check her daughter.

I look up at the woman who changed the path of my life so many years ago. “Thank you for saving her life.”

She smiles at me. “You never have to thank me for saving a life. It’s what I do, and it’s what Kennedy does. We’re both very good at it, but I think that when she’s finished with medical school, she’ll be better at it than I am.”

I ignore the part about not needing to thank her. Luna Yara has always been very humble about the significance of what she does. She saves lives and by saving one medically, she saves so many others by keeping mates healthy and strong and pups with their parents.

“I’m not sure I ever properly thanked you for saving my life all those years ago,” I say.

She stops and tilts her head, looking at me. “What’s this about, Quirin.”

“You changed the course of my life, Luna. You made all of this possible for me. It’s no secret that I’ve never liked your mate, well, until very recently,” I say, making her smile. “I hated him. I wanted to kill him. I was consumed with hurting him the way he hurt me. I was willing to destroy everyone that he loved so that he felt the pain I felt,” I say, looking down.

“I’m not proud of that. I realize now it would have meant losing everything that I have in my life. It would have meant losing my mate and the life that she’s giving me. I was an angry young man who was ready to die, but you wouldn’t let me go, even knowing the animosity that I felt for Alpha Warren, you wouldn’t let me die.”

She shrugs as if what she did is no big deal. “No one dies in my hospital.” I watch her, having learned that she thinks through a lot of what she says before she says it or at least mumbles it.

“You were a very angry young man. You had a lot to be angry about. You lost your father, you lost your pack, and then you lost your mother, all in those very formidable teenage years. That was a lot for anyone to come to terms with, but even harder for an Alpha heir. I’ve always believed that love heals more wounds than I ever could. I always believed that some day love would heal you too. I just didn’t realize that that love would come from my daughter. But I’m glad it did. Kennedy has always been drawn to you, Quirin. As Alphas, maybe you both felt the pull to each other long before the mate bond kicked in, who knows. What I do know is that my daughter loves with every ounce of her being. She loves like Warren loves, with no hesitation or restraint. It’s a heady thing being loved by someone like that, and very hard to resist.”.

“Impossible to resist,” I chuckle. She smiles again, looking at Kennedy.

“She will give you everything, but she will also expect the same from you. As someone who is loved by a man who gives me everything I could ever want in this world and so much more, I will tell you that you will feel like you get much more out of the relationship than she does. But that’s okay, as long as you continue to give her everything that you are. That’s all she wants. Just everything,” she says, making both of us chuckle. “And even if you don’t feel like your everything is enough for her, she will and that’s what matters.”

“Thank

second chance at life, a chance to

in Mom’s

my lips to the side of

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well?” I

mate’s sandalwood scent. I slept great, but I really have to pee,”

take you to the

goes to the bathroom then standing behind her to hold her steady while she washes her hands. I can feel her in my mind, her mind like little butterfly

kept your mind open to me,”

to. I’m not going to close it

brilliant fucking smile at me. Luna Yara was right. I’ll never feel like I’m good enough for her, but as long as I’m giving her what she wants, every–damn–thing,

my face. “You are perfect

you. Now, you need to feed my mate and my pup,” I

and he doesn’t feel good enough for my daughter. Seriously, what does it take for a man to realize that he’s perfect just the way he is? If he were different, he wouldn’t be perfect for my daughter, would he?” Luna Yara

perfect for me,” Kennedy says smugly in

was talking out loud to herself about me. “Kennedy, how are

pretty gross actually.”

will help. Once you feel a bit better, I’ve got some broth ready for you too. We’ll take it slow today, but

can feel my mate’s nausea through the bond and Raif begins purring at her, trying to

sit, keeping her in my lap. “What about you?

your stomach feel any worse and I didn’t want to leave you, so I’ll eat

from Echo yet?” Luna Yara

purring increases as we feel her sadness

very weak and with the pup, she’ll be working overtime to heal herself and protect the t You focus on getting

me to go eat, and assuring me that she won’t leave until she feels that Kennedy is strong enough, she unhooks

and by the time we’re done, she’s too weak

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and see Christy first?” she asks