The Pack's Doctor by Cooper

Chapter 182

Warren

I’m excited to get started with Quirin this morning. Not only is it good to feel needed, but I want to nurture the new relationship that we have. I’ll tread lightly, I don’t want to do anything to disrupt the new bond that we’ve created. But I want him to know that he’s family now and that’s important to me, it means something to me.

I stepped away when Quirin and Henry were saying goodbye, and I’d seen Beta Kier and Beta Arianna descending the stairs together.

“Congratulations! I hope you’ll be as happy as Yara and I are,” I said, smiling when Arianna blushed sweetly.

“Thank you, Alpha,” she said.

I’d watched them walk into the kitchen and heard the squeals of excitement from her friends as Arianna showed off her mate mark.

I waited patiently for Quirin and saw him turn to see what was going on in the kitchen, then saw his pack members ask to speak to him. It’s difficult not having my own tasks to do, but I know that it’s important as an Alpha to meet with your pack members when they ask for your time. So, I turn, looking out the back windows of Quirin and Kennedy’s pack thinking through the possibilities of how we can begin to clean up the pack lands. It’s going to take a lot of time and energy, which excites me. I need to feel needed again.

“Alpha Warren,” Quirin says from behind me.

I turn and smile at him. “I thought we agreed that I was just Warren to you.”

He smiles, something I’ve never seen him do unless Kennedy was nearby. “Warren, my pack members would like to speak with you. They want to take you up on your offer to talk to them like you talked to me. Are you still willing to meet with them?” he asks.

“Absolutely,” I say, stepping forward.

“Thank you. Let’s meet in my office. My warriors are already there,” he says.

When we step in, I see about ten warriors, male and female, waiting to meet with me.

“Good morning, everyone,” I say as I step in. They have all pulled up chairs and are facing Quirin’s desk.

“Would you like a chair, Warren?” he asks me.

“Yes, thank you.” He grabs a chair for me and I pull it in front of his desk, facing the group. Quirin leans against his desk rather than sitting. I’m not surprised that he doesn’t sit. Quirin has always been full of energy. It rolls off of him in waves, although that energy has a decidedly more positive feel to it since he’s been mated to my daughter.

“Alpha Warren has agreed to speak with all of you. I will remind you that he is your Luna’s father and as such, I expect you all to remain respectful during this meeting and afterward,” Quirin tells them.

“Yes, Alpha,” they say, then turn to me.

I lean forward, putting my elbows on my knees, more or less putting myself at their level and hoping to make them fec more open to talking and hearing what I have to say.

“First, I’m assuming that all of you lost someone in the wars during the time when I was Alpha and was fighting against the other Alphas. Is that a correct assumption?” I ask.

I watch as they all nod or quietly agree with me.

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I ask, a few

Thomas?” Only

Multiple

Quinton?” A couple

ask. Everyone looks around, but no one else raises

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different back then. Wars were constant. My pack was being attacked nearly every day. My warriors were

pushes her sweet consciousness into mine, wrapping around me like she’s holding my hand in

good reason that I could see anyway. Alpha Quinton wanted my pack lands. He entered an alliance with Alpha Brady and Alpha

I say and smile. “She changed everything for me. She came into my life and immediately began healing me and my pack. She is

they all look at each other. “Just like

We were riddled with infection, had wounds that didn’t have time to heal, we were fighting with fevers and barely mended bones or poorly set bones that fractured again easily…” I shrug. “I only tell you this so you understand what it was like. It was a dark time for all of the packs. But then,

I was finally strong enough to go on the offensive and start attacking instead of waiting to be attacked, I did. I created an alliance with Alpha Harold, and we began working together against the other packs.” I hold up a hand, looking at

Thomas‘ pack first. We thought we collected everyone who wasn’t a warrior at the time to bring them back to my pack, but we

my mother before we made it to the safe room. I was

“How old were you?”

“Twelve.”

to be terrifying for

and I see her fighting her

sorry you had to go through that. I’m sure you didn’t know that you’d be safe coming to my pack. Most of the women that we brought back had been taken against their will from Alpha Harold’s pack. It’s actually how I convinced Alpha Harold that I wanted an alliance. When I found out that the women were from his pack, that they’d been forced into mate bonds with Thomas‘ warriors, Harold and I worked together to return them to their home.

my mother was one of those

hose

been very strong to have survived on your own for so long,” I say to her before refocusing on

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it was Simon who took her,” I say, and they gasp.

look at them. “You didn’t know?” They all

you know that Simon killed his own father

we were told,” one

loved by his pack, isn’t exactly the

do you know he killed Alpha Solomon?” another warrior asks.

me so himself.”

our warriors you did

wasn’t attacking me. Simon lied to you because he wanted Yara. He was obsessed with her. I’m guessing that obsession started early which is why Alpha Solomon tried to protect my mate