The Pack's Doctor by Cooper

Chapter 217

Chapter 217

Cyra

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I started to stand the moment Yorick was punched. I saw Alpha Nevaeh step forward then quickly step back as Yorick vomited his food all over him. My own hand slapped over my mouth. I'm not sure if I was trying to keep my food down or if I was holding back a laugh, but that shifted as soon as the guy. lunged at my smart-mouthed mate.

This time I do stand, but Yorick must have expected the attack. He dodges, and the guy slips on the vomit falling to the ground.

"ENOUGH!" Alpha Leo roars. "Get your ass up and go get cleaned off, Talek." Then he turns to Yorick. "You did that on purpose!"

"If anyone did anything with purpose, it was him. He sucker-punched me. Anyone paying attention would have seen that I was finishing my breakfast as ! walked up here. I didn't get to eat during normal hours because I was helping Cyra get back to her room, from the hospital, and helping her get ready so she wouldn't miss class again today." The way he emphasizes that I was in the hospital feels accusatory, like Alpha Leo isn't doing his job property.

I hold my breath as Alpha Leo's face gets red with anger. He points his finger in Yorick's face.

"You better watch yourself."

Yorick holds Alpha Leo's gaze, not saying anything. It's Alpha Nevaeh calling out for Zach to come up that breaks the tension between them.

"Ahhh, Goddess of Love, don't hold it against me if I take down your sweet poet," Zach says dramatically as he walks up to where Yorick is standing. That, more than anything, cuts the tension in the air and I watch Yorick's shoulders relax, and his easy smile returns.

"Good luck with that, Nicky," Yorick says to him. His eyes meet mine and he winks at me.

"Just don't breathe on me or I might vomit all over you," Zach says as the two get ready to spar.

The two are evenly matched and the rest of the morning goes by with no problems. When Talek returns, he glares at Yorick, but Yorick stands near me, ignoring him. At lunch, Yorick eats like he hasn't eaten in days, shoveling everything he can get his hands on into his mouth

"Feel better?" I ask him when he finally sits back.

"Yeah. I was hungry," he says, smiling and grabbing my bookbag, slinging it over his shoulder along with his. "Ready?"

"We didn't really talk about what I missed yesterday," I tell him.

"I sent you my notes," he says, smiling at me.

"Damn, are there any more back home like you, Yorick?" Piper asks.

"Wade is only thirteen and Connor found his mate, sorry," he says.

just carrying her bag," Zach grumbles, pulling Piper's off her shoulder and

looks at me and

two have been spending time together outside of

gesture, the thoughtfulness,"

"I'm thoughtful," Zach mutters.

doing study group tonight,

and get more x-rays so I can get out of this cast and into

can join," he says as we walk into the classroom, Battle Strategy is bought by Warrior Ronan. His body is covered in thin scars that you'd

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of the hardest things to do is go against a pack who has other packs they are allied with. Even if your group is stronger than the one you're planning to attack, if they have allies and those allies join the battle, the tide can and usually does, swing quickly out of

usually relaxed but

how do you break an alliance?" Warrior

in one of the allies

weaknesses would

say without

at

bought? There's a lot of greed in the

true. But not all

"Family," Yorick says.

family?" Warrior Ronan

to keep the pack from joining the fight. Or better yet, make them think that their allied pack kidnapped their family member and make them turn on

family or mates as incentive to stay out of the battle

says from the other side of the

on," Warrior Ronan

off a pack, but what

an Alpha's illegal activities and threater

if

and make sure you have the capability of exposing them any time you choose to, then hold that over their heads until you get what you want. Good. We talk about breaking alliances first because if you're going to battle, you need to be the one in control of the situation. You need to be ten steps ahead of your enemy. If you're not, and you go into battle unprepared, you will lose. Every time. Every. Single. Time. So the first part of being able to break an alliance is getting to know your enemy and their allies. Open your

and headed back to the infirmary, I look

today. What's up

had a momentary glimmer of hope that I would learn something about how to get you out of your alliance bond. But I quickly realized that's not what we were going to learn about

said your family has strong alliances," I

Alpha Henry is sort of Quirin's adopted brother, and his pack has been allied with our since before Henry took over as Alpha. None of our packs have financial issues

know of," I