The Pack's Doctor by Cooper

Chapter 31

Yara

It makesnervous that another pack is hunting for me. | mean, | know that I'm healing Warren's pack, but it's

not that hard. They really just needed to rest enough to let their wolves heal and of course, they needed to not

have Dr. Stevens making it harder for them to heal.

Could he be working with them? Could he have intentionally been weakening Warren's pack? But for what

purpose? It had to be personal gain. There's no other reason to betray your own pack...unless he has a personal

vendetta against Warren.

“Who are we talking about?” Warren asksas | check over the Beta.

“Hmmm?” | ask him.

“Who would be working with ‘them’, intentionally weakening my pack for personal gain or a personal vendetta?”

he asksand | look up, seeing everyone in the room watching me. | must have been mumbling out loud again.

I've really got to stop that.

doing to keep you all strong. | mean, all I'm doing really is helping your wolves to heal and forcing you to get

srest so you're stronger and your wolves are stronger. I'm not smiracle worker. It’s just common

sense.”

“Oh, Dr. Stevens. Your pack would have been much stronger if he’d have done what he should have!

“I'm pretty sure all of us would disagree with you about being a miracle worker, Luna,” one of the warriors says. |

see Warren's eyes go unfocused while they talk to me.

“Truly, other than Beta Charlie and maybe finding Haynes’ infection, | haven’t done much.”

“Luna, | don’t even have a scar from where

you

stitched me

up

the other day.”

“Well, that’s just practice,” | say, turning back to the Beta when Warren snarls, startling me.

“Warren!”

| scold. | can’t have him doing that in my surgery rooms.

“Sorry, Yara,” he growls. “Dr. Stevens seems to be missing. No one has seen him since yesterday.”

“So, he’s run now that he can’t hurt your pack anymore. Was it a personal vendetta, Warren?” | ask, finishing my

stitches.

“I don’t know what personal vendetta he'd be holding

“He wanted to be your Beta, Alpha, remember?”

on to,” Warren says.

One of the warriors says to him.

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“That was twelve years ago and he wasn’t Beta material. He might have been a good doctor, which | think he

was at the time, but being a good doctor doesn’t make you a good Beta. They're completely different skill sets,”

Warren says.

“I agree. I'd make a terrible Beta,” | say, looking at the warriors. “You can shackle him now. It will keep him from

healing, Warren, but then | can remove the sedation from him and let him wake up,” | say.

He nods and the warriors put on gloves before putting silver handcuffs and shackles on the Beta to keep him on

the bed. “Anna, make sure you or any of the other nurses who cin here are careful. If he

can burn you, he will.”

“We won't need them. Once he tells us what we want to know, we'll get him out of here,” Warren says,

distractedly. “Do you really think all of this is about not becoming my Beta?” he asks his warriors.

“It’s a powerful position, Alpha. Most of us haven't had tto think about it, but being a ranked member is

something most wolves dream about when they're young,” one of the warriors says.

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“Did you dream about being a ranked member?” Warren asks me

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“No. From the moment my parents died in battle, I've dreamt of being a doctor, hoping that | could save another

child likefrom losing their parents,” | say quietly.

“You've done that, Luna. Many of us have pups and many of us were worried that we'd leave our pups and our

mates without anyone. It’s part of why your dream is making all of us stronger. Most of us don’t have to worry

about that now.”

Warren pullsinto his arms again. “Are you done here?” he asks.

“Yes, but | need to check the other two.”

He nods. “Charlie’s on his way back. I'm going to have him stay with you while | go get washed up.”

We step out of the room, leaving the Beta to wake up. | still don’t even know his name. | guess it doesn’t matter

since I'll probably never see him again.

Savannah steps up quickly. “This one’s next, Luna. | did what | could, but I’m not sure he’s going to make it,” she

says.

| take the medical record she hands me, looking it over as | walk into the next room.

“Why do you have bruises on your neck, Luna?” Savannah asks me.

“That Beta apparently knows who | am and didn’t like working on him, | guess.”

| see her glance at the others, but | don’t look back. I'm

he

sure they'll fill her in and this guy is nearly on his deathbed.

“Warren, how much do you wantto do to save him?” | ask him.

“Do what you can, but don’t overextend yourself, Yara,” he says and | nod. “I'd like to interview him and if he

doesn’t touch you, he can live for now, but if you can’t save him...”

“Letsee what | can do,” | say.

get Savannah and Anna to cin and This guy has been bleeding out the entire tI've been working on the

Beta. | using their fingers, stop the bleeding while | begin to stitch this guy up. He's bleeding out from multiple

areas. “Are Katie and Eliza here?” | ask, needing more fingers. This guy geez, if he still has a wolf, I'd be shocked.

“They're still working on the third warrior, Luna,” Savannah says

| turn, seeing that Charlie has replaced Warren while | was busy. | look him over, assessing him quickly.

“Gregor?”

“Yes, Luna?” he purrs at me.

| shake my head at him. “Don’t let Arric hear you do that. Are you still at full strength?”

“Yes, Luna,” he says.

“Good, put sgloves on and cover here,

|

need more fingers.”

“Uh...what?” Charlie asks and | see the other warriors in the room take a not-so-subtle step backwards, as if |

might try to get them to helptoo. For warriors who don’t mind shredding someone to pieces, they seem a bit

squeamish about putting those pieces back together again.

“Put on gloves and get over here, Beta,” | say a bit more forcefully

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His mouth opens and closes, but he doesn’t say anything and he doesn’t move.

“CHARLIE! GET OVER HERE!” He jumps at the command, but moves into action, putting on the gloves and

walking over.

“Giveyour left hand,” | say and he holds it out. | take his pointer finger and move it to where | need him to

stop the bleeding.

“Relax your hand,” | tell him and he does. “Okay, see how the bleeding there has stopped?”

“Yes.”

“Good. You have to watch that artery and make sure no blood seeps out. If it does, move your finger until it stops

again. Givyour right hand,” | say and | do the swith that hand, plugging another bleeder on this guy.

“I can’t believe this guy is still alive,” | murmur, as | begin stitching him up. | watch as his blood pressure

stabilizes, even if i is really low.

| work as quickly as | can, getting Charlie’s fingers out of him first, then having him squirt water onto the areas

where | need to see better until Anna is able to help me. Savannah had to the biggest arteries that were severed,

so she’s last to get released.

When I'm finally done, | stand, stretching and cracking my neck and back in the process.

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| feel warm hands caround my waist and | jerk until | smell his teakwood scent.

“You're amazing,” Warren says, kissing the side of my head. “I have food for you.”

“What tis it?” | ask.

“Late afternoon. You've been at it for hours again.”

“How's the last one?” | ask Savannah.

“Better than this guy,” she says.

“Okay, letcheck the last one quickly and then I'll get something to eat,” | say.

The ‘last one’ ends up being a female warrior. When my large group walks into the room she looks at all of us as

if expecting her torture to start.

| check her vitals and see that she’s got a compound fracture of her leg. “Is this numbed?” | ask Eliza.

“Yes,” the warrior answersinstead.

“Okay, I'll be back to fix this after | eat something,” | tell her.

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“Why? Aren't they just going to torturefor information?” she asks, looking fromto Warren.

“That depends on you,” Warren says.

“What do you want to know?” she asks.

“We want to know what your Alpha wants with Yara,” Warren says.

She looks at me. “So, it’s true? You're the lady doctor whose healing this pack and making them stronger?”

| look at her, waiting for Warren to decide what he’s willing to tell her.

She looks back at Warren. “I'll tell you anything you want to know, on one condition.”

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“What's that?”

“You my

get

sister out

5

of Alpha

Thomas’

pack.”