NovelAppChapter 0167
| carry my mate to the alpha floor. I've been the only person living on this floor since my mother died when | was
6 years old. My father wouldn't set foot up here again after her death and moved into a dwelling away from the
packhouse. He gavethe choice and | stayed here, preferring to live in familiar surroundings to living with my
grieving father.
I've mind linked the pack doctor to meethere and | make my way to the room across the hall from mine. |
don’t know if she will recognizeas her mate, so | want her to have her own space until she is healed and we
can talk.
I lay her down on the bed as Dr. Phillips knocks. “Alpha?”
“Dr. Phillips, cin.” She comes over to the bed and takes in the state of my mate. She immediately begins
setting up her medical supplies. “Alpha, can you take off her jacket and any other clothes she’s wearing while |
get set up?”
| see Dustin hovering in the doorway and | growl at him. “No males on this floor until | say so.”
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He backs away and Dr. Phillips looks atcuriously.
| take off the jacket and see that she’s not wearing anything else underneath. A vicious snarl rips from my mouth
when | see the state of her body. She is covered in bite marks. | hear the doctor gasp behindand turn to her.
“Are those...?" | ask.
She nods. “Vampire bites.” She walks slowly to the bed, taking in the multiple scars and punctures in various
stages of healing. They are everywhere. “Oh this poor woman. Where did you find her?”
“She stumbled across our border and passed out.”
She looks at me. “Do we know of any active vampire covens in the area?” | shake my head. As she begins her
initial exam, | mind link Dustin. “Find out everything you know about vampires in a hundred mile radius.”
“Yes Alpha.” | cut the mind link as the doctor looks at me. “Helproll her over.”
| snarl again when | see that her back is no better than her front. Cyran is thrashing in my head that someone
would do this to our mate.
Dr. Phillips puts an IV into her arm and begins giving her fluids. She takes blood and looks at me. “I need to test
her blood and see if it can tell us anything. On
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examination, | can tell you she’s dehydrated, malnourished and | would guess anemic and low on blood
platelets.”
She looks at my mate and then at me. “Dos
know if she has a wolf?”
“Cyran said her wolf is dormant.” | answer her without taking my eyes off this frail girl. How can this small
woman be my fated mate. She looks like she will break if | touch her.
“Is she...?” Dr. Phillips asks, wanting to know if she’s my mate. | nod my head before looking at her. “Yes, but
only a few people know that, and | want to keep it that way.
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“Yes, Alpha.” She says before packing up her things. “I'll take her blood, test it and be back when | have results
and will check her again then. Contactif anything changes in the meantime.”
I nod and pull up a chair. I'll be staying here tonight, keeping watch over my girl. As she leaves, Dr. Phillips turns
to look at me. “Congratulations Alpha.”
“Let’s wait to congratulateuntil we save her.” | tell the doctor. Looking at her, I'm not sure this woman will
survive the night.
As | settle in to keep vigil over my fragile mate, Dustin mind links me. “Alpha.”
“What did you find out?” | ask, wanting to know how close the risk is to our pack. If she escaped a coven, they
may be looking for her and | want to be ready. Vampires and werewolves don’t cross paths very often, but when
we do, it usually ends in a bloody mess.
“There are scovens in a one-hundred-mile radius. | didn’t hear anything in particular about them searching
for a missing girl.” | sigh, | was hoping for more. “However, | expanded the search and nearly 170 miles north of
us, there was a coven that was raided by hunters about nine days ago. From what | hear, they were killing a lot
of humans which put them on the hunter's radar. From the little | have gotten so far, it sounds like the coven
prince had a favorite blood bag.” He stops, | wait him out. “It sounds like this girl.”
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