Chapter 228
I wait patiently as Cole slowly starts coming around. The reversal of the ketamine seems to be going a lot better than our previous attempts at twilight sleep.
We were successful at shaving his hair down, stitching his two head wounds and reducing his fractured arm. His trip through the multi-scanner was uneventful and fortunately negative for fractures or bleeds to his head. He just needs monitoring for a major concussion.
We have delayed the transfer of Cole and Madilyn to general due to the storm. The area got hit with several tornadoes and we felt it was best to wait since we could keep them comfortable here in the short term.
“Hey there.” I speak softly as Cole finally looks my way.
His eyes are glassy, an obvious high from the ketamine but he at least seems lucid. He slowly looks to his right as Julie takes a seat next to his bed followed by Jessa taking a seat on the bed by his feet.
“What’s going on, alpha?” He asks quietly.
I take several deep breaths as I know this is going to be a devastating blow considering I told him directly I had no issues with him caring for my girls.
“I need to explain the argument I had with Kathy as well as why she’s right and the interview with Madisyn is necessary.”
“I see.” He speaks quietly as he closes his eyes and lays back against the bed.
“I know it’s hard to hear but at the same time you need to know the story behind it to truly understand the reason why.”
He sighs hard but says nothing more.
“Cole, it’s not because of the rumors that I am agreeing to allow Julie to go through the sexual assault interview with Madisyn.”
“Then what other reason could you possibly have?” There’s a waiver to his voice as he tries not to get emotional.
“It started six years ago. Well, let’s start from the real beginning, ten years ago when I started in the prospect program but I need you to have an open mind. That’s why Jessa is also here. She needs to understand as we haven’t had to do an interview on a pup for several years.”
“Alpha please. If you suspect that I did something just punish me now and send me home. Don’t traumatize your daughter with an invasive exam. Please. Allie told me how painful it was to go through and Madisyn is only four.”
I reach towards his face to clear his cheeks of his tears but he pulls away instead.
“Cole.” I try again to comfort him but again he refuses.
“No. Not after you told me it was okay to be with them. That it was okay to protect and care for them. You lied to me and now you're going to hurt Madisyn just to prove I did something I would never do.”
“No, Cole. That’s not what this is about.”
I gather him in my arms as I sit beside him on the narrow bed. He tries to shove me away but he’s too exhausted to succeed.
“This is a protocol I put in place six years ago. This has nothing to do with the rumors. I need you to listen with an open mind as it is the only way you will understand.”
I pet the right side of his head gently, waiting for him to calm down enough for me to explain.
“Alpha please don’t do this to her.”
His begging breaks my heart more than having to interview Melody knowing my own son was the one to hurt her.
“As you already know, I started in the prospect program ten years ago. Those first two years were busy with my discovery of six wolves needing help out of my first three runs. It was at the end of the third run that the first two wolves I helped started asking about being able to leave the pack in search of their mate. That was when I realized what a low threshold for psychiatric help the council had and I started changing it.
About six months later is when the council assigned Julie to come help me with my problem and for two years that’s all she worked on, rehabilitating abused wolves.
It was six years ago, when I started my three six month run cycle again, that on my second run I had a prospect complain about pain in his back, radiating down his legs. He had a lot of weakness in his legs and couldn’t complete the physical as this injury occurred before the physicals had been started. We couldn’t find any injuries and Jessa wasn’t here so I couldn’t test him on lying even though my bull shit meter was screaming quite loudly but council mandates that any prospect that gets hurt in the territory must be cared for by the alpha at the pack’s expense unless you can prove they came in that condition.
He claimed the injury came from Patrick kicking him in the back when breaking up a fight between him and his pack mates. I didn’t buy it but due to council mandates I moved him into the medical room upstairs and started treating him with Valium and Percocet for his pain. He was withdrawn from the run as a prospect but I couldn’t send him home until we found his injury.
He ended up being here for four months when a mother connected with me through the link. She was crying after discovering her five year old daughter had been taken from the playground. She was able to tell me that when she connected with Regan through the link that Regan was scared. She had been taken by a male and female but she didn’t know where.
Ellen could hear and feel everything that was happening to her daughter. Ellen felt her daughter being molested and digitally penetrated by the non pack member and his mate. I ran out to the playground and met with the distraught mother. Ordered all pups and their parents to vacate the park and stationed my warriors so they couldn’t be seen but they were available when we needed them.
I got my best trackers to trail her scent and found her with the injured prospect in his dorm room. He had his mate tied to the bed, having sex with her, telling the pup that she was next if she didn’t stop crying. He didn’t even notice that I was there until my belt landed hard on his bare ass. I think I got five good hits in before my security team grabbed him and cuffed him before helping him into his pants.
His mate was untied from the bed just to go into cuffs and clothes before they both got led away. Regan, of course, had already been removed from the room and taken to the med wing for assessment of her injuries.
The run came to a complete stop as the council came and started interviewing everyone but they used the same tactics on the pups that they use on the adults and after witnessing the third pup’s interview I called them off.
I held several meetings with them until I knew what they were looking for and we switched roles. They witnessed me interviewing the pups and used Kathy to communicate through the link any additional questions that they had.
We discovered that they had worked together over sixteen weeks to separate, sexually assault, then return ten girls and five boys to their parents. The council canceled the run and sent everyone, except the one prospect that agreed to sanctuary, home. They sentenced the two prospects, as his mate was one as well, to receiving their age on their bare ass for every pup they assaulted to be delivered by an alpha male warrior for the male and alpha female warrior for the female once a week for fifteen weeks. They allowed me to deliver the first twenty blows to both of them before removing them from the territory and taking them home.
I requested that all the packs that they had been to be alerted of their investigation and a trial for judging ferality started as I was certain this wasn’t his first time but I was never contacted as a witness.”
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