Chapter 91
“Have you given her any medication?” Angela continues her interview.
“I bit in half the medication I use.”
“So approximately a quarter mil of Ativan and two mil of Zofran.”
“Yes ma’am. How did you know?”
“It’s the only scripts you have, I just never asked why.”
Madilyn has finally drank the medication Angela gave to her.
“Do you think you can stand on the scale for me?”
Angela asks as she picks Madilyn up. She shakes her head all the way to the scale but manages to stand long enough for Angela to get a weight on her before bringing her back.
“What about you, Dem? You’re about the roughest I’ve seen since med school.” I sigh deeply as I look at her.
“I guess so considering you only resigned from full time council work and came home three years ago. I don’t think you’ve been here when I’ve been hit with a wolf in need.”
“I’m sorry.”
Cole’s voice is meek again. I look beside me, catching his gaze.
“Don’t be. I’ve been on medication for this stuff since I was twelve.”
He closes his eyes and sighs heavily but says nothing else.
“When was the last time you needed to take medication?”
“A little over four years ago. Over my first six years in the warrior program I pulled two dozen wolves from their packs and reported those packs to the council. Only three of those wolves chose to join the pack; the others chose to explore other packs once they passed the psychological evaluation deeming them stable. I use low doses of Ativan and Zofran to control the nausea, stomach cramps and anxiety. I’m usually on them for about a week. I knew something was up when Red Fang’s bus first got into the territory.”
“Is that why you went out there this time?”
Lilly asks as she starts putting things together.
“Yes. Returning to your question, Angela. Ciara Symth was the last wolf four and a half years ago and medication wise, I’ve taken half mil plus what I didn’t give Lyn of Ativan and four mil plus the half of Zofran.”
Angela nods her head in understanding.
“Ciara? You’re talking about the warrior?”
“One of my best. It took her a while to get where she needed to be but yes, my top ranked female and third overall warrior is the last wolf I rescued before Cole.”
“I’ll put in an order for the quarter mil and two mil of Ativan and Zofran for Lyn. How are your symptoms? Do you want a week of something a little stronger?”
I close my eyes and take several deep breaths with my nose in Madilyn’s hair before answering her.
“I would appreciate something stronger for a week or so. It seems like what I’ve taken tonight only works when I’m decently distracted.”
“How about one mil and six mil?”
“Thank you. It seems his nightmare ran three of us over tonight.”
I can hear Cole squeak a little in the background as if he wants to say something but stops himself before he does.
I grab his hand before he can put it over his eyes, opening them briefly, catching my gaze.
“It’s part of who I am. I accepted it a long time ago.”
He takes a deep breath, letting it out slowly as if he’s working up the courage to say or do something.
“What is it Cole?”
He swallows hard as he does it again. Whatever it is, he’s super nervous about asking.
“I want to help Madilyn if you will allow it.”
“That’s why I suggested to Lilly that we allow Madilyn to lay with you a bit. When my parents finally believed my symptoms were real I was able to discover that working with those who triggered the symptoms lessened them.”
“No alpha, I’m talking about doing more than having her lay with me.”
There’s a waver in his voice. A fearful hesitation that has Lilly staring him down.
“I can’t go into details so I need to ask that you don’t ask questions.”
That statement has all of us hooked.
“Okay, I’ll try.”
“The little girls in my pack. When they come to me, they are desperate, confused, frightened and in a lot of pain.”
“That seems to explain how you knew how Madilyn’s feeling. You’ve encountered the scent enough to recognize what it is. But desperate and confused? You said they come to you of their own free will. Why would they wait so long?”
I suddenly find myself with a thousand questions and then I realize that’s why he was so nervous about this in the first place.
“Although they are older and the reason for the cramps is completely different, they still come to me with painful cramping in their abdomens.”
“I’m starting to understand why you’re hesitant to talk. Madilyn has similar cramping as the girls that come to you and your desire is to help her like you help them but helping them is how you got labeled a monster.”
He nods his head slowly as he looks fearfully at Madilyn.
“I can relieve her pain, get her muscles to relax but I need to touch her. Skin to skin.”
His voice becomes a whisper as he finishes. Ashamed of what he’s asking permission to do.
“Lilly?”
I ask with a raised eyebrow as Madilyn starts crying again.
“I’m not leaving her alone with him.”
“Of course not. I’d never ask that of you. Although I will admit that I’m not used to an audience. At least not one of three adults.” He whispers quietly.
I stand from the bed and start pacing, bouncing my sweet Madilyn gently as she cries. I thought for certain that being in the same room as Cole mixed with the medication would help her more than it has. Although my original plan was to let her sleep with him, I wasn’t prepared for him to volunteer to help her the way he claims to help the kids of his pack.
“What do you need from me in order to help her?”
I’m at a complete loss on how to help her and I feel it would be selfish not to try. I did tell Lilly that I trusted him after all.
“She’s scared and in a lot of pain. She looks to you for protection and safety. If you choose this for her you can not intervene. That’s not saying that you can’t change your mind but if you do it’s got to be early in the process otherwise the cramping becomes even worse for the little one. I am a stranger to her. I expect her to be afraid. The younger they are the more terrified they seem to be so you must let me work her through her fear without force or commands. When she calms down from her innate fears of the unknown, I will slip my hand under her gown and place it on her abdomen where the cramping is. You absolutely can lift her gown at any time and watch but the warmer she is the easier the knots come loose. There is nothing sexual about what I’m going to do or the way I will touch her and if you can handle what I’ve explained, then lay her with me. Her back to my chest.”
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