Chapter 47
Kaiden
“How long was I out?” I ask bluntly.
“3 days my alpha” He stated. I grunted, I would be late to pick up my Luna, she would be home, wondering what the fuck I was doing. I hope they didn’t tell her I was here; it would only make her worry.
“Ugh, I’m feeling vengeful, bring me headhunter flesh.” I growled, though it had no bite.
“Alpha, is it possible to wait? …. the cattle from LemonMoon are all we keep in stock. Humans are forbidden to be treated that way, your orders.” He said clicking his pen and writing something on his clipboard.
I growled a little louder, just enough to let my staff know that I was annoyed. It isn’t even that eating human would make me heal faster, it’s just that at this moment, I just wanted their blood. I would heal faster with raw meat, that much was uncontested, but it wouldn’t be any faster if I got my way. There was also the fact that the doctor wanted the meat to be as sanitary as possible, and for it, our menu sucked… I was also shot in the stomach, but I can’t handle most human foods, so they didn’t want me to eat anything hard to digest either.
The beeping of the hospital’s beeping machines annoyed me, but also reminded me of the fact I was in a fucking bed.
Putting me here…in the hospital. I humphed at the thought.
Unfortunately, the hospital only had beef or chicken; they didn’t hold human in their fridge. They also boil the meat with only salt to try and keep down germs, and it was disgusting…. But I didn’t have a choice. I’d been shot in the gut, which also meant they needed to give me soft, easily digested, bland foods while I slept. I was healed of that already though; it was my nerves mostly that still had me in this bed for the most part…
I laid there looking at the other warriors, all shot up like me, but I was already close to healing. I would be bruised, but able to walk by the end of the day. To think all those lives would have been torn apart. All those wolves killed for nothing. It sickened me. It made me want to get up and make sure that there were none left in my woods. But with my belly full, and laying on my back, I fell asleep.
I woke up to a ruckus, “I need to see my brother!” Shelly growled; she held the middle ground with derrick. She practically lived out there, she didn’t even show up for meetings.
“Gamma Branson he’s asleep; please you don’t want to anger him.” Pleaded a nurse.
“You don’t want to anger ME!” I laughed a bit at her snarling, and she’d heard me. I could also hear her running down the hall and she hugged me with tears in her eyes. “Dumbass little boy!” she cried.
I was like her son, our parents died when I was 15, and Connor was just born. She took on the role of Luna, and Alpha, until I defeated her, when I was 18 but even then, she practically ran the pack until I knew what I was doing. She is the closest thing to a mother I have, and when I think of my late mother, I see her face instead….
“I’m ok Shells…” I whisper to her. I let her rain her tears on me, and each one making me feel like shit for making the woman that practically raised me almost my entire life cry. We sat like that until she calmed down, and she hugged me one more time, then left.
Eric came in soon after, and he sat there next to my bedside. He’d driven from Crimson Pack side after the battle, but for him to visit me Now meant that she was probably as beat up as I was for a while too… We shared a long silence, the only thing to be heard was the beeping. “I almost lost Shelly too you know.” He said breaking the silence.
“I know. I smelled her weakness.” I said not looking him in the eye. As Alpha, this plan was on Me. I’d lost a few wolves, that much I knew…. But better a few than everyone…. However, loosing Shelly would have been a major blow to not only the pack, but also to me.
“Just… just be more careful.” He said giving me a firm, but weak pat on the shoulder.
“There’s only so much we can do Eric.” I said staring at the ceiling. It still was incredibly painful to sit up, but I did to avoid showing my injury.
------Eclipse------
I waited for Alpha to come and get me with Beta, and the warriors, but he never showed up. The sun rose and fell, and I was the last of the pack to move back.
The first night I got back, I honestly felt numb, still in denial that he was coming back, but Shimmer’s whine gave me a tear. Her longing and his silence made me feel as if everyone was hiding a bitter truth that I wasn’t told…. It had been ten days….
“It’s getting late Luna, Alpha, we should go home now that everyone else is.” Said Beta calmly.
“He doesn’t want me…” I began to cry, the thought of our mate promising to return, only to leave me here, not even bothering to come or call… not even an email. It was almost as if he’d vanished…... he got what he wanted and just left. Beta tried to console me, but it was no use.
“Let’s go home, and maybe he’s just busy helping everyone get back to their lives. You know, Alpha stuff.” he said cheerfully.
I nodded, wiping my eyes while he was covered in tears. His mate looked so sad for me; she knew what I was feeling. Pack officers are always busy, and the pack comes first, but sometimes, I just want him to myself.
I got to the house, to find his wing empty his scent not fresh, and the knock from Beta’s mate Nancy echoed on the walls…
“It’ll be ok Luna.” She said sweetly at the door.
“…Why does this hurt so much?” I asked and she came in, and sat next to me on the bed.
“Because this is your first real time without your mate now that you have him and what you feel is completely normal… Yearning for him close is the one instinct that can’t be described to someone who doesn’t have their mate…. I know that feeling. As Beta, Connor would be gone for days with Alpha when we were younger, but so much peace had me almost forget… it’s going to work out… Alpha loves you.” She said rubbing my back, but it gave me no comfort. The way I felt was driven by Shimmer, but I was no better since I felt the same….
There was a little dust on some of the furniture, and his scent was barely there. I cried myself to sleep; I hated feeling like this. I really did. At first, I could rationalize it away that he’d be back soon. Now, I was confronted with loneliness, and abandonment. I KNEW that wasn’t the case, but it didn’t make anything better.
I woke up at 2pm, and didn’t bother getting ready. I just stayed in my room, and watched cheesy love movies on my laptop. He gave me this laptop; it wasn’t even a present; he just let me have it. I didn’t eat or anything. The sun went down, and I waited still in some hope that Alpha would come up the stairs with some corny joke. Our bond made me want for him, but he obviously was gone, and I felt so lonely without him.
I couldn’t even feel our connection… then I realized he might actually be dead somewhere and they didn’t want to tell me. But surely… something that terrible would have been felt? I cried myself to sleep again, Shimmer howling with me. She wasn’t as upset until I thought that… and for it I got no good sleep. My dreams were filled with hospital rooms and terrible announcements of my mate’s demise.
“I’m not telling her YOU do it!” I heard Beta yell.
“Connor if you don’t get your ass up there before I throw your ass up there you-” Shouted Gamma Branson.
“Fuck ok, damn,” he whined. He walked up the stairs. My door was open, but he didn’t come in. “I’m going to the hospital, want to come?” he rubbed the back of his neck, “Headhunters tried to overrun the town, and a lot of warriors got hurt, so come on and be an inspirational Luna.” He said jokingly, but I didn’t know anything about this. Maybe they will know where Alpha went. And my eyes grew wide, realizing that that was probably were he was!
I pushed him out the threshold of the door and put on a black dress with black leggings. I didn’t care, nothing mattered without the touch of my mate, who now I was deathly worried about. Headhunters are dangerous, and they only want Alphas and other large wolves… and I was over here sulking like a small child….
I felt… Really stupid….
The car ride was a blur, and when I got into the infirmary, cleaner was the only thing I could smell. Everyone that could, bowed and seemed genuinely happy for my safety, as well as the safety of the pack. I talked to them, and gave them hope by just visiting. I didn’t know that I held this much power, but people looked to me, and it made me want to be stronger.
I walked down the halls, and noticed the doctor that always treats Alpha. “Have you seen Alpha?” I blurt, interrupting his reading. He bowed, pointing to the last room on the right, and I almost sprint to the room.
He was there on the bed, just sleeping, and he looked peaceful. I instantly felt guilty for being so selfish, thinking that he wouldn’t want me. I didn’t know that he was out fighting for us, but as Luna I should know better than to question his plans... I should have also known better than to run wild with my wolf’s sadness …. He didn’t want us to worry; he didn’t want ME to worry! We all owed him our lives under his protection, and I ran to him. I burst into tears on his massive chest.
“Babygirl, easy on the merchandise,” he grunted smiling, sitting up and pulling me close.
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