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Chapter 10
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I watched as the Doc gave her some injections and hooked an IV up to her. My blood is boiling, trying to figure out how she got wolfsbane in her system.
“Get out!” I tell everyone but the doctor. Her mother remains, tears rolling down her face as she looks at her unconscious daughter.
“I said get out!” Shirley looks at me, startled.
“She is my daughter; you can’t tell me to leave her.”
“Until I find out how she ingested wolfsbane, no one goes near her,” I tell her, but Shirley doesn’t budge.
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“Get the fuck out of this room now!” I yell at her, forcing my Alpha Aura over her. She whimpers, turning her neck in submission before rushing out quickly, the door banging loudly as it swung closed.
I sit on the side of her bed, Doc frantically trying to hook a fluid bag up to her, his hands shaking nervously, and I drop my Aura.
“Calm down, Doc, I wasn’t talking to you,” I tell him, and I hear his heart rate slow, and his hands stop trembling; he lets out a
breath.
“How much is in her system?”
“We won’t know until her blood samples come back,” I nod at
his words.
I waited in her room, pacing, Maddox howling at his hurt mate, giving me a headache, while his anger fueled mine. He wanted someone to pay. Katya remains unconscious; her breathing and the heart rate monitor beeping steadily are the only sounds in the room besides her soft breathing.
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Doc comes in with some papers in his hand, and I could hear Shirley and Derrick arguing in the hall but pay them no attention, too focused on my mate, wanting her to wake so she could tell me herself that she was okay, wanting her beautiful eyes to open. Just that alone would be enough to stop the torment of seeing her like this.
“She has three times the lethal dose in her system,” he says, looking at the charts. His eyes darted frantically to my mate.
“She will be okay, though, right?”
Doc nods, but I could tell he wanted to say something. “What is it?”
“The amount she ingested is near impossible for someone to swallow. No one could ingest that much of that plant, Alpha; it was either in liquid or pill form. No one would be able to eat that much without passing out from the pain, not even you with your higher–than–normal pain threshold.”
“What are you saying?”
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“I’m saying someone gave it to her to hurt her, or she made concentrated levels in pill form to commit suicide.”
“Do you think she tried to kill herself? She seemed fine earlier.”
“No, that was just a suggestion; I believe someone gave her a concentrated dose; I think someone tried to kill her.”
The yelling gets louder from outside the commotion, drawing my attention back to the door. I suddenly hear skin on skin. The sound of a slap made me decide to see what was going on out there. Rushing out, I expected to see Derrick with a red mark on his face, but it shocked me when I saw Shirley. A handprint marked her face, and Derrick was glaring at her.
My blood boiled, knowing he just hit his mate. I grab him by his throat, slamming him against the wall. Mateo, I see out of the corner of my eye, comes rushing down the corridor, gripping my arm, trying to pull me off. Derick, however, was unfazed by my grabbing him, too busy glaring over my shoulder at his mate behind me.
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“Woah, settle down, Alpha,” Mateo says, his arms going around my waist like he was going to attempt to pull me off. Derrick was glaring at his mate. He shoves me off him, and I reluctantly let go with Mateo pulling on me. My entire body trembled at what Derrick had just done. Nothing justified what he just did. Well, that’s what I thought until the following words left his lips.
“You go near our daughter again; I will fucking kill you,” he spits at his mate, and Shirley backs away from him, tears rushing down her face as she shakes her head. Derrick’s face turned red with his rage.
“I fucking warned you last time over this shit,” he screams.
“Someone needs to tell me what’s going on, now,” I demand, standing between them and trying to figure out why he was angry at his mate.
“Ask her; I need a fucking smoke. Don’t let her near my daughter.” Derrick snaps. He stalks off down the hall toward the exit. Turning around, I look at Shirley. Mateo was also glaring at her, and I wanted answers. Doc watched the scene before him from the doorway. All of us were staring at Shirley questionably. Hearing a groan, Doc looks behind him, and I
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rush past him, hearing Katya was now awake.
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Doc moves toward her with water, and she clutches the glass, gulping the water down, her hands trembling. Kat sighs and lays back down when she suddenly notices everyone; her face flushes red, and she ducks her head.
“I’m so sorry, baby, I didn’t know. I didn’t know,” Shirley says, rushing over to Kat and clutching her face in her hands. She looks at her mother, confused. Mateo lets out a menacing growl, ripping Shirley away from her by the back of her shirt before I have time to. Something was not right.
“What the fuck did you do?” Mateo demands. Doc jumps out of the way as fur grows on Mateo’s arms, and he puts himself between Shirley and Kat.
Turning to Kat, I brush her cheek with the back of my hand before cupping it. “You okay, love?”
“Love?” she asks, and I realize what I just said and did and jerk my hand away from her. She shakes her head, and her brows pinched together.
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“I’m fine. Please don’t hurt my mum. She did nothing; I accidentally touched some in science,” Kat lies. I could tell not even she believed what was leaving her lips, and she was okay during detention, so she was nowhere near a science lab. She was just scared for her mother, tears springing in her eyes, and I wanted to comfort her but knew how inappropriate that may seem to her.
“No one could ingest that amount, dear. Who are you covering up for? Who gave you the wolfsbane?” Doc asks gently, patting her shoulder. Kat’s eyes dropped as she fiddled with her fingers.
“No, it was an accident, in science“–
“Stop lying, one of you better speak and the truth,” I snap, turning to glare at Shirley. Shirley looks away guiltily, and now I know why her mate slapped her.
“She needs to grow a tolerance just in case,” Shirley whispers, barely audible to even my ears. I growl, lunging at her and shoving her against the wall.
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“What did you just say?”
“She needs to build a tolerance to wolfsbane.”
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“You gave her three times the lethal dose,” I scream at her.
“Please, she didn’t do anything,” Katya says, jumping to her feet and clutching my arm. She swayed slightly, and it pissed me off that she would defend the woman that poisoned her.
“Sit down. I am done listening to your lies,” I snap at Katya, forcing my Alpha Aura out accidentally. She whimpers. Mateo grabs her as she crashes to the ground, sitting like I said.
Reaching down and grabbing her from him. “Shit, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean for that to happen,”
“Sorry, Kat,” I tell her, placing her back on the bed and tucking in the surrounding blankets.
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‘You have got to be kidding me; this all makes so much sense now,” Shirley mutters to herself behind me.
‘Get out, I will deal with you in a minute,” I tell her; she walks out, slamming the door, and a growl escapes me. Maddox presses beneath my skin, wanting to hurt her mother the way she did her daughter.
“Mateo, stay with her while I deal with her mother,”
“Yes, Alpha,” Mateo sits beside her on the edge of the bed next, Kat.
“Wait, please don’t hurt her. She meant no harm,” Katya blurts, trying to get out of bed, but Mateo pushes her back down, tucking the blankets around her and leaving his hand on her shoulder, stopping her from trying to get out of the bed.
“Please, Alpha, she wouldn’t have done it to hurt me,” She begs, but once again, I could tell not even Katya believed the words she was speaking, yet I understood, Shirley was her mother, so I knew she would still defend her even if she was intentionally trying to hurt her.
