Max’s POV
When my parents returned without my brother, I was not surprised, he had probably found a girl to follow after, what shocked me was when my mother announced Alexander had actually found a girl he really liked- his mate. They announced that Alexander had stayed behind whilst they had been called back for some urgent pack business. He wanted to keep an eye on her as she was not yet eighteen and therefore had no clue she was his mate.
No doubt he would try and rub it in my face.
My mother looked at me expectantly “It will be your turn soon”
I shake my head at her “You know I do not believe in being mated to someone”
My parents had been trying to help us find our mates since we turned sixteen and whilst my father had given up after the hundredth time of telling him I did not believe in destined mates, my mother still hoped that one day it would happen. Why she could not just be happy that I was one of the youngest doctors ever I do not know, but she was certainly set on making sure I found my mate before I became Alpha.
Two minutes older, that’s all and I am expected to be the Alpha, to be in charge and run the huge pack known as Midnight Moon, I would quite happily just be the packs doctor for the rest of my life, well, in between my travels.
When I got the call from Alexander to say his mate was seriously hurt, I wondered what he had done to her, since he had turned sixteen there had been the odd girl end up in hospital for some reason not through intentionally hurting them, but this was different, there was pure panic in his voice, the same panic that I had heard in many peoples voices when they thought they were losing their mates.
I advise him to get her some strong sleeping tablets so she would be out cold, relaxing her muscles to allow me to see the injuries better. Alexander mind linked me to let me know when he was getting closer and I took a bed outside the hospital to wait for her. The jeep sped in and skidded to a stop in front of me and I didn’t hesitate in yanking the door open.
I was nearly knocked off my feet by her scent, the scent I had heard so many stories about, the scent I did not believe in, a fruity floral smell overwhelmed me but I couldn’t stop. I had a job to do. As I rushed her through the hallway I could not understand how she was mated to my brother when it appeared she was mated to me.
Her eyes were closed and she was relaxed as I manoeuvred her body so I could get a better look of her injuries. An overwhelming pressure to ensure she was not in pain routed itself in my stomach and I realised I would have to remove her clothes without her permission to check out all her injuries. An act that would not normally bother me but this was different, she was my mate.
I told Alexander as much and he was angry, what I failed to tell him was that I could scent her as well. Eventually he agrees and I call a nurse in to help me remove the clothing. Alexander paces outside the room and I start carefully removing her clothing.
Her skin was a dull shade of grey, her ribs jutted out whilst her abdomen was sunken. I kept my eyes trained on the task at hand, fighting the desire to look over her. The nurse and I adjusted her ribs so they were sat back in place properly and bandaged her up tightly so they wouldn’t be able to move whilst they healed. Her left arm was next, it needed realigning and once set we placed a cast around her arm to allow it to heal properly. Her legs needed some stitchesand deep claw marks sat on her ankle.
Ordering a heavy dose of pain killers I let my brother know of all her wounds, he frowned at me when I said she would need to stay in for a few days before he could take her back to the house. I wanted to say something about the mate bond but how could I?, I still did not understand how this girl could be mated to two wolves at the same time.
Alexander asks me in the evening if I could stay with Charlie as he wanted to make sure there was a room set up for her. I nod my head and watch as he kisses Charlie on the forehead and leaves me fighting the urge to attack him. Sitting in the chair by her bed, I watch her for a few minutes, her chest raising steadily up and down, showing that her breathing was normal.
I had never believed in the mate bond, I had never fooled around with a girl and truly believed I would find someone one day to fall in love with rather than being forced together through some mystical bond, yet here she was, completely unconscious and I could feel the mate bond pulling me towards her. I changed the I.V bag and reconnect it, she stirs a little but nothing more and yet I feel her calling to me.
Her skin was an odd shade of grey, lack of nutrition will do that to a person, her skin was cold to touch and I grabbed another blanket from the cupboard and wrapped it around her. A weird happy fluttering appeared in my stomach and the more I tucked it around her, the more the fluttering grew. Could I feel her happiness? It had to be impossible, she had not even met me yet and was not old enough to scent the mate bond.
I held her small hand and I felt a small squeeze from her fingers.
Charlie’s POV Pain radiated through every inch of me and I struggled to sleep, groaning every time we hit a pot hole or a bump in the road, Alexander apologised each time he heard me. I tried to sleep, instead my thoughts drifted, a part of me felt guilty for leaving my parents behind. Yes my father would beat me, but I wondered how they would cope without me, I did so much for them to ensure they stayed alive. It was like Alexander could read my thoughts “You do not need to feel guilty” I could feel him looking at me “They are cruel to you, they do not deserve you”. I finally open my eyes at his comment and frown at him “They gave me a home, they could have kicked me out” “Charlie, your father almost killed you” He pulled the car in “No he wouldn't, I would have been fine” I was fighting back the tears now, some part of me knew Alexander might be right but it did not change how I felt. His bright green eyes had a darkness to them. “If
Alexander’s POVAfter continuously nagging Max, he finally allowed me to take Charlie home after she had spent one night in the hospital, he said he would need to check on her and make sure she was healing and I didn’t care, I just wanted her to be close to me at all times. Max did protest a little suggesting that she would be better off in hospital because of the type of injuries, but that was no way to treat my future mate.Charlie would be staying in my room, I set up a pull-out bed for myself and let her have the large king sized bed to herself, plus it would minimise any movement to her and hopefully allow her to heal quicker. Max did not have a clue how long the effects of the wolfsbane would last and we were basically treating her like a human healing.She did not stir when I moved her nor did her eyes flicker open and I thoroughly enjoyed holding her close to me and feel her warmth. I prayed to the Moon Goddess and requested that she let Char
Charlie’s POV I sunk into silence as Alexander flitted in and out of the bedroom, sometimes with snacks other times just to check on me. I was lost in my own thoughts, mulling over my life with my parents. My birth mother died just before my tenth birthday and from what I know and remember, my father did not take long to remarry. Memories of my birth mother were fading and i was finding it harder and harder to remember everything about her, her scent, her fashion sense even how she looked. I'm not sure I even had a clear image of her anymore. When my father remarried, I was the last thing on his mind, I was always a burden to them and honestly I did wonder why they kept me around, they could have quite easily given me up to the system but I guess it was to always clean up after them. “Do you really think he would have killed me?” Alexander has come back in the room to find me out of bed once again. I was sat in his bay window looking out on to the lar
Charlie’s POV When I opened my eyes again, I was still in the dining room, only I was laid on the floor, with a very soft cushion under my head. A groan leaves my lips, what had happened and as I try to sit up, I am met once again with Alexander’s silky smooth voice “Steady, you should really stay laid down until the doctor can see you” “Nonsense Alexander, a good cup of tea is perfect for shock” the Queen and Alexander were standing either side of me. I blinked a few times as an image of my father came back into my head “Did he…. Did my dad…. What happened?” Alexander stared at his mother as I continued to blink away the floaters that had formed in my vision. “Oh my goodness dear, you gave us all a fright, you fell off your chair and bumped your head quite hard on the oak table” the Queen began fussing and poured a cup of tea as Alexander helped me to my feet. Glancing around the room, everything appeared to be in its correct place, including the doo
Max’s POVCharlie had still been out cold every time I had visited her to change her bandages or her fluids bag and each time I saw her, the emotions I felt were overwhelming, the sparks that flew when I touched her skin were electric, it was like we were somehow already connected but she had yet to meet me.My mother stopped by the hospital and asked if I would join them for a family dinner, letting me know that Charlie had woken and she would be joining them too. Everything inside me told me to go including my wolf Ripper, he was desperate to be near his mate, but how could we go if she was already mated to my brother?!.I politely declined my mother and she looked disappointed, I knew exactly why she wanted me to go, to show off the future Alpha and the youngest doctor as well as to show Charlie who had helped save her.Ripper was literally shouting at me and it was taking a lot to shut him up, he hated the fact I had been so against believing in
Charlie’s POV“He is locked up here?, in your house?”“Not exactly in the house, he is in the dungeons”I just did not know what to say as I stared at Alexander open mouthed. “dungeons?” I mutter quietly to myself“Well yes, all packs have some sort of dungeon” he shrugs and stands looking out of one of the bedroom windows.Alexander did not seem to understand that this was a lot of information to take in for someone that had been kept out of the loop for the last seven nearly eight years of her life.“Why can I not remember?”Alexander leans against the wall and crosses hi muscly arms across his chest “That we do not know”My head was banging and I started to feel sick, pain radiating from my lower stomach “I think I need to see the doctor”Alexander clears the room quickly and looks closely at me “Are you okay?”
Alexander’s POVI was furious, how could she have been pregnant, why did she not save her self for her future husband, for me? As soon as I found out, I left I just could not listen the information about her anymore, my future mate had not saved herself for me and had humped a stupid human being.Max tried calling me back through mind link but I had had enough of this bullshit, she must have been fucked against her will, she just didn’t seem the type to lose her virginity to anyone. My parents will be furious to find out about this and will never let me have Charlie as a mate as she is not pure, something they were big on.My fist met the bark of the large tree outside the hospital, the cracking of my knuckles told me that I had hit it hard enough to cause damage and right on cue a branch dropped to the floor right in front of me. The lashing out had done nothing to calm my nerves or my anger. I will find out who did this to her and make them suffer.
Max’s POVAlexander gawped at me, the realisation of what our mother has said settling in to his brain, “You what?” and he lunged across the floor at me but he was too slow and I had already manoeuvred myself from the seat. It seemed that he had completely missed the information that our father had shared.Charlie was an Alpha Luna hybrid, a very rare occurrence for it to happen but sometimes they would never choose a mate. The problem with that is it leaves all of us that are mated to her losing our minds if she doesn’t choose.For the first time in my life, I actually wanted a mate and I wanted Charlie but I knew Alexander will do everything he can to make sure she chooses him. Alexander stands in an attack position. “Did you not hear what they said? It is not up to us!”“I do not care, she is mine” Alexanders eyes blackened and I knew he would shift, he could rarely have a reasonable conversation in human