The Pack's Doctor by Cooper

Chapter 142

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| feel like the darkness is moving in onagain. It feels like nothing that | say to Kennedy is right. I'm trying to

be understanding, but she needs to understand that her father killed people, people that were important to the

members of this pack. You don’t just get over that, no matter how many years it's been.

| wasn’t surprised that so many of our warriors had asked to accept her as their Luna early. | was, however,

surprised to see them waiting for her when we cdownstairs. | hadn't realized that my pack members were

starting to have problems with their wolves. Or actually, that the wolves were starting to feel incompetent.

‘I would have eventually felt that way too,’ Raif says, watching the warriors talk to Kennedy. ‘Since the silver was

weak enough that we didn’t realize that’s what was impacting our ability to heal, | can understand why the

wolves were starting to second guess themselves. It would definitely put a wedge in the relationship because no

matter what you would have said, I'd have felt your disappointment, anger, or frustration that | couldn't heal

you. When you share a consciousness, you can’t hide those things.

| wait, nodding to the warriors as they walk away. My mate turns without another word and starts walking toward

the kitchen.

“Kennedy...”

She stops and turns to look at me, taking a deep breath as if steeling herself for a blow.

“I don’t want to fight either. | love you. Get sfood and have good day.”

“You too,” she says.

Kier and | send out the scouts jo start watching Jasper’s pack. | really want to know where he’s keeping this silver

powder and | love Kier’s idea to spread it around his pack. After that, he and | start working to find ways to clean

up our pack lands. While | know we can’t clean it completely until we eliminate the source, | need to have an

area that is clear for Kennedy's Luna ceremony this weekend.

That night, | had planned to let Echo run, but | could tell that Kennedy was still exhausted. | heard that several

more warriors went to see her today. I'm glad about that. While | wanted to be with my mate, to make her feel

good and to find a way to connect with her again, she was too tired, so instead, | wrapped myself around her.

She was asleep almost instantly.

The next day was much the same, except this time, Kennedy was up early with me.

“I need to order more supplies for the hospital, Quirin. | used a lot to clean up the wounds of the warriors.”

“Kennedy, I've told you that you can order whatever you need. I've told Kier to push it through. If you have any

problems with that, just letknow.”

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“Okay,” she says, but frowns.

When we get downstairs, there are more warriors waiting to apologize to her and ask if they can stay for the

weekend.

She graciously accepts their apologies and then goes about her day.

Later in the day, boxes started arriving. When | get the notification from my gate patrols, | frown.

‘Kier, did you order a bunch of stuff?’ I ask him in the mind link.

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“Did Kennedy?

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No. She ordered less than | thought she would have after treating so many warriors. But | didn’t question it.

Why? What's going on?”

There's a delivery. The gate guard said it was a large truck,’ | say, standing and heading to the front of the

packhouse.

Kier joinsand just as | see the large truck headed this way, my cell phone rings.

| quickly look at the caller ID and answer.

“Hey, Farrah

“Quirin, the first delivery of my decorations for Kennedy's Luna ceremony have just arrived. Did you get them?”

“This is a delivery of decorations? Farrah, what the hell did you buy?”

You toldthat money was not object, Quirin. | took you at our word.”

“What is all this shit?” | ask as the delivery truck backs up and the delivery guys get out, sliding the back door up

into the roof of the truck.

“Holy shit,” Kier says.

*Farrah, where am | putting all of this?”

“Put it in your conference room. You never use it anyway, since you don’t have allies except for Henry.”

| ignore her jab and watch as the guys start unloading the boxes.

The conference room?” Kier asks, having heard Farrah.

“Yeah, | sigh. “Farrah, what am | doing with all of this?”

“YOU are storing it. Luna Yara and | are going to set it all up.”

“Fine. It's here, you can check that off your to-do list.”

“Oh no, Quirin. There are two more deliveries coming. See you tomorrow!” she says in a much too cheerful tone.

Two more? What the actual fuck?

By the tafternoon warrior training comes around, | have a headache. Since my mind is still trying to figure

out how to make things better with my mate and dealing with the multiple deliveries that have arrived today, I'm

in no mood for training. However, | get another shock when we start training. My warriors are stronger. | can feel

it and when | look at Kier, | see that he can feel it too.

Raif begins purring in our mind. Our mate did this.

For the first tin a while, | have to actually focus in warrior training. He's right, the pack is getting stronger

and the only thing that’s changed is Kennedy's intervention.

When we finish warrior training. | head inside and I'm surprised to see Kennedy waiting for me.

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“Hey, can we talk for a minute?” she asks me.

“Yeah, what's up?”

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“I was wondering what you’re planning to do about the silver in the pack lands during my Luna ceremony. | don’t

want people getting hurt and each day I'm spending a lot of tscraping your patrols hands and feet to get the

silver off of them.”

“Is there still a lot?” | ask, wondering just how much silver is in my pack lands.

“No, it's becoming less, but that doesn’t mean that | want them to stop coming in. And it doesn’t mean that |

don’t want to make sure that my family and our guests don’t get silver on them while they're here. My sisters

and brothers are all underage except for Connor. Wade and Yvonne only got their wolves last year, Quirin. They

aren't strong yet and silver could cause all sorts of problems for them and for the others.”

“We won't have tto clean up the area for your Luna ceremony, Kennedy, but we will be able to lay fake grass

down. The bigger issue is going to be letting their wolves out to run. You and | have pretty much avoided the

silver when we've run...”

“I wash my hands all the time. | noticed the stinging, but didn’t think much of it until | found silver in Tommy's

wound. Now | know why my hands and feet were tender.”

“Right. I think the best thing to do is to be let them know that it’s not safe to run around the pack. They won't be

here too long so hopefully it will be okay. If the really want to run, I'll let them know that they need to see you

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immediately afterward. Does that work?”

“Yeah, that works,” she says.

“And there’s one more thing we need to discuss.”

“What's that?”

“Arlo.”

“What about him?”

“He’s done his tin the cells for disrespecting you. | don’t want anything to mar your day, Kennedy, so I'm

going to release him and tell him he needs to leave the pack lands until Monday.”

“Quirin, 1 don’t think that’s a good idea.”

“Kennedy, he’s done his time. Do you really want him here over the weekend?”

“No, it's just ...”

“Look,” | say, taking her hands. “If it wasn’t your Luna ceremony, he’d be released. He's done his time, Kennedy.

| can’t hold him indefinitely and | can’t hold him just because it's your Luna ceremony. As an Alpha, | have to be

fair. Do you understand?”

| can tell she doesn’t agree with me, and while | know that she’s much more intelligent when it comes to running

the pack hospital than | gave her credit for, I'm still the Alpha of this pack and I've been in my position for a very

long time. She may know medicine, but | know how to run a pack.

“I understand, Quirin. But I'm putting it on record that | don’t agree with you.”

“Duly noted,” | say. Then | smile at her. “Now, can we get sfood? | want to make sure we have everything

ready for your family when they arrive tomorrow and I’m going to let the pack know that anyone who wants to

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9am.”

She nods, obviously still not in agreement with me. “Okay,”

“Okay. Oh and by the way, you should see the amount of decorations that Farrah bought.”

“What? Why?”

“Because it's your Luna ceremony. Why else?” | say, taking her hand and leading her over to the food.

| have no idea what Farrah has planned, | just know that in two days, this amazing woman will officially become

the Luna of my pack and | can’t wait.