The Pack's Doctor by Cooper

Chapter 167 Quirin 80% It starts at the top That's what Kennedy had said to the pack and she'd looked at me, basically lettingknow that it's not just our warriors that need to change, that I need to change as well.

I've never really thought of the pack as a family, I mean, I spent enough years in Alpha Harold's pack that I probably should have, I saw the love that the pack members had for Harold and for Henry, but since I didn't have a pack at the time, I didn't take much notice. I didn't realize the value and importance of a pack being a family, Hell, I don't even recognize the value of family at all, or at least I didn't before Kennedy. Even my own mother chose to let herself wither away and die rather than be a mother to me, to be a family to me.

Of course, Kennedy's more than just family to me. She's everything to me. If she wants this pack to beca family, then we will. I don't know how to do that, but I'm sure that she does, and I'll follow her lead.

When Lane comes to ask about someone watching, Kennedy, something insidetightens. I'd expected Kennedy back by now, but I also know that she would take her tif Christy is awake and she'd also want to check on Lillian and their son.

That feeling inside my gut only gets tighter when Lane linksthat Kennedy isn't in the hospital. I immediately try to link her, opening up the link between us and I get nothing. Absolutely nothing.

I'm up and moving before I tell Lane that I'll meet him there. I quickly make my way through the packhouse. "Alpha, what's going on?" Kier asks, jogging over from where he'd been standing by the kitchen.

“I'm not sure, I can't reach Kennedy," I say as we get to the back of the packhouse. I leap off the back paand begin running to the overhang. I lift my nose in the air, searching for my mate's scent just as I hear Rowd, Kier's wolf, begin running behind me.

'I can't reach her either, Alpha, Kier says in the mind link. 'Wasn't she at the hospital?' 'Lane went to check on her and she's not there. She's been gone for a while according to Deborah' I ignore the burn of the silver from my pack lands as I hurriedly make my way to the overhang. I catch Kennedy's scent and push harder. And then, I smell him. Jasper and several of his warriors.

'What the fuck? How did he get on our pack lands?' Kier asks, as Raif snarls angrily.

We race over to where Kennedy's scent is strongest. She was sitting here, probably looking out over the world. She loves to do that. I sniff around trying to figure out how Jasper got to her, but I only smell his scent around and in front of Kennedy's.

I follow the scent to the cliff's edge and that's when I smell it. He climbed the fucking cliff. I don't know how he would have even thought to do that unless... Slater.

'ALL WARRIORS REPORT TO THE PACKHOUSE NOW!' I bellow in the mind link as I begin racing back to the packhouse.

When I get there, I shift quickly and turn to Kier. “Update the group. Split them up. I need warriors to stay here and protect our pack and others to cwith us." "Where are you going?" he asks me.

"To get reinforcements. Jasper's about to find out just what happens when someone fucks with me," I snarl and rush to my office. I grab my phone and pick it up, searching for the number that was given toyears ago. I've never once dialed this number, never thought I would, but I'm willing to beg for help if it means finding my mate. I push the button to connect the call.

"Alpha Quirin, is everything alright?" Alpha Warren answers.

1/3 11:21 Sun, 9 Mar Chapter 167 "Alpha, I need your help. It's..." He doesn't letfinish. "Whatever you need, Alpha Quirin. All you ever needed to do was ask." 80% Something twists inside me, something I don't fully understand and don't have tto figure out right now. I need to find my mate.

"Kennedy's been taken." He snarls almost as viciously as I did.

"I'll get Connor and the pack. We'll be there soon,” he growls before hanging up.

Next I call Henry as I walk back out to the main packhouse. Everyone is exuding nervous, anxious energy.

"Q what's up? It's late." "Kennedy's been taken. I need your help." I hear him moving around, probably getting out of bed. "Did you call Connor?" "I called Warren. They're coming too." "I be there as soon as possible." "Thank you," I say, hanging up.

"Listen up!" I say to the pack, and I let them know this isn't just a rescue mission. This is a seek, find, and destroy mission.

"Jasper is mine. Kill as many of his warriors as you can take out. His pack is done, effective now." "Yes, Alpha!" "Kier, pick someone to stay behind that we trust who can direct the others once they get here." "Terrance, you stay. You have a vested interested in protecting this pack right now." Kier says immediately. "Yes Beta. I won't let you down. Just bring our Luna home." "I intend to," I snarl before leaping and racing off with the assigned warriors and Kier following behind me. Jasper is already going to suffer, but if he so much as lays a finger on my mate, he will suffer for a very, very long tbefore I let him die.

Warren POV "I'm coming with you," my mate says as I rush to get ready.

"Yara..." I don't want her anywhere near whatever problems we cacross.

"Our daughter will needand so will her pack members. I will not let her down, Warren," she says in the tone that I know means it's useless to argue with her. So, instead, I wake up my son.

'Connor, your sister's been taken." "Which sister?" he asks, his groggy voice going sharp with focus.

"Kennedy. I need the pack ...' I don't get any further before I hear Bosche's howl, waking the pack for battle.

2/3 11:21 Sun, 9 Mar Chapter 167 I stop, startled that he acted so quickly.

'Where are we going?' he growls.

'Quirin's pack. They'll direct us from there,' I say.

'Meet in the packhouse. I'll see you in a minute.' My mate's soft hands cup my face. "He is his father's son. You didn't expect anything less from him, did you?" "I..." I stop, my throat getting tight. "I guess I'm still struggling with not being in charge." ☐80% +23 In my conversation with Harold, he'd toldthat it takes time. 'You don't let go of decades of being in charge overnight, he'd said. I guess I still need more time.

"Are you ready?" I ask her. Yara and I moved out of the packhouse when Connor took over as Alpha. He and Ο ΠΤ Madison needed space and he didn't needor his siblings under his feet while he started his new life. Yorick, being sixteen, had stayed on the Alpha floor in his room, but I'd moved my other children and Yara to a house on the pack lands close by. "Dad?" Wendy asks as we step out of our bedroom.

"You stay here. There's no way I'm letting you get hurt again, young lady." "What's going on?" Yana asks, coming out of her room.

"Your sister has been taken. We're going to get her back," I say.

"Dad!" Wendy begins and I know she wants to help.

"I need you to look after your brother and sisters. Connor is coming with us and I'm guessing Youck will too. If we're gone too long, go stay at the packhouse with Madison," Yara tells Wendy. "Okay, Mom, but... let us know she's okay."

"We will," she says, before we both quickly strip and shift. When we get to the packhouse, everyone is already there "Ready Dad?" Connor asks. I see Yorick is also here, ready to go find his sister. "Let's do this," I say, leaping as Arric pulls the shift and racing to find my daughter.

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