The Pack's Doctor by Cooper

Chapter 169 Kennedy When I wake up, my head is throbbing. I'm uncomfortable and when I try to open my eyes, blood drips into them. People are yelling aroundand it's making my head hurt even worse..

'Echo' I'm here. I'm weak, but I'm here.

'Do you know where we are?' By the smell of the two arguing over us, they're Alphas, no one we know. I'm guessing this is one of their packs. One is Alpha Jasper, the Alpha who took us." "Tellthat Quirin is dead. Tellthat you didn't take his Luna and leave him alive," one of the Alphas snarls. ECHO! Echo, we have to get out of here! We have to warn Quirin!' A ball of fear knots in my gut. No matter how upset or angry I am at Quirin, I still love him. I won't let anyone kill him.

'Echo, can you shift?' I ask her.

'If it means saving our mate, I will.' I know what she's saying. She's saying that she would exhaust herself, force herself into exhausted silence to save our mate.

'I have no intention of losing you either, Echo,' I say fiercely.

"Then let's try to get to Quirin quickly. If I go silent, just know that I'll do everything in my power to get back to you! 'I love you, Echo, and so do Quirin and Raif. They won't let you go either,' I say, just as my arm is yanked by one of the Alphas. It hurts and I realize that I'm injured in more places than just my head. Echo is taking a huge risk by shifting, but we have to get out of here and I'm not fast enough on two feet.

'Don't heal me. If we get to Quirin, Mom will take care of me. Save your strength to run,' I say, just as my other arm is yanked but the second Alpha.

'Are you ready, Echo?' I say, knowing I'm going to have to push my strength into her to help her get out of here with the injuries we have.

'Yes. Ready?.... NOW!' she yells in my head.

I yank my arms out of the Alphas' grasps and leap, trusting my wolf to pull the shift. It's painful, but she lands on her paws and takes off, running hard and fast.

"GET HER!" I hear one of the Alphas say before hearing two sets of heavy Alpha paws join the warriors in the pack aroundthat have all turned to try and capture me.

I hear the howl of the hunt from one of the Alphas, I'm assuming the one whose pack this is, because suddenly, there are warriors coming from every direction trying to capture us.

I open my mind, needing to try to connect with someone, anyone, to let them know where I am. As I reach out in my mind, Echo ducks and leaps over the warriors trying to capture us. When one gets too close, she kicks them with her back paw, slicing her claws across their face.

I refocus on the area ahead of us, seeing that the patrols have collected together ready to tackle Echo when she gets too close. She quickly looks behind us and not seeing anyone close on our right side, she lowers her head and runs full-out toward the patrols. At the very last minute, she twists agilely to the side, skirting around them as they all push forward trying to tackle her.

1/4 Chapter 169 I hear their snarls of frustration as they turn and join the hunt. As we run, I'm thankful for Quirin's endurance training with Echo and I. She's stronger than she was when we moved to his pack a few weeks ago and now, that strength is helping her to run while injured.

I'm trusting Echo to know her way hand to keep us ahead of the warriors that are after us. I'm not sure how long we've been running when I feel a flicker in the mind link. I latch onto it, knowing that as soon as we're close enough, I can call for help.

I feel the person on the other end latch on to the link as well, as if both of us are desperate to make contact. Whoever it is, they must know who I am and that I was taken.

It's only a few more minutes when I feel the link snap into place and his voice booms into my mind.

'KENNEDY! 'Quirin,' I say, my voice shaking in the mind link.

I'm coming for you, Kennedy.' I hear Raif howl in the distance, and Echo turns to run toward him.

'I got away, but Echo's weak. They want to kill you, Quirin. You need to be careful,' I tell him. 'We had to make sure you knew.

'We are not so easy to kill. Hang on, my mate. Don't leave me,' Raif croons at Echo. I feel Quirin and Raif wrap themselves mentally aroundand Echo, holding on to us and giving us the strength that they can through the mind link.

I can feel Echo's strength starting to wane, the fatigue of the chloroform and the injuries starting to slow her down. But then, we see him, our fierce mate, running right toward us. Only it's not just him. I see our warriors and Henry and his pack members as well.

'Stay low,' Quirin says but now his voice is a snarly growl and I know he sees the Alphas behind me. 'Get her to Luna Yara!' he says as he leaps over Echo. Knowing that we're safe, she collapses, pulling the shift back to our human form.

I feel our pack members running past me, just close enough that I can feel their fur brush against my body. It's as if they're lettingknow that they are here and I'm safe. I have no idea who he told to taketo my mother until Beta Kier kneels down beside me.

"I've got you, Luna," he says. I hear horrible snarling and snapping behind me, but Echo has faded and I'm only moments behind her.

'Be safe,' I say in the mind link, hoping Quirin heardas Kier liftsinto his arms and begins rushingto my mother.

Quirin POV The moment I saw Echo, I felt the darkness consme. She's covered in blood, which means that Kennedy has multiple injuries that are still bleeding. She was already weak before Jasper took her, but now she's been injured and drugged and Echo isn't strong enough to heal her.

I knew when she toldthat they had to make sure I knew that Jasper and Brogan wanteddead, that Echo was putting her life at risk, at risk to save me.

'Raif!' I said, feeling panicked. I can't lose my mate and I know that Raif can't lose his. Kennedy will be devastated without her wolf.

When he wraps himself around her mind, I know it's to hold on to her. He will fight to keep her here with us. I don't care how long it takes for her to cback, as long as she does.

When I tell her to stay low, it's because I've locked eyes on Jasper. He will not get away this time. I also tell Kier to get her to Luna Yara. Her mother will help save both of my mates. She may be the only one who can. I would have preferred to have Henry take her, but I don't have a mind link with him, and I know he's ready to take on Brogan while I deal with Jasper.

2/4 Chapter 169 I don't give Jasper a second to attack. Raif barrels him over, clamping down on his back leg and snapping it before turning back to attack.

Be safe, my mate's sweet voice floats in my mind before the connection ends. I know she's unconscious, but I hold on to the link between us, needing to know that my mates are okay. Even as she's falling unconscious, she's thinking about me.

That just makes what Jasper did that much more infuriating. He almost took that from me. He tried to take my mate fromand if he thinks for one minute that he's going to killand take her, he is very, very wrong.

Raif leaps, his teeth sinking into Jasper's wolf's back. He's smart enough and we've fought enough that he drops, but Raif's teeth still sink into his fur and skin and when he yanks his head side to side, we rip a hole in Jasper's wolf's flesh.

He howls in pain, but Raif and I are relentless. The possibility of losing Kennedy and Echo is still heavy in our minds and hearts and the darkness, the fury that only my mate can abolish, surrounds me.

Raif is on him again, grabbing hold of an ear and shredding it before snapping his jaws in flesh and ripping a huge chunk out. Raif breaks one of his front legs, then slashes his back flank, our claws snagging on his bones before Raif yanks harder, dislocating his hip and pulling the bone outside of his body.

Jasper's wolf whimpers, unable to stand as Raif prowls around him, snarling and snapping, periodically biting or scratching him. Finally, his wolf pulls the shift, forcing Jasper back into his human form. He screams from the pain of it then looks at me.

"Please. Please have mercy."

Raif letspull the shift and I stand, towering over Jasper. "You tried to take what was mine. You tried to take O the only good thing that has ever happened toin my life. You tried to take the light that pushes away my darkness. But she's not here now, and there's no one who can push this darkness away, so there will no mercy."

I look at the group of warriors surrounding me. Most of Brogan's warriors are dead, but shave been left alive. “Let this be a lesson to anyone who comes for my mate. I will hunt you down and there will never be mercy. She is mine. She is my everything. Without her, you are left with this," I say, gesturing to my body that is covered in Jasper's blood like smacabre horror movie. "You are left with the monster inside me." I turn and lift my leg, snarling at Jasper before slamming my foot into his face, killing him instantly.

"Anyone else?" I snarl.

"Alpha Quirin. Your mate needs you.

We'll clean this up. Go be with your ΟΜΙ mate," Alpha Warren says, taking a step towardHexs treatinglike I'm a cornered animal and I probably seem like one. I haven't felt this level of anger and hatred since... well, not since I watched my father get murdered in front of me. And maybe not even then. "Quirin, go to Kennedy. She needs you," Henry says, watchingcarefully.

He's never seenlike this. No one has. This isengulfed in my darkness. This iswithout Kennedy's light that heals.and makeshuman. This is the person that I am without her.

"Yara's in your pack. That's where Kennedy will be. You need to go to her," Alpha Warren says.

Without a word, I shift and race hto make sure that my mate has survived. I've never truly understood how important Luna Yara's words were that no one dies in her hospital. But now, I'm trusting that she has not only saved Kennedy, but Echo as well.

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