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“Let them help,” I urged Brax as Garrett landed a few more shots.
I gripped the table as Brax stumbled back, snarling as blood dripped down his face.
Garrett looked tired and bloody too, but just as determined.
My heart was racing, panic filling my veins as Garrett pounced and Brax’s head smacked into a tree. The tree broke, and Garrett pressed him back, the shards of the broken stump piercing Brax’s coat.
He hissed and writhed, trying to get through, but Garrett wasn’t getting off.
“Brax!” I screamed as he tried to kick Garrett off, fighting back.
I stood from my chair, pain piercing my stomach. I sucked in a breath and clutched it as tears leaked from my eyes.
My mom rushed over. “Lorelai. Stop this. Leave the wolves to their politics,” she snapped.
I shook my head, clutching her as the throbbing ache and sharp pains attacked my stomach.
“No. He has to be okay, Mom,” I said, and pushed some of my strength through the link. I had to.
Pain filled me, and I clutched Mom tighter, forcing it on Brax.
“Brax, stop this. There’s a reason you are alpha. Your connection with the other two.
That’s the point, being able to work together.
“Do you think if Garrett takes over from you that we have a hope in beating the humans? That he’ll just fall into the fold and work with Kai and Derik? He won’t, and we’ll fall apart.
“Please, just win, however you have to. It doesn’t make you weaker, it makes you stronger,” I begged.
He snarled, tugging on all three of us, me, Derik, and Kai, accepting our strength before roaring and throwing Garrett off him.
I let out a sigh of relief, maintaining the connection despite my heart racing, my ears ringing.
Pain was covering my body, the sharpness centered in my stomach as my mother held me, patting my hair down.
She offered me some tea, and I sipped it before giving it back, the taste making my stomach swirl.
“Mom, no. What’d you do?” I demanded.
She smiled softly at me. “The wolves may be yours, sweetie, but you are mine, and I will not let you sit here in pain like this to save them.
“Not when you carry a child, and definitely not when you are pale and shivering and don’t even notice because you are too busy protecting them.
“I am your mother, Lorelai. I will protect you,” she said as my mind went foggy.
“No. I have to help,” I whispered, the strength in my body waning with my connection.
“No, sweetie. You don’t. You need them to be okay, but I need you to be okay. And they will be. So will you,” she said against my head, kissing it as my eyes fluttered closed.
I tried to keep them open, but it was too late, the darkness was edging my vision.
I had no idea if Brax was going to be okay. I had no idea whether they were going to know what my mom had done either, but I hoped when I woke up that she was right.
20. The Doctor
LORELAI
I woke to hushed voices, my body heavy, my eyelids even heavier. I fought through the fogginess in my head, wincing as it pounded a little.
My lips were dry, but my stomach no longer radiated pain through me.
“She’s awake,” Brax said, and I let out a sigh of relief that he was okay.
He connected straightaway, and I lifted my heavy arms for him. “You’re okay,” I breathed.
“Garrett is dealt with,” he said, and his lips pressed against mine.
He pulled away, and Derik took his place, kissing me softly.
“You should not have pushed yourself, beautiful. I have given your mother permission to drug you into unconsciousness if you attempt something like that again,” Derik breathed against my mouth.
I smiled weakly, then opened my eyes, meeting his intense gaze. “I didn’t mean to. I just had to get Brax to accept the strength from us.”
Kai chuckled, leaning over to kiss the top of my head. “Little Human, Brax was never in danger,” he said.
I frowned. “But he was pinned?” I asked, and Brax nodded.
“That’s how we do it. We let them run through their energy. He had just finished the heat; he was all hyped up on ego and strength from that. I just had to keep him busy until that strength faded, then I would have destroyed him,” Brax said.
I frowned harder. “But you were in pain,” I said, and he kissed my hand.
“It happens in challenges, Spitfire. It’s why I told you to hang back, but then you channeled and forced the strength on me.
“It meant I won faster and still destroyed Garrett, but I would never risk you like that.”
My lip trembled. I was so human it was humiliating. I should have trusted that he had it instead of getting involved, but the idea of him in any pain, getting hurt, was not something I could handle.
“We can’t handle you in pain either,” Derik said, answering my thoughts before he stepped back, my mother coming forward.
“Sweetie, you’re awake.” She beamed, and I nodded.
“Thanks. For being my mom,” I said.
She smiled softly at me. “Always. And never for a thanks. Now, where is this doctor?” she asked, turning to the alphas.
“He doesn’t leave his home. We have to go to him.” Derik sighed, and I frowned.
“A doctor? Where’s Cain?”
“We gave you the potion already, but your mother doesn’t want us biting you yet.
She wants you to see a doctor first.”
She nodded and turned to me. “I may be human, but you are carrying a half-wolf, half-human child. I think that needs a little more attention from a medical professional instead of a bite,” she said sternly.
Kai smirked, turning away to get some water.
“Oh. Uh, Mom…”
“The wolves already explained the situation, but I would still like to hear it from the doctor.”
She smiled, and I nodded, taking the water from Kai gratefully.
“Okay. I guess we’re going to the doctor then.”
I sighed and pulled my blankets off me. Derik was there straightaway, lifting me in his arms. I smiled and wrapped my arms around his neck.
“Here,” Mom said, and laid the blanket from home on me.
I wrapped it around me, and Kai opened the door for us to head out. Brax and Kai flanked my mom, who wore a heavy velvet cloak with a wolf pin holding it closed. I smiled at that and looked to Derik.
“You gave her a pin?”
“She is under our protection. That makes sure the wolves know it.”
“Thank you.” I smiled, kissing him.
He kissed me back, still walking as I deepened the kiss. He felt so good against me, just the kiss making me want more. I buried my fingers in his hair as his tongue slid along mine.
“Lorelai!” my mom scolded, and I pulled away.
Derik smirked and gave me a peck before I laid my head against his shoulder.
“Wolves clearly have no sense of public indecency,” my mother sighed, shaking her head.
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