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A young woman grabs a pad of paper sitting on the counter. “Uh, the one right next door to Beta Carlos’s room.”
“Amber, come with me.” She says before turning to me. “Do we have a pack doctor?”
I look at Carlos. He’s still in a trance looking at his mate. “Carlos, do we have a pack doctor?”
That snaps him out of it. “You’re hurt.” He says before taking in the baby. “And you have a child.” He says quietly. I watch has the hope in him deflates.
It’s my incredible mate that steps in. “How about we get her settled and seen by a doctor before we jump into other discussions, okay Carlos?” She says as she guides Amber to the stairs.
“Of course. We don’t have a doctor, but we have someone with some medical training.”
“Get them for us.” Grace tells him.
“Cammy, can you make a plate of food and give it to Ell or Carlos to bring up?
“yes Luna.”
“Eli, can you help Noah unload the car? I got two computers, one for you and Carlos to share for now and one for me to use for the packhouse supply tracking and shift scheduling.”
I’m about to take the plate of food upstairs, when the howl goes up. This one I recognize immediately. Danger.
1 turn and shift as 1 jump out e door. I feel Noah shift right behind me. I hear another howl go up, before it is abruptly cut off. I head in that direction and when I get there, I see that there are 30-40 hunters with arrows and guns, firing at my pack members.
Louis snarls ferociously. How dare they come here and attack my pack. I can see multiple pack members laying on the ground, some in mid-transition, so I know the hunters are using silver. I hear the bullets whizzing by my head, but I jump into the fight without hesitation, noticing that Noah does the same.
I feel a bullet hit my shoulder as Louis’ claws rake down the body of a hunter, eviscerating him where he stands. As an arrow laced with wolfsbane hits my flank, I grab the arm of another hunter aiming an arrow at a pack member and I rip his arm from his body. The wolfsbane is slowing my movements and pack members are being taken out at an alarming rate, but those of us still standing continue to tear into the hunters.
Maia comes flying out of nowhere. She takes an arrow to her flank, but it barely phases her. I take another bullet to the thigh, the silver burning a hole into my body that Louis can’t heal.
Maia begins cutting down the hunters, ripping heads from bodies, slicing through flesh and bone. Grace may have never learned to fight, but it’s in Maia’s Guardian soul. Her skill and lethality are extraordinary.
I continue to fight, feeling my strength wane as the wolfsbane and silver try to force me to shift back. As I look around, I see many of our pack members are lying unconscious, forced to shift due to their injuries. Many aren’t healing and I can’t tell how many are dead and how many are injured, needing medical attention so they don’t die.
Thankfully there weren’t more hunters. The problem is their weapons. Without those, there wouldn’t have even been a fight. As Maia takes out the last of the hunters, I limp to her, making sure she isn’t hurt too badly. I can smell the wolfsbane on her and she’s barely using the leg where the arrow punctured.
Louis licks her face and whines at her before surrendering to the darkness.
Carlos found his mate, but she has a child? And, how about Maia showing off her
I’ve just gotten Amber into her room when I hear the howl go up. I can tell there’s been a breach in the borders. Amber immediately starts crying, holding and rocking her baby in her arms.
“Shhh, you’ll be safe here.” I tell her. “But I need to go fight.”
As soon as the words are out of my mouth, I feel pain slice through my shoulder. Eli has been hit. A feral snarl leaves my mouth and Maia takes over, pushing the shift, and rushing out the door past Carlos and another pack member I assume is the doctor.
I race out the back doors of the packhouse, sniffing the air to find out where they are. I can smell them, the hunters, 38 of them. Their scent is filled with hate and fear. I can hear the bullets and what sounds like arrows whistling through the air.
I feel another shock of pain, this time in my thigh and I know Eli has been hit again. When I get there, pack members are strewn all over the ground. Eli and what is left of the warriors are outnumbered. They are fighting hard, but it’s difficult to get to the hunters to kill them.
Maia pushes harder and jumps into the fray. She doesn’t hesitate in taking the hunters down. They came here to hurt and kill our pack members and they have hurt our mate. They will not live to see another day.
We barely take notice of the stinging pain in our thigh, but it’s the sharp pain. that comes from our other thigh that let’s me know that Eli has been hit again.. Maia continues to shred bodies until there are no more hunters standing. She stands, panting, looking to make sure they are dead when Louis comes up, licking her bloody muzzle and whining, before falling, unconscious.
I immediately shift, grabbing onto Eli, making sure he’s still alive. I lift my head up and howl out a call for help. The hunters may be dead, but the pack members lay injured and dying on the field of battle. I can’t lose Eli. I won’t.
Pack members come running and I see Carlos among them. “Do we have a pack hospital?” I ask, taking charge quickly.
“No, we’ll need to use the packhouse.” He says, as he starts checking the wolves that lay unconscious on the ground.
“Get the injured to the packhouse. We’ll set up a makeshift emergency room in the dining hall.”
Noah limps over and helps me pick up Eli to carry him back. Others come and begin carrying our injured back to the packhouse.
When we get there, I lay Eli down, looking him over, “Where is that medical student?” I ask the room at large. Someone hands me a shirt and I pull it on.
It’s Carlos that answers. “I’ll get her, but we have another person with medical experience.”
“Get both of them here, now.” He bolts out of the dining room.
“Noah, find out who is healthy enough to run patrols. Double them until we know that there aren’t more hunters coming.”
“Yes Luna.
I look around seeing several she-wolves looking for something to do to help. Who here has trained with Carlos?” I ask, knowing Eli said these she-wolves. would be better trained to fight than the warriors patrolling the borders.
The women look at each other. “All of us.” They say.
“Pick the strongest among you and set up a perimeter around the packhouse. If the hunters come back and get past our patrols, you are our second line of defense.” They start to move.
“Ladies.” I call their attention back to me. “No one gets through your line.” Maia has pushed forward, making my voice deep and dark.
“Yes Luna.”
Carlos returns with a man and a woman. “Luna, these are the medical students I told you about.”
I look at them as they take in the carnage of the battle. “We need to triage the injured and we need to treat your Alpha. We need to get the bullets and arrows out so the wolves can start healing. Eli’s been hit three times.” I look at him. Two silver bullets and one arrow.”
“Luna, do we have any medical supplies?”
I turn and look at Carlos. He shrugs. “Only what we may have at the pack hospital.” He says as Noah comes rushing back in.
“You and Noah go to the pack hospital and get scalpels, forceps, bandages, anything you can find. We’ll have to dig these bullets out and cut the arrows out.”