Alexander’s POV
Charlie was covered in cuts, bruises and swellings. I’m certain she had broke something. I was willing to kill her father on the spot but hearing Charlie’s cries made me stop, my wolf just wanted to attend to her needs. Instead I threatened him, it was obvious he knew I was a wolf as he screwed his nose up at me, sniffing me, he knew I did not mean a lawyer.
As I slipped my arms carefully under Charlie’s body, I felt every little bit of pain she was feeling, I wish she was healing but the long term effects of wolfsbane meant it could take years for it to leave her system. I held her close to me and charged towards the man everyone once new as Damon Blackheart.
He did not hesitate to move out of the way as I carried my mate towards him, allowing us to pass without even challenging me. Moving down the stairs carefully I noticed how the house stank, stale beer, cigarette smoke and urine. I could not understand how my mate had put up with it for so long. Lowering her in the passenger seat, she winced and I carefully pulled the seatbelt around her.
Charlie asks me to grab her phone but I wanted to get her to a doctor as soon as possible and tell her I will get her a new one, I was slightly taken aback by the frown she gave me. I call the packs doctor giving him all the details of the injuries I could see, there was definitely more under her damaged clothes. He told me to keep her as comfortable as can be and that it might be worth grabbing her some sleeping tablets to help with the journey.
Hanging up, Charlie then begs me to not take her to a hospital and I tell her I will take her to someone the family knows, I failed to admit it would be my twin brother.
As I reversed out the driveway Damon appeared in the driveway, staring at me, his fists clenched in anger at how easily I was taking his daughter away from him, the very girl that he was using as a punchbag. Charlie’s eyes were thankfully closed, I did not want her to see him, not after all the problems he had caused her.
I turned on the radio, I noticed in the library that she had been trying to listen to her music and figured it might help relax her. I was trying to drive as fast as I could and being careful to avoid any potholes but anytime we hit an unexpected bump she would whimper and it felt like my heart was breaking. Everything she was feeling, I could feel it radiating through me. I was not sure whether it was because I had alpha blood or because she was my mate or possibly both.
Throughout the drive I knew she wasn’t asleep, she just had her eyes closed, every so often her brow wrinkled into a small frown. I tell her she doesn’t need to feel guilty and that her father did not deserve to have her as a daughter. She stares at me telling me they gave her a home. I was astonished that she felt that was a reason for why he was allowed to beat her, she would not accept that he was likely going to kill her.
Finally a small shopping centre appeared, parking up I tell her to stay inside and that I would grab some fuel and some paracetamol for her to try and help. I watch as she closes her eyes again and fuel up the jeep. I pay and then head into the pharmacy next door and grab some sleeping tablets and painkillers as well as bottle of water.
Thankfully when I get back in, she happily takes the pills I give her and chucks them back her throat. They were strong and she was out in minutes. As we hit the road again, I call ahead to my brother, we were only about an hour out now and he was certain she would still be out for the count by the time we arrived and told me to bring her straight to the pack hospital so he can get her checked out. The very idea of him looking at my mate made my skin crawl.
Charlie continues to whimper throughout the drive but she remains asleep. I had already stopped once more to lay her seat back so she was laid down, hoping she would be more comfortable, when I arrived at our pack hospital my brother was already waiting outside with a bed.
Before giving me a chance to get out the car, he was pulling open the passenger door and lifting her out on to the bed, anger raced through my veins at how brazen he was being.
My brother Max pushes the bed inside as I follow and begins checking her out, he tells me he will have to cut her clothes off as he could not risk any further injury to her by moving her too much. I was not going to leave her alone especially if she was going to be naked and I told him as much.
Max told me that he did not have time for games and that if he did not do something now the chances are a rib was going to pierce one of Charlies lungs and he ushers me out the room against my will. A nurse joins my brother and through the window I can see them cutting off her clothes.
I had to keep it together, now was not the time to try and assert my dominance over my brother, Charlie’s life was at risk. After about an hour Max walked out the room, informing me of all her injuries. Her father had really done a number on her and what was worse is that she did not even have her wolf to fight back.
He tells me that she will need to stay a few days and then she would be okay to move although she may still be unconscious as he had put her on heavy pain meds. I looked through the window, a cast surrounded her left arm, the bed sheet was folded down to her waist showing her bandaged chest and torso, under the sheet I knew there was some stitching on her legs and glue strips sat on her forehead.
At least I got her away from him in time.
Max’s POV When my parents returned without my brother, I was not surprised, he had probably found a girl to follow after, what shocked me was when my mother announced Alexander had actually found a girl he really liked- his mate. They announced that Alexander had stayed behind whilst they had been called back for some urgent pack business. He wanted to keep an eye on her as she was not yet eighteen and therefore had no clue she was his mate. No doubt he would try and rub it in my face. My mother looked at me expectantly “It will be your turn soon” I shake my head at her “You know I do not believe in being mated to someone” My parents had been trying to help us find our mates since we turned sixteen and whilst my father had given up after the hundredth time of telling him I did not believe in destined mates, my mother still hoped that one day it would happen. Why she could not just be happy that I was one of the youngest doctors ever I do not k
Charlie’s POV Pain radiated through every inch of me and I struggled to sleep, groaning every time we hit a pot hole or a bump in the road, Alexander apologised each time he heard me. I tried to sleep, instead my thoughts drifted, a part of me felt guilty for leaving my parents behind. Yes my father would beat me, but I wondered how they would cope without me, I did so much for them to ensure they stayed alive. It was like Alexander could read my thoughts “You do not need to feel guilty” I could feel him looking at me “They are cruel to you, they do not deserve you”. I finally open my eyes at his comment and frown at him “They gave me a home, they could have kicked me out” “Charlie, your father almost killed you” He pulled the car in “No he wouldn't, I would have been fine” I was fighting back the tears now, some part of me knew Alexander might be right but it did not change how I felt. His bright green eyes had a darkness to them. “If
Alexander’s POVAfter continuously nagging Max, he finally allowed me to take Charlie home after she had spent one night in the hospital, he said he would need to check on her and make sure she was healing and I didn’t care, I just wanted her to be close to me at all times. Max did protest a little suggesting that she would be better off in hospital because of the type of injuries, but that was no way to treat my future mate.Charlie would be staying in my room, I set up a pull-out bed for myself and let her have the large king sized bed to herself, plus it would minimise any movement to her and hopefully allow her to heal quicker. Max did not have a clue how long the effects of the wolfsbane would last and we were basically treating her like a human healing.She did not stir when I moved her nor did her eyes flicker open and I thoroughly enjoyed holding her close to me and feel her warmth. I prayed to the Moon Goddess and requested that she let Char
Charlie’s POV I sunk into silence as Alexander flitted in and out of the bedroom, sometimes with snacks other times just to check on me. I was lost in my own thoughts, mulling over my life with my parents. My birth mother died just before my tenth birthday and from what I know and remember, my father did not take long to remarry. Memories of my birth mother were fading and i was finding it harder and harder to remember everything about her, her scent, her fashion sense even how she looked. I'm not sure I even had a clear image of her anymore. When my father remarried, I was the last thing on his mind, I was always a burden to them and honestly I did wonder why they kept me around, they could have quite easily given me up to the system but I guess it was to always clean up after them. “Do you really think he would have killed me?” Alexander has come back in the room to find me out of bed once again. I was sat in his bay window looking out on to the lar
Charlie’s POV When I opened my eyes again, I was still in the dining room, only I was laid on the floor, with a very soft cushion under my head. A groan leaves my lips, what had happened and as I try to sit up, I am met once again with Alexander’s silky smooth voice “Steady, you should really stay laid down until the doctor can see you” “Nonsense Alexander, a good cup of tea is perfect for shock” the Queen and Alexander were standing either side of me. I blinked a few times as an image of my father came back into my head “Did he…. Did my dad…. What happened?” Alexander stared at his mother as I continued to blink away the floaters that had formed in my vision. “Oh my goodness dear, you gave us all a fright, you fell off your chair and bumped your head quite hard on the oak table” the Queen began fussing and poured a cup of tea as Alexander helped me to my feet. Glancing around the room, everything appeared to be in its correct place, including the doo
Max’s POVCharlie had still been out cold every time I had visited her to change her bandages or her fluids bag and each time I saw her, the emotions I felt were overwhelming, the sparks that flew when I touched her skin were electric, it was like we were somehow already connected but she had yet to meet me.My mother stopped by the hospital and asked if I would join them for a family dinner, letting me know that Charlie had woken and she would be joining them too. Everything inside me told me to go including my wolf Ripper, he was desperate to be near his mate, but how could we go if she was already mated to my brother?!.I politely declined my mother and she looked disappointed, I knew exactly why she wanted me to go, to show off the future Alpha and the youngest doctor as well as to show Charlie who had helped save her.Ripper was literally shouting at me and it was taking a lot to shut him up, he hated the fact I had been so against believing in
Charlie’s POV“He is locked up here?, in your house?”“Not exactly in the house, he is in the dungeons”I just did not know what to say as I stared at Alexander open mouthed. “dungeons?” I mutter quietly to myself“Well yes, all packs have some sort of dungeon” he shrugs and stands looking out of one of the bedroom windows.Alexander did not seem to understand that this was a lot of information to take in for someone that had been kept out of the loop for the last seven nearly eight years of her life.“Why can I not remember?”Alexander leans against the wall and crosses hi muscly arms across his chest “That we do not know”My head was banging and I started to feel sick, pain radiating from my lower stomach “I think I need to see the doctor”Alexander clears the room quickly and looks closely at me “Are you okay?”
Alexander’s POVI was furious, how could she have been pregnant, why did she not save her self for her future husband, for me? As soon as I found out, I left I just could not listen the information about her anymore, my future mate had not saved herself for me and had humped a stupid human being.Max tried calling me back through mind link but I had had enough of this bullshit, she must have been fucked against her will, she just didn’t seem the type to lose her virginity to anyone. My parents will be furious to find out about this and will never let me have Charlie as a mate as she is not pure, something they were big on.My fist met the bark of the large tree outside the hospital, the cracking of my knuckles told me that I had hit it hard enough to cause damage and right on cue a branch dropped to the floor right in front of me. The lashing out had done nothing to calm my nerves or my anger. I will find out who did this to her and make them suffer.