“Please, you can’t let him take me; I want to come home.”
“Listen, Kat, you will be fine. He won’t find out, and if he does, it’s fine. We will go rogue. I never should have given you wolfsbane. This is my fault, Kat, not yours. Anything that happens because of it we will deal with, that’s not all, though”
“What?” I ask her, worried about how this could get any worse.
“The Alpha“– She doesn’t have time to answer as the door opens and my father steps in. He glares at my mother before shaking his head, and I watch as they mind link. My mother gets and steps away from me, and keeps her distance from my father.
“Hey, pumpkin,” my dad says, sitting next to me.
“You will stay with Alpha. He will keep an eye on you,”
“But I want to come home. I can’t stay with the Alpha, dad. He will find out. He will banish us,” I tell him, and my father shakes his head.
“He won’t find out. You’re a smart girl. Even if Alpha Ezra did, he seems to be a good man. I don’t think he will care,” my father says, and my mother scoffs behind him, not agreeing.
“Get out,” He tells her, not even looking at her.
“Derrick?” my mother says, and I could see the hurt shine in her eyes.
“I said get out,” She goes to say something to him but stops; she walks over before kissing my head.
“You will be fine,” she whispers before walking out of the room.
“Please don’t hate mum; you know she wouldn’t have meant it,” I tell him.
“I warned her last time. Your mother does stupid things out of fear but hurting you should never be one of them,” he says while brushing my hair behind my ears.
“Because your mother just broke the law and nearly killed you while breaking it. She is lucky I don’t banish her, and until I am certain, she is no threat to you or any of the students at school. I don’t want her near you.”
“My mother didn’t mean it,” I told him.
“That may be true, but until I know for certain, you will stay with me,” Alpha Ezra says. I nod, knowing he already decided, and I couldn’t convince him otherwise. We waited in awkward silence. Doc wouldn’t let me leave until my drip was empty, and he took more blood, so by the time I was ready to be discharged, it was pretty late in the night.
Mateo didn’t return, which I thought he would have, and that the Alpha would have sent him back to bring me to the Packhouse. But the Alpha never left. He remained with me the entire time until they discharged me.
Grabbing my flats, I slip them on, sliding my feet into them before standing upright. Alpha Ezra watched me from the doorway while Doc checked I would not drop dead on the floor.
“She seems good to go,” He tells the Alpha, who nods before motioning for me to follow him. I do and we walk outside, the cool night breeze making me shiver as I am blasted with the frostiness of the air. Alpha Ezra shrugs off his jacket before draping it over my shoulders and leading me to his blue car.

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