The Son of Red Fang by Diana Sockriter novel Chapter 239

Chapter 239

“A week later, as we laid together in bed, she told me to pack the three of us for the trip to Crimson Dawn. She wanted to bonis priday, which can se days away. She was tired of het dad and alpha holding het back from the care she needed. Something was wrong and everyone was calling her sing tans of trying to figure out the issue.

That night she woke up screaming in pain covered in blood. I ran her down to the wing but they didn’t know what was going on on they transfered for se the main hospital. They knew immediately that she had a complete placental abruption and rushed her into emergency surgery. They hold passed away before they could get our pup out.”

I pause to regroup my emotions. Even ten years later it’s difficult to talk about. I’m surprised to feel how relazed Cole is listening fit me so I carry on 16 have a point to make.

“They say when your fated mate dies that you physically feel as if half of you were ripped away. Unlike the rumor that you feel pain every time you whey a higher rank, that one is real. The moment she died I collapsed to the floor in pain. I was so delirious that they admitted me to the hospital. Kept me on painkillers and sedatives for three days. When I was finally allowed to leave the hospital, coming home to Parker was heartbreaking without his anther Even worse was finding out that my nearly nine year old son had been abandoned by his pack.

Mandy’s father refused to go to our apartment and stay with Parker when I called and told him that she was being transferred to the general hospital, When she died Alpha Mathias went to our apartment, stopped Parker as he was walking out the door to the bus and told him ‘Your mom died this morning. So did her pup. You’re out of school until your dad gets out of the hospital. Go to the dining hall for your meals otherwise I trust you know how to take one of yourself.”

Even though we had talked at length about who would stay with him when Mandy went into labor I never imagined coming home to him being all alone. No one told me that when you lose your fated mate you’re automatically placed on a 72 hour psychiatric hold. Needless to say I was lit and everyone figured out quickly to leave me alone.

I started talking to Demetri about a month later. I found out that the transition of power for his pack was in shambles and he believed it was because him and Beta Conner didn’t get along. Conner had largely abandoned the pack when Alpha Brian died and he wanted nothing to do with Demetri. Se tiny weres before Parker’s ninth birthday we went through the severance. I packed my car with clothes and memories and I headed home to Crimson Dawn.

It was a rough ride and even though it only took fifteen hours by bus to get there as a prospect, it took three days with Parker to make the same trip. It was hard listening to him cry inconsolably for hours during the ride so I broke it up into five hours before finding a hotel for the night, taking him to the park to play before getting something to eat. It was still hard and I truly questioned if this was the best move for us.

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Although I had lost the love of my life and the pack I had been in for ten years turned their back on me, I was returning to the pack I had always known. Parker, however, had truly lost everything. His mom, his sister, the only alpha he had ever known, the pack he was raised in, his friends, his school. I was born a beta but I wasn’t the beta while we were there so that was another transition he was having to go through. I couldn’t predict how busy I was going to be when I became Demetri’s beta. He was truly scared and I couldn’t fault him for it.

When we arrived at the pack house Sunday night I ended up carrying him inside. It was pouring rain and we were drenched by the time we got to the front door. Demetri was there to greet us and for reasons I will never understand, my heart was pounding from the nervousness I felt. I was filled with such doubt that I could barely speak while in front of my best friend turned alpha.

First thing he did was ask for Parker. Reached for him as if he was a two year old tot not the nine year old he was mere days away from turning. I allowed him to take Parker from me. We grew up together at the end of a war time era and more than once Demetri had saved my life. I trusted him with my life and undoubtedly the life of my son but Parker’s only interactions were with Alpha Mathias who always expected more than pups could give and more than once getting held by Mathias meant a spanking. It didn’t matter if you did something wrong before he picked you up if you showed fear he gave you something to fear.

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