The Beta's Second Chance Mate

15. Overwhelmed

Henry POV:

I shifted back and I mind-linked Alex to call the emergency right away.

“They’ll arrive in a few minutes, Alpha” he said.

I don’t have a few minutes, f**k…

I carefully lifted her and I went to the building’s counter.

Alex startled.

“Oh no, Lindsy. What happened to her?” he asked.

“We’re about to find out as soon as I make sure she’s OK.”

I looked at her and my heart was clenching painfully, what’s happening?

Suddenly, everything she tried to do didn’t matter anymore.

I can’t lose her. I needed to know she was OK and she would survive.

Her pulse was weak and she was barely breathing.

I felt someone placing a robe over my shoulder but all I could think of, all I could see was Lindsy.

Why was she in danger?

Soon, the ambulance arrived and I made sure to always stay by her side. I felt guilty.

I should have been there for her, but instead I was the one who put her there, I'm the one who locked her in the dungeon. She was probably scared and had been through the humiliation of having other wolves staring at her.

I ran my hand through my hair.

Chaos was quiet in my mind but I could feel he was in pain.

What the hell did I do?

Treating her the way I did, was it worth it after all?

Of course not, my feelings didn’t change a thing, only my heart was in pain, more than feeling guilt, I was guilty.

I was supposed to be her mate, I was supposed to treat her well, but I didn’t because I was nothing but a coward.

I was afraid of getting hurt and I ended up hurting her instead.

I felt the tears falling from my eyes.

What did I do to her?

We soon reached the Hospital.

“Hurry, place her on the bed of the ICU”, a doctor said.

“NO” my voice was louder than I expected and my disapproval was clear. They all glared at me.

“Take her to the Luna room”, I ordered, and they nodded.

I followed them.

“Alex, send me the full record of the security cameras that recorded Lindsy, including the ones from the Distributor Center”. I mind-linked him.

“Roger that, Alpha”, he replied.

“Please, Alpha, you better wait here, we will clean her”. The nurse asked me and I nodded.

After about 15 minutes, Crystal came out looking down.

“Alpha, we will need to take her to the CT scan. We need to check on her skull. I was checking on her and something got me worried there. It looks like there's a trauma. We will get the room ready and we will take her. I'll finish checking on her later”, she said, and I ran my fingers through my hair. I just couldn’t believe it.

“Can I see her?” I asked.

“Sure, please, come in”, she said, and I made my way in.

There was some medical dressing on her shoulder and the crook of her neck on both sides.

I tried to check on it, taking it off slowly and I frowned.

Did that bastard actually try to mark her?

“What happened?” I asked Crystal.

“There are some bites on her shoulders and neck, we disinfected the bites, Alpha. He couldn’t mark her at all. It looks like we have a fighter here”, she said, and things weren’t getting any better. She left to check on the CT scan room.

I was staring at every inch of her when my gaze found her wrist. She had some bruises, the bruises that I made when I held her wrist fiercely.

I held her hand and kissed the back of her hand and her wrist, slightly placing it on my forehead.

“I’m sorry”, I whispered as I just let the tears fall from my eyes.

Soon my cellphone beeped and it was Alex. He sent me the videos I asked him to but I would check them later.

Crystal came in.

“We will take her now, Alpha. It might take about 15 minutes. You can bring her clothes and we will dress her here. She’s young and her wolf hasn’t woken up yet, so it will take longer for her to heal and we’re going to check on the possible trauma she has on her skull”, she said. I just nodded in response.

“Crystal, please, make sure you always stay with her and don’t let Eva anywhere near Lindsy while I’m away”, I ordered her and she nodded.

“Yes, Alpha.”

They left with some nurses.

I went to the car and I noticed her cellphone was there.

I grabbed it and the screen was turning on all the time. I checked the messages and I started to sob. This pain was endless.

Lindsy:“Mom, are you OK?

I miss you and Leon. Why won’t you come?

How did father find out about Henry’s ceremony?

I love you”

Liliane: “Hi sweety, everything is fine.

We miss you too. Muller thought it would be better if we stayed watching over the pack.

I don’t know how he found out, sweety.

And how about you? Tell me the news

I love you”

Lindsy: “I’m so happy here.

I feel a connection with the pack.

I’m glad I’m here and I’m happy it’s by Henry’s side.

Mom, I’m falling in love with him.

I don’t know how this is possible, but I’m sure he’s my mate.

I can feel the tingles and the pull already”

Liliane:“I’m so happy for you.

Henry is such an amazing man, he will never hurt you.

You’ll be the happiest she-wolf, my darling.

I have to go now. I’ll send you some messages in the evening.

I love you”

Lindsy: “Mom, I will tell Henry how I feel about him today after my father leaves”

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I ran my fingers through my hair again. Chaos was right.

Her mother said I would never hurt her. I wish I could punch myself right now. Why was I so stupid?

I was in denial. I scrolled down to check on the unread messages.

Liliane: “Honey, are you OK? Susan and Randall called me.

They said Mueller threatened you and we’re all in danger.

What happened? Please tell me.”

I frowned, I decided to call Randall. But when I checked on my cellphone, I remember Alex sent me the videos and I checked them out.

The first was the one I'd seen but Alex told me to watch the full video and I did.

After the part I’d already watched, Mueller approached her.

“Lindsy”

“I mean it, you better do it or I’ll have you whipped again.”

I heard him saying and I frowned.

What? He whipped his own daughter?

I can’t believe it, this isn’t happening.

Then I saw Lindsy gathering the products with Mueller to sabotage the Pack.

And in the last one in the Distributor Center, Lindsy was getting everything she took and she was placing it in their places again and just then I realized what she had done.

She was tricking her father. She didn’t sabotage the Pack. She never meant to, she sabotaged her father instead.

My guilt was never ending. I was a bad mate after all.

I used to treasure the mate bond and because of what I’ve been through, I just let it skip and hurt the person that I most love in my life, my mate.

She’ll never forgive me, neither can I forgive myself.

I didn’t trust her, I didn’t stand for her when she needed me. I turned my back to her when she needed me to be there for her.

Chaos was right once again. I let others decide my own path.

If I could just listen to my instinct, Lindsy and I would be together now and she would be safe by my side.

But I f****d hurt her, I humiliated her, I locked her when she did nothing wrong.

I said I would reject her and I’ve been through that, I knew how it could hurt deep inside our heart and now she was there unconscious and broken because of me.

I drove to the Pack House whilst I just let the tears fall from my eyes.

There’s a video of the dungeon but I wanted to pack some clothes for her. I did it very quickly and drove back to the Hospital. I let Hunter taking care of the regular things in the pack.

I also wanted to call Randall.

When I reached the Hospital, Crystal and the nurses were taking Lindsy back to the Luna's room.

“So, how did it go?” I asked her and she looked down.

“Please, just tell me already” I pleaded.

“Alpha…” Crystal’s eyes were filling with tears.

“No, she…no, it can’t be”. I ran my hand through my hair as I was sobbing.

“Alpha, calm down, she’s fine, no trauma on her skull, she’ll be fine”, Crystal said, and I've never felt more relief in my life than I did at that time.

“You f*****g scared me”, I told her.

“It’s just, there’s something you need to see” she said, and they placed her back in the room.

“We had to take her shirt off to put the exam vest and…” she said with a sad face.

“What’s wrong? Spit it out already”, I told her.

“It’s better if we show you” she said, and she called a nurse. “ Please, help me.”

They straightened up Lindsy’s back and Crystal slid up her t-shirt from her back and when I looked at her back my eyes opened wider than before, she had lots of whip scars.

I swear that I felt like I was dying at that moment.

I was going to kill Mueller. I'd never let him get anywhere close to Lindsy, ever again.

“Can you tell how many years ago it had been made?” I asked the doctor.

“Well, the healing process in wolves is greater than any other beings. The first stage is the inflammatory phase, then the proliferative phase and development stage and by her age, it would have already been healed. So, I’m sure that for remain such scars, it might have been made while she was still pup, like until the age of 10, after that the development stage on wolves get better, and in a few months the scars disappear completely. Those scars will only disappear after her wolf wakes up, Alpha” Crystal explained to me.

Goddess, I felt like it was too much for a day. I was overwhelmed by so many feelings that my breath was hitching all the time.

I was supposed to protect her but I had her locked up in the f*****g dungeon.

I kept repeating it over and over again in my head; I locked my own mate in a f*****g dungeon, damn it.

I couldn’t even do it to that slut Stacy, but I did it to the woman I was supposed to love and protect, the one that never intended to do anything bad. She wanted to be loved, to be special and I hurt her instead and pushed her away while she was always there around me, waiting for something to happen between us, for any signal maybe, but I let my fears taking me over.

“Henry, I don’t think she’s ready to face you when she wakes up, so when she does, I want to be the one to stand by her side. I promise I’ll make her feel better”, Chaos told me, and I agreed.

It was the least I could do after everything I did to her.

I was gulping hard and there was a bitter taste in my mouth. The doctor and the nurses left the room and I was alone with Lindsy.

I held her hand and kissed her forehead.

“Lindsy, I hope you’re listening to me. Forgive me for everything I made you go through, forgive me for saying that I was going to reject you and for also saying that I was going to take you back to be with that horrible man. Listen to me, I will spend the rest of my life making up for it. I will protect you and pamper you every single day for the rest of our eternity”, I told her, and kissed her hand. I stayed in the same position for a few minutes.

Until I decided to check on the dungeon security camera’s video and I saw Hans coming in, he went in right at the moment when the wolves changed their turn. How could he possibly know something like that?

Then he entered Lindsy’s cell and she was so freaked out that watching it made me overwhelmed, more than I was.

She was trying to get out of the cell over and over again, she fought for her life when she wasn’t even supposed to be there.

“Henry, please…” she called to me.

"I'm so sorry" I whispered, sobbing while watching this horrible footage.

“Damn Lindsy, it would be so much easier if you just obeyed your father.”

“You’re never going to sabotage this pack. These wolves are way better than you and my father will ever be. It would be so much easier if both of you just understood that. I will always protect this pack, you will never and ever going to do anything against it.”

He f*****g kicked her while she was laid on the floor in pain. My chest growled.

“You know what, I’m going to mark you and I’m going to use you as my s*x toy because that’s the only thing you’ll be worth being at.”

Then Chaos approached and f*****g killed this motherfucker.

I was speechless. I was going to call Randall but I didn’t feel like it right at that moment.

I just want to be with my mate right now.

I can’t fail her ever again.