The Beta's Alpha 2

Chapter 4-Please hang on

Stone

I am mere minutes from the Brookes territory when I see wolves patrolling the wood line and I growl out my arrival, the hair on their backs standing out as they see me, but I do not heed any warning, nor do I stop and shift as I should; I had no time they could chase me and watch me shift in the clinic.

I blaze past them and sure enough I hear their paws behind me but I am far stronger and faster and I arrive at the clinic quicker than they can, crashing through the doors, glass shattering as I blow through, nurses screaming and running as my large angry wolf bears down on them when I see my father step into my line of sight.

“Stone, I know you are full of emotions right now, but you have to be calm for her.” His words deflate me and my wolf shrinks, whimpering as he gives me back control and I shift, my father handing me some clothes. I change quickly as the guards from the woods arrive and spot me. I raise an eyebrow at them as they huff in annoyance at me before turning away and going back to their posts. “Did they really not recognize you?” I shrug.

“Don’t care.” I reply flatly as I lift my nose and try to find Raynes' scent. “Where is she?”

“This way.” He pulls me gently down the longest corridor known to any wolf. I had no idea the building was this big but all too soon he opens a door and I step in; the smell of dew and antiseptic assault me and I want to gag on it but I steel myself my eyes finally setting on her body, lying motionless, eyes closed, tubes hooked up everywhere, hell she even had a breathing tube and I fall to my knees, my father crouching down to grasp my shoulders. “She’s alive Stone, just unconscious.” My vision blurs. “Go to her son.” He whispers.

I crawl, literally crawl, me, a six-foot Beta wolf, crawls across the room to the side of her bed barely noticing the other bodies in the room as I kneel and take her hand in mine, her skin is clammy and cold. I can’t help the tears as I lay my head on the mattress next to her. “Oh dew drop I am so sorry, I should have known, I should have trusted what we had but I was a fool,” I choke on my sobs. “Please baby girl, stay with me, don’t leave me.” I sob as I hear sniffles from around me as arms wrap around my shoulders and someone runs their hands in my hair, a trick my mother always did to comfort me when I was a kid and I was upset. I lift my head to look at her. “I did this.” I whisper to her, and she kneels to be on my level.

“No, my darling boy, this is not your fault.” She says softly, tears streaming down her face.

“I may not have physically injected her, but I ran, I left her, had I just stayed, fought for her…” I clench my eyes shut and my mother hugs me to her.

“No one blames you Stone, you were hurt, confused, any wolf would have been thinking their mate had chosen another.” She whispers to me and I want to argue when she straightens herself. “Now enough of these,” she wipes my tears. “You need to be strong for her; if your bond only sends her pain and remorse she will never heal.”

“But,” I am about to say nothing will heal her but my mother shakes her head.

“No arguing Stone.” She uses the mom voice and I manage a small grin.

“Yes ma’am.” I mumble and she helps me from the floor, getting me into a chair, my hand holding Rayne’s the whole time, I refuse to let go and she smiles as I finally take stock of who is in the room with us and when I see the Alpha my heart beats faster and twists; the man looked broken. My mom places a hand on my shoulder, bending down to whisper in my ear.

“He is not quite himself Stone, he has given the pack over to your father for the meantime.” My eyes dart to her face, wide in surprise. “He is unable to perform his duties properly, he sits in that trance day in and day out, he only leaves when they force him out at night.”

“Force him out?” I ask

“Yes the clinic does not allow visitors after a certain hour.” I growl low. “Rules are rules Stone.”

“I will not leave her.” I reply. “Someone needs to advised of that and that I want another bed brought in or I am climbing in there with her.”

“Stone,” My mother warns but my father lays a hand on her shoulder.

“I’ll see to it.” I nod my thanks as he disappears and I wonder how they could force the man from the room, that was his daughter but another look at his face has me understanding easily; he looked like I did a few days ago, they are probably forcing him out for his own good. I scoff at how the tables have turned but I refrain from saying anything. I hear the door open and an unhappy nurse enters, followed by my father and I spot the grin on his face.

She looks at me. “Seems like we will have another occupant in this room from now on.” Her words are clipped and I smirk. “You could at least look humble about it.” She gripes as I stand, Rayne’s hand solidly in mine.

“Do you have a mate?” I am sure she doesn’t as she bears no mark and seems young enough to not have had one but lost him.

“N-no.” She stutters.

“Then do not presume to understand the need for me to be in this room with my mate every second of every day until she leaves; be it in a wheelchair or in a box.” I snarl and the nurse has the good grace to drop her gaze and mumble an apology before scurrying out of the room.

“Easy son.” My father places a hand on my shoulder as the doors open once more and I am ready to bark at whomever enters but when Rayne’s mother enters I deflate, she looked worse than the Alpha but she was functional.

Her eyes meet mine and tears fill them. “Stone.” My name sounds like a whispered prayer as she hurries over to me and wrap her in my free arm. “Thank you for coming back.” She sobs into my shirt.

“Ma’am,”

“Melody.” She mumbles and my eyes go wide. I glance at my mother, wondering what the hell has happened since I left and she smiles sadly.

I squeeze her tight. “Melody, I am so sorry for all of this.” She pulls back to look at me, tears wet on her cheeks as confusion settles in. “Had I not left,”

She shakes her head. “No, this is not on you Stone, it is on your brother and her father.”

“Pardon?”

“I have told that man he needed to stop treating her like she was five; she was a grown woman and we almost lost her once when he tried to control her life and now.” She rants angrily, and I want to laugh at the irony of the situation; so this is what people meant when they say see things from the other side of the fence.

“Melody?” she glances back at me. “We are both wrong; it’s not my fault for leaving, and it is not her father’s fault for believing the manipulative lies of my brother; this is all on him and I swear to you,” I lift my eyes to all those in the room. “I swear to all of you; I am going to find Jayden, and he is either taking her place in the ground or joining her in it but one way or another I will kill him.”