Alpha Female Strikes Back

Rescued

My throat felt drier than it had ever felt in my life, as if I had dragged my body through the desert without a drop of water. I could hear a faint buzzing sound of the florescent light overhead but other than that it seemed quiet.

It was like the worst hangover a person could have, my senses seemed sensitive but my mind was too foggy to interpret all the information they were feeding me. I swallowed trying to wet my parched throat as I forced my heavy lids to open.

"I think she's waking up. Someone hurry up and get in here!" A familiar voice whisper-yelled into the quiet.

I frowned, "Where am I?" my voice sounded like someone had taken sandpaper to my voice box. My vision was a bit blurry and I blinked in quick succession to focus my vision. A female with pink hair shaped into a pixie cut stood beside my bed, tinkering with some equipment. She gave me a strained smile, "Hello...Uh... I'm Libby... the pack doctor..."

Her anxiety assaulted my senses and I gritted my teeth in annoyance, "Libby? Don't worry I'm not going to hurt you, even if I wanted too, I couldn't. I'm a little indisposed at the moment as you can see." I lift one of my hands and gesture toward my body with strain.

Her brown eyes moved over my body and she relaxed slightly. Letting out a nervous giggle, "Of course. I knew that..."

I let my eyes scan around the room, "What pack is this?"

Hopefully it wasn't any that were in league with my uncle. I felt my nerves surge at the thought but as long as they didn't know my connection to him than I'm sure I would be fine.

"Oh, uh... We're a new one. Too small really to be known of I'm sure." Libby dismisses with another round of nervous giggling.

"I see."

My uncle would never make an alliance with a pack of low standing, so for the moment it seemed I was safe. I try to push myself up but groan when a sharp pain rushes through my side.

Libby's hand is suddenly pressing me back down into the bed, "You should try to avoid movement for a little while. You sustained a lot of wounds some of which were more serious than others. Like that silver bullet and thanks to whatever strain of wolfsbane you ingested your healing abilities have been dampened. Until it's completely worked out of your system you'll have to deal with the average healing abilities of your human body."

I grit my teeth together in frustration, "Damn hunters."

I had been making good time on getting back to my pack but thanks to them I was now going to have to rethink my approach. My uncle would surely know for certain that I was coming for him and he would have time to prepare. Time that I hadn't wanted to give him.

The door to the room opened and the young girl from the clearing came rushing in her doe eyes fixating on me. I stared back at her in surprise as she cracked the biggest smile I think anyone has ever given me.

"Oh thank god you're alive!" She practically sang and all I could do was stare in light confusion.

She started to close the distance between us but was stopped when a pair of large arms attached to an even larger male wrapped around her, "Bunny! You have to stop running off like that. I'm seriously thinking of chaining you to my side..."

I recognized the voice a one of the people who had helped rescue me.

Bunny frowned and let her shoulders sag, "But I only wanted to see her." She whined.

The male placed Bunny back down on the ground turning her to face him, "Well next time just tell me before you decide to take off. I would have come with you."

"I don't need you to go everywhere with me Marky. I'm a big girl if you hadn't noticed..." She announces with a little bit more confidence.

Marky removes one of his hands and runs it through his hair, "Oh trust me... I've noticed..." He mumbles with a tone that makes me want to c***k a smile. His reaction to her made me believe that they must be mates or something.

Another male comes rushing through the door. He isn't as large as Marky. In fact he is on the leaner side of the spectrum but you can see from looking at him that he's probably a lot stronger than he appears at first glance. He is wearing an anxious expression, "I hate to be the bearer of bad news but..."

"Where is everyone?!" A raspy female voice growled loudly. Everyone in the room tensed looking around at each other and than to me.

"s**t! I thought she was out looking for Silver..." Marky cursed as he ran his hand through his hair again.

He looked like he was trying to come up with a plan as he looked around the room frantically, "Alright, Neo come with me, we will distract Vina. You two..." He points between Bunny and Libby, "Will stay here and fix her up so that she's at least presentable."

I might have been offended by that comment if I didn't feel like s**t, so I'm sure his assessment wasn't too far off.

"Marky, we shouldn't move her yet so soon after..." Libby suggests.

"I don't care, Lib. We don't have the time to worry about that." Marky points his finger than towards me, "You're going to say you are Bunny's cousin. You wanted to come see her after you heard about what happened to her brother. If anyone asks that's the story, You will say nothing about the hunters or about us being at the clearing. You hear me?" He looks at me with serious eyes.

My wolf growls in my head about someone telling me what to do but I know that I need their hospitality for a while longer at least until I'm completely healed. I nod my head.

"I hear you." I croak out.

He turned his attention to Bunny and whispers, "You be careful. Remember we don't trust people we don't know. And we don't know her." He looks like he wants to kiss her for a moment but than he turns and leaves quickly.

Neo looks us over before leaving the room rushing after Marky.

"Whose Vina exactly?" I ask curious about who could cause such a reaction out of them. She must be one hell of a wolf.

Bunny looks to me with her wide eyes, "She's one of our friends." She says before casting her gaze towards the ground submissively.

Libby rolls her eyes, "Yeah and a total pain in the ass..." She mumbles under her breath and I let out a small chuckle which makes her eyes widen. Her gaze connects with mine, "Oh, don't tell her I said that. She'd totally kick my ass. She's the beta for a reason after all..."

"Your secrets safe with me... I mean you saved my life. It's least I could do."

Libby cracks a small smile at my words. She turns away from me, "Bunny can you grab some of the spare clothes from the cabinet over there." She points to a small cabinet on the other side of the room.

Bunny happily moves across the room and starts looking through the cabinet.

"Where's your Alpha?" I ask out of curiosity as Bunny makes her way back over to me with a pair of sweat and a plain t-shirt that looks a couple sizes too large.

Libby looks back to me with a strange expression, "Oh I'm sure he's around somewhere. He has the habit of disappearing and appearing at a moments notice..." She let out a nervous laugh again as she grabbed the pile from Bunny.

I could tell that from her reaction that there was something off but I let it go.

"Let's get you up... uh..." Bunny stops mid sentence, "What's your name?" She asks in a soft whisper.

"Ace."

She smiles big again as she stretches a hand out towards me, "Let's get you up out of this bed Ace."

I take hold of her hand and allow her to pull me as I lift my body up. The pain rips through my side but I breathe through it.

Nothing could ever be as bad as those two years that I spent in captivity with Kellan and his rogues.

Once I was sitting up completely Bunny let go of my hand. I swung my legs over the edge of the bed and scoot off with one push. My bare feet hit the cold title with a jarring force that cause me to lean backward into the bed with a pained hiss.

Libby grabbed my elbow in a supporting hold, "Careful there tiger."

"Thanks." I groan out as the pain slowly subsides.

"Ace?" Libby calls my name and I look towards her as I push myself to my full height which is a head taller than her, "What’s up?"

She holds out the change of clothes towards me, "When I was taking care of your wounds I noticed you had quite a bit of scar tissue on your body..."