Page 200 of Rogue Alpha Prince
“I know it’s him,” I say groggily and try to clear my throat. “It’s just… he tried to kill me in that fucking form!”
“Okay, she’s back,” Beta states, and I notice the doctor watching me intently from a few feet away.
I feel Cain’s slick black fur retreating and I’m suddenly embraced by his naked human body. He pushes himself up to a sitting position on the narrow bed, and I instinctively try to catch him before he falls off it. I’m stopped by the IV stuck in my hand.
Oh, that’s why my skin is being pulled here.
“Well, this fucking form was the only thing that could help bring back your dormant wolf side, so…” Cain’s husky voice barely registers in my brain.
“What happened?” I look around the room, so confused.
All the monitors,apparently connected to my body, ultrasound machine, my favorite flowers in all colors of a rainbow, Beta sitting in the chair at my bed, and the male nurse moving around. Then I simultaneously notice the doors barely hanging on one hinge and the fact that no one is answering my completely valid question.
But my brain doesn’t work that great yet, so I point at the doors instead of grilling them first.
“Alpha went all alpha male,” Beta chuckles at his joke, which makes me crack.
And laughing makes me wince for real, so I clutch my chest. “Oh, that hurts, I need to…”
Cain's hands are instantly on me, trying to comfort me. I close my eyes and try to heal the pain’s source. I clench my fingers on Cain’s hand he put on my chest. He squeezes it back and it helps me ground myself enough to use my powers.
“Okay, how bad was it?” I move my head to the Doctor.
He exchanges a look with Cain before clearing his throat.
“Do you remember what happened to you?”
Looking for Cain, being held and kicked,bleeding, fighting, finally locking our gaze… I nod slowly.
“You were unconscious for five days, and weren’t healing because your wolf powers went dormant after, um…”
I feel so cold suddenly and don’t want to have this conversation any longer. But as much as I know what he’ll say next, I still need to know what exactly happened to my body that ended in the state I am in.
“Just say it,” I plead, but never in my life have I wanted so badly for someone to lie to me as I do right now.
“You lost your baby pup at 4 weeks and 3 days, according to your last reported menstrual period. Your uterus is… still healing. You bled for a few days, but don’t panic if you have more bleeding or spotting while, um, it tries to heal after all,” he pauses and I nod.
I do it because that’swhat I should do when someone looks at me expectantly after explaining something medical to me. Right? I’m not sure. Nothing feels natural anymore. Nothing feels right anymore. Nothing feels…
“We are not sure what happened there,” Doctor resumes and I trail off.
I think I got stabbed at some point, but before I collapsed, it already started healing on the outside. My little trick is to close the wound first to not bleed out on the battlefield. That’s why they didn’t see the wound that would match the shambles inside. I do it without thinking after years of war with the same Rogues that are taking care of me right now.
“Do you understand?” The doctor asks me a question and I nod again.
I don’t know what he was even telling me, but it’s not hard to guess he tried to tactfully explain why I can’t have more kids in this state. I should probably listen to him, I was the one who wanted to know what happened to me, but…
I can’t.
I start sobbing and Cain shoots his death glare at the Doctor. He wraps my legs around his waist and lifts me whispering to my ear to heal my hand. Next thing I know he yanks my IV out and carries me out of the infirmary to the Doctor’s objections, both of us wrapped in a blanket.
I concentrate on healing my bleeding hand because it somehow helps to numb my thoughts.
Just hand, wound, power, healing.
“Alpha!” I can see over Cain’s shoulder that the Doctor is running after us, but Beta stops him by firmly, putting his hand on Doctor’s chest.
I wrap my arms around Cain’s shoulder tighter and whisper a faint ‘thank you’ into his ear.
