Alpha Without a Pack...

Chapter 14

                                           Simon

She was in a lot of pain but there was nothing in plain sight that I could see other than the scrapes on her arms that would be causing such pain, which meant the reason was hidden under her robe. The trouble was that every time I moved her it seemed to cause her more pain and the thought I was hurting her worse worried me. I slowly undid the robe and pulled it off her, ignoring the fact the pretty girl was naked as I settled into doctor mode. The wound in her shoulder was deep and open but the wound in her upper thigh was what worried me, it was red and swollen and accompanied with the fever I knew there was some sort of infection involved. There were a lot of smaller wounds scattered over her body but the new wounds were not the only things I noticed, she was also covered in old and faded scars.

 "If she's a wolf then why aren't her wounds healing already?" Gavin whimpered off to the side and that's when her pained hazel eyes opened up and focused directly on my own. "Dart, toxins, won't let me, in my blood, like fire, poison." Her words were choppy as her eyes grew glassy and I fought to keep her talking. If poison was in her system then I had to help flush it out before it killed her, I took my bag from Tucker as I mixed up a solution for possible poisons and hoped for the best. She passed out again before I injected the needle into her arm and focused my attention on cleaning up the rest of her wounds. Hours went by as I worked on cleaning her cuts, bandaging her shoulder and fixing her leg up the best I could under the circumstances, then all we could do was wait.

                                             Asher

I couldn't leave the room, since Simon set her on the table I hadn't been able to keep my eyes off her. The others hadn't seen what Beck and I had, the battle ground with the dead rogues, or her house with blood soaked floors. Judging by the rogue bodies and the looks of her wounds the fight had to of happened days ago and we'd had her over for dinner where everything was fine right before then. If she was a wolf, why couldn't we smell her? How did we not know about her when she was standing inside our home? What did she want with us? Why had she come to us when she needed help? I couldn't understand any of it but we needed her answers before we could figure any of this out. 

Everyone took turns watching her as the hours ticked by, as night turned into early dawn, that was when she started to stir and she suddenly shot up and glanced at all of us wildly for a moment before recognition crossed her features and her shoulders slumped slightly. "Guess coming here wasn't such a bad idea after all, at least the poison seems to be gone." She sighed out as she flexed her joints and winced slightly as she jolted her injured leg. "You've got a lot of explaining to do Sidney Blake." Bowen rumbled out lowly as she turned to our alpha, sliding slowly off the table as she limped silently towards him.

 "Since you didn't kill me I'll answer your questions but first do you have any clothes I could borrow it might be better for everyone here if I was better dressed. Plus I haven't eaten in three days and I'm starving." She sighed out drawing attention to the fact that the only thing she had around her was her blood stained robe. "I can help with the food." Fletch said as he dashed for the kitchen and Gavin brought her some of his clothes to wear. Fletch gave her some sandwiches and bowls of soup and she scarfed them all down, she certainly ate like a wolf.

 "Thanks Puppet I appreciate it." Her tone was gentle and kind as she spoke to the youngest of our pack but that still didn't mean we could trust her. "So what do you want to know?" Her question was posed to all of us and the moment the words left her lips I found myself coming up blank on how to voice my worries for my pack and for the injured girl herself. "How about you start with answering if it was you that killed those rogues?" Beck is shaking and I'm not sure how to read his emotions, I know he's angry but there's so much more he's showing that doesn't make sense. 

"Yes Sweet Cheeks and I would do it again in a heartbeat." Her tone is cold and honest as I stare down at my hands. "You really are a wolf, aren't you?" I let the whisper leave me as my eyes met hers and once again her gaze never wavers from my own. "The sad thing is, it's taken you this long to figure that out, you guys really are a bunch of idiots." Her sigh breaks the spell of silence cast over the room as everyone starts speaking at once. She's complete Chaos but for some reason I can't help thinking that she's the one thing that we've all been missing.