The Merciless Alpha(erotica)

Once he was sutured up and stable, we pulled off the gloves and I breathed a huge sigh of relief. We transferred him to the hospital bed, and she took the monitors off. “Why not leave them on?”

“He’s bound to shift as he starts to wake up, and you don’t want a tight blood pressure cuff on when he does,” she explained. We took off our surgical gowns and tossed them, then busied ourselves cleaning up from the surgery. “You’re going to be an amazing Doctor someday, Meghan.”

I just blushed. “I was scared to death the whole time, if you weren’t talking me through I don’t know if I could have done it.”

She pulled me into a hug. “It was a lot to ask, it was more than med school students see before their second year. You kept your cool, you saved him, and I’m so proud of you. Now go out there and tell everyone that he’s going to pull through, he’ll be healed up fully in a week now that his werewolf healing can kick in.”

“Shouldn’t you do that?”

“You do it, you’re the one who saved him. Enjoy the moment, Meghan, a good save is the most fulfilling part of this job. Just change out of those blood-soaked scrubs first.” I giggled and did so, while Vivian sat down next to the bed to monitor Zephaniel.

I walked outside, Viper and Snake were waiting along with a tall, muscular man I didn’t know. Snake just gave me a hug before going into the room to see Vivian. “Zephaniel is going to be fine. He took two bullet fragments to his abdomen, both laced with silver. The fragments have been removed and there will be no permanent damage.”

The stranger looked at me, relief clear on his face. “You’re the one who helped him?” I nodded. “You’re just a child…” He knelt down so his face was closer to my level, he was a tall man, and kind of intimidating at first.

“I turn thirteen next week,” I said as I put my hands on my hips. “I’m more than I look.”

“I can see that.” He pulled me into a hug. “Thank you for saving him.”

“It’s what I want to do,” I said as I hugged him back. “I’m Meghan, I’m Hammer’s daughter.”

“I am Gabriel, President of the Knights of the Moon, and I am in your debt,” he said. “May I see him?”

“He’s still asleep and in wolf form, but you can go in. Doctor Vivian is watching him.”

“Thank you.”

Vivian’s POV

I collapsed in the chair next to the bed where Zephaniel was sleeping after surgery. It had been a long day, and all I wanted to do was take a shower and go to bed. The door opened, and Snake rushed in. “Viv,” he said as he cupped my face in his hands. “I love you.” We kissed for a bit, when he pulled back he pulled a chair over next to me. “How is he doing?”

“He’s fine,” I said. “You should have seen Meghan today. She was a huge help in the surgery, and she was damn good in the field. I had her cut into a man and remove bullet fragments on the side of the road, and she’s not even thirteen years old yet!”

“I know, I was talking to his friends downstairs. Trauma surgery by phone, they said she was cool as the back side of the pillow.”

I nodded as I thought about her. “She’s a natural, she’s going to be a far better doctor than I am when her training is done.”

There was a knock on the door and I told Gabriel to come in, I had heard him talking with Meghan outside. “Your junior doctor said he was going to be fine,” he said as he walked over to stand at the foot of the bed.

“He is, he should wake up in an hour or so,” I told him. “Can you sit with him for a little bit? I have to see how my baby is doing.”

“Of course.” We got up he took the chair. “Keep him calm if he wakes and get him to shift if you can.” I took Snake’s hand as he led me downstairs. We came out into the main bar area, where Meghan was holding court. Moose and Teri were proud as could be as their precocious daughter told the story of her evening.

I rushed over to Teri, who handed me a sleeping Eve. “She’s fine,” she said. “Ate a bottle an hour ago, has been changed, went to sleep fifteen minutes ago. I saved you the easy part.” I laughed as I held her in my arms and kissed her forehead, this was the longest we had been apart, and it wasn’t easy for me.

“Any problems with her?”

“Nothing a mom of three couldn’t handle with a little help from the Baby Whisperer there,” she said as she rolled her eyes. “I can’t calm her, I hand her to Meghan and she’s fine.”

“She did good today, I’m so proud of her.”

“Me too. If she hadn’t yelled when she did, Zephaniel would be dead. It threw the shot off just enough. Of course, if someone had told me they were friendly that would have been a big help.”

“I’m sorry, Ma’am.” I looked up, a tall and strong looking young man was standing there, his head down respectfully. “We were under orders to protect you, but when we heard about the men coming to take the Blessed One, we got a little overprotective of your daughter.” I looked at him, wondering who he was. “I’m sorry, Ma’am. My name is Maalik, I’m one of the warriors. I was at the farm with Zephaniel and Uriel over there.” He pointed to another tall, muscled man. I swear, these guys looked like the Chippendales had come to town, there were enough six-packs in the room to open a liquor store. One of the prospects handed us bottles of Leinenkugel’s.

“I’m Doctor Vivian,” I said. “What were you doing at the farm?”

“Marking the territory and patrolling to make sure no other wolves approached,” he said. “We didn’t see any signs. Mrs. Teri saw us when we had to cross the driveway and couldn’t stay in the ditches.”

I started to think about what had been said, something was bugging me. “Wait… how long have you guys known about me and Eve?”

“We’ve been here for five weeks, Blessed One.”

Five weeks. Wait. “FIVE WEEKS? And what was this Blessed One name, it’s driving me nuts.”

He looked upstairs. “Our Alpha wants to be the one who explains everyone, Doctor. As for the name, that is how you were made known to us, that you were the Blessed One who had birthed the Promised One.”

I shook my head. “I delivered her and helped her live, her mother was like a sister to me. She died during the C-section.” I still was angry at myself that I didn’t save them both, but I had been over it over and over, I had to choose and only Eve had a chance. “She was a wonderful person, she was mated to a good man who died at the Sheridan Pack trying to get blood for her.”

“Carson Patterson?”

“Yes, how did you know his name.” Snake, Viper and the others were all quiet, Carson had been one of us and we hadn’t heard anything since he went to the Pack.

“Zephaniel joined us two months ago, shortly after it happened. Apparently, the Alpha figured that needing blood meant there was a healer or doctor behind it. Carson’s name was recognized by Alpha Stanton’s mate, Denise; they used to be in the same Pack.”

“DENISE? Beta Denise?” Oh Luna…

“Yes, her mate was finally killed and that made her the next mate for Alpha Stanton, he wanted her bloodlines, thought a Beta might survive where the other Lunas hadn’t. Anyway, Denise figured out you might still be alive, that’s why they tried to do the trade.”Content held by NôvelDrama.Org.

“They beat the shit out of him, his mate felt it, it sent her into premature labor and we almost lost them both.” My gut flipped over as I thought about that day. “How did he die?”

“The Luna thought she could get the information out of him, because they used to be in the same Pack. She went in alone, and he strangled her with his leg chains. When the Beta and his men burst in, she was dead, they tore him apart as he hung there in revenge.”

The whole place was quiet. Finally, Viper stood and raised his beer. “To Carson, a fine man and wolf to the very end.”

“TO CARSON!” We all took a drink. I couldn’t help it, tears were flowing as I looked down at their daughter, swearing that she would have a better life than this.

“Zephaniel was in that Pack?” Snake was trying to figure it all out.

“Yes, he was a warrior. His younger sister, Lisandra… she just reached puberty, and the Alpha took her as his next Luna. Zephaniel couldn’t stop it, they beat him when he tried to see the Alpha. He ran, and eventually he found us.” Maalik shook his head. “Mating girls at thirteen. Sending warriors to force mate a Doctor. It makes me sick.”

I couldn’t help it, I moved forward and pulled Maalik into a hug. When I let him go, he was beaming as he looked down at a sleeping Eve. “May I?”

“Sure,” I said as I passed her over to him. “Do you have children?”

“My mate miscarried once before this started, then died in the first wave of the curse,” he said. “I left my Pack, went a little crazy. If Gabriel hadn’t found me, I’d be dead by now.”

Gabriel came down the stairs and went right to Viper; I looked at him and gestured to the room, he told me Michael was watching him. Viper walked to the center, his whistle immediately quieted the room. “All right, it’s story time. Gabriel, the floor is yours.”

He sat on a barstool in the center of the room, everyone gathered around. “My name used to be Alpha Benjamin Pearson, of the Bitterroot Pack. We weren’t a big pack, there were 43 of us, and that first year we lost four women, including my Beta Female. We didn’t have a Pack Doctor, and the one we used was killed after he couldn’t save a woman. The next year, my mate and I decided that no matter what, we wouldn’t get pregnant, it was just too risky.” He took a drink of beer. “I had her locked in a room, it was horrible. She suffered, I suffered, she begged me to relieve her and I couldn’t. Then my wolf shoved my human part aside, I opened the door and she got pregnant.”