The Merciless Alpha(erotica)

Snake’s POV

We brought Eve straight to the clinic room upstairs, knowing we’d need to take care of her injuries. Once she was set on the exam table and the soiled blanket had been taken away, I kicked everyone except Michael out. We cut her shirt off and moved her bra straps so we could get at the bandages. Removing them carefully, thankful the painkillers would help keep her out, we exposed the wounds again. “Damn,” I said as I shook my head.

“The rogue surprised her, took out her shoulder as he tried to knock her down. The hip he bit when she was running from him.”

“Rabies?”

“We don’t get that,” Michael said. “I cleaned as best I could in the field and basically pulled it together.”

“I don’t like how deep these are.” I pulled out my iPhone and opened up Facetime, sending a call to Doctor Meghan. It rang for a few seconds before she appeared, she was in the back of the ambulance, I probably woke her up. “Sorry Doc, I need you to look at something.”

“I figured you’d be calling, Snake. How bad is Eve hurt?” I talked her through the injuries, changing the camera so she could see. “You got in there and cleaned it out, Michael?”

“Yes, they weren’t bad, I got the dirt out.”

“All right then, her healing will take care of this, I just want to seal the skin up so it goes faster. Here’s what you need to do.” She talked us through cleaning the area, then using superglue to hold the torn skin together. She ended the call after we put gauze over the wounds to protect them.

I covered her up with a clean sheet and blanket, kissing her forehead before I went across and sat in the chair. Being in this room brought back memories, the weeks I spent here with Vivian as Eve fought to live, born at 24 weeks she was a miracle survivor. I had held her and rocked her in this very chair eighteen years ago. Michael told me he’d check on me in a few hours, and as I settled into the chair, I quickly fell asleep.

Gabriel’s POV

I pulled into the Cracker Barrel off I-90 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. We’d been riding for five hours without a stop since leaving the motel in Rapid City this morning. We were pushing hard to get home, and we needed food and lots of it. The ambulance pulled into a back area with the RV’s and the trucks, and we parked behind it.

Our group turned heads as we came in, we normally do. Ten hulking bikers in their cuts and a beautiful young woman in the middle will do that. We got a large table and placed our orders as soon as we sat down, telling the flustered waitress we were in a hurry.

“So, what are we walking into?” I looked over at Meghan, I knew that she had been on the phone with Snake, and I knew that Eve had been attacked by a rogue on our lands in Wisconsin.

“Right now, everyone is worried about Eve’s recovery, so Snake is with her and won’t leave. She’s resting now, should heal up in a day or two,” she said. “Long term, Snake is not dealing well with all this. He doesn’t see things the way you do, he wants his daughter to date, to fall in love, to have the kind of relationship he had with Vivian. Remember, he came upon Vivian after she was raped and force mated, that kind of shifts your perspective. This whole ‘find him and you’re together forever from your first kiss’ thing is not what he wants, he doesn’t trust someone to say they are her true mate and believe it.”

“He knows how it is,” Abaddon said, “But he won’t accept it.”

Meghan nodded. “Then you add in Viper and Kelly, they don’t like this either, but they know it can happen. You have to be careful how you do all this, and not just because her human parents don’t like the idea of mating. You have to deal with Eve. She doesn’t want the fate you’re trying to give her.”

“She doesn’t have a choice in this, Luna has decreed it,” I said.

“So you have always said, but that doesn’t mean she has to believe it. Even if she does, she doesn’t have to believe it is going to happen anytime soon. She doesn’t want a mate, she wants to go to college and study art. Do you think she wants to be pulled away from everyone she’s ever known to go off and make babies with a stranger?”

“It’s her destiny, we just have to prepare her better for it.” Luckily our food came, and we ate a prodigious amount. We’d push through the rest of the trip, stopping only for gas if needed.

Eve’s POV

I woke up slowly, the light from the window in my eyes. I could smell the room, I knew I was home in the medical room my mother had created.

Mother. There’s a fun one to figure out. My birth mother, Jessica, died during the C-section, Vivian saved my life and raised me until she died, but Kelly was the one I considered my Mom. All I had of Jessica was stories my Dad would tell me, mostly of her times in Grenada with them. Vivian I had some more, including her motorcycle which had been saved for me until I was sixteen. Kelly was nothing legally, not even my grandmother; Dad told me that she considered Vivian and Jessica to be like daughters, and after they died they just took over.

On Mother’s Day, I split my thoughts three ways, but spent the day with Kelly.

I looked over at the chair, where Snake was snoring lightly as he leaned back. I started to move, checking my shoulder and hip. They hurt, but not anything like before. I saw my jacket on the exam stool in front of me, and I was able to pull it close enough to get my phone out. It had blown up with messages I started to look through. Most were sympathy or encouragement, the word of my injury having spread quickly through both clubs. I sent a quick text to my brother Andrew, letting him know I was awake since he was in high school right now. Then I texted Mom to tell her I was awake and Dad wasn’t.

It wasn’t a minute later before she came through the door, moving quickly to my side. “Eve, baby, you scared me,” she said as she pulled me into a careful hug.

“I’m all right,” I told her. “The guys, Kushiel, they got to me in time.” She looked at my bandages, worry in her eyes, her mostly grey hair probably became more so today.

“Do you need anything?”

“Bathroom,” I said. She pulled the blanket and sheet down and helped me sit up, then I put my good arm around her shoulder and she led me in to the attached bath. It was painful sitting down, but after relieving myself and washing up I felt better. “I think my pain pill wore off,” I told her.

“Let’s get you back out.”

I looked at the room, I really just wanted to go to sleep. I knew I wasn’t bleeding, I’d smell that. “Can I go back to my room? I’d like to sleep in a real bed, with my music and all.”Content © NôvelDrama.Org.

“Sure. Come on, I’ll get your stuff and find out what I can do for your pain after you’re settled.” We went out the door, Snake still snoring gently, and into the hall. I made it a dozen steps or so, then I had to stop because something tore in my hip. I sagged onto Kelly, and she was struggling a little to hold me up.

A man came out of one of the guest room, he was good looking and human from the smell. I’d seen him with my Dad at the table last night as I left. He ran towards us, concerned. “Need help?”

“I thought I could walk better than I can,” I said, a little embarrassed.

He just moved in and picked me up. “Where is she going?” Kelly walked ahead, opening the door to my room, and he carried me in.

She already had the blanket turned down on my bed, so the stranger set me gently on the edge. “Thank you,” I said softly as he stood up.

“You’re welcome, Eve. Anything you need, let me know.”

Kelly had left to go get my stuff out of the clinic room, and I blushed a little at his gaze at me. He liked me, I could see it in his eyes, smell it on him. “I don’t know your name,” I said.

“Mitch Miller, I got in yesterday. I’m fresh out of the Marine Corps, I’m a friend of Donuts. Your grandfather is letting me stay for a while, until I find a place to live.” He walked over to my desk, writing down his phone number and leaving it in my hand. “I’m just a few doors down, just text me or call if you need something without a six-man escort.”

I laughed. “You noticed.”

“I was a sniper, I can tell a protective detail when I see it. I just don’t know why. I’d hate to think a beautiful young woman like you is in danger.”

“I’m more trouble than you can handle,” I told him, and I wasn’t even kidding. “You better go, my Dad will kick your ass just for being in here with me alone.”

He just smiled. “I’m not in the club, he can’t do anything to me except kick me out. If you want to see me, you’re a big girl, just call.” He stuck out his hand, I offered mine, but instead of shaking it, he pulled my hand to his lips and gently kissed my fingers. “Rest and heal, my beautiful troublemaker,” he said just before the door opened.

Kelly walked in, she had a sandwich and chips along with milk on a tray and set it by my bed. “Thank you for the help, Mitch,” she said as he walked out. “Now, Meghan said to give you two of these. They will be back late this afternoon.” I took the pills, then brought the plate onto my lap. When I was done, Kelly stayed with me as I laid down and tried to sleep again.

My thoughts were taken by the handsome young Marine who wasn’t afraid of being with me.

Snake’s POV