The Merciless Alpha(erotica)

“Are you going to run for his spot?” When someone stepped down, the Club would vote. It would be more normal for Tiny, the Vice President, to step up.

“We’ve talked. He’s getting older as well, we all are. He’s happy as Vice President, he doesn’t want all the hassles of being in charge.”

“Well, you should get out a little more, and live a little. You’re still young and good looking, even if you have to color your hair.”

He smacked my hand away, a little miffed at the dig. “And what about you? Homeschool, graduating college at eighteen, medical school, residency, private practice, and I’ve yet to see YOU out on a date. There’s more to life than your career, young lady.”

I looked out over the road, I’d been thinking about this so much lately. I was always a prodigy, always focused on my goals, always putting my personal life last. I was always the outcast, too young for my peers in class and not interested in the same things as my age group at home. My parents had been on me as well, they wanted grandchildren and I hadn’t even found a decent guy. I let out a breath. “Fine. I’ll make you a deal. Let’s see if we can each find someone by the Jacksonville trip.” I looked over at him, the trip was always tough for him because that’s where he and Vivian fell in love. He went, but he wasn’t the same. “Two dates a month until you find someone.”

He didn’t look happy. “Two a month?”

“It’s not THAT much, there are at least two women hitting on you every time we go for a run. I’m sure you can scare up enough interest to get a date every other Friday.”

“Fine.” I smiled to myself, it was awkward enough to have to answer questions about my personal life. At least this way, I’d have someone to commiserate with.

“That’s them,” I said as I spotted the naked men in the woods next to the stretcher, where Gabriel and his men were pulling over to the side. “Let’s go meet her mate.”

Snake’s POV

I hopped out the passenger door of the ambulance, meeting Meghan at the doors in back. As soon as I had the first one open, she had grabbed her emergency medical kit and started to jog over to the men with it. I grabbed a bunch of extra scrubs and flipflops, stashed inside for situations like this where werewolves had to shift, and put them on top of the stretcher. I followed her into the woods, where the guys grabbed the clothes and pulled them on while I put the stretcher next to the man. I heard Gabriel and the others ride off, they were going to Eve to protect her.Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

He was a big guy, strong and obviously used to being outdoors and working hard. They weren’t gym muscles, they were muscles of a guy who lifted logs and did manly things. Meghan was giving him a quick head-to-toe check. “How hard did you hit his head, and with what?”

“About a four-inch branch, bloop single strength to the base of the skull,” Samsiel said. “He dropped straight off, no issues breathing, bleeding stopped in a few minutes. Pulse and respirations have been steady.”

She carefully felt around the base of his skull with her gloved fingers, finding only a bump. Moving down, she listened to his chest, then checked his arms before going down to his legs. “Man, you guys tore him up,” she said.

“It’s not as bad as it looks, it’s just that we weren’t able to clean the dirt and stuff out before he started healing,” he said.

“Yeah, this will take some time, and we’re going to have to reset these breaks because they’ve started healing wrong. Come on, load him up.” We moved him carefully, placing him face down on the stretcher. We then followed her as she walked us back to the ambulance. She hopped up, helping guide him on top of the rolling gurney before strapping him down. The straps were extra-strong nylon, and she also had nylon cuffs on his wrists to protect herself in case he started to wake up.

Using a portable ultrasound, she located the breaks and reset them. I looked away during this, the snap of bones and grinding made my stomach churn. When she was satisfied, she packed towels around to keep it from moving while she worked on the deep cuts. Using wet gauze, she soaked the wounds to remove the scabs before digging out and cleaning all the dirt and fragments that could cause infection later. I looked at the clock, she’d been at it for forty minutes already. He started to wake up as she was stitching his left calf. “Huh who? LET ME GO.” He was struggling against the straps.

“Relax, please. I’m Doctor Meghan, you’re in the back of my ambulance, and if you keep struggling you’ll tear out those stitches I just spent twenty minutes putting in.” She got down into his field of view and kept a hand on his shoulder as he relaxed. I saw him take some deep breaths, a little confused. “Yes, I’m human, and you’re not,” she said. “You took a good knock on the head, I need to assess that quickly. Can you tell me your name?”

“Adam. Adam Johnson.”

She was checking his pupils with a light. “Where do you live, Adam?”

“I’m not sure I want to tell you that until I know who you’re working with,” he said. “The guys who did this to me, I can smell them.”

I laughed a little, causing him to look over towards me. “Yeah, I don’t blame you. They’re a little overprotective of their young shewolf, just like I am.” I looked at Meghan, getting her nod to undo his cuffs. He wasn’t violent, so this would help calm him down. “My name is Snake, I’m her father.”

He looked at me funny as the straps came off. “Don’t roll over yet, Adam,” Meghan told him gently. “Your legs are not splinted or cast yet, and you don’t want me having to move the bones around again.”

He pulled his hands up and I handed him a pillow he could get a little more comfortable. “She’s my mate,” he said matter of factly.

“She told me,” I said.

“She should go home,” he said softly as his eyes closed. “I won’t stand in the way of her happiness.”

I relaxed a little, I had all these fears about what her mate would end up being like. Would he be one of these cocky, self-centered guys who would try to dominate and control her? Would he treat her as his equal, or would he see her only as a breeder, a source of power and prestige? Or would he be honest and selfless, putting her first. Adam had a good start. “She doesn’t want him,” I said.

He snorted. “His scent was all over her, his essence on her skin,” he said. “I could smell it from across the clearing, they had just sex a few hours ago.”

“She didn’t know, and she didn’t expect to meet her mate,” I said. “I shouldn’t be defending her, I’m wanting to kill the guy myself for daring to corrupt my daughter. There is more to the story, and it is a discussion she should be having with you. I talked to her earlier, she broke up with him because he took advantage of her.”

“Who went after me?”

“The Knights of the Moon, they are her protective detail and Pack.”

“Those freaks are her protection?” He closed his eyes.

“So you’ve heard of them.” He nodded. “They protected her mother, and they have protected Eve since she was a newborn until now, when as an adult she has found her mate. They will now protect you.”

“I don’t want them around, they trespassed on my lands and attacked me when I had done nothing.” I could see his fists clenching.

“They were doing what they pledged to do, Adam. Every one of them took a vow to find and protect the Promised One until she could find and mate her true mate and break the curse. It hasn’t been easy, there have been many close calls. They will be around until the curse is broken.” I sat back a little. “They are good men, I’ve known them since she was a baby. If things had gone a little differently, they would have known you were her mate and they would have helped you.”

Meghan had finished splinting his legs while we talked. “Well, Adam, we have a few choices here. I would like to bring you back to St. Paul where I can monitor you properly, and you can meet Eve and her family properly.”

“NO.” He looked at her. “Take me home, my brother and his wife will take care of me.” He gave me the address, and I went and put it in my phone. It wasn’t far away.

“Can Eve see you first?”

He shook his head. “My wolf won’t react well to that scent on her. Better I just go home.”

I called Gabriel and let him know. Ten minutes later we had our new plan. Abaddon was going to take his motorcycle and meet the ambulance at Adam’s house, after that he would go back to Silver Bay and find a place the Knights could use as a base for operations. The rest of them, Eve included, were going to go on a long run and scout out the territory around his house. “No playing Chase the Shewolf,” I warned.

“Never again,” Gabriel said. “She will remain in the center of the Pack. It will be good for her to stretch he legs out, to work with her wolf. We’ll be out a few days, Abaddon can get us if there is a problem.”

“Fine. We’ll take the ambulance back to the clubhouse, and I’ll bring my bike back up. I need to be here for her when this finally goes down.” At some point, Eve and Adam were going to have to meet and work things out.

Meghan stayed in the back with him while I pulled the ambulance back onto the road. I followed the directions until I came to the mailbox and the long driveway for his cabin. The trail was rough and it took a while for the big vehicle to make it to the end, where it opened to a nice-looking log home and detached garage, a pole barn with a tractor and a wood mill in it in the back yard. I stopped in front of the stairs, where a big male in his thirties was standing, his wife holding his waist from behind him. “We’re here,” I said.

I hopped down as the man came to the cab. “What’s going on?”

“Adam was mistaken for a threat and was injured by the Knights of the Moon,” I told him. “We patched him up but he won’t be able to walk for a few days.” They followed me around to the back as Meghan opened the door from inside.