“We''ll need lighter food for the injured. You should begin making that turkey soup you! inentioned. Those recovering will need it


    and anything else you can think of that might help them to recover more easily.


    “Yes Luna.” She says just as Carlos and Noah return with supplies.


    “You must be Grace.” A deep, unfamiliar voice says from behind me. | spin around to see a man standing beside one of the


    women | sent to guard the packhouse.


    “Luna, this is...”


    | recognize him. | don’t know how, but | recognize this man. “Liam.” | finish for


    her.


    His answering smile is like the sun breaking through a cloudy day. “It’s nice to finally meet you.” He says, looking around.


    “Although | wish it were under better circumstances. Angel and | heard your call for help. | am here to assist, and | have brought


    some warriors and my doctor as well. Angel wanted toe, but she’s pregnant and | didn’t know what we were going to be


    walking into.”


    | shake my head. “Liam, thank you.” As | stare, he raises an eyebrow at me. “Are you go


    going to tell your Amazonian squad that it’s okay for my pack members toe in?” He asks dryly.


    “Of course, let them in.” | tell my pack member.


    “Where''s Eli?” Liam asks,ing in and beginning his own assessment of our injured.


    “Here. He’s been hit three times.” Liames over and looks at him, nodding.


    “Get the bullets out and the arrow and he''ll be fine. My guess is that he''ll be up and walking around before tomorrow morning.”


    | turn to look at him. “How do you know that?”


    He smiles at me. “Gifts of being mated to a Guardian.”


    He looks at me for a moment. “You''ve been avoiding us, Grace. It’s time Maial came to meet her sisters. You don’t know what it


    means to them and will mean to you until she gets her memories back. But it’s time. We’re family. Maia just needs to remember


    that.”


    Liam takes a scalpel and begins cutting into Eli’s shoulder before taking forceps.


    and reaching in to pull the bullet out. He drops it on the floor beside him.


    “Angel has an immunity to silver and therefore, now, so do I. | don’t think you have that Guardian gift, but it looks like you are


    resistant to wolfsbane.” He says nodding to my leg. “If so, Eli will have it now as well. That will help his healing.” The moment


    Liam’s doctor enters the room, Noah’s head shoots up. “Mate!”


    Her head lifts in the same way, looking at Noah in awe. “Mate.”


    “Well, fuck, | just lost my best doctor.” Liam says, working on the other bullet in Eli’s thigh.


    The adrenaline is wearing off and having Liam here feels surreal, so my response is not appropriate for the situation. “Yeah, Eli


    said we have a lot of unmated pack members and wants to set up pack gatherings between the three packs.” | tell


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    “Great idea. Rik and | have done something simr, but we’ve pretty much cleared out all of our mated pairs.”


    “lm bummed about losing Dr. Phillips. She’s great, but we have another doctor. It sounds like you need her here anyway.”


    He moves to start cutting the arrow out of Eli’s thigh. “I’m guessing this was hunters?” He says, looking at me.


    “Yes. We had a woman and her babye to our borders asking for refuge.” | look up to see Carlos. He hasn’t stopped working


    on the injured. “She was


    running from the hunters, and they must have chased her here. She’s mated to our Beta.” | say, nodding at Carlos.


    Liam nces over, lifting his nose in the air. “He smells like an Alpha to me.” He says, before tilting his head. “But, no wolf?”


    I can see Carlos flinch, having heard Liam. “He’s a great Beta, wolf or no.” | say defensively.


    “Never said he wasn''t, | just said he’s got Alpha blood.” He says as he pulls the arrow from Eli’s thigh, dropping it to the floor.


    “Okay, you''re next.” He says, standing up.


    “What?”


    He arches his eyebrow at me. “You''re a Guardian, but the arrow still needs toe out. I’m nota


    He arches his eyebl so I''ll only work on you and Eli since whatever |


    screw up, | know your body can heal.”


    -IL BONDS


    He kneels down in front of me, looking at my thigh, before taking the scalpel and slicing a cut beneath the arrowhead. | hiss as


    he pulls it out, blood dripping downll my thigh.


    “Liam, get the fuck away from my mate.” Eli’s exhausted and pained voice says.


    “Eli!” | say and drop to the floor beside him,ying over him and letting the stress of the day go. | didn’t realize how scared | was


    that | might lose him. As my tears begin to fall, his arms wrap around me, his scent enveloping me. “I’m here, baby.”


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