Chapter 26
DECLAN
It’s been over a week of hell, pulling all-nighters and most of my hair out. At one point, I almost had a
heart attack when one of my warriors found a dead she wolf in the next town over, only to find out that it
was some rogue. Not to sound insensitive, but I thanked the Goddess that it wasn’t Quinn.
Gavin has been helping in the search for Quinn as well. Working side by side with him isn’t really what I
want to be doing, but if it will help bring Quinn home, then I’ll deal with him. He seems to actually care
for her, which is very surprising, but it’s not like it makes a difference on how I feel about him being
around Quinn. He still has a damaging past, and I don’t want our young Alpha anywhere near that, or
him.
“Has anyone been watching the Desert Sand pack?” Gavin asks.
I’m in the middle of going through video feed that I happened to get from all the surrounding towns that
had video from the day of L’s Luna Ceremony. We haven’t had any luck anywhere. It’s not like she
could just disappear off the face of the earth, right?
I scrub my hand down my face as I sit back in my office chair, “Yes, it’s the first ce that I sent my
men. I have a few scoping out that pack and a few other unsavory packs.”
“Good, good.” It’s all my cousin says for now as he goes back to watching his portion of the video feed.
After about ten minutes, Gavin suddenly jumps up. “That Luna ***of yours has to know something! I’m
going to go get it out of her!” He marches for the door, but I stop him.
“You will do no such thing! You got away with backhanding her once, but you forget that she is carrying
my pup and heir. As much as we both want to strangle her, we still have to be careful.” I lecture. It’s
true, though, I feel the same way he does, and we may be wrong, but how are we supposed to know if
we can’t torture it out of her? I’ve used my Alpha aura on her, but now that she’s my Luna, she can fight
it.
“There are other ways to torture a woman without hurting her pup, cousin.” Gavin states cynically
“We will do no such thing, Gavin!” I growl. “That is not how we treat women in my pack, whether they
are guilty or not. Unless it is consensual, there will be none of that kind of abuse.”
Gavin rolls his eyes, “You are too soft, Den! It’s probably why, Quinn got taken under your watch.’
He mumbles under his breath, but I hear him in as day.
In seconds, I have my cousin pinned against the wall by his throat, both my ws and my fangs are out
as Duke lurks near the surface, “You want to try saying that a little louder? That way, others will hear
you and I will be justified in beating your pathetic *****!” i sneer, my fangs dripping with saliva.
*Calm down. Den. I apologize, I was way out of line.” I re at him a moment longer before
releasing him.
Turning back to my desk, i mind link my Beta and Head Warrior, Keenan, toe to my office right
away. ncing over my shoulder, 1 address my cousin, “I’ll be sending a few of my best men out to
meet with the Alphas of these packs. If they are hiding something, it will be known.”
“Okay, and what…?”
“Well, Gavin, if you want to help, then we are going to need some more warriors to go with in case
there is an attack. Do you think you can handle rounding up some more men?” I ask sarcastically.
Sometimes I wonder how we became rted. I’m thinking Aunt Sara dropped him on his head one too
many times as a pup.
There is a knock on my door, so I call out for whoever it is to enter. My mom pops her head through the
door. “Hey, I hate to bother you, but I thought I had better remind you that L’s doctor’s appointment is
this afternoon.”
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“And?” I raise a brow at her.
“I thought you would want to go and talk to the doctor in case you had any questions.”
pinch the bridge of my nose, “***, I can’t pause what I’m doing, Mother. Quinn needs us.”
My mom has concern in her eyes when I mention Quinn’s name, but she is still persistent. “I know,
Den, but your pup needs you too.”
I sigh, knowing that she’s right, but my pup isn’t in immediate danger. Knowing my mother though, she
will not let up on this. ***L and this whole pregnancy ***!
“Fine! I will go, but I swear to Goddess, if I miss something and it has an effect on getting Quinn back,
both you and L will go live together on the outskirts of town!” I threaten.
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She rolls her eyes at me. “Don’t be so dramatic, son.”
“Dramatic?” i stand and let out my aura on my own mother, “I understand that this is your grand pup,
but I thought you had thought of Quinn as your own daughter? How can you think light of her
kidnapping?”
*Please, Den… My mother’s neck is down and bared to me.
I pull my aura back instantly. “I’m sorry, Mother. I’m just worried for Quinn. We don’t know what is
happening to her!”
* know this! I’m sorry if I sound like I don’t care, but in actuality, I’m frightened for our poor girl. I’m only
trying to keep myself from going insane by continuing with the everyday tasks.” She ***.
I go to her and wrap my arms around her, “We are going to get her back, Mom. I don’t care if we have
to tear every pack from here to the coastline down, we will bring her home.” I rub her back as I console
her, “Let me update my Beta and Head Warrior with my ns and then I’ Il take L over to see the
doctor.”
“I’m sorry, you’re right. You shouldn’t be bothered with doctor stuff right now. I can take her.” My mom
sniffs back her runny nose.
“No. It’s my responsibility, so I will do it. It shouldn’t take all too long.”
“Alright, if you say so.” She looks up at me.
“I do. Now, go and tell her to get ready and I wille get her.” I kiss my mother’s forehead before
releasing her and watching her leave the room.
“You’re getting soft, Den.” My cousin thinks he needs to put his two cents in, “I wouldn’t have caved.
The she-***let herself get pregnant, so you shouldn’t have to worry yourself with this trivial ****.”
“Really, Gav? Why do you have to be such a ***?” He doesn’t answer because Carter and Keenan
show up just as I ask him.
“Alpha, you wanted to see us?” Keenan asks.
“Yes,e in,” I wait for them to find a seat and sit down, “I’ll be sending our best men in to meet with
each of the Alpha’s that we have been watching. Just because we haven’t seen her, doesn’t mean she
isn’t locked away somewhere.”
“What are we supposed to do if they deny having her?” Carter asks.
“it’s going to be your job to decipher whether or not they are telling the truth. It shouldn’t be too hard.
Once you find out who has her, then I wille and meet you, and we will go in together.”
“Okay, but there is only one pack that I would pay close attention to, and I think we all know which one
that is.” Carter states.
“Desert Sand, we all say in Unison.”
“I will get my father to see about sending a team to the two packs closest to us.” Gavin informs us, and
I nod.
“Thank you.” It leaves a sour taste in my mouth, but I am grateful for his help in this. I turn back to my
Beta. “Carter, rally up the groups we want to send, and I will meet with all of you before you head out. I
have a **doctor’s appointment to go to.” I growl.
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L sits beside me at the clinic, happy as can be with one hand on her stomach and the other one
itching for me to take, but I don’t. In fact, I move it farther away. What’s it going to take for this she-wolf
to understand that we are not the typical mated couple? I will never be with her intimately again, and
yet she has such high hopes no matter how badly I treat her.
“Alpha Den and Luna L.” The nurse calls out our names and everyone turns our way.
L jumps up and hurries over to the nurse, smiling broadly, “Oh, I can’t wait to hear the heartbeat
today!” the nurse smiles back warmly as she waits for me to catch up because I’m dragging my feet as
much as I can.
As soon as we get into the examination room, the nurse begins to ask L a bunch of questions about
her health and her diet. I’m *** bored all ready. It isn’t until the doctores in when I start to perk up a
little, not that I’m excited, but maybe I’m hoping he will say he made a mistake, and that L isn’t
pregnant.
“L, how are you? How’s the pup?” He smiles warmly at my Luna.
“I’m doing great, Peter, and the pup is doing just as well. I’ve had no issues as of yet.” The Luna smiles
brightly.
I watch the exchange between the two, finding it weird that they are on a first name basis, but then Dr.
Langly turns to me.
* Alpha, I bet you’re excited to have an heir, aren’t you?” He says, but his smile towards me doesn’t
look as genuine as it does when he talks to L.
“What Alpha wouldn’t be excited about having an heir? i’d be more excited if I were having a pup with
my own mate, though.” I re at L,
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but it doesn’t seem to faze her.
My phone pings with an iing text and so l pull it out and look at my message. I haven’t even left
the room, and the doctor is asking L if she feels safe living at the pack house and wanting to know if
she is abused.
“Oh, I’m perfectly fine living with the Alpha. It’s true that he is always busy and tends to neglect his new
Luna, but I’m not being abused.” She grins and actually bats her ***eyes at the doctor.
Un-***-believable! I’m sitting right here and this she-*, who is carrying my pup, is ***flirting with the
doctor! I couldn’t care less who she flirts with when she isn’t in my presence or carrying my pup, but I’ll
be *** if I allow her to make a fool out of me like this.
I clear my throat, “Unless you want to find another job in another pack, Dr. Langly, I suggest you stop
enabling the Luna to flirt with you. You are not the first for her and will never be thest, because a *”
The good doctor does not like the words I use about his patient, and I don’t give a **, “We are here for
a prenatal checkup and so I suggest you get to it. I am a remarkably busy man, doctor.”
“Yes, Alpha, my apologies.” He quickly sets up the monitor and instructs L toy back. He then
squirts some kind of lube on her abdomen and uses a wand that is connected to the machine to look at
the pup. He presses button after button until finally he says something. “The pup is measuring right on
time. It’s too soon to see the sex, but we should be able to next visit. Would you like to hear the
heartbeat?”
“Oh, yes, of course!” L ps in excitement.
I roll my eyes but sit and wait. When the thumping begins, I thought I would react differently, maybe feel
a little excited, but I don’t. Sheer boredom is all I’m feeling right now. Both L and the doctor, however,
are ecstatic, until they see me eying them both.
“Sorry, Alpha,” the doctor clears his throat, “I always get carried away when one of my patients is
carrying a pup and we hear the heartbeat for the first time.”
I don’t remember asking him, but whatever, “So, the pup is healthy, correct? Does L have any
restrictions that I should be aware of?”
The doctor grins, The pup is strong and healthy, Alpha. As for L, as long as she takes her prenatal
vitamins and doesn’t be too stressed out, she should be fine,” I notice a little flinch when he
continues, “It will be perfectly fine for the Luna to meet your needs, Alpha.”
“What do you mean by that?” I’m quite sure I know, but I don’t remember asking, which only means one
other person would have, and I send her a re.
“Well, sex of course. In fact, it’s extremely healthy for the parents to be in-intimate during the
pregnancy.” He stutters a little.
I throw my head back andugh. “Oh no, there will be none of that going on between us ever again.”
“Oh?” Dr. Langly seems to be interested in my response. Too bad I’m not going to enlighten him.
My phone pings again, and I look at it. Frowning, I open up the picture that was sent to my phone by an
unknown number. As soon as I see what it entails, I don’t have any way of holding him back, as Duke
takes over and busts through the wooden door, leaving L and the doctor gawking at our departure.