All Mine

Chapter 3

Conner's POV
​Her heart beat got slower every passing second. I already failed at protecting her and I just met her. Why did this happen? When Lewis gets back home, I'm going to beat him until he's in a coma!
​When I finally reached the pack house, I kicked the door right off its hinges and rushed her inside to the pack doctor, Jake. Jake looked up from the little boy who he's currently treating for his cracked finger because some kid closed the his locker door on his finger to look at me. His eyes widened and he immediately excused himself and took my little mate out of why arms.
​I growled at him and he immediately placed her back in my arms and put his hands up in surrender.
​"Do you want me to help her not?" He asked looking me straight in the eye. I narrowed my eyes and him I mentally envisioned myself snapping his neck. However, I let out a rugged sigh and quickly and gently placed my babygirl on the empty cot myself. He went to the back for a few moments and I used my thumb to wipe the blood smeared on her cheeks to look at her correctly. She had the most pale cheeks I had ever seen with a natural blush that went across her nose which spread to the mid of her cheekbones and a few freckles on her nose. She was absolutely perfect.
​Dr. Jake finally came out of the back closet with two huge buckets, one full of water while the other was empty, and a whole bunch of towels. He dunked one of the towels, wrung it out, and brought it to my mate's face. He lights touched her face with the towel and I let out another growl.
​He took the towel off of her face and threw it back into the bucket and threw his hands behind his head in aggravation.
​"What do you want me to do? I need to help her!" he yelled at me.
​"You do not speak to me that way!" I roared at him in my alpha voice. "How dare you disrespect me like this!" Jake shook his head in annoyance.
​"Like I'm going to do anything to her!" He yelled.
​"You're an unmated male, I don't necessarily trust you!" I shouted back. I then heard soft whimpering come from my mate and I looked down at her face where I found her eyes squeezed shut rather than just resting closed. She was clearly in pain. I put my pointer and middle finger to her wrist and her pulse was unbearably slow. She could die in any minute. I looked over at Jake and he let out a sigh.
​"Do you want me to get the nurses so they can clean the blood off of her?" he asked. I took in a deep breath, ran a hand through my hair, and eventually nodded. He went outside to the breakroom and pulled three girls out. All three of them gave me flirty, slutty smiles and little waves. I narrowed my eyes at them and scrunched my nose in disgust.
​Emily Bennett, Mallory White, and Lola Cooper.
​The pack flirts. Don't get me wrong, they're slutty, but they aren't the pack sluts. They're just the pack flirts. They got this job to treat the male warriors who might have gotten hurt in training or battle. Low, I know. But that gives Dr. Jake a few extra hands and he makes sure to keep them busy at all times. So as they may have some 'perks' as those three call it, they definitely are busy.
​"Alpha," they all sang with really high voice and bowed their heads.
​"What seems to be the problem?" Emily, the 'leader' of their little clan asked while biting her lip. I just rolled my eyes and gestured towards my beautiful mate.
​"I need you to help clean her up and help Dr. Jake heal her," I explained. The three of them looked over to my tiny mate and scrunched up their noses. My nose flared and the room started to be tinted red.
​"Really? You want her?" Emily asked. "Look at her. So weak and pathetic. I think you should just let her die and choose someone else, someone more fit to be Luna." I had a hand around her neck in a second.
​"Listen bitch, I will not hesitate to kill you," I seethed. "So I suggest for you to treat your future Luna with care and respect. You will be sleeping in the shack tonight. Don't make me remind you, or you will regret it." She was crying and scratching my hand that was around her neck. I threw her across the room, she hit the wall with a thud, and slid down to slump over herself on the floor.
​Her friends went over to check if she was okay and I snapped at them to not check on her and to start cleaning the blood off of my mate. They immediately stopped in their tracks and took the towels that were in the bucket of water, wrung them out, and started to clean the blood off her. I went over and kissed my babygirl on the forehead before Jake ushered me out of the room, in which I forced him to follow me out. I don't like the thought of an unmated male in the same room as my mate without me in there.
​When I stepped out of the room I instantly saw Lewis sitting on a chair in the hallway with an icepack held to his nose, where I had just recently popped him. I strode over to him, ripped the icepack out of his hand, and pinned him against the wall by his shoulders.
​"How dare you hurt my mate!" I roared at him. I started to repeatedly punch Lewis in the face until he had two black, swollen shut eyes, and blood covered, mouth, chin, cheeks, and forehead. He was shouting and flailing around, so I naturally put my hand around his neck to stop him from moving. His eyes were bulging out of his head and his face was turning paler by the moment.
​"Conner! What the hell are you doing?" I dropped Lewis in outrage that someone would shout at me like that. I looked over to where the voice came from and saw Aiden looking from me to a half-dead Lewis. "Why are you...killing Lewis?" Aiden shouted at me again. I took in a deep breath and ran a hand through my hair. If Aiden was yelling at me, them I am definitely doing something stupid. 
​"Take Lewis to the shack, he's spending the night there with Emily," I ordered. Aiden took in a deep breath and put a hand on my shoulder.
​"What's going on? Your office isn't completely sound proof. I could hear you destroying everything in there earlier. And now this? You almost killed you own brother," he said. I chuckled humorlessly.
​"What's wrong is that you found you mate yesterday and I still didn't. That was what was wrong when you heard me ripping apart my office earlier. But what's wrong now is that the rouge that I went over to see earlier is my mate and Lewi along with the other warriors thought that they could take advantage of her tiny and vulnerable body and have some fun with her! I didn't get there in time to stop it and now she is covered in blood with a very low pulse. She is so close to death! I can't have her leave me! I just can't!" I roared, kicking Lewis, who was lying on the ground, in the stomach and ribcage multiple times.
​"Okay, okay," Aiden said sliding Lewis over with his foot gesturing that I should stop kicking him. "I think you're over reacting. Lewis obviously didn't know that she was your mate. And... maybe Lewis didn't hurt her by himself. She might have already been hurt when she arrived. Ever thought of that?" My body started to shake violently.
​"Well, if someone hurt her before, then I will hunt them down and torture them until they die naturally or from blood loss. But that does not dismiss the fact that Lewis and the others took advantage of MY MATE! They will pay and I don't care if she was already hurt before and it wasn't entirely them! In fact that just makes this so much worse! They took advantage of her while she was already in a painful and vulnerable state and they didn't care. They will be severely punished!" I growled while throwing some chairs down the hall satisfied by the crack and shattering of the chairs as each one of them hit the wall with ear splitting crashes.
​"I still think that you're over reacting," Aiden suggested.
​"What if it was Mia?" I roared. Aiden froze for a second. "What would you do if you saw your mate all bloody, laying the arms of an unmated male while all the other males in the group had her blood on their hands?" Aiden's eyes narrowed and he zoned his gaze on Lewis. He took a couple steps towards him and started kicking him in his side.
​When Aiden tired himself out, he hauled Lewis over his shoulder and dismissed himself to take Lewis to the shack. I moved to sit in the last chair that I didn't break, right outside the room where my babygirl is. Jake came down the hallway finishing off an apple, which I'm assuming he got from the break room, and came towards me.
​"I'm not even going to ask why there's a puddle of blood on the floor and a whole bunch of broken chairs down the hall," Jake said.
​"Good choice," I responded.
​"Well, the girls should be close to done with cleaning your mate of the blood," he said while putting his hand on the door. I followed him as he led me through the door. When I saw m mate, I immediately rushed over to her and put my hand on her cheek.
​The warmth from her cheek went straight up my hand to my arm and down the rest of my body. Now that there was no more blood on her body, I could finally look at her correctly. She had hair that went to the mid of her back. The top of her hair dark brown getting lighter as it went down her hair until it was a caramel color at the tips. She was only wearing bloody undergarments and a ripped bloody t-shirt that didn't cover anything because it was ripped. She was so skinny. So small and frail. I just wanted to wrap her up in my arms and never let her go. I just wanted to lock her up in a room and never let anyone see her ever again; to never let anyone hurt her ever again. I just want to keep her all to myself.
​My eyes scanned her body and my wolf just got more angry the more scars I saw on her body. There were scars on her arms, legs, stomach, and I have no doubt that her undergarments were hiding some. There were deep cuts that blood was still pouring out of and the nurses weren't doing anything about it. I let out a loud growl, picked up Dr. Jake's stool, and threw it at the wall, denting the wall and breaking the stool.
​"So that's what happened to all the chairs outside," Jake said. "I shouldn't be surprised."
​"Why are there so many scars on her? Why aren't those three doing anything about the wounds that are still on her?!" I shouted at Jake. Jake looked at Emily, Mallory, and Lola and gave them a look telling them to get to work. Mallory jogged over to the back counter and got the stitching kit out. She got everything set up with the flimsy help from Lola and she started to stitch my little one's wounds.
​When Mallory was half way done with stitching up my mate's wound, she let out a whimper of pain. I growled at Mallory for hurting my mate and she cowered him fear.
​"I'm sorry Alpha," she squeaked out in fear. I just grunted in response and took my little one's tiny hand in mine. Her hand was like a child's in comparison to mine. They were so soft and smooth while mine were calloused and rough.
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​After about an hour or two, all of my kitten's wounds were stitched up and the three flirts left for the night. Jake stood up and walked to the door.
​"I'm going to get my sister so she can do a full examination, I'm pretty sure that you wouldn't want me to do that myself, now would you?" stated in an annoyed voice. I looked up and glared at him.
​"You do not want to cross me, Jake. I could snap your neck in a second without any regret and we would still have a pack doctor. Lindsey is studying medicine, right? She can treat all the pack members. Even the thirsty unmated males," I responded with a calm, but anger laced voice. Jake took in an angry breath.
​"Keep my sister out of this. I'm sorry for disrespecting you Alpha, but you don't want me to treat your mate because I'm an unmated male. Well, I don't want my sister with a whole bunch of unmated males who can easily take advantage of her. I think you can understand that," he responded.
​"You will never submit to me, will you?" I asked Jake.
​"I never did. Not even when we were kids. Sorry, Conner. I just can't submit to my best friend who betrayed me in high school." With that, Jake left and went to retrieve his sister without even letting me respond.
​Well he can hold a grudge. That was six years ago. We were freshman! I wanted to be on the football team to start getting "involved" while still training, and Jake wanted to join the science clubs. We just didn't stay friends like we were in elementary and middle school. You can't be best friends with the same person forever. You need to move on based on your interests. He was interested in science and I was interested on staying fit and people seeing me as worthy to be Alpha by joining the football team in order to get "involved". But so what if didn't have his back when some of the members of the football team started to pick on him. I didn't want to be seen as weak. But I guess Jake saw that in a different way. I guess he saw that as betrayal.
​Jake came back thirty minutes later with Lindsey in tow. She bowed her head when she saw me and addressed me with respect.
​"Good evening Alpha," She said.
​"Hi Lindsey." I responded back to her. Lindsey looked up at her brother and asked what she needed to do.
​"I need you to do full examination on Conner's mate," Jake told her. She nodded and started to gather materials and tools that she will most likely need. "Alpha..." Jake started. I looked at him and he had the door open. I stepped out and Jake followed me.
​I sat down in the only remaining chair and Jake sank down to the ground with his back against the wall. I took a deep breath and we sat in awkward silence for a little while. I then rolled my eyes, swallowed my pride, and did something I have never done before. I apologized.
​"Jake..." I started. Jake looked up from the wall her was staring at and looked at me. I took another deep breath and regained the strength that I already lost from opening up. "I'm sorry." Jake raised one of his eyebrows in both shock and confusion.
​"Excuse me?" He said.
​"I'm sorry that I abandoned you when we got into high school. It was petty of me and I can clearly see that you were hurt by that, so I'm sorry," I rushed out. I took in a deep breath trying to calm myself down. That was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.
​"That was really hard for you wasn't it?" Jake asked with a little bit of a smug look on his face.
​"Very," I responded with a smile and an eye roll.
​"Thank you, Conner. I appreciate that," with Jake saying that, we continued to sit in silence. But it was a bit more comfortable than awkward. After about half an hour my wolf and I became restless, wanting to see our mate. I need to know if she is okay, if she is still safe, if she is still alive. Just then Lindsey popped her head out of the door and called me inside.
​I immediately stood up and rushed inside the hospital room. I saw that my mate was out of the "shirt" she was wearing earlier and just had a thick blanket laying on top of her. I let out an irritated sigh that Lindsey saw more of my mate than I did, but I know Lindsey didn't do anything to her, so I held my tongue.
​"Alpha," Linsey said to get my attention. I looked over to her.
​"Yes?"
​"I did an examination and I found out something that I think you're going to want to know," She said. I nodded my head, looked back over to my mate, and back over to Lindsey. She took a deep breath and then started talking again. "I'm just going to get right to the point because there really is no easy way to say this... um...well... your mate has been used by someone else."
​I felt my wolf trying to push to the surface and rip apart everything in sight. I did my best to keep as much of my wolf down as possible, but my claws and canines still came out causing Jake and Lindsey to take a few steps away from me.
​"What exactly to you mean?!" I shouted at Lindsey. She gulped a few times and nervously cleared her throat before continuing.
​"Well...um...someone took advantage of her body. Based on the bruises and wounds I found, she didn't do it freely. She was forced. She was raped. Multiple times."
​I couldn't see anything clearly anymore. I picked up the stool and threw it at the wall causing it to break and the wall to dent. I broke every pencil, pen, sharpie, or highlighter in the room and every screen in sight was shattered. By the time I slightly calmed down everything in this room was broken and in the opposite side of the room where it originally was. I walked over to Lindsey and grabbed her by her neck with anger. All of a sudden I here Jake call out to me.
​"Uh, Conner," he said. I looked over to him and he pointed in the direction of the cot where my mate was laying in, the only thing I didn't destroy. I looked over and I saw my mate's eyes open and looking at me. There were tears in her eyes and she was shaking in fear.
​My mate is awake, and she just saw me almost kill another girl.