Broken Chains

Part 22

Chapter 22

"So she's got Jamie's girl too." Carl snapped,

"Yeah." I said simply. Derek and me had dressed after we received Bethany's call and had now joined the rest of the boys in their room. Bryce was lying out on his bed looking rather aloof and bored; Daniel in contrast was stood on the other side of the room still gazing intently at the glass as though finding it captivating. Me and Derek were sat alongside each other on the sofa. I was curled up next to him snuggled down into his shoulder just a little. He had struggled to walk in here and I could see him struggling to stay upright but the rest and food was allowing him to heal rapidly.

"She's figuring you two won't care too much about Lizzie as she's not in your pack," Derek said from next to me an arm wrapped gently around my waist in a simple gentle mates gesture. Male wolves liked to constantly make it clear that this female was theirs constantly trying to hold onto them, and right now I loved the contact. "She doesn't understand that you and Carl might have a degree of dedication to Bryce because you guys made a deal. She doesn't understand loyalty so she stole someone she knew would hurt you of course because you loved Jamie, and if she's pregnant that means there is a little bit of him alive in the world. She knows you well enough to know that you'd do anything to protect that little bit of him."

"Well technically that girl isn't our concern yet." Carl said politically.

"She is fifteen Carl." I snarled

"Technically babes I think he's right I mean do you take in every little girl who gets herself pregnant." Bryce said calmly.

"No girl can manage to get herself pregnant." I snapped "and if one of our boys gets a girl pregnant and she has a boy you know he will experience shifts and if we leave them what the hell is going to happen to that boy."

"So what do you do?" Bryce asked calmly,

"If that's there mate we take them in." Carl said "if they want to. If the girl doesn't want to then we simply keep the girl close and we watch them and make sure that daddy plays a big part in the child's life so that we can tell them when they are ready to know."

"But in this case you can't take her in because she's not anybodies mate anymore." Bryce said, "and she might have a girl anyway that would be awkward wouldn't it."

"Shhhh." Derek said softly stroking a light touch down my arm as I vaguely became aware of the fact that I was growling loudly at Bryce baring my teeth. He was looking thoroughly unconcerned about it, whereas Daniel was actually looking quite amused.

"She is our responsibility now and none of your fucking concern she is pregnant and that child belongs to our pack. So do not believe that your hostage is more precious than ours." I snarled,

"This is not really being constructive." Carl said calmly "you want Lizzie back and Emily is going to come with us. So what we need to be discussing is how to get them away from Bethany."

"Well I have an idea." I said blandly.

"You can fucking forget that right now." Derek snarled gripping my waist protectively.

"You don't know what I was going to say." I said smiling at him playfully.

"Yeah I do." He said blandly "I know you and will you please stop trying to fucking sacrifice yourself. Why are you so desperate to die?" I hated myself as I felt my body begin to tremble as I fought against tears which were threatening I could feel them pricking behind my eyes. "I'm sorry." Derek whispered reaching over to stroke my cheek.

"I don't want to die." I said gently "I may have been trying to kill myself before but not now I just I don't want to hurt the pack there more important."