The Pack's Doctor novel Chapter 15

Chapter 15: Concern.

Yara.

Oh this man is so frustrating! Why the hell is he telling his pack that I'm their Luna. And now, they're all calling me Luna. It's infuriating!

Warren walks me to the pack hospital, basically handing me off to Charlie.

"Everything okay?" Charlie asks him.

"Yeah, thanks. I need to get back and show my face. Can I leave Yara with you?"

"I got your back, Alpha," he says, and begins leading me to a room where I find Haynes already seated on a bed.

"Okay, let's take a closer look at what we've got," I say to him, getting some scissors and cutting away the shirt.

I wet the bandages that are covered in dried pus and blood. Then I carefully begin pulling them away to see the massive infection underneath.

"UH!" Charlie says and I turn to see he's covered his mouth and nose. "What the fuck, Haynes?"

Haynes just looks down. There's no way he's not feeling terrible if the infection is this bad.

"I'm going to have to debride this which means I have to scrub all the infection out of the wound. I need to see the flesh underneath and make sure it's healthy."

"Okay," he says.

"It's going to hurt. Would you allow me to give you something to numb the area as best I can. It won't numb it al, the infection will block it, but it will help."

"No," he says, still not looking at me. I stare at him in disbelief.

What is with these guys?

"There's no shame in letting me numb this area. I won't be knocking you out or anything," I say, trying again.

"No," he says more firmly.

I turn back to the tray of things that I need to clean the wound.

"The whole friggin pack is as arrogant as their Alpha. No one feels pain anymore? What the hell kind of pack is this?" I mumble as I get my things together.

"She's not expecting an answer. She keeps forgetting we can hear her," Charlie says and I turn to see Haynes frowning at me.

As I get ready to start, Haynes speaks.

"I do feel pain, Luna. But I'm a warrior. Pain is a part of my life.

I've just accepted that," he says, and he sounds so defeated. I hate it. I hate that this is the only life that he sees in his future.

"Well, I don't accept it, just so you know," I say ferociously. I take a deep breath and look at him. "I'm going to get started. If at any time you change your mind about being numbed, let me know."

He nods and I begin to wash out the wound. "Why didn't you come see Dr. Stevens when this first got infected?" I ask him.

"I did. He said my wolf would heal me, but he hasn't."

I stop, looking over at Charlie before turning back to the wound.

"Did he have you come back to check and make sure your wolf was healing you?"

"No, he just said to give it a few days. By then we were fighting again, and I didn't have time to do anything else about it."

"How is your wolf? He must be pretty weak if he hasn't healed you," I say. I have to give the guy credit. He really is used to pain.

I know what I'm doing is painful but he hasn't once flinched.

When I realize he hasn't answered, I stop, moving so I can look him in the eye. "Warrior, when was the last time you heard your wolf?"

"It's been at least a day," he finally says and I can see that this, more than anything is upsetting him. Not for the right reasons, in my opinion. He's sad his wolf is gone. I'm mad that he's going to die because he didn't get proper medical treatment.

"The infection has moved up into your shoulder and down your arm. I'm guessing you don't have a lot of use of this arm now?" I ask him.

"No, Luna."

I ignore the title and look at Charlie. "Charlie, come look at this."