The Pack's Nemesis (Quirin's Story) novel Chapter 36

Quirin

I was annoyed early this morning. First, I knew Kennedy was upset last night about no one going to the pack hospital. It’s the first time she’s been in bed and acted like she was asleep. She’s a terrible faker and while I knew we should probably talk, I was exhausted after the battle and rather than starting an argument, I just went to sleep.

I knew she was still upset about it this morning, but the reality is that this pack has been taking care of itself for a very long time. We’re strong and we’ve gotten on just fine. And as much as I know that Kennedy wants to be like her mother, she’s not there yet. She will be, I know she will, but she has several years to go.

Then when we started warrior training, Kier had been bouncing around like he hadn’t fought in the battle yesterday like the rest of us.

“What is with you? How do you have so much energy this morning?” I finally snapped at him.

“Luna helped me to heal last night. I’m surprised she didn’t insist on healing you as well,” he said casually, taking down another warrior.

“What do you mean she healed you?” When did that happen? Kennedy didn’t mention anything about healing Kier last night.

“While you were showering, I guess. Anyway, she made a good point. Why make Rowd work harder than he has to when she can help him heal faster? And she did. He and I both got a great night’s sleep last night and I feel good as new this morning.”

Jealousy had flared until Raif reminded me that it was my fault that we hadn’t gone to see our mate. Our Beta chose to see her and he’s obviously the only one based on him being the only person who seems completely fine this morning. I can almost feel the pack’s questioning stares as they look from me to Kier, wondering why their Beta went to see their Luna and I didn’t.

I was still fuming over it, especially since Raif still has an injury that he hasn’t healed on me yet, when Kennedy called me to the hospital. I’m pretty sure she’s going to argue with me about not coming by there last night and if it makes her feel better I’ll have her look at the injury that Raif is still healing. Her point to Kier was valid. Why weaken my wolf when I don’t have

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I was shocked to find one of my warriors in the hospital who was obviously not happy about being there. In an effort to support him and let him know that I don’t consider him weak for being there, I tried to tell Kennedy that he would heal. And that was when my mate snapped.

In all the years I’ve known her, I’ve never heard Kennedy use her Alpha command. That was the first shock. It’s possible she has in her family’s pack, but somehow, I doubt it. The second was her angrily cutting me off and telling me to listen to her. I listen to her. I even came over here with the intention of listening to her. But the final shock and aggravation was when she openly challenged me in front of our warriors. As sexy as it is to see her showing her strength, I don’t appreciate her doing it so publicly. And while the idea of sticking my finger into some disgusting, bloody mess, seems useless and gross, I’m not going to back down from a challenge, even if it comes from my mate.

The instant my finger touched it, I felt the burn. All aggravation at Kennedy’s challenge went out the window. She found this in Lane’s wound? And when did she treat their pup, Tommy? She never mentioned that.

‘Are you sure? Maybe that’s what you haven’t been listening to,‘ Raif says, watching our mate carefully.

“Okay, back up a minute. You treated Tommy and found that he had silver in his wound?” I ask.

“Well, I didn’t know it at first. I had to wait for the microscope to get here. Remember when I was at the pup play area and

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you asked what I was looking for?”

“Well, I was trying to see if there was any sort of mold or fungus that could explain his scrape not healing. At the time, I didn’t realize that it would help, but I scraped his skin so I could examine it under the microscope when it arrived. I must have scraped the silver off of his skin because he was able to heal after I did that”

“That’s right” Emily says, nodding “His wound has completely healed, which is why I insisted that Lane come see Luna”

“How did you know what to look for?” I ask ber

“Well, I didn’t, but when I saw the silver from Tommy’s swab, I started wondering how it got there, Like I said, I swabbed Beta Kier’s injuries, and he had no silver in them. So, I was thinking that maybe it was specific to the play area or some contaminated part of the pack lands. But when Warrior Lane arrived and told me that he had an injury that has been open for over a week, I knew it had to be the same cause, and I was right?”

“I have a wound I want you to swab,” I say and watch as she presses her lips together tightly. I know she’s angry that I didn’t seek her assistance before, but I am now. “And then, I’d like to see what you’re looking at.”

“Yes,”

I follow her out of the room and into the next room. It’s set up exactly the same as the room we were just in. Everything in here looks new. I guess these are the items that she purchased.

“I need access to your wound. Where is it?” she asks briskly, pulling on gloves.