Page 134 of Tainted Romance

My head snapped up, looking around Blake at the doctor. Suddenly, I couldn’t care what he had to say, and the anger I was feeling disappeared as soon as I thought I was going to hear how she was. Finally. It had been hours. Maybe five hours. Finally, news.

I immediately walked around Ebony and Blake.

“I’m her mother.” Allie’s mom got up. “Please tell me she is ok?”

“It would seem your daughter wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. If she were human, she wouldn’t have survived the blow through the windshield. She has swelling of the brain, which should subside, but it was her internal injuries that were concerning.” The doctor looked down at his case notes. “We are still unsure if she will have brain damage from the blow. Like I said, she wouldn’t have survived if she was human. We noted something about her being disconnected with her wolf, because she currently isn’t healing.”

“She’s reconnected, so there shouldn’t be a reason why she isn’t healing.” Her mom looked at my dad for answers. Answers he didn’t have.

“Well, is there any reason why she would not want to heal? This wouldn’t be the first case where a werewolf has decided not to heal,” the doctor said and every pair of eyes apart from his in the room went to me.

Even dad was looking at me disappointed.

I stepped forward. Time for me to man up. “Her and I were having problems,” I said to the doctor. If admitting Allie and I were having problems would help her get better, I would.

The doctor frowned. “You’re Zane Harris, right?”

I nodded my head.

“The next Alpha.” He frowned. “What are you, her friend or something?”

“Her mate.” It was the second time today I was saying that out loud.

Other people in the waiting room looked at me with wide eyes. Yeah, I had just said that. The pack was going to have a new female leader, and she was it.

She hadn’t been trained to lead. She hadn’t been brought up with it in her blood, but I still knew she could do it because I was going to help her.

The doctor looked at me shocked, and then looked at dad. “You never mentioned your son had mated.”

“Well I have, does it really matter if it was common knowledge or not?” I snapped, not liking how he ignored me and spoke to dad as if I was lying.

“Well, how connected are you two? Can you explain to me what she has been like the last few weeks? Are you able to feel her feelings, hear her thoughts?”

“We’ve bonded, yes. She’s been withdrawn, angry, upset, and mainly distant.” Disappointed was another word to describe what she had been feeling the last few weeks, and pissed off as soon as she knew I knew what she was feeling. “Last night she was upset and crying. I don’t know what about.”

Blake scoffed behind me.

“Might have something to do with me,” I added. Knowing everyone in the room was thinking it.

The doctor nodded his head and sighed. “In that case, I am going to recommend you don’t see her.”

“WHAT?!”

“You could be the reason why she isn’t healing. If she feels you, it could make her withdraw more. I think it is best for the time being for her family and close friends to be with her.”

“You have to be fucking kidding me.” I usually had a grip over my temper, but it was gone as soon as I heard I couldn’t see her. “I’M HER MATE!”

“And the reason she isn’t healing.”

“Dad.” I looked at him. “Make him let me see her.” Dad could order the doctor to let me see her. Hell, I could order him to let me see her if I was in charge.

Dad shook his head. “We have to think of what is best for Allie. Let her heal, and when she wakes up, she can decide whether she wants to see you or not. She will wake up, correct?” Dad looked at the doctor.

“If she heals. Yes.”

“I want to see her. Now.” Blake shouldered past me and snuck a glance over his shoulder looking smug. “I’m her best friend.”

“So am I.” Chase got up.

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