Page 26 of His Impossible Elf Mate
There was just so much noise, so much pain in the air. Magic was everywhere, clouding my sense of smell.
Someone held out a potion to Aldrin. “Magic nulling. It should break the effects of whatever they’ve given him,” they said. Roan’s wolf was locked away, preventing Roan from healing on his own. I’d heard he’d gone through that before. It must have been terrifying. Still, he managed to get Elliotte back and keep her safe.
Roan was a hero. No one could doubt his loyalty to his Alpha and the pack now.
The healer uncorked the potion and worked it down Roan’s throat. “I need another one. To boost healing,” he ordered. “Axel, I’ll get him up,” he directed a glare at the shifter under my foot, “and talking as soon as I’m satisfied Roan is out of danger. I need to check on Kade.”
“I think Kade’s fine. Just in shock.” My observation seemed to soothe Aldrin’s worry.
Aldrin nodded, then used another potion on Roan. The young alpha lay suspended between Aldrin and James as they worked to stop the bleeding.
I watched in horror as Roan began seizing. Both the healers tried to hold him still while enforcers and elves scrambled to find another magic nulling potion.
“He’s not breathing!” James cried, tears rolled down his cheeks.
The elves set him down. It was Hakeem that raced forwards and began CPR, all the while calling to Roan’s wolf to protect him, to make him breathe.
Someone forcefully administered another potion to Roan before we all heard him take a breath.
Hakeem rocked back on his heels, relieved, while Aldrin clapped him on the shoulder gratefully.
Beneath my foot, the piece of shit stirred. Fury flared hot inside me. My wolf snarled. This… stain on our pack had hurt our family. Maybe I kicked him in the head. Who knows? He went still again.
After some more healing, they took Roan to the clinic suspended between an elven guard. Aldrin directed some enforcers to help me with the trash and he went to check on Kade and Elliotte.
I followed the sounds of my brother barking orders and found Jasper crying hysterically in Dakota’s arms. The bear looked terrified.He won’t calm down. I told him Roan will be fine.
Feeling helpless, I looked at Blake for guidance. He was shut off, clinging to his mate and child. Someonehad brought the other two down. Blake kept one eye on their shared crib. They were still under the effects of the potion and were still asleep. For that, I was grateful. They didn’t need to see us all so stressed and scared.
Blake, though, was struggling. I needed to step up for my baby brother and direct things while he did what he could for his mate and children.
“Perhaps you should call your witch friend. She may be able to alter Jasper’s memory.” Teárlach’s voice was a soothing balm after all I had just seen. He wrapped an arm around me, giving me silent comfort.
“But the injury,” Dakota whispered. Jasper didn’t react, just shook with fear.
“Make the call,” Kade spoke for the first time. His face was bleached of color, his golden eyes dim. He held his phone out to me.
“Okay.” I took the device and called Poppy. Without letting her speak, I told her what had happened.
“I know what to do,” she assured me. “There’s a block I can put on the memory. I’ll be there soon. Don’t want him going into early labor!”
Fuck! I hadn’t even thought about it.
“Dakota, you need to use your alpha power to calm Jasper before he ends up in labor,” I told the alpha. He met my gaze and nodded, immediately acting to soothe Jasper.
Aldrin went to his son-in-law. “You’re right, Axel. I should have—“
“Nope. We aren’t playing the blame game. There is one of you and too many for you to heal.”
“We have Hiroshi,” he reminded me. “I’ll get him to look at the prisoner. I need to work on Jasper until Poppy gets here.”
The witch was goddess sent. She arrived with her wife, Zinna, so quickly I was sure she broke several traffic laws.
Once I was assured Jasper was safe, Kade was resting, and the babies were protected, Deke and I took Aldrin and James to the clinic so they could see how Roan was doing.
We gave the healers time with their patient to assess things before entering the room.
Roan was a mess. Truly, he was lucky to be alive. The Luna had to have been looking after him to survive such an attack. He was confused, wondering aloud how such a thing had happened. My mind was such a mess, I couldn’t get my head around it.
