Chapter thirteen

Lucian’s POV

“Sit down, Lucian,” Natasha said, and I sighed, dropping myself onto the chair next to Tessa’s hospital bed.

My head throbbed from a headache, but the doctor came in with a clipboard and I sat up straight to hear what he had to say.

“Alpha, we ran some tests on her and the results came back this morning.” He began and I nodded.

“She’s having a pre-heat cycle. Nothing too serious she’ll be able to go when she wakes up.” I let out a sigh of relief and saw Natasha smile with relief. Nate grabbed her hand and placed a soft kiss on her palm.

I put my head in my hands and felt a wave of tiredness wash over me.

“Lucian?! No! Don’t hurt him. Please!”

It was Tessa, she moved violently on the bed and her body started to shake.

I grabbed her upper arms and shook her.

“Tessa! Tessa, wake up,” I repeated, and Nate took Natasha out of the room and the doctors rushed to her and pushed me aside.

“She’s hyperventilating!” I heard someone scream over all the commotion.

I pushed through the doctors as they changed the liquid in her syringe.

“Tessa, wake up,” I said, and the doctor asked me to kindly leave. I wouldn’t go, instead, I fought to stay by her side, but they had the nurses grab me and pull me back.

“I am your Alpha. I command you to listen to me!” I shouted.

When they never let me go, I put all my strength into shoving them away.

Nate rushed in and grabbed my upper arm.

“They are helping her Lucian let them do their jobs,” he said. Everything was going red with all the anger that ran through my blood.

My body began twitching and a sheen of sweat covered my face. They were taking me away from my mate, taking me away from what was mine.

Something sharp stuck me between my neck and shoulder. I slowly craned my neck to the side and saw Nate pushing a yellow substance from a syringe into one of the pulsating blood veins that were under the skin. 

I groaned and I stumbled slightly and leaned against Nate for support. Everything began slowing down and I felt my heart rate quicken. I looked around the room, blinking a few times, and saw the doctors leaning over Tessa’s body.

Her body stilled and a thin sheen of sweat covered her face in the hospital lighting. I stumbled a few steps back and Nate held me until the back of my legs hit the couch I was previously seated on. I collapsed into the chair and I felt my body becoming numb.

I groaned and then leaned my head back before darkness consumed me and the sounds of the outside faded.

The following day I woke up with a headache that was way worse than any hangover I’d ever experienced. I groaned and opened my eyes slowly; it took a minute before my eyes adjusted to the light.

The morning sun shone into the hospital room and when I looked at my mate’s hospital bed, my jaw nearly fell to the floor.

There sat my beautiful Tessa, crossed-legged on the sheets in one of my shirts writing down something on a pad of paper.

Her brown eyes were focused on whatever she was writing, and her hair was in a messy bun with the exception of a few hairs that fell over her face.

I was lost for words and I stood up slowly. She looked up at me and smiled. My heart skipped a beat, and I gave a little prayer to the moon goddess because that was by far the most gorgeous smile I’d ever seen.

“Hi, handsome.” She said and moved the pen and pad of paper to the little table beside the bed.

I sat on the bed and cupped her small face in my large hands. Before saying anything, I leaned over and kissed her softly with my quivering lips.

Her lips kissed me back with the same softness and I gently bit her lip. This was one of the most intimate moments we’d shared so far, and she placed one hand on my chest.

I broke away and looked at her brown eyes that twinkled with happiness. She smiled and I wrapped my arms around her waist and placed my head on her chest. I could hear the rapid beating of her heart and she leaned back and loosened her legs from their crossed position.

I kicked my shoes off and positioned myself in between her legs. She wrapped her arms around me, and we lay there in silence.

“I was so scared,” I whispered looking at the wall while she ran her fingers soothingly through my hair.

“I heard you knocked out two nurses,” she said quietly and laughed softly.

“They wouldn’t let me near you,” I replied and felt the small rise and fall of her chest against mine.

She was quiet and continued to play with my hair.

“The doctor said because I’m mated to an Alpha, my heat will be worse than if I was with a normal rank wolf. They said the pain I felt was my body changing to suit your pups that I will have,” she said quietly, and I felt her hands trembling as they ran through my hair.

I lifted myself up onto my elbows that were on either side of her. I looked at her and her buried face in her hands.

I took her hands away from her face and looked at her. She looked like a little kid who’s lost her stuffed rabbit.

“What wrong, little mate?” I said and she looked up as a few tears ran down her face and smiled softly.

“What if I don’t give you strong boy pups?” She said softly. She was scared that I wouldn’t want her anymore if she didn’t give me strong pups.

I sat up now and pulled her onto my lap and wrapped my arms around her again.

“Even if you give birth to girls, they’ll be the best she-wolves out there do you know why?” I asked and she shook her head.

I took her chin and her eyes found mine.

“Because they’ll be ours,” I said, and she smiled and snuggled into my chest and I rested my head on hers.

I didn’t know how long we sat there for, but I didn’t care because I was in the arms of my mate.