The Alpha Who Saved Me

Chapter 61

The pack house is a buzz with preparations for my birthday party taking place this evening. I can’t get any work done in my office due to it being too noisy, so instead, I spend the day on the training field. I’ve taken over training the females until they can move on to Cam’s training classes. I don’t like sticking the females that have had little to no training in with the experienced group. They tend to feel embarrassed because they don’t know what they are doing, and so we have training levels for everyone.

I have both Aspen and Kimber in this training class, and they are doing exceedingly well. The only thing that bothers me is that Kimber is very quiet, even when training, she barely makes a sound. If she gets hurt, she doesn’t cry out, grunt, or anything. It’s a bit daunting when training someone and you don’t know whether it’s too much or not.

When I turn my attention to Kimber and another she-wolf, I notice that Kimber has a slight limp on her left side. I call a timeout and head over to the two women. I don’t say anything as I bend down and pull Kimber’s sock away from her ankle. Not only is it swollen, but it’s already turning black and blue.

“What the hell happened, Kimber?” I look up from where I’m squatting, but all she does is shrug. “When did it happen?”

*About forty minutes ago.” She states quietly.

I can feel my eyes bulge out of my head. Standing up, the she-wolf is a little taller than I am, but I don’t care, I glare up at her, “You can seriously injure yourself by continuing to train on this ankle! Your wolf can’t heal it if you keep reinjuring it, Kimber.”

“I’m fine, Alpha.” She bows her head, not wanting to look at me.

“Sit your ass down and don’t move!” I growl, and then I look around until I see Aspen training with her partner, “Aspen, come here!” I holler out across the field.

I send Kimber’s partner over to train with Aspen’s and then wait for the she-wolf to bounce her way over to us. I swear, these to women are complete opposites. Kimber is quiet and keeps to herself, whereas Aspen never shuts up and is a ball full of energy, but they are both nice as can be and very respectful.

“Yes, Alpha?” Aspen responds but then sees her twin sitting on the ground and she frowns, “What’s going on?”

“That’s what I would like to know, but Kimber doesn’t seem to want to talk to me.” I glance down at the she-wolf and can see that she is almost in tears. I call over one of the males, “I need you to carry Kimber to my office please.” I tell him, but when he bends down to pick her up, she begins to freak out.

“No, please! Just don’t touch her!” Aspen calls out frantically.

I’m stunned at what I just witnessed, and I nod to the male, indicating that he can leave. I lower my voice, so only the twins can hear me,”1 think the two of you best be telling me what’s going on, but I don’t want your sister to put pressure on her ankle. You and I will have help her to my office, or at least somewhere more private.”

Aspen nods and then we each take a side and help Kimber up off the ground, “Here, I will give her a piggyback ride.” Aspen states, so I help Kimber jump up onto her sister’s back. Instead of going upstairs to my office, I bring them into the rec room since it’s empty at the moment.

I wait until Aspen puts Kimber down onto one of the chairs, “Alright, one of you better start talking, and don’t leave anything out.”

I feel like a total bitch after glancing at Kimber and seeing the tears glistening in her eyes. Her sister’s voice draws my attention away from her, though, as Aspen begins talking, “Kimber was born with a medical condition. She has a very high pain tolerance. Her ankle: the reason she continued to train is because she didn’t know that she had injured it because she didn’t feel any pain.”

I glance over at Kimber, “But I saw you limping on it. You didn’t feel the pain then either?”

Kimber shakes her head, and Aspen goes on, “She was limping because her body knew it couldn’t take the full weight, I’m guessing. It’s happened before, where she had popped her knee out of place but never felt the pain. Her body just adjusts to it.”

“Could it be her wolf that is realizing it and having her limp? But if it is, then why doesn’t her wolf tell her she is injured?” I ask looking back and forth between the two of them.

“Silver hasn’t uttered a word to Kimber since the incident occurred.” Aspen bites her lower lip.

“Incident? Can you be more specific?” I ask becoming a bit annoyed at not being told everything right from the beginning. I can’t help or protect my pack if they keep stuff from me.

Aspen glances over at Kimber, and the twin nods at her, so she turns back to me, “Kimber’s wolf hasn’t talked to her since the night Kimber was raped. It’s been two years now, and ever since, Kimber just keeps getting quieter and quieter. She used to be all bubbly and out going all the time, but now she sticks to herself and with me. She freaks out when a male touchess her, even if it’s a simple handshake.”

Now I really feel like a total ass! “i’m sorry, Kimber, I didn’t know. I wish you had told me this from the beginning, so I could have handled everything better.” I go and sit down beside her, “You need to talk to me in the future because I can’t help you if I don’t know anything. Do you understand what I mean?”

“Yes, Alpha.” She says softly

“Okay, well then, you both know that my party is in a few hours, and I want to see both of you there! So, we are going to get Kimber up to your room so she can rest her ankle. That way it will be healed by the time the party starts. As for the other issue, I understand that it’s going to take time, but I trust every single male in my pack, and I can promise you, that none of them will hurt you, especially in that way.”

Kimber nods but i can still see the wariness in her eyes. There isn’t much I can do about it right now, everyone heals differently. It’s going to take time, but I do hope that we can get her wolf to start communicating with her once again.

“Guess who?” i’m standing by the French doors talking to a pack member during my party when warm hands cover my eyes from behind, and I automatically scent him.

“Uh, Colby Miller from the Bachelor?” I joke, knowing that he knows exactly who the male is that I speak of.

“Ugh, you’re evil!” Gavin chuckles.

“Why do you say that? You only told me to guess, so I did.” I shrug.

“Pardon me, I’m going to steal your Alpha for a moment.” He informs the older woman that I’ve been conversating with. He pulls me into another room that seems to be empty and then his mouth is on mine.

I let a moan slip against his mouth as he kisses me deeply. Once he finally breaks away, I grin, “Mm, what was that for?”

“I’ve missed you and have been dying to do that since the start of the party.”

I look at my watch, “The party only started ten minutes ago.”

“Yeah, ten dreadfully long minutes!” He pouts and it’s so stinking cute.

“Awe, poor baby, is my attention-seeking boyfriend going to cry?” I muse.

He scoffs, “i’m not attention-seeking, but I know it will get busy soon and I wanted to be the first to give you your birthday present.”

“You didn’t have to Gavin.”

“What kind of boyfriend would I be if I didn’t get my amazing girlfriend a birthday gift?”

Taking me by the hand, he leads me up to my office. I don’t say anything, I just leave it to him to know what he is doing. Opening my office door, he flips the light switch on, and I gasp. My hand flies to my mouth as I take slow steps into the room where there is a huge family portrait painted of my family hanging on the wall behind my desk. It’s the same one that was taken the day of my fifteenth birthday party. I had told him how it was my all-time favorite photo because it was the last one taken of my entire family.

I throw my arms around his neck and kiss him hard. I can’t believe he did this for me I thought I’d be happy enough if it was just framed, but this is one hundred times better, “Thank you, Gavin! You don’t know how much this means to me.” My voice cracks at the end.

“Yeah, I do, and that’s why I did it, but I’m not done. I had noticed that you didn’t have any of the Alpha’s portraits up like most packs have, so I took it upon myself to research your pack and find pictures of the Alphas from your family.” I look to where he is pointing, and I see six more portraits. Hurrying over, I see that he has my great-great grandfather, my great grandfather, my grandfather, then there is one with my father and mother, and he even made one of Dylan, even though he was never able to take his title. Last, but not least, there is a portrait of myself. At this point the tears are just flowing down my face and now I’m going to have to go fix my make up.

“Gavin,” I whisper, “You really shouldn’t have.”

“I know, but I wanted to.” He says as he places a long thin box in front of me, “Last one, I swear.”

Wiping the tears from my face, my hands tremble as I lift the lid to the black box. Lying inside, is a thin, gold ID bracelet with the name *Alpha Quinn Night’ engraved on it. It’s beautiful, but what gets me is the inscription on the underside of it that says, ‘To the only woman that has ever held my heart.. Love Gavin’

“Now I know it’s hard to wear stuff like this all the time due to having to turn on short notice, but I couldn’t pass it up. It called out to me…”

| smash my mouth against his, not letting him finish talking. My emotions are all over the place right now, but the one thing I do know is that I want Gavin as my chosen mate. I’ve given my mate a full year and they have yet to appear.

Breaking away, I gaze up at him, “Thank you, Gavin. Ilove each and every gift, and I love you, too!”

His eyes widen in surprise, “Quinn, you don’t have to say it just…”

“I’m not! I love you Gavin Davis, and I choose you as my chosen mate.” Just as he leans back in to take my mouth once more, a blood-curdling scream echoes throughout the halls.