<b>Chapter </b><b>238 </b>


    “We have a pillow that is curved. We want to put it between your thighs so that your legs can restfortably without you having to ledd en part, I’m going to help support your leg but I need you to move it. Only you know what movements you can handle ”


    I keep my touch gentle on his call, waiting for him to make the first move. He slowly starts lifting his leg but struggles hard with the movemente Suddenly he grabs ahold of Demetri’s shirt, burying himself into his neck, stifling the cries he’s desperate to hide.


    “Put your hand on his knee. I need you to support him where he’s at so I can get the pillow underneath.”


    I move my hands so one is on his knee while the other stays on his ankle. It’s easy to feel his pull trying to get <i>away </i>from me.


    “Rx Cole. Don’t pull. Let me handle the weight of your leg.”


    I feel his leg shaking in my hands as I struggle toprehend the gravity of what’s going through his head.


    The room is silent as Demetri talks and strokes the frightened young man, trying to reassure and soothe his fear and anxiety. To be afraid of medical care yet so injured you can’t move without yelping is a predicament I never wish to be in.


    “Rxpletely, Cole. Pat, I need you to slowly lower his leg until it’s resting against the pillow. I’m going to start rinsing your leg down beforeying the gauze on you.”


    Dr. Pierce instructs but it seems to only make him worse<b>. </b>


    “I know I’m not your favorite person right now but I’d like to <i>try </i>to distract you by finishing my story.<b>” </b>


    I offer the only thing I really think I have right now. To my surprise, he nods. Dr. Pierce ces <b>my </b>hand on his ankle after cing a second pillow between his calves.


    “We started trying to have another pup after Parker turned two. Mandy would get pregnant but would miscarry the pup only three or four months into <b>the </b>year long pregnancy. After the third miscarriage we talked with the doctors there at Blue Haven but they weren’t as advanced <i>as </i>the doctors here at Crimson Dawn. I reached out to Demetri about a year after his father died. I didn’t know it at the time that I called but he was struggling with the transition into the alpha role while also trying to maintain being a doctor and father to his two sons.


    Despite his high stress levels he listened to the issues we were having and ultimately, invited us to make the trip back to the pack. Crimson Dawn has always been a top ten leader in werewolf medicine and he was confident that he could help.


    Alpha Mathias had different rules, as all packs tend to have and pack members weren’t allowed to move around quite as freely as they do here. With Mandy being the beta’s only child, Alpha Mathias thought if she left she would nevere back. It didn’t make much sense to me at the time considering we have always been considered a strict and unforgiving pack, even in Alpha Brian’s time. That reputation made it very difficult for Alpha Mathias to see me as much more than a brute.


    He calmed down after he realized I wasn’t bull shitting him about Ansley but the rest of the pack still struggled to <i>ept </i>me. Unlike the alpha’s fated <b>mate</b>, the beta’s fated mate isn’t always warmly weed. In the end, <b>we </b>continued to struggle.


    It was her sixth time getting pregnant that she finally made it past the fourth month, Parker had just turned eight years old. We <b>were </b>so <i>happy </i>and hopeful this time but of course it didn’tst. It was during her ninth month that she started bleeding. She checked into the medical <i>wing </i>where they would keep her overnight but never find anything. When they released her she was told to be on strict bed rest and <b>see </b>her regr doctor. She went to him the <b>next </b>day but he didn’t find anything either. The baby appeared fine and the bleeding stopped so we just made Mandy take it easy.


    Two more times she started bleeding at night. Two more times to the med wing. Two more times nothing was found. She started having a <b>very </b>uneasy feeling about the pregnancy and talked at length with her dad and Alpha Mathias. She wanted to make the trip to Crimson Dawn but they were both against it. Even started using me of convincing her toe to them.”