<b>Chapter </b>328
I nod slowly as I watch Lucas follow Ang to the X–ray machine. I notice that he has a hard limp on his right side and he seems to be favoring his right arm. I can’t help but wonder if I were the one to have injured him that badly. A sharp pain in my left side causes me to yelp and jump away from alpha. I run into his hand stopping my ability to flee.
“I need you to tell me exactly where the pain starts.”
“Please don’t do that again.”
My voice is rushed and barely a whisper. I can’t handle him touching my side again. It feels like my bottom two ribs may be broken as I attempt to zone out again. The pain radiating from my ribs, neck and face are making it difficult to maintain a connection with the real world.
“Maybe a read would be easier on him alpha.” I hear Jessa suggest.
“Cole. I need you to finish disrobing andy down on the bed. On your back would make it easier to clean up your face but if you want you cany on your right side considering most of his hitsnded on your
left.”
I freeze up. Getting through an exam is hard enough but toy in thep of my mate and go through another painful read? I’m not certain I can handle either one.
“Come to me Cole. I know I haven’t spent much time with you since you came back from General but I do care about you and I want to make this as easy as we can on you.”
I turn towards Jessa, wincing hard as a sharp pain in my neck reminds me of the hit Lucas had aimed at my jaw that hadnded painfully just below it instead.
“It’s okay, Cole.”
Alpha’s voice is surprisingly soothing as I slowly slip my pants off allowing my boxers to slide down with them. In my difort of being naked in a room full of people, half of which are women, I barely see alpha holding the gown up in front of me, shielding everyone’s view of the front of me.
I close my eyes as I feel him slip the arms of the gown over mine, leaning in close to tie the back together before stepping away. Having the gown on and beingpletely naked underneath increases my nervousness ten fold as I struggle to slowly push myself up onto the bed. My nervousness settles slightly as alpha ces the sheet over my legs and waist.
I feel Jessa’s hands gently guiding my head slowly onto the pillow she’s ced in herp. I whimper quietly. I want so badly to enjoy this new attention. To rx in the hold of the mate I have longed for over thest five years. She’s here, she’s real. Someone I can reach out and touch, yet I’m terrified to do so. I am an animal, a monster. Undeserving of the love of my own parents, siblings, pack. Why would my mate see me any differently?
“Try to rx with me<b>.</b>”
Her voice is soft and sweet as she speaks to me. I can feel her fingers barely brushing against the ends of my slightly curled hair.
“Concentrate on the bond. It will help.”
“I can’t.” I finally manage to answer.
“Why not? This is how the mate bond should work. To give youfort.”
“I don’t deserve it. The more I feel it the more I want it. You’re right to stay away from me. I’m nothing more than an animal. I deserve the misery I receive.”
I can feel the sadness my mate feels and I know that I’ve said too much.
“You’re not an animal.” She finally whispers after a long pause.
“How do you know that? I’ve been branded, punished for being a pedophile because of what I have to do to the girls to afford them a normal life. A rapist even though I’ve never been with anyone. There’s got to be something about me that makes me these horrible things. To be deserving of the cruel life Goddess Diana has dealt me.”
“I’m sorry. I know nothing I say right now will change the way you feel. That’s part of the reason I’ve been distancing myself from you. It doesn’t feel like you’re ready to leave. It feels like you have unfinished business you need to deal with or perhaps something even worse has to happen before you are able to believe the hard truth, that whoever is abusing you is trying to kill you. That if you hadn’te to this run you would not have survived.”
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