and forth. She moved a little closer, glaring at Vander.
Officer Mike Johnson looked over at Jewel then quietly spoke , “I hope he knows what he is doing?”
“ Me too,” Jewel quietly responded.
Waverly ’s wolf walked a few more steps closer, then scented the air again. Jewel could tell her wolf was telling her that Vander was her mate and that he wouldn’t hurt her, but Waverly the human was fighting it. Jewel prayed the shifter part would win and not attack her mate.
Slowly , Vander brought one of his hands up so Waverly could sniff his skin. The wolf came closer, sniffed his hand, and then licked it. She came closer this time and allowed Vander to rub her fur. As Vander rubbed Waverly’s fur she moved yet closer and then to everyone's amazement got into his lap and laid down. Vander could see all the blood dried and matted to her fur.
As she allowed him to rub on her, Waverly shifted into her human form. She was out cold. Vander gas ped when he saw the bruises and cuts all over her body. Her body had old bruises over new ones. Cutting and draining her didn’t give her wolf time to heal her so her body started to shut down. They probably thought she was dying and left her body out here to die. Vander had heard the chatter on the radio, an old man was dropping off some trash and found her behind the dumpster and called the police. Thankful the two responding officers recognized Waverly and called Jewel.
Vander immediately felt a conn ection to Waverly as he stared at her.
“ We need to get her to the shifter hospital, Vander. She is going to die if we don’t get her some help.”
Vander lifted her in his arms and cradled her as he walked back to his car. Kane jumped out and opened up the back seat so Vander could get in with Waverly. Then he closed the door, getting back into the car.
“ Can one of you take my car back to the office?”
“ Yes, ma’am, Alpha,” Officer Mike Johnson responded.
Jewel ran around, got into the car, and drove as fast as she could to the Shifter hospital. Kane looked over the back seat at his mates and he grimaced.
“ How is she?” Kane asked.
“ Unconscious,” Vander ground out. “I can feel her though.”
“ Me too, she played them. I could see what she wanted us to just before she shifted back. She made them think she was dead,” Kane said.
Vander nodded. “ Smart, and strong.”
Nobody knew about this hospital. It was an old Victorian house Jim Morris had turned into a fully functioning hospital. Jim was a doctor who wanted to help his own kind. He had made his fortune over the years as a heart surgeon. He got with all the Alphas in Georgia and asked for donations and funding to hire staff and run the shifter hospital. The hospital was also his residence so there was always a doctor on the premises.
Vander looked down at Waverly ’s beaten body. He wanted to kill whoever did this to her. He knew one day he would find this man and kill him with his bare hands. Waverly never moved as they drove to the hospital. He was worried that she had died in his arms as she groaned when Jewel hit a bump in the road.
“ Sorry. I’m trying to get there as fast as I can. How is she looking?” Jewel asked concerned.
“ Not good. She may have overestimated her abilities,” Vander whispered as he stared at the woman.
“ That’s probably what saved her life, Vander. They thought she was dead or dying and had no use for her anymore,” Jewel replied as Vander pulled the hair away from Waverly’s face. Kane wanted to howl at the injustice of it all.
“ She will be fine,” Kane ground out. He needed to touch her, but he knew he couldn’t help her. She had been beaten and tortured for a week now. He didn’t know how she made it this long. If it hadn’t been for being a strong shifter, then she would have died like so many of the other victims.
Vander looked up as Jewel
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