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Just thinking about it got me hard. I sighed and glanced at my groin, annoyed it wouldn’t behave given I was at my parents’ gym.

For fuck’s sake.

I had more food as I worked on my laptop. Da was right that it was time to dust off some of the ideas my last hospitals shut down. I added some details and potential extras given I knew Ellie and Dr. Carpenter wanted to refocus on training more—dermatology as well.

It was ten my time when I wrapped up and ate way too much from the fridge. I quickly cleaned up and left a note to Mum and the personal chef apologizing if I ate something that they’d been planning to use for meals, but I was a growing boy.

That would get me smacked less. After a moment of thought, I also added that I had something special coming for dinner tomorrow because I was raised better than coming empty-handed.

Even when just home.

I quickly ordered what I wanted online to be picked up, and in the memo line I put in the rest I would love but I didn’t want to be an ass asking for that much so late. But if they could manage it to text or email me and I would approve the extra charge to my card.

I crashed hard after all of that.

Except it felt like I’d barely closed my eyes and someone was being loud. What I replied was less than friendly.

Fine, I cursed. A lot.

Which was why I got carried out by two of my brothers who now didn’t let me throw on more than my shirt and shorts that I’d slept in.

Da only sighed when I was tossed into the trunk of the Land Rover.

Yes, I had more choice words for that.

The drive to the pack’s lands wasn’t far, but far enough for all three of my brothers to threaten to pound me if I didn’t shut up.

I was seething when Da let me out of the back, gesturing to what I was wearing. “It’s two in the bloody morning my time, Da. And I’m a bloody doctor, so the next one who grabs my wrist flippantly, I’m gonna break theirs.”

He studied me. “Both are fair.” He glanced behind me. “You’re all too amused. Don’t be gits or I’ll let Ha-joon get revenge.”

I smirked at my brothers after my father walked away… And they got nervous. Yeah, I was a bigger wolf than them—my father even. They were one wolf type or another, but I was sort of both. I had features of both and I was fairly large.

I took off what little I was wearing and shifted, letting my wolf have the time he needed. He immediately snapped at me, and I apologized. I’d been a dick to him and barely let him run in Atlanta. I promised to do better.

Just to be polite, he went over to Da and flopped onto his back, showing his belly and neck and making it clear—as always—that we weren’t a challenge and accepted his dominance over us. Da chuckled while my brothers made noises and called me a kiss ass.

He squatted down and scratched my ear. “Good lad. Go give your wolf something he needs to apologize. I know you’re doing your best. Your mum has been filling me in and we’re proud of you. My wolf is glad you like your new den from us and we provided like parents should, so let’s not bring it up again.”

Damn. He won. I would let the condo thing go.

I rolled to my feet and licked his face, nodding that it was done.

I also agreed with him that my wolf needed a bit of spoiling and gave him permission to misbehave a bit… I just didn’t foresee how he would do it.

My wolf ran hard—faster and longer than the others which actually pushed Da. He was getting a bit lazy too, and when my wolf growled at him in warning that was dangerous, he nodded, accepting his chastising.

Which reminded me that my parents were overdue for their physicals. I would talk them both into getting on the books so they could see firsthand how ASH ran and was different, but also their health was important to me.

“You’re a fucking git,” my eldest brother snarled after we shifted back.

I gave a half shrug. “Da gave my wolf permission to misbehave. It’s not my fault he had an axe to grind with you.”

“Give Ha-joon the front seat after he rode here in the trunk,” Da ordered when they got dressed. He gave me the look I deserved but then covered his mouth and spoke under his breath. “I shouldn’t have enjoyed that as I did, but the git deserved it. He’s been a bit too big for his britches.”

“If you ever want my opinion on that for real, let me know,” I told him just as quietly. I sighed when he went tense. “I want the family and pack to succeed and I don’t have other motives, Da. I don’t want to lead. I like my life. So I’m the one person you can trust besides Mum that we’re rooting for his success and nothing else.”

“I’ll think about it,” he accepted after a moment. “And you will visit on weekends more to push my wolf. He’s all fired up.”