Page 42 of Shifted Fate (Broken Luna #1)

“Andrea, stop. I need you to start poison protocols.” We watched as they both stepped back and put on gloves and gowns.

Something that is so normal with human doctors yet so rare with ours.

“Okay, let’s get back to it.” They both dove back to Ronnie.

They finished cutting off his clothes revealing the knife, hilt deep, and red lines radiated from the stab wound.

“How did this happen?” The doctor probed the wound.

Ronnie screamed and passed out. The nurse came rolling back in with a cart.

She rolled the cart to the doctor and was going to jump in, but he held up his hand.

“Sarah, wait. I need you to go out and get a fifty fifty of saline and lupine extract.”

“What is that?” I asked, as Sarah gasped.

“It’s the only way we have to counteract wolfsbane in the system.” The doctor kept probing around the knife. “We need to get it started before we pull this out, so his wolf regains its strength.”

“Do whatever you have to do to save him.” I could tell my father was running on fumes. After the attack and then staying with me, this is putting him over the edge.

“Dad. I have Ronnie. Go sleep.” I rubbed his back, but he shook his head.

“This is on me. I’m the Alpha and he is my best friend.

I’m not leaving him.” My dad turned to me and wrapped his arms around me.

“Thank you, though, pup. I appreciate the thought.” He kissed my temple as we watched the doctor and nurse work on a plan of attack as the second nurse ran in, wheeling a pole.

She headed to the side of the bed and set up a bag of liquid.

Once everything was ready, she grabbed his arm, found a vein, and pushed the needle in.

She hissed as a drop of his blood came into contact with her thumb.

“Sarah!” The doctor rushed over. “There is a reason for the poison control we have in place.” Sarah shook her hand, but she finished setting his IV. Once she was finished, she ran to the sink and washed her hands before slipping on the gown and gloves and came back.

“Sorry, doctor, but I wasn’t going to wait.” He just nodded.

“The IV?”

“Is fully open and running quickly.” Sarah nodded.

“Good.” The doctor set up a sterile work area around the knife and had the nurse set up a tray for everything he might need. Once everything was ready and more than half the IV was gone, he looked at my dad. “We are ready.”

“Okay. Do it.” My father’s grip tightened around my shoulders.

The doctor wrapped his hand around the knife and pulled.

Ronnie’s eyes flew open, and he sat up with a scream.

Blood poured from his side, and the room filled with the scent of wolfsbane and blood.

Ronnie looked at my father and his face crumpled.

“Why?” Then he dropped back down to the bed, unconscious.

My father made a tiny whimper in his throat. I rubbed his back, trying to reassure him, but Ronnie’s question ran through my mind over and over. “He wouldn’t ask us why.” I whispered more to myself, but my father turned to me.

“What?” He stared down at me and I turned to face him.

“He wouldn’t have asked us why. He would understand why we had to pull the knife. He isn’t dumb.” I waited for my dad to catch up to where my mind was.

“I’m not following you, pup. I’m…” He growled.

“You are exhausted.” I rubbed his arm again. “But Ronnie knew he was stabbed, and he probably knew he was poisoned. He isn’t stupid.”

“Right. Plus, I had him trained with me, which means he went through the same wolfsbane training I did.”

“Did Beck?”

“No. The Beta’s job is to die for the Alpha, the Gamma’s job is to die for the Luna. My father was very strict in the Alpha and Beta training, but he thought the Gamma was worthless.”

“Why?”

“Probably because he hated my mother by the time we came of age. He wanted more pups but my mother refused him and that meant I was an only child.”

“Did he know about the wolfsbane training?”

“Who?”

“Beck.” I think my brain was moving too quickly for my father to keep up with.

“No. Most of the training, my father swore us to secrecy.”

“So he wouldn’t know that Ronnie would have been able to survive this?”

My father turned back to Ronnie on the bed. “No, he wouldn’t.” The doctor was stuffing more and more gauze into the wound, throwing the blood-soaked ones to the ground. He became more and more panicked as the used gauze pile grew. “What’s wrong?” My father stepped up to the bedside.

“It’s not closing.” The doctors eyes snapped up for a second before going back to the wound on Ronnie’s stomach.

“What do you mean?” My father grabbed the Doctor’s arm, but he shook him off.

“The lupine saline should have flushed a lot of the wolfsbane from his system, but he’s still not healing. He’s losing too much blood.” The doctor shoved more gauze into the wound and looked up. Sweat beaded down his face and his eyes were wide. “I…I, I don’t think he will pull through.”

“Fuck that.” My dad grabbed both of his shoulders. “You save him.”

“Alpha…” The doctor shook himself. “We need blood then.”

“Take mine.” My father held out his arm, and the doctor shook his head.

“You are A positive, the Beta is O negative. He can only take O negative blood.”

My father staggered back to a chair that was behind him. He slammed into the chair and dropped his head between his legs, almost defeated. “Take mine.” I held out my arm and my dad snapped his head up.

“What?”

“I’m O negative, just like mom. Take my blood. Save him.” I shook my arm in front of the doctor, and I watched as his shoulder sagged, and he nodded to Sarah.

She pulled me to the head of the bed and then pulled another chair over for me to sit in.

She ran out of the room and came back with another package that she tossed onto the bed.

She washed her hands, pulled on new gloves, ripped open the package, and pulled out a new IV.

She grabbed my right arm and placed it on the bed next to Ronnie. “Thankfully, we are wolves.”

“What does that mean?” I watched her as she inserted the needle into my arm.

“It means if we were human, I’d have had to take your blood and run it through a ton of tests before it would be able to be used.

With us being wolves, I can just hook you up directly to the Beta.

” She attached my tube to his IV, and my blood flowed from me, directly into him. “Tell me if you start feeling dizzy.”

“Alpha, call for juice, water and protein for Amy. She will need to replenish her blood as we take it. We will need far more than she should normally give in one go.” My father nodded and he sat back, within a few minutes, a cart of food was rolled in by an Omega.

“Thank you Shantelle.”

“You are welcome, Alpha.”

“Thank you. But don’t tell anyone what you saw here, Shantelle.” I smiled as gently as I could.

“Amy?” My father lifted a brow.

“I have a plan.” I looked at my dad and he nodded. I turned back to Shantelle. “Do you mind?” I started, and she shook her head.

“Go ahead Amy. I understand.”

I pulled my aura up and as gently as I could.

“I command you not to tell anyone what you have seen here. You will spread the word that the Beta is dead and I am still unconscious. Do as I command if anyone asks, but keep track of who asks you of the Beta’s condition and report it to me or my father instantly. Do you understand?”

Shantelle’s eyes glazed over as the command took control. “Yes Alpha.”

“Dismissed.” I sent her on her way and tucked my aura back away.

“What are you planning?” My father leaned forward. I ignored the doctor and his nurses, knowing they would keep their mouths shut.

“I want whoever that did this to think they succeeded. I want them to think they got away with it. And I want to use this to trap them.”

“Amy? What is going on?” I drank down a juice and held up a hand as I quickly ate a sandwich.

I felt a little lightheaded and needed to eat something.

“I feel like you have figured out something and I am still fumbling around in the dark.” My dad looked between me and Ronnie, his sluggish mind still trying to catch up.

I tried my best to meet his eyes, I really did, but I knew he wasn’t going to like what I was about to say. “It’s Beck, Daddy.”

“What?”

“I need you to listen to what I’m going to say, without interrupting, and think before you jump to defend him.

I need you to think clearly, without thinking about your past. Promise me.

” I finally looked at him, and he gave me a quick nod.

“Aurora escaped the Gamma, which should have been impossible for her strength. She also managed to attack him and put him down long enough to get off pack land, but he didn’t mind-link anyone.

Ronnie found him unconscious by her cell.

” I waited for him to nod before I went on.

“Then there was the attack. The rogues knew intimate details of the pack and our procedures, stuff that Aurora alone wouldn’t have known.

Something the Gamma would. And now, Beck is back up and running, and Ronnie is attacked and almost killed.

He would have been killed without the secret training your dad put you two through. ”