NovelEnglishChapter 0404 - Josie - My eyes open to find myself in a hospital bed, this wasn't part of the plan.
Scanning my surroundings, the chaos that had ensued after the attack seems to have died down. But when I realise it is only because I am in a private room, that's why I can't hear anything...I've been moved away.
It painsto think our pack members were still suffering, and I wasn't helping them.
As my eyes focus more, I can see a small rectangle shaped window that looks out into the corridor outside. My entire family stand there, watchingthrough the glass window.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtHe kicks in to action trying to get through the door, only for Jaxon and Jace to pull him back. A roar follows, a roar only Knox would make.
"I wanted to talk to you alone." I gasp out as Dad's voice calls out tofrom the corner of the room. I hadn't even noticed him there, my senses all over the place.
He looks grey, in pain still, but he is alive...he is out of the hospital bed.
"Dad!" I cry out trying to sit up as he moves towards me. I thought I had lost him, so to see him moving towardsis a miracle.
A miracle I will need tto understand. I had pushed myself too far, taken on too much but I couldn't let him leave us. Not when I had the ability to stop it.
"Josie..." A frown enters into his face, sadness edged in his eyes.
"What's going on? Are you..." "I'm going to be fine. I still have shealing to do but the doctor says I will make a full recover." Complete relief washes over me, removing that panic at seeing his sadness. Just having him here beforeshows it had been worth it. His eyes glance to the window, where Knox is still trying to push past both of my brothers.
"I've asked Jaxon and Jace to keep Knox away until I've spoken to you alone." His voice has little energy to it, I can tell he is torn between an alpha and a father.
"Okay.." I exhale uncertain of where Dad was going with this.
"What do you think you were doing?" "I was saving you." I sigh out, the father part of him had won his inner battle.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm"No.." "No? What I was meant to just let you die, in front of me." "Yes... Josie.." He reaches foras he sits on the edge of the hospital bed, but I needed to get my point across. I refused to be commanded and overpowered on this.
"No Dad, how can you even say that." "Because there's always a price to pay, there always has to be a balance. Never would I want you to trade your life for mine. In what world do you think our lives even compare. Not only did you put your life in danger, you've completely outed yourself to the pack..." Petra's words return to me. How she had been there at the Nightshade Reformed pack, how she would never betray Mum or me.
Dad says I've outed myself to the pack but maybe it was tfor him to start tellingshtruths of his own.
"What is the Nightshade Reformed pack?" I ask out, my change in topic completely taking him off guard. "Where did you hear that name?" "Does it matter? Why have I not heard of it before?" "It was a pack your Mum lived in for a short while. It doesn't exist anymore, we moved the pack members to Clear Waters." Which would include Petra.
"The Clear Waters...they know about Mum?" I ask, my voice low. My m brothers were still holding Knox back outside, and making quite a bit of noise between them, but I still didn't know if they could hear us.
"Yes, the elders do." Dad answers as he turns to check the noice coming from the corridor outside. His lips En almost tugging into a smile. "The younger generation?" "No, we decided the past was best left in the past." I let his words sink in before asking another question.
"You made Mum promise not to help you didn't you?" "Yes. I am foremost her mate, I made a vow to protect her." "But she had the power to save you."
never "No, Mum has the power to take or give. If she took, she would have to give it to somebody else. We would never endanger members of this family or our pack members. Which is why..." I remember Mum saying something similar now, before I used my ability on Dad.
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