"She's not supposed to be here. She got caught up in this and couldn't leave when she brought my dinner box..." He's still explaining but I cut him off mid-sentence
"And why didn't you bow down and make your wolf submit when my men were on you? Why didn't you ask her to submit instead of encouraging her to fight them?" I fire back at him as Eric squats to check his mate's pulse
"I–I... I wanted to submit b-but..." He continues to stammer while looking at his Gamma chief till he finally breaks down.
"It's my fault! I'm irresponsible, I know. This wouldn't have happened if I had insisted but... Oh, goddess! Just please don't punish her for my sins. Please I beg you Alpha! She's bleeding out and the bella donna is preventing her from healing...
A–and she's pregnant!..." He says, his wailing becomes louder right then with snots and tears running together on his face.
"She's pregnant and we– we already put the baby's life at risk when she shifted to her wolf form. That coupled with her injuries– we might lose our baby. She might even not survive this if we don't get her to the hospital... Please I beg you, Alpha... Please." He continues crying
I should pity him but I don't. He knew his mate was pregnant yet he allowed her to shift into her wolf form when he knew how dangerous it is for pregnant she-wolves to take the form of their beast during pregnancy.
"What is your name?" I ask him when I recall Victoria saying one of her friends just discovered he and his mate are expecting a pup.
"Ben." He says, wiping his tears on his shoulders.
Yes, Ben was exactly the name Victoria called her friend that just discovered his mate was pregnant
"Her pulse is weak, we need to get her to the hospital right now," Eric says as he removes the bella donna flower necklace from her neck.
"Yeah. I would have called the doctor to get ready for her but we left our phones in the car and one of the front tires has been blown out."
"There's no problem about that. The men from the estate came in two cars. We can use one of their cars." Ivar who just returned from opening the gate to let the men in says
"If anything happens to your mate then it's on you for choosing to believe this clown and not leading your mate right, now get up!" Eric snaps at Ben before pulling him by his arm to help him stand up.
He then kicks Cyrus where he's sitting...
"Get up bitch!" He snaps, "Perhaps you need me to send you a special invitation?"
Cyrus struggles to get up by himself before Ivar takes his arm to push him out of the room.
"Hey, where's the key to the cuffs?" I ask Ben, so I can uncuff his mate
"It's there, hanging on the wall..." He replies, pointing with his cheek towards the part of the wall where the key is hanging.
I remove the keys from the wall and ask Ivar...
"What about the whiskey you used in sterilizing your wounds? We need to sterilize her wound."
"Oh, it's all gone, General. I'm sorry" He regrettably replies
"No problem. I guess I'll have to hurry then." I say and lift her in my arms, immediately moving towards the door.
"Since the traffic had already been redirected, there's no need for us to leave this gate open tonight. You should close it. It will be reopened tomorrow." I tell Eric
"Okay..." He replies and turns to Ivar to go do what I asked
I jump over the banister with the woman in my arms after which I use my wolf's superpower to flash to my car for the first aid box.
She opens her eyes when I'm almost done giving her first aid. Her eyes widen with fear the moment she recognizes me and she cringes away. Pleading for me not to hurt her even when I don't in any way pose a threat to her.
"Please don't kill me! Please, I'm begging you, don't kill me. I– I am pregnant!..." She hysterically says with her hands protectively wrapping around her belly.
"Where's my mate?" She looks panic-stricken and her eyes fill with tears. She looks around as far as her eyes can see from where I placed her on the ground
"Ben!?" She shouts at the top of her voice for him, making me wonder why she couldn't communicate with her mate through their mind link instead of shouting.
"Did you kill my mate!?..." She asks and shouts for him again, glaring at me with hate-filled eyes...
"Ben!"
And then she burst into tears.
"Ungrateful!" I mumbles under my breath and stands up to get away from her.
The two cars the men from the estate brought can't contain them all. I see from afar that Cyrus and Ben can't move fast. They were slowing my men down because of the silver cuffs and bella donna on them.
I wave at them before mind-linking Eric,
'Let the men walk. Put the prisoners in the car and hurry here already! We don't have the time to waste!'
Apart from the fact that we need to hurriedly arrange the pack's patrol, I know Ben's mate urgently needs a healer. The fact that I performed first aid on her and she now has the energy to shout doesn't mean she's out of the woods. She'll still need a healer to check on her baby to see if it's fine after she shifted to her wolf.
After speaking with Eric, I got a spare tire and started to remove the blown-out one. It's at that moment I notice the body of my car is riddled with bullet holes. I stop what I'm doing and open the glove compartment where I'm sure I keep a pen knife.
I use the knife to dig out a bullet that is lodged inside the car.
"Silver bullets!" I say in disbelief like it's just occuring to me that these people really want me dead.
I fold my hand over the bullet, tightening my fist. I'm angry but I can
kiss Eric right now for convincing me to buy this car. I would have been dead if it had been a modern car that was built from much thinner steel. The bullets would have passed through the body and hit me. It would have been instant death If one of those bullets had hit me in the head or heart.