Novels by Harper Johnson

July 20The sun was setting by the time Able and I left the medical centre. Over the last few hours, Doc Barrett and I, with the assistance of Kora and Addison, had managed to get the case load under control, with six patients who would be staying in for monitoring, including Brody and only a handful left to be seen.Able had caught up with everything that was going on and formulated a plan with the assistance of his father and Beta. We received confirmation from a nearby pack that further reinforcements were being sent, along with one of their pack doctors and supplies.For now it looked like the fighting had come to a standstill, although shifters of all ages patrolled along the edge of the pack lands, waiting for an opening to invade.The general consensus right now was that they wanted something, and Able expected that Alpha Westley would be in contact with demands soon enough, in the meantime, the pack was using the down time to rest and recover and plan out additional defences.

July 20“You okay?” Able’s words were gentle, his hand soothing as he ran circles on my back while I, embarrassingly, heaved into the shrubbery. Unfortunately, not even the tingles were enough to overcome the dread I felt in the pit of my stomach.His brother.Oh my god, what if he doesn’t make it. Would they blame me. His Mum who was sweet and kind, his father with his soothing charm, the sister I hadn’t met yet and the pack who idolised the Alphas family, and finally my mate, my salvation, my future. Would they forgive me?“He’ll be okay. Doc said you did a great job.” Able tried soothing me but it was in vain. Because all I could think of were the what if’s.I stood on shaky legs, wiping my mouth on the sleeve of the scrubs I still wore and let Able pull me into him, his arms wrapping around my shoulders and my head reasting against the bare skin of his muscled chest.“You did amazingly Amara. Mum spent a full ten minutes bragging about how you jumped into helping doc. About how m

July 20An older woman came into view in the open doorway, bending to help Rebecca stand, edging around the puddle of sick, her dark eyes lifted and landed on my patient before her skin paled. I guess it was a gruesome sight, I mean it turned my stomach initially but all the same, there were an awful lot of people struggling with this. Who was this boy?I shook off the thoughts. As my hands moved, cleaning an incision in the boy’s bowel before placing a stitch to hold the edges together then moving on to the next hole.“Talk to me Jay, what’s wrong with him.” I asked my guard, who was cutting the fabric off the other man’s body as my eyes kept sweeping up to Rebecca in the doorway.“Beck?” Greyson’s voice out in the hall caught her attention and I glanced down, cleaning out another cut, adding a stitch then continuing.“Kora, I need you to start at this end.” I instructed, handing her the other end of the bowels. “He’s losing a lot of blood, we need to get him closed up as soon as we

July 18“I can’t.” I uttered, the words sticking, and I cleared my throat. “I can’t make these decisions Greyson. I don’t know anything about running a pack, hell I don’t know anything about this pack. I don’t even know where the borders are. You need to do it.” My voice shook with fear. What if he made me do it? could I actually live with myself if I got someone killed in my ignorance.“If you’re sure you are okay with that.” He uttered glancing around tentatively. “I won’t go over your head, you’re my superior.” He stated and I shook my head with a whole new level of panic.“No, please.” I muttered, my head a complete mess. Able was still unconscious, I had literally only seen the pack house and one road of Silver lake land, and I was being asked to make decisions that were so far outside my ability, outside my comfort zone. I had never even been allowed to pick the dinner menu before today. Every move I made was decided for me, and while I had always dreamed of freedom, I had never

July 18The medical centre was a large redbrick building set somewhere in the centre of the town. We drove past houses and shops and what looked like offices, all while maintaining a speed that meant it was impossible to take in my surroundings, not that my wolf or I were in a state to do so.My hands were shaking by the time the SUV pulled to a stop with a screech. My mate was injured. And it didn’t matter that Able and I barely knew each other, he was mine, ours, and the instinct of my wolf was to protect and avenge.The anger that coursed through me was like nothing I had felt before, it was an instinctual feeling that rose in me, one that my wolf had to explain was partly caused by the mate bond.By the force of the Goddess we were bound to each other in a way that would change us. Over time, I would become more like Able and Able would become more like me, our temperaments would even each other’s out. That was the point of the bond. Fated mates were the perfect pair, the perfect

July 18“Luna, we need to get you somewhere safe.” Tara stated, her voice full of panic as she glanced around the courtyard like we ere about to be attacked.Stupidly, it was only then that it occurred to me that the alarm was to signal the pack as under attack. No wonder her head was spinning.Tara’s panic was catching, and I felt my heart rate increasing as reality set in. Silver lake as actually under attack, and my old Alpha, my old pack was at the heart of it.“There’s a safe room in the Alpha quarters, we’ll stay there.” She continued before speeding across the stone pavement and up the steps into the building that would be my home.I followed along on Tara’s heels, my head a mess of so many thoughts that I didn’t take in a single thing about my new home.The older woman led the way up a set of stairs, along a corridor and into a room that resembled a small sitting room, with a wall of monitors and a computer, a sofa and tv and a mini kitchenette. An open door at the far end of