I wanted to go and check Gabe was ok, but right now Esme and Mateo were by his bed, and I felt it was necessary to let them be with him. Dan and I were standing in the corner of the room. Both quiet, both watching the scene in front of us. I wonder if he is full of emotion and turmoil like I am. It doesn’t feel right seeing Gabe like this. He is a warrior, he is not meant to be weak and vulnerable in a hospital bed. Not to mention quiet and unable to be cracking jokes, having a laugh like he normally does. It feels so wrong in so many senses. It makes this whole situation so much more scary to me. That probably doesn’t make sense. But that is how it feels. He looks ill too, and that is not good. I hope these Drs are able to help him. I truly do. My gut feeling is that I want him taking to our pack hospital if I am honest, so I know the Drs, know they have the best possible treatment available, as here I don’t know how they work, don’t know the staff and don’t know what they ha
I was shocked to see Manuel and Jake leave the packhouse, but when I received his mindlink I assumed he had had some bad news about Gabe. I hope Esme had got here in time. I let Alpha Jacob know where they had gone. While my family sat and spoke among themselves about their future. Right now my focus wasn’t really on whether they came with me to Midnight Forest or not. My mind was on Gabe. He had saved my life, and now his life hung in the balance or may have even ended because of that. I wanted to know if he was ok or not. “Ok Lola, we will call Knox shortly, he should be there by now. He told me he was going straight to the hospital when he landed. Are you ok?” Alpha Jacob looks at me with a sad smile I shake my head. “This is my fault, isn’t it?” “No sweetheart, it isn’t. This is your Alpha’s doing. Manuel was following protocol, as the boys always do. That is how they have been brought up, that is how our pack do things. And Gabe was doing what he does, being the
Seeing Gabe laid there like that was enough to make me want to go and find that Alpha and torture the evil son of a bitch, I swear I have never felt anger like it. But intermingled with the anger was agony and upset at seeing my closest friend and cousin injured, knowing he had been so close to dying. And he had been like that because he had come down here to help me and my mate. I will always look at it like that. He didn’t have to come, but he will have had the same pull to the warrior's team and the family I did and wouldn’t have wanted to leave them. He wanted to help, support us and be there. Part of me wonders if some of his reasoning was for Esme too. And seeing her now by his side, anyone can see they are meant to be together. They need to make this being mates work now. They would be crazy not to. I cross the room to his bed now Knox has let me go from his hug. I think he's feeling as hopeless in all of this as me. “Hey Gabe” I whispered, hoping he could hear me
I had sat with Gabe for three days now, and he was still sleeping. The Drs were coming and going, telling me his stats were improving. The nurses were regularly cleaning his wound and it actually looked like it was starting to slowly heal now they had managed to get it to stop bleeding. Kya was in slightly less of a mood with me, she was whimpering each time the nurses were touching her mate, changing his dressings, knowing he would likely be in pain. Seeing his wounds made me flinch. I have seen so many wounds in my training, but seeing them on Gabe they seemed so much worse. Knowing it was my mate that was hurt, knowing he could be in pain, it affected me more. Mateo spent most of the time here too. Though I had gone a step further and was literally sleeping in the chair next to Gabe’s bed. I only left the room to go and have a shower in the Drs' room that they were allowing me to use. And I only did that when Mateo was with him, so he wasn’t on his own. I needed to make th
I could not help but smile at hearing those words coming from Gabe, who knows if he was joking other than him, but I swear hearing him talk and seeing him awake was so much of a relief. And I wanted to slap him and hug him at the same time, this pain in the ass of a friend of mine. “Oh Gabe!” I hear Esme sigh as she perches herself on the edge of the bed next to him. All the emotion clear in her voice. I see a small smile playing on his lips “I ain’t dead then? What you doing here, Carino?” his voice barely audible. “What do you think she is doing here you stupid fucker, she came here to check you were ok. Sat here every minute of each day since she arrived. That not tell you something? Fancy rushing down here to help us without some warning you fool.” Mateo blurted out from the other side of the room, he had literally just walked in. Something tells me he may be a little bit relieved his son is ok. Just a little. “Good to see you, Dad” Gabe tries to laugh “Oww, tha
To wake up and see Esme by my side, I swear I thought for a second I had died. But then I saw my Dad and Knox and figured they would not be with me. I was in fucking agony. Had they not heard of pain killers?! My Dad was straight on my case, so I know from that he had been upset and scared. He acts all tough like that, making jokes and digs when he has been worrying. So I go along with it. Joining in with his jokes, though in truth I just wanted to be with Esme. Hearing Knox suggest he and my Dad went for a coffee was a relief. I do wonder if he has done that specifically for me. As I hear the door close behind them, I look to Esme, and she is fidgeting with her top. I am unsure what to say now she is here. She obviously travelled down here because I was injured right? And from what my Dad had said she has been sat in here since she got here? Dare I read into that? Damn this silence is awkward….. I look up to her, just as she looks to me…. She is beautiful. “Hey you
Hearing everything Gabe had said had warmed my heart. I am hoping that means he was still wanting to be with me. We may be able to be the mates we were fated to be. My family may even get a chance of a fresh start at Midnight Forest Pack too. Maybe meeting Gabe and his friends that night had been the thing that would change the future for so many of our pack. Perhaps it was fated for us all. The men in that pack are truly amazing that they would be so determined to help our pack when they didn’t even know us, just from hearing what Lola and I had told them. We owed them so much. “You ok, Carino” Gabe mutters as he shifts slightly on the bed, pain evident on his face. “I am fine, just relieved, Guapo. I am guessing you are hurting with them stopping your pain killers though, yeah?” I ask. “They stopped pain killers? They torturing me or did I piss someone off?” he asks. I have to smile, he is obviously getting better if he is cracking jokes. “You had an allergic react
I walk back to the room as the Dr was leaving, to see Gabe and Esme looking at each other awkwardly. Had we interrupted something? Or had the Dr given him some bad news? “Everything ok?” I ask. “Hey Knox” Gabe smiles “Del not come to see me?” “She is home with Kai” I explain. “Damn, I nearly die, and she still won’t run away with me” he grins. Esme looks puzzled. She best get used to this weird stuff her mate says. “You don’t need my girl now, you got your own” I grin back. “Maybe Esme might like to share or she might want to run away with you?” Gabe winks. I laugh at the look of shock on Esme’s face now. “It’s a long-standing joke, Esme, don’t worry, he has no intention of running away with Lilah and I highly doubt he would be letting you run anywhere with me either” I smile. “It is his weird sense of humour, you need to get used to it” Gabe laughs “Ow that hurts” his hand goes to his side “I can’t even laugh without it feeling like my insid