Chapter 6

Conrad’s POV

‘Alpha, Doc is here to see you. Are you still up or are you busy with… her?’ Sean’s voice fills my head just as I am about to get out of the shower. I can feel his distain through the way he says “her”. I check my watch and it’s almost eleven in the evening, why is Doc here so late.

‘Yeah, I will be down in a few minutes, just got out of the shower.’ Wrapping a towel around my waist, I walk out of the bathroom to see Hazel still laying naked on my bed. The smell of sex lingering in the air. I roll my eyes. She knows the rules, she isn’t allowed to stay after sex.

“What are you still doing here?” I say going over to my closet to find some sweatpants and a shirt to change into. For some strange reason, I feel like dressing away from her prying eyes. I shake off the strange feeling. I drop the clothes on to my bed to change but decide to wait for Hazel to leave first.

“Aww, come on, baby. I get so lonely at night without you.” She coos at me and for some reason I don’t find her voice sexy. Her blue eyes never leaving mine, she climbs off the bed and saunters over to me. Her long blonde hair swaying around her. Her hands trace my naked shoulders and down to my waist. Her fingers lace the edge of the towel. “Oops!” She giggles as she tugs the end of the towel making it fall to the floor.

I raise my eyebrow at her and give her a small smirk when she falls to her knees in front of me. “Hungry again?” I say when she wraps her hand around my shaft. I groan at the feel of her mouth and tongue sucking me. Closing my eyes, I let her have her way with my cock for a bit. Right before I am about to cum, I pull her off of me and bend her over the bed. I pull out a condom from the bedside table and slip it on.

“Baby, you don’t need that… I wanna feel you bare inside me.” She says, but I ignore her protest.

 With one hard thrust, I am seated to the hilt. I work my cock in and out of her. Her moaning is getting on my nerves for some reason. What is wrong with me right now? I have been with Hazel for a while, and her voice has never bothered me before. I push aside those feelings, and it doesn’t take long to find my release. Wrapping up the condom, I dump it into the trash. I look over at Hazel who is now sporting a scowl on her face. “What? Say what you gotta say then go back to your room. The Doc is waiting for me downstairs.”

“Why do you have to be so mean? Why can’t I stay?” She crosses her arms over her breasts with one hip cocked out to the side. Normally I would find her pose sexy, but now? Something feels different.  

“Because you know the rules, Hazel. You don’t stay.” I run my fingers through my still damp shoulder length dark black hair. We have had this conversation way too many times and it was grating on my last nerve.

‘Dude! I can only entertain my little brother for so long before I want to punch him in his face. Stop fucking the dirty pussy and get down here.’ Sean comes through the mind-link again. I never understood Sean’s open hatred for Hazel, and nor will he talk to me about it. I guess he has his reasons, and I shouldn’t pry.

“It’s because of the twins, right? It isn’t my fault they don’t like me! If they weren’t such brats….” Hazel says but I growl at her before she can finish her sentence causing her to take a step back.

“Watch what you say about my pups! Now get out!” I walk back into the closet. I know I have clothes on the bed already, but I need to step away from her. Why do I put up with her? I am ending this right now.

I walk back into the bedroom and a smell of floral hits my nose, relaxing my anger. Was that scent there previously? I look over at Hazel and see tears in her eyes. Why is she crying? I rush over to her and wrap my arms around her. “hey, hey, hey, it’s ok. I was too harsh with you.”

She sniffles back tears, “I know I am being silly, but I just want to be with you and your kids as a family. I know you only see me as… HER… since we are cousins.”

A bucket of guilt washes over me, was I too hard on Hazel? She is nothing like her. “Hush now, you are nothing like her. Listen, how about you pick out something nice at the jewelry store and I will buy it for you tomorrow after I make my arounds at the hospital and packgrounds?”  

She smiles a watery smile up at me, “Promise?”

I nod. “Now off to bed, as my secretary you have responsibility to take care of in the morning.” I give her a little wink and slap her on her butt. She kisses my cheek and leaves my room with a small bounce in her step.

Titus growls in my head, ‘I don’t like that she-wolf.’

I mentally roll my eyes, ‘She isn’t that bad…’

Once dressed, I head downstairs to find Sean and Doc in another argument in the foyer. Something about their mother liking one better than the other with a rebuttal of “Well at least mom never forgot any of my band rehearsals like she forgot to pick you up from football practice. You cried like a baby.” With a growl, “THAT WAS ONE TIME!”  Sean whisper yelled at Doc. Trying to keep their argument from waking up the whole packhouse.

“Doc,” I pull them out of their petty disagreement. “Why are you here so late?”

For the first time in weeks, I saw a new light in Doc’s eyes. “Alpha! He agreed! He’s coming here!”

Sean throws his hands up and walks away annoyed, but I just look at him curiously with zero clue on what he is talking about. “Doc, what are you talking about?”

“The Sherlock of Medicine! He will be here in the next few days!”

 “Lets take this to my office…” Sean and Doc follow me down the hall to my office. I mind-link the packhouse manager to keep an ear out for my kids in case they wake up. He agrees before cutting the mind-link. “So, he agreed?”

Doc nods his head, “Yeah! The States’ royal Beta just called me to inform me and ask about arrangements for the teams’ stay. They are also bringing some warriors. He asked if they could join in daily training.”

Sean snorts in anger. “A whole fucking team is coming!? How much is all this going to cost us? If he is so great, why does he need a team?”

“Actually, Dr. Mason doesn’t want any compensation. They only ask that we provide lodging accommodations and meals which we would have provided for anyone coming to stay at our packhouse anyways.”

Sean scowls at his little brother. “You are telling me; this superhero doctor doesn’t want money? I seriously doubt that. State wolves are selfish pricks!” He crosses his arms over his massive chest. “Look why can’t we just try to solve this issue ourselves? Outsiders are only going to cause problems like they always do.”

My heart went out to my best friend and Beta. He’s always had a grudge against wolves from the states. His hatred started when he was a kid. His father was from the states, and he abandoned their mother when she was pregnant with their second pup to move back to the states with his mistress. Sean had to step up and be the man of the house at such a young age.

“Sean, we can’t keep letting wolves get sick. Just this morning, I got word that three more packs are showing symptoms. If this doctor comes here and doesn’t help us, then no foul. We send them on their way and find a different way to help the Northeastern packs. But what if there is a chance, he can help us? We can’t let anymore wolves go feral and die…” I say as I give his shoulder a squeeze in reassurance. Something is telling me that this doctor is the key, but just like Sean, I have my doubts.

I can see Sean mulling things over, “Fine, I trust you, Conrad… Lancon, if things go sour, it’s on you and I am not saving your sorry ass!” He points his finger at Doc before walking out of the office with a slam of the door.

Doc just stares at the closed door. His shoulders slump in defeat. “Something is going on with him. I know he has always hated State wolves because of our father, but recently it’s gotten worse.” He turns to me, his eyes filled with mixed emotions. “I won’t leave Dr. Mason’s side. I promise to keep an eye on him, plus it will be one hell of a learning experience for me.” He smiles weakly at me.

I pat him on the shoulder, “Come on, it’s late and tomorrow we need to start making arrangements.”