He’s an Alpha She doesn’t Care novel Chapter 15

Jared

Finally, on the fifth day, a lead had come through on Wynta Morgan’s where abouts, some human hospital was putting a claim through for her medical bills. Something he’d asked the pack doctor, Gordon, to monitor for and alert him to if it happened. He was now headed to the pack hospital to see what had happened to her medically.

But he’d already sent Dwane on ahead of him to that private hospital to confirm it was actually the Wynta Morgan he was looking for. He wouldn’t take any chances in just having her blindly transferred into the pack. What if someone had found her medical insurance card and claimed she was Wynta to get medical treatment?

He stood listening to Gordon as he read out that itemized bill, which stated she’d had surgery, one unit of blood had been infused, she’d spent three days in the ICU ward, two of which she was kept in a medically induced coma and there was now a post–op ward fee. There was a list of the medications and the items that were being used for her care. One of them was a full leg brace and crutches as well.

He could only sigh a little heavily, there was no actual diagnosis on there, and he stood and watched Gordon put in a call to the hospital to clarify the finer details and confirm they would be paying the bill after Jared nodded to say they would be.

He listened to the lady at the other end tell them in detail, emergency surgery for a penetrating abdominal wound, and an MCL sprain, as well as many other scratches and lots of bruising. They’d also been told she’d been brought in by ambulance, had been rescued from floodwaters by an emergency crew working nearby where she’d washed up. She’d also suffered from exposure to the elements. Had come in with mild hyperthermia.

He sighed when Gordon got off the phone after asking for the medical file to be sent over, and telling her they’d send someone to transfer her to their preferred hospital by no later than tomorrow. He’d sort that paperwork out and send it with the escort.

He waited for it to arrive and took a copy for himself and made his way to his father’s office. That man was still mad at him for not only losing Wynta, but for how long it had been now without anyone finding her. She’d not returned to the office or her apartment he was having both places watched.

It hadn’t been looking so good in the finding her. He’d taken six lashings from his own father for not being able to attend the Luna Ceremony and for ditching one of the guests outside the pack, and now she was missing, and for not following his father’s orders when he should have put that above everything else.

His father had announced what each lash was for right before he’d given it, and he’d been put on that shaming post for them all, that had happened the following day when he’d come back. without her for the first time.

Though he’d not been the only one to take a lashing, Lotti had been hauled in and asked about why she’d left the pack and called Jared to come and pick her up. Which had seen him leave Wynta outside the pack. She’d taken three lashes with the cat of three tails, one for leaving the pack, one for calling Jared and one because it was her call that had seen Wynta not make it to the pack.

He looked at his father now, who snarled at him to get out and go find Wynta. As he walked into his office, it was the standard response to seeing him right this minute. There was something about Wynta that his old man knew and wasn’t telling anyone about, or he generally liked the she–wolf and really did just want to see her become a pack member and be granted the safety of a pack.

“I have,” he stated simply. “Dwane is on his way to confirm it right this minute. I just thought you would want to know this and see the medical file on her before I followed him, to speak with her and bring her back to the pack as you asked me to.”

“She’s in a human hospital…” his father huffed as he took the file and looked at it. “So she was washed away in that flood.” He muttered and sounded angry once more.

“It does appear so,” Jared answered. “I’ll ask her directly for clarification.” He stated, knowing that if she was, he was likely to take another lashing, likely one for everyday she’d been missing now.

“I want Wynta in this pack’s hospital by the end of the day, Jared. This bringing her into the pack will also not count as her being willing to enter the pack either, Jared. Because I am insisting on it, and you’ll be making it happen. So this trip into the pack is not to be considered her coming into it of her own free will.”

Jared frowned at his father now. “What is she willing accepts coming?” he asked. That surely had to count.

“I’ll speak to her myself, regarding that. But I don’t see her doing that. If she was willing to be treated here inside the pack, she would have called Chester and told him where she was and asked to be transferred already, don’t you think, son?… it’s also unlikely she’ll just agree to you bringing her in. So, I suggest you put your most charming smile on and sweet talk the girl.“

He couldn’t argue with any of that, so he just nodded. “I will go and retrieve her,” he stated, and turned for the door.

“Don’t even think of setting foot inside this pack, Jared, without her. You can come back when she does. Now that we know where she is.”

He held in the snarl that was trying to escape him and ran a hand through his hair as he walked from the packhouse. That man surely did have a bee in his bonnet for this rogue she–wolf. He put a call to Dwane, “Father wants her brought into the pack today. I’m also not allowed inside the pack unless I am bringing her in with me.”

“Do you foresee it as a problem? I’m just about to walk in the door.”

“Yes, and so does father, so I give you full permission to claim she’s family to have that hospital release her into your care. She’s never going to state I’m her kin, was fully ticked off when I put her out of my car.”

“Alright, it took me an hour to get out here and a few detours on the way, so just let me know when you arrive, and I’ll let you know how it goes. Will she need patient transport or do you think they’ll let us just put her in the car and take her away?”

“I don’t know, assess that when we see how bad she is, she had emergency surgery and got some other injuries listed out as well. But it’s been what? Four days post–operative. She should be well enough to walk out the door, or I hope so.”

He cut the call and made his way to the pack hospital and collected a copy of that patient transfer form before getting into his car. As he got in, the pack doctor called out to him, and he looked at him. “Yes Gordon?”

“Your father stated I’d better go as well, in case there is trouble with having her released.”

“Hope in,” Jared stated, and they were gone a few minutes later.

He pulled up outside a nice looking private hospital out in the countryside and read the sign, Hill’s Private, Memorial Hospital, He could see it wasn’t just a hospital there was a whole medical complex here, that had its own ED and GP services. One part of it was for public access and the other was for private patients.

They walked into the building after he mind–linked to Dwane “How’d it go?”

‘Difficult. She is a stubborn she–wolf, that is for sure. She refused to acknowledge me as her family, stated I was a stranger and had me removed from her ward by the nurse, threatened to have the nurse call security.”

‘Right.‘ So it was as his father was expecting.

‘It is true though, Jared, you can’t really blame her. She’s never seen me before. She, being wolf–less, might not even be able to detect a pack scent, but it didn’t take long for her to realize I was a wolf. Though I made sure to mention Uncle Edward to her Huh?” He was a bit confused by that.

She’s in a four–bed ward, got two humans in there with her.”

“Oh, alright”

“I did tell the nurse she was my sister, and is upset there was a family dispute, and she’s now just being stubborn about it. Played the whole super wealthy family drama, and she was, well, a spoiled rich girl having a tantrum so to speak.”

“How’d that go down?”

I don’t think she believes me. Wynta asked I prove we were related and, well, I couldn’t.”

He let the link go and he and the pack doctor walked to the ward. He left both of them out there to talk to the nurse and then walked into the ward to look at Wynta himself. She was sitting in her bed wearing a hospital gown and her eyes moved towards him, and he smiled at her. “Afternoon Wynta, I’m glad to see you okay,” he stated.

She stared at him but said nothing at all, and he knew she had to be upset with him, for being left alone on that road and then washed away. She was in here because of him. “Firstly, I’d like to apologize for putting you out of my car.” He told her as he pulled up a chair to sit next to her bed. “With no jacket at that. I’m sorry, I didn’t know you needed one.”

She raised an eyebrow at him and then just turned her face away from him to look out the window. He let it go; he could see the bruising on her arms and there was also one to the side of her face. “I am here to bring you to Cedar Rapid Hospital for proper treatment of your injuries. You’ll have the best care there, I assure you.”

She shook her head as if dismayed by him. “Are you also my brother?” she asked without looking at him.

“No, just your bosses concerned son, here to arrange your transport. The company will, of course, be paying all the medical bills seeing as you were injured at a company event. But father is insisting you be treated by his doctor.”

“I’m not interested in going to the company hospital.” Her eyes finally moved to him. “The doctors and nurses here are doing a great job, they treat me well, with respect and are knowledgeable, saved my life, so.” she shrugged. “I see no need to change hospitals.”

He frowned at her now and thought about that, what his father had said to him and knew how to fix this. “Father stated he understands he is insisting, and it will not be a part of the deal you two have. That will start once again, after your treatment has been attended to, and you’ve returned to your apartment.”

“There is no need for that, Mr Hayes, I’ll just stay here thank you.” she stated flatly, and turned her eyes to the window once more.