Filed to story: The Packs Doctor Novel Free PDF Online (Yara & Warren)
“I’d like to offer to help them burn their dead. Even if they don’t want to come with us, this wil attract predators and could put them into a dangerous situation.”
As we approach the packhouse, I see Luna Yasmin with a shirt tied around her mouth and nose. She’s attempting to drag some of the bodies into a pile. She stops when she sees us, moving back to the packhouse and calling out to someone. Quirin comes running around the side of the packhouse to stand beside his mother.
I step out of the car, as do Farrah and Henry.
“Alpha Quirin, Luna Yasmin. I am Alpha Harold. This is my mate, Farrah, and my son, Henry. We’ve come
to talk to you and to offer our assistance in cleaning up your pack lands.”
“What do you want to talk about?” Quirin asks.
“You and your mother are not safe out here.”
“We’re fine,” he says defiantly.
I look at Luna Yasmin and raise my eyebrow. “You didn’t tell him?”
Quirin’s head snaps to his mother. “Tel me what, Mother?”
“It was nothing,” she says, raising her chin.
“If Alpha Warren’s warriors hadn’t arrived when they did, it would have been something. You and I both
know that,” Farrah says, stepping forward.
“Mother?” Quirin asks.
When she doesn’t answer, I look at him. “So, you weren’t here when Alpha Simon showed up and attempted to rape your mother?”
Yasmin clenches her teeth.
“Mother?”
“You weren’t here. Nothing happened. I didn’t want to worry you,” she says.
“It sounds like a lot happened,” he growls, then turns back to me. “How do you know about all of this?”
“I’m in an alliance with Alpha Warren. My family and I witnessed the execution of Alpha Simon this morning. Alpha Warren and I are concerned about you, but he didn’t feel that you would listen if he offered you sanctuary because he killed your father.”
“Murdered him, you mean,” Quirin snarls.
“Your father had a lot of very good qualities, but sometimes greed can turn those good qualities into something that is not good. I’m sure you know that he intended to take Alpha Warren’s mate from him. Believe me, if he did, he wouldn’t have had the simple execution that he had.
You didn’t see Alpha Simon. Your father was not tortured before his death. He was given an honorable death. Alpha Simon was not.”
Quirin grits his teeth. “What do you want?”
“I’m here to offer you and your mother sanctuary in my pack. You are an Alpha heir, but without a pack, you are at risk. I’m assuming that your father owned these lands..”
“Yes, he did. We found the paperwork,” Yasmin says.
“That’s good. When you come of age, you’ll have a pack to return to.
Perhaps, by then, you’ll be able to start rebuilding this pack, gaining some pack members and creating a positive environment here. I’m offering for you to come live with me. You are still an Alpha heir, as is Henry You are nearly the same age and would teach you, as I’m teaching Henry how to run and manage a pack. Luna Yasmin, you are welcome to join us as well, however, you would lose your title. But you would be safe and protected within my pack.”
I can see Quirin thinking about it, not sure what the right answer might be.
“Why don’t we help you clean up your dead and we can give them a warrior’s burial. While we do that, we
can talk and you can ask questions. I know for me, I usually need to think things through before I make a decision. And your warriors need to be laid to rest,” Henry says, coming to stand beside me.
“You’re willing to help us?” Quirin asks.
“Of course. That’s what good Alphas do. We help each other,” Henry says, stepping forward. “And maybe,
if you decide to come live with us, we can become friends. Maybe once we become Alphas of our own packs, we can create an alliance.”
“I’ll never join an alliance with Alpha Warren or his heir,” Quirin snarls.
“You don’t have to have an alliance with him to have an alliance with me,” Henry says, turning to look at me. “Right, Dad?”
“That’s right,” I say, hoping that I can change this young man’s hatred for Warren. Nothing good will ever come of it.
Hours later, we finally get all the bodies into a group, laid out and ready to burn. During that time, llet Quirin and Henry work together, while I helped Yasmin and Farrah. They stopped to make food at one point, and I continued on my own, allowing my son to talk to Quirin heir to heir.
When it was all done, I stood beside Quirin, staring at the massive number of bodies. “Would you like to say something?” I ask.
“Thank you, for giving your lives for the pack. You will never be forgotten,” he says, his voice thick with emotion.
I put my arm around his shoulders, squeezing his shoulder so he knows he’s not alone, as Henry lights a
torch and sets the bodies on fire. We stand in silence, watching the bodies burn as the sun sets. The fire has nearly died out before Quirin finally turns to look at me.
“Okay, Alpha. I’ll go with you.”
I smile down at him. “I’m glad you made that decision. It’s late. Why don’t we get some food, get a shower, and you and your mother can pack up anything you want to bring with you. We’ll head out first thing in the morning.”
He turns and goes inside without another word, his mother watching him. “Will you be joining us as well?” Farrah asks her.
“I go where my son goes,” she says.
It’s not a restful night’s sleep, the scent of death and rotting flesh is in al of our noses, but in the morning, we pack up the car and head back to our pack.