Page 62 of Rejected Mate's Baby for the Alpha King

Jax stopped right in front of us, and I studied him with interest. If his eyes bulged any more, they would fall right out. “So you fucking interrupt!”

“No. I can handle it. I did handle it. I barely had to do anything.”

Rhyson growled. “Then why the fuck are you both covered in blood.”

Anna grinned. “That was mostly Maya. She goes for the jugular, and it gets messy. He was starting to fall on us, and he was bleeding everywhere.”

The double doors behind us opened, and Anna’s grin quickly faded. “Shit, I keep forgetting they’re wolves. It’s so much easier to think of them as monsters. There were two. We could only save the female.”

The mood turned somber, and I felt the adrenaline fade from me. Around me, the infirmary buzzed with activity. A few people gave us curious looks, and one female in particular kept looking at Rhyson. I tried to put it out of my mind. What did I care if someone was looking at him? It wasn’t like he was mine.

Jax walked over to Anna and kissed her on the top of her head. “Go clean up, sweetheart. We’ll see if we can save her.”

Anna grabbed my arm and pulled me away. We scrubbed off the blood and dressed in clean clothes. When we returned, Saul, Tessa, and two other wolves were around the table. Jax and Rhyson were leaning back against the wall, their arms and legs crossed as if they were copying each other.

The female who I’d been eyeing before was also lounging against the wall.

Close to Rhyson. Too damn close.

Mine.

Blinking, I swallowed the word down. He was absolutely not mine. Not now. Not ever. Who was I to care who stood next to him?

She said something to him, and he frowned and leaned down toward her. Lifting up to her tiptoes, she practically put her lips right to his ear.

My feet were moving even before I realized what was happening. “Move,” I snarled as I slammed my arm against the wall between them. Eyes wide, she stumbled back, and I moved the rest of my body so that she couldn’t touch him.

“Maya.” Rhyson’s breath was in my ear. “She was just asking me a question.”

I bet she was. I didn’t even realize I was still snarling until his hand went to my waist. Only then, did I relax. Rhyson cleared his throat. “I don’t know the identity of any of the wolves that were brought into the infirmary. I’m just a guest. You’ll have to check with your healer,” he told her.

“Or, you know, your pack alpha,” I supplied helpfully with a smile. The question was bullshit and Rhyson had to know it.

The female smirked and strode away. Only then did I realize that Rhyson was still touching me. Reality hit me hard. What the fuck was that?

Saul turned. “Maya, my dear, your wolf has kindly requested that I examine you and the babe, so if you’ll go into room one, we’re almost finished up here, and your healer will join you.”

It was all I could do to run away from Rhyson. Tessa winked at me as she ushered me into the exam room. “By kindly, he means that Rhyson bellowed it very loudly after he and Jax got into a heated argument about his mate leading you into danger. It was very entertaining to watch, and it didn’t end until Saul shouted at them that they were breaking his concentration.”

There was a strange light in her eyes. “You seem excited,” I observed.

“Saul has some amazing equipment here, and his knowledge is incredible. I thought my training was superior, but he knows far more about wolf magic than I even thought possible. Outside of this mountain, we tend to forget that we’re magical creatures. It’s all about biology there. These monsters are created from the same drug that Paisley is on. Apparently, in its more pure form, it mutates the wolf.”

“Who the hell would create something like that?”

I got up on the exam table and wrapped my arms around myself while Tessa rolled some equipment out from the corner. “I don’t know,” she admitted. “But I think they do, and they’re not saying. Rhyson pulled me aside and told me about the bonds. Maya, I’m so sorry.”

Great. Soon, the whole group would know. “Any way you can tell if the baby is going to have the same problem?”

“I don’t think so.” She glanced at the closed door. “This place is so strange. It’s like a real pack.”

I chuckled. “It is a real pack. Everything we thought we knew about this mountain was wrong. Can you use that thing yourself, or do I need to wait for Saul?”

“No. I can totally get us started. Let me get the gel, and I’ll be right back.”

She ducked out of the room, and while the door was opened, Rhyson walked in. I immediately tried to straighten and cover myself, and he just scowled. “I have seen you naked before.”

He had, but this was the first time he’d seen me naked after hearing about my psychological scars. I felt more vulnerable than ever. “You don’t have to be here for this,” I muttered. “You don’t have to be here for me. I’ll do this myself.”

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