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“You love me?” She tilted her head back to look up at him.
Toren leaned down and brushed a kiss on her lips, then settled in. The kiss went deeper and hotter until Toren knew he had to get them inside and upstairs to his suite before the entire pack witnessed him claiming his mate once again.
Breaking the kiss, Toren opened the door and slid out with her still in his arms. “Are you sure you want dinner?”
She smiled at him as he shifted his hold until she was wrapped around him like a monkey. “I can wait if you have something else in mind.”
Though he wanted nothing more than to race upstairs and to their suite, her stomach giving a loud rumble had him stopping just outside the front door.
Toren took a deep breath and made a change to his hastily made plan. Food before fucking. “You might be able to wait, but your stomach wants food now.”
“I also want a shower, if we can fit that into the night’s schedule.”
“Okay, that’s perfect. You’ll take a shower, and I’ll call down for dinner.”
She surprised him when she shook her head. “No. We’ll eat with the pack. I don’t want to cause Clarey any more work. As it is, I’m sure she’s pissed that her dinner had to be kept warm while you all came to rescue me.”
He smiled and brushed a kiss on her forehead. “Clarey was the one who sounded the alarm when she couldn’t find you. I’m sure she would be happy to fix us a tray to take upstairs.”
“Really? Then I need to thank her,” Katee said, looking stubborn.
Toren chuckled as he opened the door and carried her into the house. “You do realize thatIam the alpha around her. You’re supposed to do as I dictate, not the other way around.”
Katee shrugged. “I know you’re the boss, but if your ideas are wrong, I may be the only one to tell you they are. Your pack will follow you blindly into hell, but I’ll be the one to hold you back. Just consider me your new conscience.”
Toren laughed as he carried her toward the dining room. “All right, then, but only in private. Please don’t call me out in front of the men or they’ll think I’m weak.”
“Deal,” Katee said, brushing a kiss on his chin.
When they entered, Toren was surprised to find the men gathered around the table. Moving closer, he saw a large wolf lying on it. Glancing around the crowd, it only took a moment for him to realize Lasso, one of his closest advisors, was the shifter on the table with Duck holding a cloth against his side.
“Put me down, please,” Katee whispered in his ear.
Concern for Lasso had him setting her down without thinking about his actions. He watched Katee push her way through the crowd of men twice her size and step up to the table.
Her sole focus on Lasso, she started barking out orders, “I need a first-aid kit, a big bowl of hot water, and a bottle of vodka, and one of whatever he drinks.”
When the men shifted as one to look at him, he nodded sharply. “Get her what she needs.”
He then stepped up to the wolf’s head and met the man’s pain-filled caramel brown eyes. “You’re going to be okay, Lasso.”
Lasso whimpered and closed his eyes.
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Though Katee was not formally trained as a veterinarian, she had assisted in enough surgeries to know how to help the injured wolf. Looking around at the silent crowd, she knew if she fucked up, she was dog food. Or wolf food, as it were. For now,she needed to clear the room.
“Is anyone else injured and in need of a doctor’s care?”
Ten heads moved side to side as one.
“Good. I need two men who aren’t squeamish to stay and hold him down. The rest of you get out.”
“Can’t he just shift and heal himself?” Clarey asked from across the room.
Duck shook his head. “He’s only half-shifter, so he won’t heal if she shifts. And this wound is bad enough that even a full shifter might not be able to heal it.”
Someone entered the room with the biggest first-aid kit she’d seen out of an ambulance. She carried it to the other end of the table and began picking through the contents. She was surprised to find everything she needed to perform surgery and laid out the plastic-wrapped sterile instruments.
