Chapter 569

When they come for her. I follow them into the surgery room. “If you are going to be in here, you need to stay out of my way. The doctor tells me, and I move to stand by her head, my fingers running through her hair, I just need to touch her and hopefully, she feel my touch and it will help to calm her.

They sedate her but when he begins to cut her top off, I can’t help the growl that leaves my mouth. He stops and looks at me. “In this hospital I am in charge, Guardian. You either stay out of my way or get out and let me do my job.”

I rein Donovan in and let him get back to work. I watch as he pulls up a live camera feed attached to the needle He makes an incision then pushes the needle and camera into her side. He slowly and methodically moves the needle until it is at the bottom of her lung. After he gently pushes the needle in.

he slowly begins to pull the plunger on the needle, suctioning the silver out of Lily’s lung.

When he’s done, he pulls the needle from her body, leaving the camera, before wiping the trickle of blood caused by the needle. He watches her body on the screen before sighing. “As I expected, the suctioning process and the silver itself has forced the collapse of her lung. We will keep her sedated for now, so she doesn’t struggle to breathe.”

He pulls the camera from her body and looks at me. “You are welcome to stay with her and it’s probably the best–medicine we can give her. I’m going to give her some oxygen and tomorrow we’ll see if there is any improvement. I can’t begin to try to reinflate the lung until the punctures have healed.”

“I understand.” I say and follow the medical assistants as they push Lily to a recovery room.

I lay down beside her on the bed, talking to her, letting her know I’m here. After a while, Anders and Patrick come in.

“We just got a status update on Lily. Any change?”

“Nothing yet. What happened to Aaron and Alpha Mahli?”

“Aaron and his wife are in the cells awaiting my verdict.” Patrick says, looking at Lily before turning back to me. “I’m going to banish them.”

If I wasn’t laying beside my comatose mate, I would have blown up at him. As it is, I lean in, kissing her temple and telling her I’ll be right back before sliding off the bed and covering her. I motion for Anders and Patrick to join me outside.

As soon as her door closes, I turn on Patrick. “He nearly killed his daughter and you’re only going to banish him?”

“Alpha Mahli has already put a bounty on his head. I doubt he will survive a week, but this way, Lily won’t blame me, you, Dad or this pack for the death of her parents.” Anders says.

Patrick nods. “Not wanting a relationship with her parents is very different than wanting them dead.

Anders and I discussed what Lily would want it she were awake. This is more for her than it is for them.”

I have my hands on my hips, but my shoulders relax and my head drops. They’re right. Lily wouldn’t want to see them dead, and she would struggle to know that the Alpha and pack she loves, ordered their death.

When I come to terms with their decision, I look back up. “What about Alpha Mahli?”

“Technically, he didn’t commit any crimes. A pack member invited him on our pack lands and he paid one of our pack members a lot of money. I also took into consideration that he probably saved Lily’s life by telling us what Aaron did. I don’t like his methods, but he didn’t mean any harm to come to Lily.

However, I let him know that he is now an enemy of our pack and if he or any of his pack ever enter territory again, they will be killed on site.”

“When will you be banishing the Raines‘?” I ask.

r our “Tonight. I’ve called the entire pack to witness what happens when one of our pack members threaten another.”

“If you want to be there, Cali will come stay with Lily. I think she’s planning to come by anyway.” Ande says.

“I’ll think about it.”

“She’ll be okay. She’s a Guardian and she has her mate by her side.”

They turn to leave, and I return to my mate, crawling into bed and curling myself around her.

Cooper Author Well Aaron Raines is a piece of work. What do you think of Patrick and Anders‘ decision to banish them instead of killing them for what they did to Lily?

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