NovelOnlineChapter 0545
| hate it when Lily walks out of my room. A part ofworries that she wouldn't cback. I laid all my cards on
the table. | have to hope that it's enough for her to givea chance to prove that she’s the only
woman for me.
Not long after she leaves. Alpha Patrick comes in.
“Clint, | was happy to hear that you awakened earlier today.”
“Good afternoon, Patrick. It was good to wake up and have Lily at my side.”
“She didn’t leave you. She’s the one that carried you from the battlefield to the hospital.”
That's news to me. | know she’s strong but I'm nearly a foot taller than her. “How did she manage that?”
“Have you looked at your feet?” He asks, raising an eyebrow.
| pull the sheets off and see that, indeed, my feet look like they've been drug through the mud. | chuckle before
pulling the sheets back overand shrugging. | don’t care. I'd get shot with wolfsbane every day if that’s what
it takes for Lily to stop pushingaway.
“Have you spoken to her yet?” | ask Patrick.
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“Not yet she’s been busy watching over you, and I've been busy trying to figure out how Alpha Mahli figured out
that she’s a Guardian. I've been interviewing Aaron but even under Alpha command, he says
he didn’t say anything.
I'm shaking my head. “That's not how it cacross to Lily. When she gets back, you need to talk to
her.”
My food is delivered and it’s not five minutes later that Lily comes back into the room. | hadn't realized that the
tightness in my chest had returned when she left, but it immediately eases when | see her and
smell her scent.
Patrick asks Lily to cand talk to him. She looks atand rather than pulling up a chair, she comes
and sits besideon the bed. | reach out and take her hand, needing her touch.
Lily confirms that Terrance was Alpha Mabhli’s Beta then proceeds to tell Patrick about their conversation by the
lake. | can see Patrick processing this information and his eyes go unfocused as he mind links
someone.
“I might know who it was, but | don’t know how they did it. It’s not someone that would go against an
Alpha order or be able to override my command. I'll have to talk to her.”
“I'd like to be there.” Says Lily.
| frown at that. “Why?”
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She turns and looks at me. “I've always had an uncanny ability to tell if people are lying. I'd like to see if | believe
this she-wolf when she explains how it happened.”
Patrick looks from Lily toand back again. “In light of recent events. I'm not sure that’s a good idea.”
I sit up, focusing on Patrick. “Why not?”
He looks atfor a long moment. “Well, if it's the she-wolf | think it is. Lily,” he looks back at her. “you won't be
objective.”
“Who do you think it is?” | ask. There's only one she-wolf | can think of that he’s referring to.
He holds my gaze. “Anna.”
| start to pull h
Ito pull back the blankets. “I'm coming too.”
| can feel Lily tense next tobefore standing up. | turn all my focus on her.
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“She almost ruined everything between us. | won't have you in a room with her when she could say anything
that might impact the tenuous connection we've just re-established. If you're going to be in a room with her, I'm
going to be there, too.”
| turn to Patrick. “Give30 minutes and I'll be ready.”
“Clint, you need your rest. You were unconscious less than 12 hours ago.” Lily says to me.
| take her face in my hands. “I don’t care if | were on my death bed. I'm not letting her get between us again.
She's already proven herself untrustworthy and the timing of her telling Alpha Mahli’s Beta about you and then
causing a huge rift between us is too coincidental.”
“The doctor hasn't released you yet, Clint.” Patrick says.
“As if that’s ever mattered. You and | both know I heal fast.” | say, not even looking at him as I begin to search
the room for clothes or something | can put on.
“Don’t | have any clothes here?”
“Clint. I don’t think this is a good idea.”
| stop and look at Lily. “If you're going. I'm going. | only just got you to agree to talk toagain. These last few
days have been the worst tof my life, equal to the tI lost my parents. I'm not willing to go through that
again, Lily. | told you, you're my mate. You are my future, my everything. Anna is nothing toand | won't have
her coming between us again.”
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