- Josie -

"Can you check on the lab results with the emergency room."

"Of course, is there a problem?" I look up from my paperwork as I sit opposite Doctor Abel at his desk.

"Only the Head Doctor going to the Alpha to complain about us."

"Us?" My eyes widen in horror. If anyone thinks that the Alpha being my Dad affords me special behaviour here at the hospital, then they were wrong. It was one of the conditions of me starting here, Dad made it very clear that he wouldn't be afraid to pull the plug on my training here if he thought I was putting the patients or the doctors at risk.

If anything, his eyes would be watching me more than the most senior of doctors here.

"Well, me then. The two warriors, we should have sent them downstairs as soon as they arrived." He sighs out as he signs a document for his approval before handing it over to me to send off.

"That was my fault Doctor Abel, I just got so excited.." I was annoyed at myself for not stopping and thinking of the right cause of action at the time.

I just knew I could mend the wounds and gave into that inner drive. I didn't think of the consequences at the time, only my own excitement to practice my medical training.

"To see blood?" He chuckles out as he looks at me from over his report.

"I suppose my department can be somewhat boring at times." He continues.

"No, I didn't mean that Doctor Abel."

"How many times Josie, it's Abel. I wish you would stop using the Doctor part."

"Would you have other staff members call you just Abel?" I raise an eyebrow at him.

Doctor Abel was very likeable and we seem to have a natural rapport, I guess build from our time working together. I'm also aware that he has put his neck on the line for me with Dad for letting me work here. Something that I haven't forgotten. "No." He smirks at me, his caramel eyes sparkling with amusement.

"Well then." I smirk back at him.

"Yes but you are the alpha's daughter, it feels...inappropriate."

"It would feel more inappropriate to not call you doctor. You earnt that title, its only fair I use it. It would be different if you were from this pack...but you aren't. So I have no issues calling you Dcotor." I gently smile back at him, it was how I felt. I didn't like special treatment, yes I am the daughter of the most powerful alphas alive today but I don't let that get to my ego.

"Very well. But if the emergency doctor gives you any stick, direct him straight to me." I won't, this wasn't Doctor Abel's fault. He stood by me, let me attend to the patients, I won't let his reputation be smeared for it.

Besides...it wasn't him that dragged them through the corridor and threw them at my feet.

No, that would be him, the one I'm avoiding at all costs.

Does he even know how he made me feel, rejecting me like that...after he was the one to kiss me first. To touch me.

He's the one that keeps finding me, staying in my home...why hasn't he gone yet. Why is he even still here.

"Josie?" I look back up to find Doctor Abel staring at me, his forehead furrowing.

"Hmm?" I had spaced out again.novelbin

"The labs.."

"Right, sorry."

Closing his office door behind me, I make my way to the lower level...my anger at the house guest only building. Why does he keep taking over my thoughts, I can't stand him. Even when I'm not in his presence, his taking over my mind. The reminder of him pushing me away at the nightclub only too fresh in my mind again as it replays in my mind. I've been revisitng that memory time and time again, trying to remember all the details of that night...what I did wrong. Only for him to hurt me again.

I was alone, minding my own business during the pack run... he sought me out. He intruded on my space...only to then regret his actions.

I need to get out of here for a few days. It's clear he isn't going anywhere any time soon, and I can't be under the same roof as him, even within the same pack grounds.

I need space, I need to not see that motorcycle outside my home every goddess damn day. I hadn't told anybody, not even Maya.

Preparing to call Maya to give her the heads up that I would be staying at Uncle Jude's for a few days, I find Jace walking towards me. His smile disappears as soon as I bark at him.