Micah POV.
I shouldn’t have yelled at my mate, he wants to keep me safe, but then my insecurities got in the middle, I yelled at him, I pushed him away, and now I’m paying the price, it’s not my knee that hurt now, it’s my heart that’s aching, it’s my wolf who’s screaming for my mate to come back, to come and hold me, we’re sorry for pushing him away.
I wanted to go and follow him, but I couldn’t do that, I couldn’t get up on my injured foot, I can’t get up, I should shift to heal myself some more, but doing that would mean I’d fall asleep, I didn’t feel safe enough to sleep yet.
I looked at the pain killers he got me, how did he find those, we don’t have any around here, it’s not my first injury around here, I’ve had my shoulder popping out of it’s place before, but never have I received a pain killer before, it was calling to me, but I can’t take a pill without him being here to protect me, I don’t want to feel weak. I was just looking up at the ceiling, counting down some random cheeps, I messed between the sixth and the ninth cheeps, I’m being a silly boy who can’t count till ten, I need my daddy, I need Jordan.
He didn’t come back for another hour, a full hour of me just sitting there in bed looking up at the ceiling, the bed had Jordan’s smell all over it, I kept taking deep breaths in, taking his scent in, his smell calmed me down, it made my wolf purr, but it also made the void inside me go deeper, I want my mate, I want to hold him, I want to hug him, I’m in so much pain, tears started to go down my face, I couldn’t hold those. I’m never supposed to show weakness, I’m supposed to always be strong, always be in charge, but right now I’m tired.
When Jordan walked into the room, I wiped my eyes clean, pretending to be strong, although it didn’t work well for me, the tears kept falling down, he walked toward the bed, sitting next to me.
“Daddy?” I mumble, he just hums in response, I saw him holding down to his side, too worried that he’s been injured, I sat up quickly in the bed ignoring my pain, is he okay? I’m used to the pain, but he wasn’t raised like that, he never had to watch back, but around here, if you don’t keep an eye on your back, you’d be injured, jumped and betrayed.
“Jordan, what’s wrong? Where are you hurt?” I ask him, tears going down my face, I didn’t mind crying in front of Jordan, I don’t need to watch my back around Jordan, I could trust him.
“It’s nothing baby, it’s nothing, how’s your knee?” he answers me, but I could tell he was lying, he was in pain, I pulled him to sit down next to me on the bed, my eyes filled with worry as his were closed in pain.
“Jordan, what happened?” I ask him, although I didn’t really want to know, I don’t want to know that my pack, the ones who are supposed to be my family have hurt my mate, my one and only love.
“We had a small fight,” he says, but small isn’t the word, I lifted his shirt, seeing his toned muscles, there was nothing there, I kissed his chest, my head laying over his heart, listening to his heartbeat, I closed my eyes enjoying the sound, he’s safe now, that’s all that mattered.
“Who did you fight with?” I ask him, going on with my inspection, the injury wasn’t on his torso, but he’s holding his left side, I knew it was there somewhere.
“Joshua, we had a small misunderstanding,” Jordan says with a small smirk, my eyes went wide looking at him, Joshua is the best fighter in the pack, he’s the most dominant wolf too, I was always worried that he’s stronger than me, his aura is more dominant than mine, and his wolf refuses to submit to mine or connect with mine, dad is the alpha, no matter how hard I try to make the others submit to me, it doesn’t work well with Joshua.
“Were you hurt badly?” I ask, a tear going down my face, he’s hurt, I know what Joshua is capable of, he’s hurt, I think to myself with another tear going down my face.
“Hurt? You should see the other guy, where’s your trust in your daddy little boy?” he says, he heard me mumble it, I turned red now, I turned from crying to blushing now.
“Where were you hurt?” I ask him, I had my doubts, but I felt too shy to ask him to take off his pants.
“Help me here baby,” he says trying to take his pants off, I helped him slip it off carefully with his left thigh, there was the injury, a nasty bite, I could see the bite mark, it’s starting to heal, but I could see the mark, I knew it’s Joshua’s bite, one that left a mark on my mate, I got closer to his thigh, closer to the injury, laying a kiss on it.
“Hmm, it feels better already,” Jordan says pushing me back toward his chest, laying my head on his chest, but I didn’t want him to be in pain, ignoring my own pain, I sat up, went toward the bedside table, where he left the pain killers, handing it to him, limping toward the bathroom to get a glass of water, I limped back toward the bed, he needs the pain killers now, more than I would ever do.
“Take it,” I say handing him the water glass and the pain killers.
“Thank you, baby, but you’re the one in pain you should take it,” he says, now is a good time to say sorry for what happened.
“I’m sorry for yelling at you, this pack… it’s… I don’t know what to call it Jordan, but they’re… they’re nothing like your family,” I say tears going down my face, how to explain to him, that I could never show any weakness, it’s how I’m conditioned and raised.
“I understand baby, I understand, this isn’t the ideal, but now baby I need you to take this pill, and rest, I’ll watch over you,” he says, understanding why I couldn’t take it before.
“But you’re in pain too,” I say with a big pout.
“I’ll take one later when you wake up and can watch over me,” he says, I was so happy, my mate trust me to watch over him when he’s in a vulnerable state.