I should be your Beta, not your Mate

36 - Moat

»Hm... No idea, maybe because I hold the most amazing guy in my arms.«

He lifted me at the hips up into the air so my feet didn't touch the ground anymore and slowly swirled me in a circle before he let me onto the ground again.

Laughing, I kissed his lips shortly and snuggled my head against his firm chest. »I know that I'm amazing.«

Amused, he shook his head and entangled our hands and fingers.

»Where to?« I asked curiously while he dragged me to his car in which we got in.

»Our family has lunch together at your home and my father wants to talk to us about something, your father too,« he said and shrugged his shoulders.

»And that's why you sound so happy? In my ears, it sounds like we're going to the slaughterhouse,« I said jokingly and rolled my eyes.

»By the way, did Cameron, Genevieve and Chat arrive safely in Canada?« Cas asked and I nodded.

»Cameron and Chat needed to go to the frontlines immediately, which is why school is probably going to suck for them. And Genevieve is prohibited from going out,« I answered and chuckled at the end.

»Better that way,« Cassian laughed and I wanted to return something to his words when my eyes caught sight of something at the edge of the road.

»Stop the car right now!« I screamed and kicked the door open before the car could come to a halt.

»KYRAN!« Cas yelled in panic when I jumped out of the moving car. To my luck he already drove slower which is why I didn't hurt myself.

Hectically I stumbled the few meters back from where we came and slid down into the slippery moat.

With trembling hands, I pulled the little boy out of the ice cold, stinking water and searched on his neck and wrist for his pulse. To my relief I found it, though it was weak.

»What happened?« Cas yelled, probably assuming I had a sudden panic attack, and looked down at me only to widen his eyes when he saw the young Omega in my arms.

»Is he alive?« he asked, shocked and helped me out of the slippery moat with Luke in my arms.

»Yes, even though he is freezing...« I whispered and eyed his body.

Everywhere were hematomas that were so big I wondered how he wasn't dead. I wasn't sure if he had inner bleeding – and then his body temperature; ice cold. A few places still bleed but they weren't dangerous injuries – only grazes at his knees, elbows and knuckles.

But the giant hematomas weren't healthy at all and inside my head, I already imagined who did that to him. Though I couldn't believe that other children had the power to do this to him.

»The hospital is too far away. We will bring him to you because you live close by. And then we call an ambulance!« I decided sternly and lifted the unconscious Omega up.

Cas nodded quickly and opened the passenger door. I got inside and took my jacket off and wrapped it around Luke – the jacket was almost three times too big for him.

Tightly I squeezed him against my body to give him more of my warmth and Cassian put on the heater inside the car. He was too cold, almost as cold as dead.

Again, and again Cas looked at us and I saw the question on his face that I couldn't answer him yet. First, I needed to concentrate on Luke before I could concentrate on someone or something else.

I couldn't tell if it was my instinct of being a doctor, that I got in Canada, or my instinct as a Luna to protect the wolves of my pack.

The only thing that counted was that I worried about him right now.