Chapter 294
But he’d been having an awful day. He’d managed
to dislocate his wrist while he was playing golf and
tripped.
He didn’t want to bother the pack doctor because he was close to the hospital, so he decided to go there instead. Had it been a muscle strain or cut, he could have healed it on his own by shifting, but not with a dislocated bone. If he shifted while the bone was dislocated, he could do permanent damage.
As soon as he got out of the car at the hospital, a woman with tears streaming down her face ran right into him-and hit his injured wrist.
There was a loud crack, but the woman who bumped into him didn’t notice it. She didn’t even apologize and was about to just run off.
He might be cool and calm and collected on most days, ever trying to counteract Griffon’s harshness, but he’d had enough today.
Harper didn’t even raise her head when she heard
Preston’s voice. Her unfocused eyes were fixed the
blurry horizon through her tears.
Seeing her like this, Preston realized something awful must have happened to her, and his wolf’s anger
subsided a little.
However, this didn’t mean he wasn’t angry and would simply let it go. He was the Knight pack’s Beta, dam mit. And someone from another pack wouldn’t be let off the hook so easily.
“You’ve injured me, and you’ll pay for my medical bills,” he growled out.
Only then did Harper react. When she focused on him, he had already taken out his mobile phone, opened Venmo, and was holding the QR code up for
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