Abbey's Protectors [Beckett's Wolf Pack, Triad Mates 4] (Siren Publishing Menage & More) by Lynnette Bernard Read Free Book Online Page A

gash that was crusted over with dried blood. “Who are you?”
    “My name is Hunter and his name is Clay,” he told her gently. “We’re your mates.”

Chapter 3
     
    Abbey couldn’t prevent the whimper of pain that escaped her as she was jostled from side to side. She was fully aware of where she was. When the EMTs did a quick examination of her before they loaded her into the back of the ambulance she had struggled briefly for freedom, but it was of no use. She was completely exhausted and had no strength in her to argue with them.
    She had been careful not to give them her name. She couldn’t risk Peter finding her. She wasn’t far enough away from him. She hadn’t completed her plan to hide from him until she had put her barriers in place and started her slow but thorough elimination of him in her life.
    “Blood pressure is low,” the EMT sitting beside her said quietly. “What’s the ETA?”
    “We should be at Denver Memorial within twenty-five minutes,” the driver called to them from the front of the cab.
    Abbey tried to focus on the man taking her blood pressure. She squinted her eyes, trying to push through the haze of blurriness, and saw the nametag that identified him as C. HUTCHINSON. She had heard the driver call him Carter. He seemed like a nice enough guy but there was no way she could trust him or any other man to protect her.
    Closing her eyes, she concentrated instead on the rocking motion of the ambulance and the memory of arms holding her protectively and gently. That was a nice thought. She would go with that.
    Twenty-five minutes later, the ambulance pulled up to the emergency entrance of Denver Memorial Hospital. Abbey only knew brief moments of lucidity as she was transferred inside. The sounds and smells of the hospital made her stomach roll. Squeezing her eyes tightly closed, she tried to block out the bright lights that bombarded her senses. She heard growling and a scuffle of bodies as she was pushed through the corridor then knew no more as she succumbed to blackness as the trauma team surrounded her. Before she gave over to the relief of unconsciousness, she felt two sets of hands touching her arms and smiled, realizing that the two kind men who had found her were still with her.
    “You’ll have to wait out here.”
    Hunter and Clay looked at the emergency room doctor, completely torn. They needed to be with their mate, but they knew she had to be examined. They had no claim to her yet—a fact that pissed off their wolves completely.
    “We’ll wait,” Hunter conceded. “We’d appreciate an update when you have it.”
    “The waiting room is over there,” the doctor told them, pointing to the area to the left of the hallway. “I’ll be out as soon as I’m finished with her examination.”
    Clay nodded for both of them. He reached out and touched Hunter’s forearm, feeling the tension in his triad partner building due to their separation from their mate. They both watched in silence as the doctor left them and headed toward the area curtained off in small sections for each patient.
    “Clay, she’s ours,” Hunter whispered, turning to look at him with raw need evident on his face.
    “She is,” Clay confirmed without hesitation. “And we’ll be sure to claim her as soon as she’s been cleared. We need to explain everything to her, Hunter. She needs to know what’s going on. She needs to understand our triad mating and exactly what that means in our world.”
    Hunter barely nodded as he took his place just inside the doorway of the waiting room, crossing his arms across his chest and staring straight ahead to wait for the doctor to emerge from the examination of their woman. The growls that left him were low, constant, and uncontrollable. The very thought of any man touching their mate was almost enough to push his wolf to shift and stand guard. He flexed his muscles continuously as he fought for control.
    “I’m having a hard time controlling my wolf,” he told