Chapter 136
Kennedy
As I sit, I hear the doors to the hospital slide open. Thinking maybe it’s Quirin, I stay put. I’m not in the mood for a repeat of yesterday, but maybe we can finally talk about what I found on Tommy’s leg
“Luna? There’s someone here to see you,” Deborah calls out.
I step out, seeing Emily and another warrior. He does not look happy to be here.
“Luna, could we talk to you please, in private?” Emily asks.
“Of course, come this way,” I say, leading them to one of the new rooms that I’ve set up.
“Oh, you got the new table you mentioned,” she says.
“I did. How can I help you?” I ask. The man is leaning against the wall with his arms crossed over his chest.
“Luna, this is my mate, Lane. I’ve asked him, well begged him really, to come see you,” she says, looking at her mate.
“What seems to be the problem, Lane.”
“There’s no problem, Luna,” he says.
“Lane, please!” Emily pleads.
He huffs, pushing off the wall. “It just needs more time to heal, Emily. Derion will heal the wound but the attack yesterday didn’t help.”
“Why don’t you have a seat and let me take a look,” I say.
He huffs again. “It’s on my thigh.”
“Okay, you can remove your pants and then lie down so I can take a look at it,” I tell him as I pull on some gloves. I also grab
some swabs to check this wound for silver as well.
I look at the wound that looks partially healed. “You said you got this last night?” I ask, carefully looking at the wound.
When he doesn’t answer, I look up and see his lips are pressed tightly together. He refuses to make eye contact with me. When I look at Emily, she looks like she’s about to smack her mate.
“No, Luna. He got it last week. It’s from the attack on the day of your birthday, the day that our Alpha realized you were his
mate.”
“You got this wound eight days ago and it hasn’t healed yet?” I ask.
He nods.
“How’s your wolf?”
“I’m strong, Luna,” Derion says.
“Then why aren’t you healing, Derion?”
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“I’m not sure,” he says, obviously uncomfortable that he’s unable to heal his human.
“He’s a great wolf. He’ll heal me eventually,” Lane says defensively.
“I didn’t say he wasn’t a great wolf. I’m sure he is,” I say, seeing, something that catches my eye,
“I’m going to take a swab of this wound. Do you have any others?” I ask him.
“Yes,” he grumbles.
“Are they also from a week ago?” I ask.
“No, they’re from last night, two of them haven’t yet healed.”
“Let me swab those, too.” I take swabs of all three wounds then look at them.
“Wait here for me. I’ll be back in just a moment,” I say.
“Is everything okay, Luna?” Deborah asks me.
“Yes. Everything’s good, thank you.”
I go to the microscope and rub the swabs on the slides. All three have silver in them.
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I sit back again, thinking. This is the same family with silver in their body, but the father got the wounds during a battle and the pup got it playing on the playground.
‘Quirin, can you please come to the hospital?‘
‘Is everything okay?‘
‘Yes, but I need to speak with you,‘ I tell him.
I swear I hear him sigh through the mind link. ‘Okay. I’ll be right there.’
I ignore the sigh and go back to the room.
“I’m going to clean these wounds, scrape them like I did with Tommy’s knee,” I say.
“Okay,” Lane says, frowning at me.
“It may sting,” I tell him, getting a bowl to collect the tissue.
“That’s fine,” he says and I’m pretty sure he won’t even hiss as I scrape this open, raw wounds.
“The first battle was against Alpha Jasper’s pack, right?” I ask while I work.
“Yes, Luna,”
“And last night, there were two Alphas who attacked, Alpha Jasper and Alpha Brogan, right?”
“That’s right,” he says.
“Whose pack did you fight against last night?” I ask.
“Alpha Jasper’s,” he says, watching me.
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“Do you know who Beta Kier fought against?” I ask, wondering if I’m finally on to something,
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“He fought against Alpha Brogan, although apparently you fixed him up so well that he kicked all our asses today, including Alpha’s,” he says, making me smile. That shouldn’t make me happy, but it does.
When I finish, I put my finger in the bloody goo, feeling the sting of the silver. Shit! I was riges
I hear Quirin walking down the hall and the door opens. “Hey, Kennedy, what’s Lane? What’s going on?” he asks, stepping
- in.
“You called Alpha? That’s just fucking great! Nothing’s wrong Alpha, Lane says angrily, starting to get up. I’ve had about as much of these damn warriors as I’m willing to take.
“LAY YOUR ASS BACK DOWN UNTIL I TELL YOU THAT YOU CAN GET UP” I say, unintentionally using my Alpha command, startling everyone in the room.
“Yes, Luna,” he says quietly, his neck up in submission.
“Quirin,” I say, directing my attention to him. “Lane has a wound that isn’t healing “I begin, but he cuts me off
“Give it time, Kennedy. It’s only been one night.”
“Will you for once stop disregarding everything that I say and just LISTEN to me? I’m telling you that this will NOT heal on its own,” I snap.
I can tell that he’s not happy with my tone, but I don’t care. I’m tired of him discounting everything that I say
“What do I need to hear, Kennedy” he says slowly, as if trying to hold on to his patience. Yeah, well, get in line.
“Put your finger in this,” I say, holding the bloody goo out in front of him. I watch as his lip curls in disgust.
“You want me to touch that?”
Okay, maybe it’s petty, but I’m still pretty aggravated with him.
“Afraid of a little blood, Alpha?” I say, my tone challenging. His eyes narrow and the tension in the room ratchets to an uncomfortable level if Emily’s and Lane’s submission is any indication. I, however, am unfazed by his aura.
Without taking his eyes off of me, he steps forward and sticks his finger in the goo. The moment he does, he hisses, yanking his finger out of the bowl.
“What the fuck? What is that?”
“That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you, I say to him, feeling quite pleased with myself. “Your warrior’s wound is laces in
silver.”
“Silver? Luna, I’d know if I had silver in my system,” Lane says. Now that Quirin’s angry aura has receded, he and Emily have
lowered their chins
I look at Emily. “This is what I found on Tommy’s knee. His wound was laced with silver dust, that’s why it wasn’t healing.”
“But how? We don’t have any silver, not anywhere in the pack,” she says, and looks at Quirin
“When Beta Kier was here last night, I swabbed his wounds. He didn’t have any silver in his wounds. But he also didn’t fight Alpha Jasper, Warrior Lane did, during both battles. I’m not positive, but I think that Alpha Jasper is coating his pack’s claws with silver powder before they attack. Some of that silver dust is getting onto the pack lands. That would explain how it got onto Tommy’s knee and how it got in Warrior Lane’s wound”
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“For what purpose?” Quirin asks, frowning at the goo as if it’s an enemy.
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“I’m guessing he’s attacked multiple times and obviously never won. So, he had to come up with a way to defear you from the inside out. He’s slowly weakening the pack, Quirin. Since none of your warriors use the pack hospital, their wounds won’t heal. And since none of them want to be considered weak, they wouldn’t tell you that they weren’t healing, would they? And every time he attacks, he’s putting more and more silver into your warriors‘ systems. Eventually, he will defeat you.”
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Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.
