The atmosphere in the room lightened. Everyone felt relieved that Rowena was awake now. It had been a close call with us both.Carter asked her a few questions regarding her condition.He explained that although he was clearly an 'amazing doctor', which were in his words exactly, that he was still unfamiliar with Fae physiology.Rowena explained that few things about her could be explained in mortal terms. Carter asked her if she felt her body was recovering. His medicine helped prevent the accelerated deterioration of her body that started with the fever, but it wasn't going to restore her.She nodded and said that she felt her life energy recovering. According to her explanations, Fae could regenerate life energy just the essence around them. But just like her spell, they needed life energy as a conduit to do that.So it was a case of, the more you had the more you get. Since Rowena's life energy had been depleted in the process of her spell, she had too little to heal fast. But no
"What.... happened?" Rowena asked with a shaky voice.There was a hush in the room at this question.She still held her hand in her head as I held on to her other hand."You've been unconscious for days." I said. My voice was low.Rowena's brows furrowed in confusion at first. But they went wide after a second."Oh." She said. "I remember." I nodded. I was finding it difficult to say more. She went through all of this solely because of me."You almost died."The voice was cracked with emotion.Everyone turned to Oisin at the same time. Tears streaked down his face and his sniffed.I was surprised to see him look like that. That was the first time I had seen him cry since the first day I met them. Oisin usually kept his cool no matter what happened. He was more inclined to being happy and having adventures.But it seemed like this was too much for even him.In the next second, Oisin dove into a hug with Rowena. The force made her lose her breath for a second and Carter's eyes went wi
I opened my eyes and saw him sitting on the bed beside me.Liam.My eyes shrunk and my heart skipped a beat.What was he doing here!?The last time I saw him, he was sending me to my death with mirth. I thought he loved me but he actually cheated on me. No, I was the other woman. He did it all to steal my pack, my inheritance, my legacy.And he succeeded.What more did he want from me!?Liam's sly face morphed into Phoenix's face.My body relaxed immediately. I just made a mistake. Liam wasn't here.Phoenix's eyes closely watched me.My heart skipped a beat again but for different reasons this time. Had he seen?I smiled. It was a sigh for him to relax. Maybe he would think I just startled from seeing him awake beside me. After all it wasn't often that I was taken by surprise as a wolf.But Phoenix didn't ask me any questions like that.Instead he asked me something that made me blush.It was worse because I had slept beside him all night. After Carter suggested that he rest the pre
Sleep came so easily that it was alarming.It was almost like blacking out again, except it was pleasant this time around.I fell into asleep and had foggy dreams concerning fires and screams.I woke up many hours later with a full throb coming from my head.The room was bathed in a warm golden glow. It was the shine of dawn coming from my room's window.How long had I slept?The first thing I noticed was how hungry I was. My stomach growled in protest at it's current state. And I also wanted to eat something. That meant I had my appetite back. That was a huge change from before I slept when I even forgot about food completely, talkless of having any sort of desire for it.The second thing I noticed was that there was someone else on the bed beside me.She was breathing so lightly that it was almost completely inaudible.It was Morning.Her tousled hair was splayed on the bed and her beautiful face was facing me. She looked so peaceful in her sleep. That was something I never saw whe
After Carter finished marvelling about my body's capacity for self preservation, he decided to start the actual process of treating me.He made sure to point out that this would usually require a surgery.Morning asked him what a surgery was. He went on to describe the gruesome process of cutting into flesh with a very sharp blade, fixing a person's insides and then sewing back the wounds.Morning sounding horrified at the prospect. She kept insisting that surgery was just killing someone and sewing them back up.I didn't know how to feel when she insisted that I wouldn't be getting any surgery for my self. She wasn't shy about highlighting to Carter how she didn't trust him to hold a knife over me.I couldn't see Carter's face but I imagined he rolled his eyes after letting out a heavy sigh.He then went on to calmly explain that surgery was in fact necessary in some cases and although the rate of death was very high in the past, he had developed methods that reduced it by eighty per
I lay on the bed, flat on my belly and with my shirt off."So this is the point of laceration?" Carter asked.I felt the point of his finger press into my skin. It felt cold."Yes." Morning replied.Morning, Carter, Roman and Oisin stood over me in a partial circle around the bed.I felt like a corpse being examined for the cause of death. I swallowed, remembering how Carter had treated Rowena earlier. In a way, she was actually the lucky one because she wasn't awake for that experience.What was he going to do to me now?I've fought countless battles to the death and it has been a few years since I felt quiet like this. It took me back to the first days I held a sword against an 'enemy'. Of course even back then the church lied about our enemies."Hmm. I can still see faint sighs that indicate a long perpendicular cut. It appears similar to decade old scars." Carter observed."Yes." Morning said. Her voice sounded distant. I wondered what she was thinking of."Fae magic is really a w