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The Ex-Luna's Return: No Longer His Doormat ~ 164
~ 164 ~~ Mia ~Elder Edmund crashed hard, his monitor shrieking a jagged, piercing alarm that cut through the sterile quiet of the high-dependency ward.I moved instantly, throwing my weight against the edge of the bed as I slammed the emergency crash call button. "Get the intubation tray! Now! Spiking intracranial pressure, prepare mannitol and push twenty milligrams of dexamethasone!"The trauma team swarmed the room in a blur of blue scrubs and rolling equipment. I forced air into his failing lungs with an ambu-bag, my hands moving with practiced, frantic precision. We fought for every single heartbeat, working against the clock to pull him back from the precipice of a fatal brain stem hemorrhage.But medicine has limits, and no amount of clinical skill or emergency pharmacology could solve the administrative wall standing right in front of us.Under the strict, unbending medical bylaws of the northern pack territories, invasive emergency neurosurgery required the direct, verified
The Ex-Luna's Return: No Longer His Doormat ~ 163
~ 163 ~~ Third Person POV ~Working in the high-dependency ward of the Red Moon pack hospital meant that emergencies rarely gave anyone room to breathe, but over the past week, a different kind of tension had begun to claim Mia's attention during the brief moments of quiet between rounds.She started noticing a distinct, recurring pattern around Alexander.Whenever he came to the medical wing to visit Elder Edmund, or stopped by her office to share a quiet cup of coffee between surgeries, his personal communicator would light up. It didn't just vibrate; it rang repeatedly, flashing with an aggressive, persistent rhythm that demanded notice. And every single time it happened, Alexander would ignore it, his jaw tightening into a hard, rigid line Mia had never seen on him before.The easy, polished charm that usually defined his demeanor would vanish instantly, replaced by a cold, guarded frustration.Mia didn't pry. Privacy was a hard-earned currency in their world, and Alexander had a
The Ex-Luna's Return: No Longer His Doormat ~ 162
~ 162 ~~ Mia ~It didn't take long for the rest of the East Lake entourage to infiltrate the northern medical complex.Ariana, who had followed behind Darian’s transport convoy when his mother was rushed to the emergency wing, arrived at the hospital in a flurry of expensive silk and sharp heels. Looking slightly slurry around the edges and carrying the unmistakable haughty attitude of an aristocrat inconvenienced by reality, she immediately announced to the administrative desk that she would also be extending her stay in Red Moon indefinitely. She offered a transparent, poorly constructed cover story about vague eastern investment portfolios and regional trade matters that required her personal oversight—a paper-thin excuse that fooled absolutely no one.Everyone in the lobby knew the truth: Ariana had no intention of leaving Darian alone in a territory that held his first wife, especially now that my true royal identity had upended the geopolitical board.She was terrified of losin
The Ex-Luna's Return: No Longer His Doormat ~ 161
~ 161 ~~ Mia ~I stood there in the sterile glare of the hospital corridor, the unspoken refusal hard and heavy behind my teeth, completely braced for the blow I knew was coming.I waited for the demand. I waited for Darian to cross the line, to lean on his status as an Alpha, to invoke our shared history, or to press every button he possessed to force me into taking personal charge of his mother’s terminal case. It was the only playbook I had ever known his family to use.Instead, Darian did something that completely disarmed my defenses.He didn't ask.He lowered his gaze to the medical chart in his hands, his thumb tracing the edge of the paper for a long, quiet moment. When he looked back up at me, his eyes were heavy with a quiet, hard-earned resignation."Don't take her case, Lili," he said softly, his voice remarkably steady despite the grief cracking his composure.I blinked, caught entirely off guard. "What?""I know what you're capable of," Darian continued, his tone devoid
The Ex-Luna's Return: No Longer His Doormat ~ 160
~ 160 ~~ Mia ~The emergency sliding doors of the Red Moon pack hospital parted with a sharp, pneumatic hiss as Darian carried his mother through the entrance, shouting for the trauma unit.Within minutes, the high-dependency ward was a blur of frantic motion. Nurses rushed with monitors, oxygen lines were hooked up, and emergency neurologists were paged to the floor while Darian was gently barred from the immediate treatment bay. He stood outside the glass partitions, his hands clenched into fists, his face carved from pale, raw stone as he watched the frantic stabilization efforts through the blinds.I was pulled into the rotation immediately. As the senior chief of the department, stepping in to consult on an acute neurological crash was my standard duty — regardless of whose name was on the intake chart.I scrubbed in, walked through the double doors, and spent the next hour leading the scans, interpreting the urgent magnetic resonance imaging, and reviewing the electrical brain
The Ex-Luna's Return: No Longer His Doormat ~ 159
~ 159 ~~ Darian ~The birthday celebration was behind us, the lights of the grand mountain lodge finally extinguished, and the heavy morning mist was rolling back down over the northern peaks. I prepared to do the one thing Mia had demanded of me: leave.The preparations were their own quiet, agonizing form of grief. Packing up the East Lake delegation in the gray dawn light felt less like breaking camp and more like being exiled all over again. Every reminded me of the insurmountable walls I had built around myself.The hardest part, by far, was saying goodbye to Nick.He had found me by the fleet vehicles just as the final crates were being loaded into the rear compartments. He stood there with his hands shoved deep into his jacket pockets, his young face tight with a bitter, disappointed set that mirrored his mother's."You're really leaving already?" Nick asked, his voice low and sharp with frustration. "You just got here.""I have to, bud," I replied softly, kneeling down on the
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