41 In charge

I held his hand all along and watched his peaceful face, listening to the machine beeping his heartbeats. It sounded okay, but I knew it was faster than usual.

The doctor and his assistant were working on the other side of a green sheet. They pulled it up so I wouldn’t see what they were doing, and honestly, I was grateful. The nasty sounds and the smell of blood were enough to make me feel dizzy. Oh my Goddess, he was losing so much blood.

It felt like an eternity, till they finally finished stitching him up, and the doctor’s tired face appeared above the sheet.

“We are finished, Luna. He should be alright now,” he said, removing his bloody gloves. “We stopped all the bleeding. He still has 4 broken ribs and countless bruises, but his wolf will be able to handle that now. We will move him to a room, but I will keep him in a medically induced coma, so his body can focus on healing.”

I watched the young doctor, who assisted the surgery and a nurse, roll him out of the operating room, an