“Who are you?” He looked at me confused, his eyes scanning in scrutiny. “Who? Me?” I pointed at myself, quickly dropping the lighter before I could light up the stove to answer the question. “Oh me, yeah, yes, I'm a…I'm a healer, I was put in charge of taking care of you” I told him, getting up to my feet.“Healer?, I've never seen you here before” He squinted his eyes, giving me this look of uncertainty as if I snuck into the place.“Yeah, healer, I'm a healer. Michelle put me in charge of taking care of you, she's kind of busy at the moment so she couldn't be here” I explained myself so he wouldn't mistake me for some kind of a stranger. “How are you doing?, my name is Kimberly, I am Kimberly Peterson and I'm going to be treating your wounds” I did a quick introduction of myself to let him know I wasn't some kind of stranger. He still doesn't seem to believe me yet.I was expecting to get a response after I introduced myself, however, I got nothing as he just kept staring at me i
“How are you feeling?” I grabbed Austin's shirt from the bed to spread it on the chair in the room and then went back to applying the herb's water on his skin, as I was doing before I grabbed the shirt to put it away so that the water wouldn't mistakenly touch it. It might ruin the color easily since it was a white shirt. He can wear it later after the water has dried off his skin. I helped to take the shirt off, leaving him in pants only to apply the herb's water on the bruises visible on his stomach and chest as well. The other male who beat him up during the duel challenge showed no mercy. Austin wasn't just wounded, he had bruises everywhere, on his belly, his legs, and arms, and his face wasn't spared either. He was actually given a black eye, but it seemed to be healing quite faster than the other part of his body with bruises as well. “Ouch!, I think that did it for you, I literally feel like sh*t” He groaned in pain each time the herb’s water touched the bruises on
I hummed, sitting on the floor in front of the full-length mirror and blow-drying my wet hair. I felt so refreshed now after having my bath and brushing my teeth. I felt this urge to go check on Austin, but I decided to stay back with the feeling it might be too early to do that. It hasn't been up to thirty minutes since I left him to freshen up.So I’ll go over later to check on him. As of now, I think it's best I use this short period that I have to have a little rest. However, the time I spent with him and the conversation we had was quite intriguing. It was sad as well, but he's a really strong kid for pulling through all of that. I kept the blow-dryer aside after my hair was completely dried, picking up the headband on my lap to help hold my hair in place. It looked really good on me and I'm starting to think I look prettier with my hair down than when I have it tied up in a ponytail.“Okay, all set and done” I got up from the floor, feeling extremely satisfied with my look, and
“What? Gordon fell sick?” My eyes popped wide in shock, listening to Hunter explain to me that Gordon suddenly fell ill overnight without warning. It seemed like a joke at first, knowing Gordon to be a tough kind of person. He always acted like it, so how come he fell sick now?He's probably in bed whining like a baby right now. I don't think he's still acting like the tough guy. “Yeah, he suddenly fell sick. I don't know what's wrong with him, but he's not getting any better, he's feeling too weak to even stand. Is there anything that you think you can do?” Hunter ran his hand through his hair and I became worried, taking him seriously.Wait, Gordon fell sick for real?“What?, Who? Me?” I swallowed hard at first when Hunter dropped that question, asking if there was anything I could do regarding Gordon's health condition. I'm going to tell the truth now, I don't know what to do about it. I thought he was going to mention Michelle and not me, I'm not capable of the job. I think I h
“Aah!” I let out a scream of panic, finding out just now that Gordon was poisoned and grabbing my head. How in the world did this happen? I took my hands off my trembling mouth, slowly moving away from the bed until I almost tripped on something. What should I do? Hunter, right, Hunter! He should know that Gordon wasn't sick but poisoned! I ran to the door without thinking twice but quickly returned to my senses when I realized that Hunter wasn't nearby. He left earlier to join the others in finding Michelle. He should do that actually because this is one of the worst cases to ever happen to me and I don't know what to do about it. Poison? How the hell do I take care of this? How quickly did it go from treating ordinary wounds to now treating poison? Where do I even start? “God, what should I do? What should I do?” I kept panicking, going from slapping the top of my face to tugging at my hair. Then I rushed back to the bed to first take the blanket off Gordon. I don't think
I grabbed the vase from the window and the herbal life book on the bed and made my way out of the room immediately. There's no time to waste, I've got to get to Gordon right away. I hope he hasn't given up yet, let him keep fighting the poison, I'm on my way. ****“Gordon” I called, carefully dropping the vase on the floor close to the bed, so I don't break it while I kept the herbal life book on the nightstand beside the bed, to check how he was doing. “You should be getting better, not worse” I took the towel off his head and tossed it aside, as it didn't help in bringing the fever down one bit. It got worse to be precise. “I'll heal you, don't worry” I cupped his cheek in my palms before opening his eyes to check them. It was still purple, but looking worse than when I left him a couple of minutes ago to go find a cure for the poison. So I guess I should hurry up, this poison doesn't seem so friendly. The veins in his arms were still purple as well. I quickly reached for the h
Alpha Gordon's PovIt was a dream but it felt so real like I was so close to death. I even saw Leah, we were both in the garden in the Packhouse, which I made in memory of her passing away and she was talking directly to me as if she was still alive.“Leah?” I called with my hand out, trying to reach her but then something like an invisible force field suddenly appeared out of nowhere, blocking me from reaching her. I was literally minutes away from reaching her before the forcefield appeared. Damn it! “No, Gordon, you can't get to me,” She said to me and I was so happy to hear her voice. She could speak to me and I could speak to her too.“Why?, I just want to touch you” I hit on the force field, trying to break it but it was too strong enough.“No, you cannot get to me, if you do, then you can't go back home, She said, her voice sounding like echoes. It was so unreal that it felt like we were both almost in another world. “Wha…what are you talking about? I'm standing right here w
Kimberly's Pov I woke up yawning and was about stretching myself when I was given this strong kick on the back and I fell hard from on top of the bed. “Ouch!” I yelled out in pain on the floor, holding my waist and grabbing the bed to get up to my feet, but the same person who had kicked me out of the bed slapped my hand too, forcing me to get it off the bed. “Don’t lay your filthy hands on the place that I sleep” I heard a voice sternly warn from on top of the bed as I was still struggling to stand while holding my waist. I think I broke a bone in my ass when I was kicked out of the bed like a mistreated orphan. I wonder who would dare to kick me out of my bed that way. They should say that last prayer because they are dead when I get them. “Gordon, you are awake?...” I paused abruptly, staring at him in shock and halfway from jumping on top of the person in an attack when I realized that it was Gordon. “Yes, I'm awake. What the hell were you doing on my bed?” He questio
“Well, but there's got to be at least something that you want and I can go get it for you” I insisted on getting Hunter something. Though he's likely going to say no, not wanting me to go errands for him since I'm doing it because he can't do it himself.He's going to see it as if I'm doing if because I'm still blaming myself for what happened to him. However, I have no problem running errands for him. After all, he needs someone to tend to him.I just hope he doesn't ask to be taken to the toilet, that would be an impossible task.“Are you trying to run away from me?” Hunter dropped an awkward, unexpected question, leaving me to stare at him in awe. I was right beside him, why does he assume that I'm running away from him? I was only going to get him water or something to fill his stomach with.“Me, running away from you? How?” I was confused.“You are literally trying to stay away from me, that's why you keep coming up with all these excuses. I never told you that I was hungry or th
“Oh God” I clutched my chest, letting out a deep breath of relief. I was holding in my breath and waiting for her to announce some bad news so I could pass out immediately. “But not for today or tomorrow” “What?! Why?” I didn't see that coming, so was taken by surprise when Michelle suddenly announced that Hunter wasn't going to be able to use his vision today or tomorrow. How cruel is that? It's literally a punishment! “Because it wouldn't wear off until tomorrow, by exactly the same time that this Anita or whatever you called her threw him that powdered substance in his eyes. I'm sorry, Hunter” Michelle apologized to Hunter, and walked away to put the torchlight back from where she had first gotten it. “I'll be right back,” I said to Hunter, letting him go to ask Michelle questions. There's got to be something that she can do to relief him of this situation. I can't eave Hunter lying helplessly like that. “I’m sorry, Michelle, but I don't understand, there's got to be som
“Ah, ah, ah, not so fast, tell us what we want to know first and the key would be yours” Hunter pulled the key away from her reach, but kept teasing her with it.Anita gave up after she couldn't reach the key, making a sad face.“So?” Hunter lifted a brow in question. “You just don't know when to give up, Hunter, do you?” She scoffed in disgust, crossing her arms across her chest and slowly moving backward, away from the gate.I looked at Hunter and he looked at me, then shifted his gaze back on Anita to say.“I will right after you tell me what I want to know” “Fine, if you insist, I might just say it then” Anita rolled her eyes, giving up and in to us. I reached out to Hunter, touching him by the arm and he looked at me with hope the same way I looked at him. She's finally ready to talk after wasting enough time, which we would have likely used to have gotten to somewhere else by now.“Have a seat” Anita pointed at the chair, kept beside the wall a few metres away from the cell.
I think there's a punishment for when one refuses to accept an offer or a job brought to them by an Alpha, but I didn't care about that when I turned down the job from Gordon to be his personal healer. I mean for him to be the one to come down to my room himself to let me know he wanted me as his personal healer. I'm not able to tell now if it was just a job offer or if he was being desperate. To be sincere, I was tempted for a minute to accept the job but I felt better, rejecting it. I think accepting to be his personal healer has more to it than it sounded. He's literally going to turn me into a maid, yup, I think that's what was going to happen if I had said yes to him.I slammed the door shut after he left and was far gone so he wouldn't think I desposed him that much, with the way I slammed the door. “Be his personal healer?” I scoffed,“I think he must have been kidding” I moved away from the door and to the bed, where I sat and let out a deep breath.I clutched my chest and c
"I told you, there is no one more important to Al than Claudia!"As they continued to tease, he glanced down and swiftly messaged Victoria.'I don't need the umbrella anymore. Head home first.'Victoria was puzzled when she received the message. 'Did something happen?' she messaged back.She stared down at her phone for a long time, but there was no reply.Perhaps he was really busy.She decided to head back first."Wait."Someone suddenly called out to her from behind. She turned around to see two fashionable young women walking over to her.The taller woman glanced at her and disdainfully asked, "You're Victoria Selwyn?"Since hostility was painted all over that woman's face, Victoria did not hold back and briskly shot back, "You are?""My name is not important. What is important is the fact that Claudia is back. If you're smart, you'll get away from Alaric."Victoria's pupils shrank in astonishment.It had been so long since she last heard that name. So much time had passed that...
"How do I find the 'Ravened'? I don't even know where to start. I mean it's been 5 years since I left the council. I don't want anything to do with magic or the seed anymore. I don't even know the 'ravened'" Felix runs a hand on his head"."where on earth do I even start to find, I mean I gave up on magic years ago and now you appear on my doorstep telling me I have to find some 'Ravened' I don't even know. I have got a family now I don't need any danger near them" Felix said to freya, looking puzzled."The righteous seer Agnes gave a prophecy that another 'Ravened' lives but we don't know who the 'Ravened' is so I made up a lie in order to keep the Ravened safe wherever they were from the unrighteous, only the head and vice heads of the righteous witches council knows it's not a myth, the 'Ravened' is real it's a person but we don't know who"Freya blinks her eyes."That's why it is now up to you to find out who and keep them safe, the dark days are coming but…" She got cut short of w
"You have a fever?" His voice was gentle as he placed the back of a hand against her forehead.With his unexpected proximity, she jerked to the side. Nonetheless, he found humor in her response. "I'm only testing your temperature," he said.Dominic then turned around and pulled out a thermometer. "Let's get a reading of your temperature."Victoria accepted the thermometer."You know how to use it, right?" Alaric asked as he stood behind her.His question rendered her speechless. However, she chose to ignore him. What makes you believe I have no idea how to use a thermometer?Nevertheless, her movement was sluggish because she was so sick that her head spun.Once the thermometer was in place, Dominic told her to leave it there.Seeing that, Claudia seized the chance to introduce her friend to Alaric."Al, this is Dominic. I mentioned you to him before over the phone. He's an amazing doctor, but he loves his freedom so much that he decided to open a clinic instead when he returned. Domi
Still, she did not question it too much and asked the Cadogans' family driver to send her to the country club."You may head back first," she said to the driver upon arrival."Do I not need to wait for you, Mrs. Cadogan?"She paused for a moment before shaking her head. "It's fine. I'll wait to head home with Alaric."Since she was here for him, she would head home with him.With that, Carter, the driver, soon drove off.The rain had started as a drizzle, but it was now a heavy storm.With the umbrella held over her head, she walked to the entrance of the country club.It was a luxuriously decorated golf club. She was stopped at the door."I'm sorry, miss, but please show me your member card," the employee said.She took a moment to think about her next action before finally messaging Alaric.'I'm here. When are you done with work? I'll be waiting for you downstairs.'Once she was done, she stood near the entrance with the umbrella. As she stared at the rain, she thought about the pre
“Wow, what happened to you? I don't remember you being this romantic and also able to make those moves despite being blind” Skye teased, turning around as I spinned her again. This was our way of making up and I'm actually happy that she's playing along with it, and not wanting to argue further with me regarding my blindness.“Maybe, being blind isn't so bad after all since it turned me into Mr romantic” I winked at her and heard her giggle like a baby. “And I'm only blind, not paralyzed” I added, letting her know that.I don't know why everyone keeps thinking that I'm unable to move or do anything just because I'm blind. I can't believe I have to keep reminding them about that. Now, I can't wait for evening to come, so this can all end. She suddenly stopped dancing along with me, pausing to say. “I'm so sorry I didn't come to see you first when I arrived. I went over to see Kimberly, we had a little issue before I left with Luna and I went to fix that problem with her. I could hav