Janine found Haden quiet for quite some time. When she glanced up at him from her place, he appeared deep in thought. Did she want to ask? Or would they end up arguing again? Were they arguing early? She wasn’t even sure they’d fought earlier. All she knew was he’d questioned her decisions, and she hoped she explained her position appropriately. Gods, she’d forgotten how difficult it was getting to know and understand another person. Was it worth it? Janine’s mind automatically answered with a resounding yes because they were working together, if nothing else.
Haden sat near Janine, watching the day pass from his seat. She’d given him a lot of food for thought. She showed him her loyalty and he could hold that against him. Nor could he fault her logic. She was stepping back from a situation that d
Damon and the others sat around in the conference room poring over journals and scraps of scrolls covered in different spidery writing, looking for one vague thing. The fact that no one could agree what they were looking for made for quite a bit of confusion when narrowing down possibilities. He threw down the tattered scroll in his hands to the table’s surface. Karl, you’ll need to read through this one. It’s in that text again. Karl’s a witch on loan to help get through some of the older documents, because no one in the area wanted any of this except a small group of deluded fools. Karl specialized in many of the older languages and could read whatever this was with relative ease. “Let’s me finish up with this one and then I’ll try to tackle that one. I think I’m beginning to see dou
Emily couldn’t put the doctor and James off for this visit to the Medical Centre. The place she absolutely hated and would avoid at all costs. She felt nauseous just thinking about the months she’d spent here and all the things she endured at that time. Emily was sure that they were overreacting. But here they were, poking and prodding her again. This was what she didn’t want, and James paced as the tests were done. He was worried in his own way. She knew that. But why he was so insistent this time she didn’t know. Now they waited and waited for the results, and Emily knew this wasn’t one of her finer moments. She was moping and pouting. Her only excuse was that she felt like she could sleep forever, and no one had let her. It was feeling like forever, and she didn’t want to become trapped in here
“That’s it. I don’t know about you but I can’t look at another report or message. This is crazy how much damage was done in just a couple of days. You’d think I was gone weeks or something.” Thomas tossed down his phone onto the coffee table with one hand while the other kept Asia snug against his side.“Oh, I’m sure people are just adding little things to the workload in hopes of getting little things cleared up a little faster. Don’t fault them. At least they feel they can request it of you.”“I guess that would explain why the Cleavers want their front stoop replaced. I mean it wasn’t event in the middle of the fight. Anyway, what do we have to do exactly tomorrow. Just so I can make some notes as a reminder.”
“I can’t believe the amount of facts that are just randomly recorded and kept. There’s no order to this.” Eva stood at a box holding several journals in her hands. “There is no real dating system for these. I thought this box dated to the First World War, but this journal is from the nineteen fifties. Someone really must organize this. If it were my charts and records, people would die before I connected the dots to why they were sick. Medication disasters would happen, treatments missed or repeated. Surgeries could be performed on the wrong limbs. Damon, someone needs to correct this sooner rather than later.” “I agree. I didn’t realize it was this bad. It’s the first time I’ve seen most of this. Who has a need to look at it before this?”&nb
The healer returned and sat solemnly across from them. “Now, before you say anything, I took it upon myself to contact those conducting the trails currently. I did not disclose names, but I gave them the general parameters of your situation. They have given those parameters a general overview. It’s believed that from the results they have received so far from other trials, your situation is hopeful for a positive response to the treatments. There’s no surgery and your pups should survive. Now this trial only started a few years ago, and it’s a long-term commitment. The trial looks at both the mother and the pups as they grow. One question they could not answer was the long-term effects any pups would experience. With that information, they have also said that because you have waited so long for the trial, not your fault the trial didn’t exist much before this. But the sooner they a
Thomas and Asia walked through the compound looking in on people and places. Find out what was going on with requests and complaints. They got reports from the witches on the state of the wards they were reenforcing and their progress. Thomas couldn’t be happier with that. He made sure to make notes of all the issues he’d found. This was something he should have done much earlier than this. But better late than never. He might not be doing this now if he’d failed to send Henry and his friends packing. That was another thing he must look into. How was the tracking of that group going? It sounded promising the last time he received news. “This is going well. I think you have some great people here. Once we’ve fully mated, I believe we should introduce people to each other so that they are comfortable talk
“Okay, this is great.” Damon put his phone back on the table. “The group that took the young pups into the woods for safety under a guise of a camping trip will arrive soon. So you’ll finally get to meet Penelope and Rhoda.” “Sorry, who’s Rhoda? I know Penelope is your daughter.” It distracted Eva from putting away some journals by Damon’s words. “She’s the wolf that’s been helping me care for Penelope when I can’t. She took Penelope and others into the woods to keep them out of the trouble here. That group is finally been contacted and has returned. The message was from Rhoda.” Damon was smiling from ear to ear. Eva could see how eager he was for her to meet Penelope fin
Emily sat in the sitting area of the Alpha apartments, staring at an appointment card in her hand. She didn’t have a clue on what she was doing. Her brain kept telling her this would kill her, and she kept reminding it that wasn’t the case. That fact changed as research and knowledge grew. Why did she let James go into the office with her? She couldn’t keep this to herself now because he knew. Emily wasn’t sure she wanted to talk about this yet. She needed to wrap her head around it. With her life turning upside down and just getting a handle on that. This was like falling into a pit someone was filling with dirt while she was trying to climb out of it. Now it wasn’t just the two of them during it out to find a common ground. How would this work for the future? For crying out loud, no one knew how far a