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Chapter Five: Poison and Pride
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2025-01-10 02:56:19"Three dead wolves in one night." Emma stared at the toxicology reports spread across her office desk, the numbers blurring after eighteen straight hours on shift. "All with the same modified poison."
Sarah locked the door behind her, carrying fresh coffee. "The labs came back on the latest victim. Blood work's identical to the others."
"And getting worse." Emma pulled up the molecular analysis on her computer. "The poison's evolving. Each batch is more sophisticated than the last."
Through her office window, she could see Steve's room across the hall. He'd finally fallen into a restless sleep, his fever hovering at dangerous levels despite her magical intervention. Even unconscious, he commanded attention—the Alpha in him refusing to be diminished by something as mundane as near-fatal poisoning.
"You should get some rest," Sarah said, studying her face. "You've been running on fumes since they brought him in."
"I'm fine."
"Right." Sarah's tone dripped skepticism. "That's why you've been staring at the same page for ten minutes. Look, I don't know what happened between you and tall, dangerous, and unconscious over there, but—"
A crash from Steve's room cut her off. Emma was moving before she consciously registered the sound, doctor's instincts overriding personal hesitation.
She found Steve trying to stand, monitors beeping in protest as he ripped out his IV. "I have to get back," he growled, eyes flickering between human green and Alpha red. "My pack—"
"Your pack needs you alive." Emma pushed him back with more force than strictly necessary. "Which you won't be if you leave before the poison's cleared your system."
His hand caught her wrist, fever-hot skin against her pulse. "Then help me. You've seen the reports. This isn't just about me or my pack anymore."
"Don't." She tried to pull away, but his grip tightened.
"Emma, please. Look at me."
She did. She wished she hadn't. Five years had carved new lines around his eyes, added silver threads at his temples. The cold aristocrat who'd rejected her was gone, replaced by someone who looked... haunted.
"I'm sorry," he said, voice raw. "What I did that night—there's no excuse. I was arrogant, stupid, and cruel. I've regretted it every day since."
"Regret doesn't change anything."
"No." His thumb brushed her wrist, right over her racing pulse. "But maybe this is fate giving us a second chance."
Emma yanked her hand back. "Fate? The same fate that let you break our mate bond without a second thought?"
"I thought I was protecting the pack." The words seemed to cost him. "There were threats, political alliances at stake. I convinced myself it was the right choice, that I could ignore what my wolf already knew—that you were perfect. Strong. Exactly what the pack needed."
"And now?" Bitterness crept into her voice. "Now that you need my help, suddenly I'm qualified?"
Before he could answer, Emma's pager shrieked. Another victim incoming. Her heart sank as she read the details.
"Female, seventeen years old." Her voice turned clinical, professional. "Same chemical signature as your wounds."
Steve's face went ash-white. "Claire. My sister."
Emma was already moving. "Sarah! Get a trauma bay ready. And bring me everything we've got on the antidote trials."
"Emma." Steve's voice stopped her at the door. "Save her. Please. I know I have no right to ask anything of you, but she's innocent. She wasn't even part of the pack when I—when everything happened."
For a moment, Emma saw past the Alpha to the brother desperate to save his sister. She thought of her own brother, lost to a hunter's bullet years before she'd even met Steve.
"I'll do everything I can," she said. "But afterward, we need to talk about the warehouse. About exactly what these hunters are planning."
She didn't wait for his response, already running toward the emergency bay. Her wolf stirred restlessly, sensing the weight of what was coming.
The ambulance sirens grew closer, and with them, a scent that made her blood run cold. Under the chemical burn of poison, she caught something familiar.
The hunters hadn't just copied her old pack's healing herbs.
They'd weaponized them.
They'd been watching her all along.
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The Healer's Bond Chapter 6: Inner Siege.
It was more serious and deadlier than she thought. “Put them under a lot of morphine,” Emma hastily ordered the interns as she jogged back into the intensive care unit ward. Her heart wrenched as she watched Steve shiver in pain with his eyes rolled up into his dead. For the first time in after five years, she was at loss at what to do.See this as a challenge. She told herself. You are a healer, and one of the things that comes with it is solving the problem. Now, what is the problem?She looked at the charts monitor and saw that Steve’s fever was getting higher by the minute.“What do we do?” Sarah asked as she looked at Emma pensively.“A CT scan immediately,” Emma said. “We need to see exactly how this virus works, we need to see how it multiplies, we need to see how it regenerates, from there, we will know what to do from the results.”Sarah left the room to get the interns to wheel the Alpha to the lab.“Interesting,” Emma whispered. The Viruses were actively working and attache
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“What is this shinning cell?” Sarah asked, her voice tinged with awe and wonder.It was the werewolf gene and what was also responsible for making bonds between other wolves possible but Emma was not going to say that. It was not yet time for Sarah to know about her world. It was too dangerous.“Please send the result to my office right away, I need to go see one of the patients,” Emma said and left Sarah’s lab.There was a lot of questions on her mind as she walked and passed by other nurses and patients being prepped for surgeries or scans. It was a really busy night for her and like always she was spending it in the hospital. In all honesty, there was no one waiting for her at home.Her work as a healer and doctor was her life. She was a neurosurgeon at the hospital but a healer and user of wolf magic off duty. Sometimes she combined to the two which was rare.However, she knew that she was going to have to use both her medical and healing abilities to help Steve. But first she nee
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Emma had no idea if what she was about to do was going to work but she had to try. From her discussion with Steve, she had realized that she needed to slow down the attack of the virus until she could find an actual cure. She already had everything she needed. The blood sample and the biological make up of how the virus worked. However, she still had no idea about the main substance used to engineer the virus but she knew that werewolf DNA was involved. She had left Steve in his ward and was finding her way back to Sarah’s office.Sarah almost bumped into her as he got to the entrance of her lab.“Emma!” Sarah cried out in excitement. “You are not going to believe what I have found.”“I hope it is a miracle, Sarah, because I need all the help that I can get.” Emma replied as she fully entered the lab. “What did you find?”Sarah sat on her work stool and pushed her microscope towards Emma to look. “I extracted the virus itself to see what it was specifically made of.” Sarah said. “I c
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“I don’t believe it,” Sarah exclaimed as she watched the charts connected to Steve’s body. The werewolf was stable and his blood pressure was back to normal. Well, not human being normal but a win was a win.Emma could believe it because being a healer was a large part of her identity. A knock brought their attention away from Steve. It was a female nurse who had a puzzled expression on her face.“Um, Doctor Emma, the patients that came in all seem to be doing just fine,” she said. Emma nodded, relieved. “Thank you and keep a close watch on them for any changes.” Emma replied. The Nurse nodded and left.“Mercury Chloride,” Sarah murmured and shook her head, still amazed.Steve stirred awake and moaned a little. His eyes flew open and he looked around until his gaze fell on the woman that he had rejected a long time ago. “Emma,” he groaned and tried to get up.Emma ran to his bed side and gently pushed him on his back. A small jolt of electrical current passed through her as she did.
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Steve watched his surviving pack members with a haunted expression on his face. He had failed them all with his foolish decisions. If he could turn back the hands of time, he would without any hesitation.The only thing he could do now was make do with the hand that he was dealt. He had to find a way to salvage his losses.There were six men on the hospital beds in a large ward with the chemical Emma prescribed entering into their system.He could still feel their pains as they slept through the pain.When he could not bear to gaze upon their prone bodies any longer, he walked out of the hospital.His pack was decimated and he needed to find whatever was left of his surviving werewolves.He could still see flashes of the day the vicious attack took place, how the virus brought down the strongest of his men and women before he escaped.The sun was rising and he realized that Emma had spent the night making sure he and his pack members were stable. It pained him that he had to see Emma
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PROTECT THE QUEEN.In a game of chess, when the king is compromised, the game ends. However, the queen holds most of the power because if used well, she can change the tide of the game.Steve was compromised and Emma was his queen. Even though she did not know it yet. He was going to do whatever was necessary to keep her safe so she could focus on finding a cure for him and his pack.These four dubious looking werewolves went to together to the receptionist and Steve got within earshot. His wolf hearing was not what it used to be because of the infection so he had to strain himself really hard to pick up what was being said.“…Doctor Adams...” Steve ears perked up at the mention of her name. Shit! They were here for her!The good thing was that he had put the whole map of the hospital to his memory before going to meet Emma the first time he had entered the hospital. It was an habit of his. Steve preferred to know the lay of the
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Emma had said her goodbyes to Sarah after they had gone back and forth on what was going between her and Steve.“There is something between the two of you, I can feel it.” Sarah had said when they had both stood had the large hall of the sixth floor looking out the walls of the panes that over looked the city.“I do not know what you are talking about, Sarah,” Emma said wearily as she watched the rising sun and its rays as it gleamed on heavily dewed cars and buildings. Her shift was over and she was calling it a day.She had instructed the interns under her to carefully watch and report any changes that happened to the remaining pack members of Steve’s pack.“Oh, come on, Emma!” Sarah exclaimed playfully. “I saw the way he held your hands and the yearning in his eyes, there is something going on.”“Really?” Emma said in slight disbelief. “Yearning in his eyes?”“I know what I saw, Emma, you can deny it as much as you want.” Sarah chuckled and replied.“Or maybe you need some romance
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“We cannot keep running forever, Emma,” Steve said as they both ran up the stairs. The hospital was fifteen stories high and Emma knew that the two surviving men were in hot pursuit.“We will think of something, let us keep going,” Emma said as she raced. Steve felt a bolt of energy the moment he heard her say we.Steve sighted a large red axe inside a glass. It was used for emergency fire outbreaks. An idea came to him and he went towards the glass. His first impulse was to break it but then he thought better of it and decided to open it the proper way by only crushing the padlock with his hand.It took a lot of effort but he used what was left of his wolf strength and the padlock cracked in his hand. He swung open the glass and grabbed the axe before running back to join Emma.“What do you plan to do with that?” She asked him as they ran.“I plan to protect you with it,” Steve said.They were on the eighth floor of the staircase before Steve’s body began to succumb to fatigue. He wa
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The Healer's Bond 86. RAMPAGE THROUGH THE ALLIANCE. II.
Emma began to understand why Steve and Sophia did not work out. “What if I die before I find a cure?” she asked Sophia. “What if the virus acts very fast and kills me on the spot?”Sophia did not reply. She looked stumped. “I did not think of that?”“I don’t think thinking is your strongest suit if I am being honest with you,” Emma mused as she looked around the room. She should be worried but she wasn’t.“You don’t seem afraid, doctor with the way you run your mouth, this is the end of the line for you, this is where your story ends.” Sophia said in hardened voice.“Is that how it works for you?” Emma asked. She took a seat on a soft cushion directly in front of Sophia, mirroring her seating posture. “Using fear as a means to get what you want.”“Fear is useful in most cases,” Sophia replied with a cold shrug.“And you think it is useful now,” Emma stated.Sophia did not reply. Again, she was stomped. For the first time, she had to really look at the healer sitting across from her. T
The Healer's Bond 85. RAMPAGE THROUGH THE ALLIANCE.
“Is it too late to say that this was a bad idea?” Marcus the Beta whispered as he looked around. Steve did not reply he because he was in deep thought. He did not want to show his strength because Sophia would know that he was no longer infected.Sophia believed him to be weak and he wanted to keep it that way for as long as he could. he needed to get his hands on Mason because it was the only way to stop the deranged Alpha from spreading more virus.Even if he fought his way out, he knew that he was not going to get far because he was not in his territory. He would be brought down before he even got anywhere.The only option was to leave Emma here and he would rather die than let that happen.“I can see the wheels turning in your head, Kane, I can literally hear you think,” Sophia taunted as she swirled the cup in her hand. “There is no way you can win this.”“Go, Steve,” Emma said to him. “I will be fine.”Steve shook his head defiantly. “The moment I walk out of here, they kill you
The Healer's Bond 84. BEHIND THE DARK VEIL. II.
Coming here was a very bad idea. Emma thought as the car cruised through the territory of Continental Pack Alliance.“You can not lay a hand on us,” Steve said with a casual shrug.“You sound so sure, Kane,” Sophia replied with intrigued eyes. It was as if she loved the challenge.“I know this because I am an experiment to your father,” Steve replied. “For someone like him, he sees the world as one big experiment so you cannot interfere with his work.”Sophia said nothing. It was because she knew that Steve was right. “He needs to know how well the virus he made works without external influence.” The Alpha said.“You seem to know my father well,” Sophia said.“I know how werewolves like him think,” Steve said.Emma stayed silent throughout the conversation because something else took her attention. The walls of the numerous building the vehicle passed were covered in red graffiti. THE ALLIANCE IS FALSE! FUCK THE CONTINENTAL, WE WILL NOT BE YOUR LABRATS!Some cars were burnt and overtu
The Healer's Bond 83. A LOOK BEHIND THE DARK VEIL
. “I see why father wants you dead,” Sophia said with a cold glare as she looked at Emma. “Save the pity for someone who needs it, Emma,” Steve said. “She willingly let herself be experimented on,” the Alpha added. Horrified, Emma had to know. “Why?” “Because I believe in my father’s work, doctor,” Sophia replied. “Because I know that everything, he is doing is for the greater good of every werewolf all over the world. “Spreading a deadly virus on my pack is for the greater good?” Steve asked in disbelief as he shook his head. “Do you know how insane you sound?” “If you had accepted the proposition, you would not be where you are right now,” Sophia replied with a shrug. Emma could not believe that a werewolf could think like everyone owed her some sort of allegiance. “You mean join this joke of a pack?” Marcus spat with venom in his voice. “Oh, look, the beta speaks,” Sophia muttered. “Look around you Sophia,” Steve said. “Does this place feel like home to you?” Sophia said
The Healer's Bond 82. A WOMAN OF THE PAST.
Emma had not never seen Steve so angry before, it surprised her. The Lady who seemed to know Steve as well sauntered towards the table where they all sat. she was dressed in an a very sexy and professional way. Like she worked in an office but she could still go out for dinner.She had a very light blond hair it was almost shinning and her eyes were blue. She had a smile on her face but her eyes were cold.“Hello, Kane,” The lady says. Her voice is smoky and alluring. The lady turned her blue eyes towards Emma with a bit of curiosity in her eyes. She had a sort of bored but interested demeanour about her. Like there was nothing that could impress her again.“I see you went back to her,” she said with a smile but her eyes were cold still. “Got over me that quick, huh?”“There was nothing to get over,” Steve replied as he took a sip of his coffee.The Lady took a seat and joined the three of them. If what Steve said offended her, he did not show it. She nodded at a waiter who quickly br
The Healer's Bond 81: THE INFILTRATION.
Emma was mesmerized by how large the Continental Peck territory was. It was the largest place filled with supernatural creatures. It was a city of its own tucked away deep in the heart of Seattle. It was still early in the morning but it was bustling with people going to work or wherever their jobs were located.However. Emma felt like something was wrong as she walked through the streets of the pack. She could feel the tension in the air moved and passed by people.“This place feels…broken,” She whispered to Steve as they walked. Emma, due to her healing abilities could not only feel physical wounds but she could feel spiritual and ethereal wounds as well.She felt a fracture in this pack and immediately knew that all was not well in this territory.“It is quite big, I will give them that,” Marcus said grudgingly.“There is a disconnect,” Steve replied. “In Sterling Creek, if anyone that is not a part of the pack enters, everyone is quick to notice but here, it’s like no one cares th
The Healer's Bond Eighty
Emma and Steve waited at the lobby of the Dolphin Hotel. Emma was nervous to go outside because she knew that the monsters would be on her and the Alpha the moment, they both set foot outside.She paced back and forth trying to calm her nerves.“What is the plan again?” She asked Steve. They had planned to trace the silver badge to the hideout of the Sentinel but it had been a deadly dead end. Someone knew they were coming and set monstrous mutated wolves after them.“We wait for Marcus,” Steve said, flipping through a newspaper. “Then we will pay a visit to Continental Pack.”“Is that wise?” Emma asked in a worried tone. “We are entering their turf.”“That’s why we are waiting for Marcus,” Steve replied as he read.As if on cue, the Beta walked in. He was in another one of his crisp expensive suits.“Alpha Kane,” Marcus said with relief.“Good to see you, Marcus,” Emma said.“Did you bring it?” Steve asked his Beta.“I must say, Alpha Kane, you have not spent a day here, and things a
The Healer's Bond 79. OUT OF THE SHADOWS.
Emma was sated in ways she never imagined possible. She was more surprised that Steve was knocked out cold and his cock was still hard inside her as he slept cuddled behind her. His shaft was still pulsing in her pussy and it felt so good.However, she knew this goodness was not going to last because this was all just a fantasy in her head. She had fulfilled it now and soon the real cold and brutal world outside would come knocking hard anytime soon.The knock came in form of Sarah who called her phone. She gently nudged the Alpha behind her back and slowly moved away squeezing him one last time with her slit before easing off his cock.A soft sleepy moan escaped his lips as he rolled over and kept on snoring. He looked even more beautiful asleep. Emma thought as she watched him with a small smile tugging at the corners of her lips.She picked up the phone from the night stand and answered it.“Sarah,” Emma answered as she walked naked to the balcony. It was still dark outside but the
The Healer's Bond 78. BOND AND BODY. II.
Steve had always been a leader all his life, ever since he took the mantle of the Alpha in his pack. Every decision making had to go through him to be approved. He was a natural at telling people what to do and even better at forcing his will on werewolves weaker than him. He was a master in his own right.But in his large hot tub he with Emma, the control was out of his grasp. The healer always took charge when he was naked. He was at her mercy. Even if he was dominating her, she was still the one in control.Emma spread her legs, letting go of his head and eased back into the tub. Steve massaged his jaw as it ached due to the long time he spent licking and sucking on her clit. His tongue tasted deeply of her and he loved it.Emma pushed him gently on his back and he leaned against the other edge of tub. She climbed on top of him and hungrily claimed his mouth, breathing down his throat. She wanted more of him.She grabbed his long hard cock and began to softly stroke it under the hot
