The Lycan King’s Healer – Chapter 27

I was tending to Theo after we moved him to his own room next to mine, so that he would be more comfortable. The medics checked his vitals and concluded that there had been no physical harm caused, but since they found him unconscious, they instructed me to make him rest for a couple days. No training was to be permitted.

Theo was not happy about that. “Nothing bad even happened to me.”

“No, nothing bad happened,” I confirmed, not exactly telling the truth. In my book, this was my biggest nightmare. But I didn’t want to scare him. “That doesn’t mean you don’t have to rest.”

est. It was going to be hard to keep him inside. Maybe it was better to scare him into it.

lready?” I asked, running my fingers through his hair.

as if nothing happened.

need to make Aldrich proud,” he dema

did not call him Dad again—I don’t think he ever noticed his mistake, that

hy he insisted on always being out there?

is legs impatiently, “I have to go back.”

ority.

h a frustrated pout.

. It was beautiful, like a painting of an autumn wonderland, but I still feared it. The woods that were once my safe place felt like the entrance of a haunted cave now.

er happening out there, Theo?”

ecause he nonchalantly shrugged. “Nothing crazy, mommy.”

nd my thumb.

your life, Theo,” I murmured, tracing hearts on his hand. “But you have to be ca

the woods are never dangerous. They’re home.”

him, but wanting him to be alert, “now, what do you remember before you went to sleep?”

ing at me nervously. Not that he was anxious about the incident, but because I would reprimand him. He made a sheepish expression then looked away.

will not yell as long as you tell me,” I reminde

lashes.

ng his hand.

s hand back before folding it into the other. “She asked if I wanted a glass of water, and I was really tired, so I took it.”

in place, I clenched my jaw, su

ed, looking at me pointedly.

responded.

sted her. After I drank the water, she even smiled at me and laughed. That was the last thing I re

will not speak to another stranger, Theo. No matter if it’s a woman or a man,” I softly admonished, not wanting to make him regret

ike a bobblehead, the way he

moment. “Come into my room if you need anything.”

a fit, I thrust my arm back and hurled it with all my strength, the book launching across the room and causing the contents of my desktop to scatter to the floor.

h my son? If it was a man, I’d be slightly threatened, but now that it would be an equal quarrel, I felt nothing but rage. Was it a woman shooting arrows the entire time, a woman wounding my friend’s leg and taping an arrow to Theo’s back? Whoever it was, she wanted me to know that she could’ve taken that arrow and plunged it right through his spine.

ill him because she’d rather me be fe

ving the calm and cool version of myself that died once I moved into this estate.

her cheeks glowing. She first noticed Theo lying in his bed next door and decided not to enter; she quietly

to a corridor’s corner away from his room.

Her hair was disheveled, a

re was a rip in her sleeve.

d, “What the hell happened?”

uld never be good as Emily.”