The Lycan King’s Healer – Chapter 46

Cathy

When we returned to the estate, I did not retreat to my bedroom, but the library.

I would reach the entire grand library before I let Alan decompose and disappear forever. Besides Aldrich and Theo, he was the only thing that kept me stable, that made me feel normal. He was the only soul I had everything in common with; good enough to be loved by Aldrich, not good enough for any grand recognition or admiration. Always traveling within Aldrich’s shadow, people’s admiring gazes wandering over our shoulders.

mes this, and what he must have felt. I hugged my knees to my chest and cried for a minute.

wed myself a minu

d Aldrich planning his revenge. But I could not accept that. I would never accept his death, especially not as a healer. It was in my bones to save him, in my very being.

arted to ache. My eyes were too blurry for the pages, and I cried out in frustration, slamming my fist on the table.

n aid for a head wound.

I got up to look for it, but it was clearly missing.

Shit.

would never have the skills nor the desire to learn how to do that.

d to stop me. In my blind, panicked madness, no one could touch me. I left behind my pair of heels, which I threw behind me as I left. I did not care if I lost my foot to a poisonous snake; I did not have the time to retrieve boots to run in.

be outside alone in the dark when my friend was just murdered, but I didn’t care. If they killed me attempting to save him, so be it.

s and fell once or twice, dirtying my dress past the point of revival. I must have looked like the lost princesses in fairytales who were outrunning something in the forest.

outr

to move faster, for my human legs to suddenly know how to run fast and see the approaching weeping willow within the minute. But I was nearly drunk and in shock and not sure what was happening, if I was awake or even alive. My heart was pounding enough to remind me I was indeed alive, but I still wasn’t sure. I paused for onl

n.

, pretending to be deep in my book. But he walked inside anyway, grinning amusedly.

left, and he and Theo were outside practicing. I took my usual spot by the window in the cottage, watching while pretending not to be. I just grew accustomed to watchi

.

in case this kid shoots me by accident,” he said, asking me without making me feel embarrassed about joining in on masucline fun that I was not formerly invited into.

id.

“Come out with us.”

ughing.

actually need protection from you,” Alan said, and

e.

, even if that meant giving away every droplet of my blood.

n stood in front of me.

was looking down at me.