The Lycan King’s Healer – Chapter 49
I did not find Aldrich that night. Worry began to seep into my former excitement about Alan, but I did not let it overpower me. He was a strong warrior who had seen death through his life perpetually as seasons, and very much likely had political matters to tend to.
I just wished he would come back so that I could tell him what I did. But before he arrived, I would figure out what to say when he asked how I did it.
For the time being, I did not have time to worry about that.
her, sweat still beading on his face and naked chest.
veins to piece back together. Even worse, Alan could not be nursed properly in casing or any sort of binding because his bones could not be confined in them.
hes that often forced him to lose consciousness. I woke him up despite his protests, allowing small respites of peace and reprieves from the pain, but not for too long. He would heal faster if he willed his body to; that was part of th
nd I watched as his leg shifted slightly.
things worse by being negative. “You know that’s not true.”
ad broken through the skin,” he rasped, and I reached up to dab the
ed myself, “well, I know they have. But have they helped with the pain?”
t the automatic movement. His shoulder blades had not
arrowing his eyes up at me.
that be?”
ed.
, “you know why I can’t give them to you.”
im in the sky, and he was still speaking of them.
mbled, a permanent look of pain on his face.
he pain relievers are more magical than this shit,” he muttered.
ught back from the dead and still has the
ddy?”
Alan really die?”
to life using magic.”
ed.
sconceive death as an undoable thing.
edly.
” I asked as my heart fluttered,
sing through to the garden.”
ight?”
head. “I don’t think so because he seems really out o
ean?”
s head and went back inside the room.”
ied to…” I pressed my hands against Theo’s ears, “murder him is still out there, and I don’t exatly want them knowing they failed.”
of us.”
I can bet you this time it will be them broken on the gro
hem to try again. I can bet you this time it will be them broken on the
.
ill flick you like a fly.”
rom you two,” I said, rolling my eyes. Careful not to cause movement in the bed, I l
nodded. “Of course.”
ering if I’ll ever have the quality time I used to have with him
***
I was drooling on his pillow.
the nurses wake me.”
ghed, “I’ll see yo
y hovering over him with the same behavior of a zombie.
d him in the foyer or the hallways. He was missing from his bed.
in my intestines. Where was Theo? Where was Danika?
y think the worst. I sprinted up the stairs, gripping my torn and dirty ball gown skirts up.
oom looking for Theo, I instead found Aldrich.
irk, he said,
onight is only for the two of u