NATHANNo.I wasn't sure I'd heard right. What the hell?"Lannon's healing ability has slowed down. He won't be able to heal like a normal werewolf. He'll heal slower.," She replied, avoiding my eyes.I stood up and paced a little. Was this even possible? I tried to make some sense of it, but I couldn't."Elaborate." I ground out. Zelda glanced down the hall. We were in the living room, close to where Lannon was. In different circumstances, I was sure he'd hear us. "He's out." I told Zelda. We'd left him in the room for him to get some rest, so I was sure he'd be sleeping."I think the wolfsbane did something to him. It was in his system for too long. I'm guessing that there are some leftover wolfsbane particles in him." She explained, crossing her arms."I thought that rare herb of yours cured him. Zelda, the herb was supposed to heal him of everything. That's what you said, wasn't it?" I asked. What was the point of getting the herb if it didn't cure him?"The herb didn't exact
FAYEBeep. Beep. Beep.What was that annoying sound? I tried to open my eyes, but it felt as if they weighed a ton. Beep. Beep. Beep.The sounds continued repeatedly, pulling me from the darkness. What was it? I'd heard them before, and not too long ago. I forced my eyes open and immediately regretted it. My eyes felt as if they were within two feet of the sun. The lights blinded me, making me dizzy and causing my head to ring.I closed my eyes and waited for a while to open them. The dizzying you have rush of light from the first time cleared from my eyes and I finally managed to peel them open. I blinked twice before my eyes got used to the light. I looked around my surroundings and saw that I was in a way too familiar hospital room. I was back in the hospital. With the white walls and ceilings and grey hospital gowns. Was this Maya's hospital?What happened? I thought to my self. I closed my eyes and tried to remember what happened to me and how I got here.I remembered the
NATHANI'm stunned by the venom in Faye's voice. And the look of cold bitterness in her eyes. She's never looked at me like that. Spoken to me with that tone of voice. She'd caught me by surprise. This fight I was seeing in her for the first time made me more than a little worried. Had she really wanted a baby that badly?It left me standing there, stricken by her words. Tears rolled down her face as she continued to lash at me in a choked voice. "You've killed my baby. You monster! You won't let me be till you've taken everything and left me out to wither. I hope you're happy now! You've finally gotten what you so badly wanted. Murderer!"The door opened and someone stepped in. I could tell from her smell that it was Maya. She stood close behind me before she went to Faye and placed an arm on her shoulder. Faye flinched away in disgust and anger. It was written plainly on her face. What she thought of us. What she thought of me. "Don't you dare touch me!" She yelled at Maya, her
NATHANSleep eluded me. Every sound out in the night's dark woke me from sleep. My hearing shot to anything and everything that moved, that made a sound. Like a newly turned werewolf who didn't know yet how to control their abilities.Even the whisper of the wind through the windows was a disturbance. I flipped the blanket off me with an annoyance, and marched to the window, banging it shut. And then I leaned against the windowpane and sighed with deep tiredness and regret. Recriminations still lingered in my head.I'd decided I would let Faye be, and then have Ernouf pick her up from the hospital tomorrow morning. I couldn't send Carolyn for sure, and I knew Faye didn't have any animosity towards Lannon, but he was out of the count. So that only left Ernouf. He'd do it.The girl would have to come back here. This was the only place she knew. And I was the only one who would accept her. My treatment of her had not been stellar perhaps, but it would be different now. Maybe I'd mak
NATHAN I stared hard at him. "She wasn't in her room?" "She wasn't in the hospital when I got there, Alpha Nathan." Ernuof replied. "What did you do then?" I asked him."We searched the hospital, Alpha Nathan, but we couldn't find her. She's gone missing." He repeated as if I hadn't heard him the first time."Who's we, Ernouf?" I asked him."I and the security staff of the hospital." He answered.It wasn't as if I didn't trust Ernuof. I just wanted to have a clear idea of what had happened when he got to the hospital. "Let's go." I said, walking to the door.''Go where?" Ernuof following close behind. "Back to the hospital." I said, pulling open the door.Ernouf pulled up at the entrance of the hospital some sixteen minutes later. It was a twenty minutes drive but I'd asked him to step on it. I got out and headed straight to the elevator. I got in and punched in Maya's floor number.The ride on the elevator took forever before it finally stopped. I stepped out and walked to M
NATHANAt first, I thought Faye had to be still be in the hospital. But when we searched throughout the hospital and the grounds, we couldn't find her. I became more alert when I realized this really wasn't just one of the now occasional events where Faye was just somewhere close while I thought her missing. Where I knew for sure I would find her in no time. It was looking more like she actually put some thought into this one. I had to be more thorough. I had the help of most of the pack and some security personnels from the hospital as we combed through the acres of land around the hospital, went through shops, cafes and even the motels. Nothing. Faye wasn't anywhere near here, it seemed. And I couldn't randomly start a search in the whole of Manhattan for her.I was seething by the time we all went back to the pack house. I sat in the study with Lannon, Carolyn, Zelda, Ernouf and–Maya.She had some explaining to do. I pretended some nonchalance while I waited for the chatter t
A day before…FAYEHe was gone. He had finally left me alone, promising to send someone to pick me up tomorrow morning. I pulled myself up from the floor and sat on the bed. My heart felt so heavy with the pain and loss of my baby. I lay down without jostling the drip attached to my wrist.I felt weak and in pains. My body should be used to it by now, but it wasn't. I buried my face under the pillow and wailed.I stayed under the pillow for long, even when I'd calmed down enough to stop crying.My breath came in short pants. It took me a great deal of effort to regulate my breathing and breathe properly. I couldn't do this anymore. I pushed the pillow away and sat up on the bed. I stared out the window and saw that the sun had set.I was tired of going back to Nathan and having everything repeat itself. I always begged him for something and he'd deny me that. He denied me love, human affection and attention, and now he'd denied me my baby. And then it goes on and on. An endless loo
FAYEI walked into the coffee shop with false bravado. Maybe if I looked confident enough, they wouldn't know how low my qualifications for any job were.I hadn't finished high school, neither had I gone to college. Looking at the coffee shop with its scuffed booths by the right far corner, and the round tables and stools in the middle of the diner, I didn't think someone needed a college degree to work there.I stopped by the counter, and the lady standing behind it looked up at me.She was wearing a t-shirt over blue jeans and she had a white apron tied on top. Her nails looked garish with the red nail polish on them. "What can I get you?" She asked, opening a box on the black countertop in front of her. "Um.. I saw the sign outside and wanted to know if you were still hiring." I replied, my fingers twitching nervously by my sides. "Hey, Charles, the new help is here." She shouted out to someone. The new help? Was that me? But I hadn't even had an interview. She hadn't asked for