#Chapter 370 – Unleashing the Flame

Ella

I fall into a little daze as I watch Hank work, as I hold my sleeping baby in my arms. It’s not that I’m not paying attention – it’s just that…I don’t really understand what they’re doing or saying, so to me it’s all just quiet repetitive work.

I do pay attention, of course, when Hank deems Cora patched up enough to roll her over onto her side so that they can perform an ultrasound. Cora gives a low moan when the nurses move her, a sound which at once pains me and gives me a little thrill of hope. Because as much as I hate to hear my sister in pain –

Damn it, at least it means she’s alive. I watch carefully as the nurses hold her still, as Hank expertly spreads some clear jelly on her stomach and then begins to search for a heartbeat. Then I bury my head in my hand a few moments later when he finds it – a fast, faint fluttering of noise. My little niece or nephew, still fighting for life.

I drag my hand away from my face a moment later to see Hank nodding to his nurses and Cora lowered back on her belly. Then, Hank turns to me, pulling off his gloves as he crosses the room and falls into a crouch so that we can be almost face-to-face while I stay seated.

“You saw?” he asks, looking up at me a little from his lowered place on the floor. “Yes,” I reply, nodding sharply. “The baby is alive, but – ”

decide…” he sighs and shakes his head, trying to come up with the right words.

looking over

yes. Ella,” he says again, his voice curious now, drawing my eyes back to him. “Did Cora ever mention to you the

start babbling on about priests in dark robes and the God of Darkness. “As we were getting away

can actually like, use it to heal

a little disturbed by his curiosity about the gift when we should be concentrating on helping my sister. What, really, is he asking me

his hands up in a little plea for forgiveness. “I’m I’m just a doctor, Ella. It’s all I really do, try to fix bodies. The idea of

eyes

were able to…I don’t know, Ella, unbind the gift? I know a lot about wolf biology, but not a lot about the religion or the magic of it all. Is there anyway to get around this? Perhaps one of the priestesses of the Goddess, your

him suddenly as I realize that – that Hank

good idea, Hank,” I say, getting quickly to my feet and looking around

the room. “Of course, Ella,” he says. “The entire facility is at your disposal.” He glances back towards Cora now. “I’m going to run some tests,” he murmurs, taking a deep breath and steeling himself.” Let’s

and begin to search for the contact information of the temple in the center of our city, hopping to hell the priestesses

Sinclair

of flame racing towards us. Roger, in mid- leap, takes the hit first, yelping and

pain as I turn my back to the fire but feel it curling at my clothes, my skin, the back of my neck – a deep and

brunt of the

do it again,” the priest says, his teeth gritted as he glares at us. “I will burn you until your

I snap, taking another step towards him. “Or else you’d have done

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