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Chapter 26: Wounds and Memories

Chapter 26 Wounds and Memories

(Olivia's POV)

Pain shot through my face as I shifted in bed. I accidentally brushed against my bruised cheek.

"Ow-"I recoiled. The sharp sting cleared the fog of fever from my mind.

The bedside lamp clicked on, bathing the room in soft golden light. I squinted against the brightness. My vision slowly focused on Ethan's face hovering above me.

His amber eyes narrowed as they traced the stark bruises marring my skin, His jaw tightened with tension. A muscle twitched beneath the surface of his skin.

Without a word, he turned and left the room. His footsteps echoed down the hallway, heavy and purposeful.

Through my fever haze, I heard him on the phone. His voice was a dangerous, controlled whisper that sent chills through me despite my feverish state.

"Maxwell, I need you to find out who laid a hand on Olivia Winters in Shadowfall Detention Center."

A pause followed as he listened to his special assistant's response. My heart raced despite my exhaustion, wondering what he planned to do.

"Take care of them inside, a hundredfold," he commanded coldly. The deadly promise in his voice made me shudder. This was the merciless Alpha King that other packs feared.

The floorboards creaked as he returned to the room. He held a small bottle of Moonberry Fever Reducer in one hand and a glass of water in the other. He set both on the nightstand before carefully sitting on the edge

of the bed.

"Open your mouth," he instructed, uncapping the fever reducer. "Take the medicine."

Those simple words triggered something dark inside me. Suddenly, I wasn't in my bedroom anymore.

I was eight years old again, huddled in that dank orphanage basement corner. The head caretaker loomed over me with that sickening smile.

"Take your medicine, little wolf," he'd cooed, eyes glinting with malice. "It will make you feel better."

I'd been naive enough to believe him then. I opened my mouth obediently. The bitter liquid burned going down, leaving me disoriented and weak.

Too weak to fight back when the whip came down across my back. Too weak to escape the predatory gaze

that followed.

"No," I whispered now, clenching my jaw shut. My entire body trembled as I pressed against the headboard,

I putting distance between Ethan and myself.

flickered in his eyes. Without warning, he placed the medicine

could process what was happening, his lips descended

chest, pushing at him with what

cradled

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firmly against my lower

he murmured against my lips. His thumb stroked my throat to encourage the reflexive action, leaving me

finally pulled away, something unexpected flickered in his

on my flushed skin, traveling down to where my sweat-soaked nightgown clung

voice husky with

into a fresh nightgown. His fingers brushed against my skin with surprising gentleness, leaving trails of heat that had nothing to do with my

signals through my fevered body.

left

of half-consciousness. The medicine gradually took effect, cooling the

through my veins,

out of awareness,

vaguely noticed Ethan's presence

his watchful gaze never leaving my

applied to my face roused me from fitful sleep. I blinked slowly,

to focus my thoughts.

Harold Bennett's Rare Healing Salve filled

the exclusive remedy available only to the

I'd received the same treatment after

fingers moved with surprising gentleness across my bruised cheek. He applied the salve in careful, circular motions, his touch lighter than I would have

charged silence between us. His question cut through

blade.

hard to ask me for help?" he asked, his voice deceptively soft. The

been avoided if I'd sought his

within me. It

weakness, replacing

Stone, I would ask anyone but you," I spat, venom lacing every syllable. My emerald eyes blazed with fury as I knocked his hand away from my face.

The brief tenderness vanished as if it

ungrateful," he said, his

eyes burned with a cold fire as I glared at him. "You throw me to those women and then offer healing salve, and

insisted, his amber eyes narrowing dangerously. "I

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a moment, doubt flickered through