Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond

Chapter 0393

- Josie -

I was all about today. Today was going to be the best day. Today, I was returning to work at the hospital and I couldn't wait.

I was awake even before warrior training, leaving Knox still asleep in my bed...his arms reaching for me in his sleep as I quietly slipped away.

I wouldn't be told no, I wouldn't be told to wait another day...I had it eating away at me, this inner nagging need, to heal. To help people.

Even if it meant for today I was only going to restock the medical cabinet, to me I was helping. I was contributing to the bigger picture of the hospital.

If I slipped out before breakfast, even before Knox waking...yes it was a bit underhanded, but I would already be at the hospital working, then nobody could stop me.

Just inhaling the sterile clean smell of the hospital has my body relaxing, I felt like me again...I felt at home.

I was in even before Doctor Abel. My heart sank slightly when we had no patients in the ward, but that was expected, that was the norm. After Knox outed the warriors for taking it in turns to injure one another during training, it's been pretty quiet on this ward. Doctor Abel finds me rooting around in my small storage cupboard, he must have followed the unusually early noise, not expecting to find me as he seems surprised to find me back.

"Your back?" His eyes light up with enthusiasm as he rests his shoulder against the door frame.

tell you?" I reach up

expecting you back

"I came back early."

takes a step closer to me, reaching up for the jar of

I take the jar off him, trying to think of a quick enough response as to why I am back early. But I fail

"Well?"

"Hmm?"

you back early? Did you leave Knox

my lips before moving back up to my eyes. This man

before running his hands through his

something happened?" Not only was this man my peer, my colleague...my boss...he

I don't know what to tell him, I don't even know how to put the words in place to begin how to tell him. It has been a surprise for everyone that I have a wolf but a

tell anyone until we know what to say. Who fully to

I smile out as best I

from him so he can not pick up on

"Normality?" He chuckles out.

now have a wolf...your ideal of normal

I can rely on to keep me sane." "Okay, well you know where