46 Chapter 46

46 Chapter 46

Seraphina’s POV 1

The silence in the medical bay was deafening. Every eye in the room was fixed on me with expressions ranging from shock to outright disbelief, as if I’d just defied the laws of physics-which, I supposed, I had.

Lucas pushed himself up on his elbows, looking down at his leg where moments before there had been gaping wounds that would have

killed him. Now there was nothing but smooth, unblemished skin, not even a scar to mark where the massive injuries had been.

“What the hell just happened?” he asked, his voice stronger than it had any right to be after the blood loss he’d suffered. His eyes found

mine across the crowded medical bay, confusion and something that might have been awe flickering in their depths.

I opened my mouth to answer, then closed it again. What could I possibly say? *Oh, apparently I can heal mortal wounds with my hands

now. No big deal.*

“I… I don’t know,” I admitted, staring down at my palm where the white light had emanated just moments before. The skin looked

completely normal now, no different from my left hand. “I’ve never done anything like that before.”

*Sera,* Ayla’s voice was small and confused in my mind. *I don’t understand what just happened. I felt this overwhelming urge to help

him, and then…*

Riley reached out with trembling fingers to touch Lucas’s leg where the wounds had been, her eyes wide with wonder. “This is

impossible,” she breathed. “Werewolves heal fast, but not like this. Not instantaneously. Not from injuries that severe.”

“Seraphina?”

I turned to see the warrior with the massive chest wounds struggling to sit up on his examination table, his face twisted with pain

bandages Riley had applied. Blood was still seeping through the

by something deeper than sympathy—a compulsion

warriors parted before me like I

“She healed Lucas…”

see that

of wolf can

hovering uncertainly over his

he managed between

to try to help you, okay? But

focusing on me with desperate hope. Behind me, I could hear Riley giving

the voices seemed distant and muffled, like I

eyes and tried to find that warm, purposeful feeling

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46 Chapter 46

the medical bay. Then, slowly, I

over Ben’s wounds, the white light was there again, brighter this time, pulsing with a rhythm that matched his heartbeat.

itself back together.

Ben’s injuries were more severe—deeper wounds,

demanding, and I could feel it draining something essential from

as

Ayla warned, her mental voice tight with concern. *You’re pushing too hard. We

with such trust, not when I could see his breathing growing easier as his

not when I had the power to save him. I pressed deeper into the healing trance, pouring more

whispered conversations had

anything like

“-what kind of bloodline-”

flew open, panic flashing across his features

stop,” he whispered urgently. “Please, I

my teeth and forced myself to focus, pushing the fragments of memory

Ben needed me.

growing weaker with each passing

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