Offered to the Triplet Alphas

Chapter-40. Life has its ways

[Xanthea]

I was about to step beyond the university campus, but I took back my step.

My heart raced, breath quickened, filling my lungs with icy breaths. I clenched my fists so tightly my nails dug into my palms.

Gritting my teeth, I shut my eyes, hating myself a little more.

I am really a coward-

"Good girl..."

With a sharp inhale, I opened my eyes. I turned around, standing face to face with Raven.

I dared maintain eye contact with him as he stepped closer to me.

"Is a cat who you just met so important that you contemplated leaving the campus, even if it was for a second? You thought of defying me for a useless cat-"

"She is not useless!" I blurted out those words, and I wasn't sorry about it.

Raven's eyes bore into mine, their intensity growing as he closed the distance between us. The fear inside me was screaming at me to avert my eyes and lower my gaze, but there was something else that made me hold his gaze just as profoundly.

"Someone's getting brave."

"Who?" Once again, I had spoken without thinking things through. There was a bubbling rage in my chest.

I knit my brows when Raven smiled. I wasn't expecting this reaction from him.

"That cat sure taught you to sulk better," he chuckled. "So you really wanna help her? But a healer who can't heal is useless according to me and the standards of the Infernal pack."

"And I think she just needs to control her powers, and then she'll be one of the strongest healers. We... we just need a way to teach her, show her how it's done," I said.

His gaze shifted to the forest, eyes scanning the dense foliage.

"Now you have me in a chokehold of curiosity, little omega. Mind enlightening me about how you will 'teach' her to control her powers?"

He had a document rolled in his fist. Crossing his arms across his chest, he studied me as I remained silent. I didn't have an answer... yet.

"Overhealing is the most complicated condition in healers and their healing partners. Rare, but complicated. Most never gain control over their powers. That is why they are considered... useless. Overhealing can be tricky and more dangerous than underhealing. Like you saw, it turns normal cells into tumors, which ultimately leads to the death of those cells once the power source is withdrawn. Such tumors are malignant, which means they spread. If cells die, the organism dies. Simple mathematical biology. And if a healer can't control their powers, no one can make them."

"There's gonna be something we could do. There must be cases where someone controlled overhealing, right?"

"Sure. So what was your brilliant mind thinking? How were you going to 'help' her?"

"The plants... I was thinking..."

"Show me," he said.

I looked at him, confused.

"Go help that cat. I allow you to leave the campus, little omega. Show me what you can do," he said.

"Can I really-wa-uh!"

Raven scooped me off my feet. My hands snaked around his neck while he cradled me against his chest with his one arm under my knees. The next few seconds, Raven ran across the forest at a speed that even his bike couldn't match. The trees transformed into a mosaic of fleeting hues - green, black, and gray.

He put me to my feet. The twigs cracked, and the grass crunched beneath my sneakers.

It didn't take me long to find where Zosha was. A tree and plants close to it had grown considerably larger than the rest.

I followed Zosha's whimpers. Raven just watched from behind, leaning against the bark of a tree.

closer to Zosha, trying to maintain a safe

her extra power. But it wasn't working. Electricity still charged out of her with the same intensity it did before. Her hiccups had

her when her powers when they go out of control, but not all plants. There has to be a specific plant that could help her. A plant that can grow just as

why do I feel as though this is more of a psychological problem than

mortal you met earlier..." I said

plantations, with Zosha being the focal point. Every living cell

breath, I licked the

isn't it? Life is scary. I know it's scary to live a life that's not under our control. When someone else gets to define who we can be

cautiously stepped closer

a different view. She used to say that life has its ways of unfolding.

voice quivered. Biting back my tears, I

We just need to put our complete faith in

didn't know life had planned

I took a deep breath and forced a

hurt rats and birds and lizards? When you take away their pain? Without you, they would have suffered life, their loved ones would have suffered an irreplaceable loss,

swallowed the tightness building in my

make a difference. Your life is more important because you have the courage to help others by

my tongue as I caught my lower

a weak sound. Maybe she wanted to contradict what I said, but was too scared and weak to

the same powers that

Zosha's sobs. She had transformed

And you'll always find a way. Your powers will find

of electricity erupted and the

please come out, dear? I want

not worth... watching, meow! Not in this... state! Go away or... you'll be hurt, meow!" Zosha mumbled through

you'll be a great healer one day. Because becoming a healer is a mentality, and you already possess it in its strongest form." Zosha crawled out of

she lifted her tired gaze

"I'll love you..."

My family sold me because of this. My master

the full

stung into my eyes, but I maintained the faint smile on my

moment, I saw myself in

have made the biggest

tears on

closer to her, making my way through the knee-length

She crawled back.

Stay away! Please! Please! Don't come close to

kneeled before her and stretched out my

how dark you feel inside. I know you want to hide. You are lost, struggling with yourself. Your thoughts want to kill

her or myself. But I knew both of us were trapped and we had to

as she gasped. The suffocation I felt in my chest was realized in her

"Take my hand..."

She shook her head.

hand on hers. She

met you today..." I said, wrapping my arms around her trembling body as

sobs, hugging me back tighter. Caressing her

while, she

I stroked her.

gonna happen again... please go away from me! I am dangerous! Let go!"

alright... I am

her nails dig into my skin. "I can't..." she made a sound as if she was choking, but she

managing my breaths. I don't know what I was doing. All I knew was it was

held her bleary gaze in a warm scrutiny. Wiping her tears, I ignored the subtle electricity that charged through her hair. She was trying

you'll get

"You're worth the pain..."

"I'm not..."

"You are..."