Offered to the Triplet Alphas

Chapter-105. Emotional aura

[Raven]

"The sutures are stable, Alpha, but... Alpha Ezra's wounds aren't healing."

"No potion, in any dose, is effective."

"It's almost as though something is blocking his recovery."

I ran my fingers through my hair, trying to pacify the throbbing headache as I went through the scrolls of medical notes and compared them with Ezra's reports.

Three days had passed since Ezra's outburst, and all I could do was contain his feral powers.

We operated on five major fractures in his limbs, three in his ribs, and almost ten other minor bone displacements and fractures. He had deep tears in his abdomen, chest, and shoulders while minor cracks ran all over his skin.

His powers were no longer trying to tear his body apart, but his body wasn't healing, despite everything we did. No matter how strong the healing potion we gave him, his body remained unresponsive.

I knew what was interfering with his healing - the curse. But the real problem was the curse hadn't manifested enough to react to the curse litmus for me to determine its nature and type.

So creating an effective healing potion was the actual challenge. We couldn't afford to simply experiment with different potions on Ezra, hoping one would work. The time, place, person, and words tied to the curse all played a role in determining its nature. Using the wrong potion could speed up the curse's manifestation.

Speeding up the curse's manifestation was the last thing I wanted. In Ezra's condition, the curse could easily consume his complete existence in a matter of a few days.

Ezra was surviving on heavy doses of painkillers.

He hadn't regained consciousness since he lost it, and one by one, I was running out of ways to bring him back.

The numbers, words, and graphs on the reports blurred before my eyes. The voices of the healing team faded into silence as I slipped into a daze once again.

I can't fix this.

I can't handle this..

I am making this worse.

I am not qualified enough.

What if Ezra never wakes up?

What if he's gone?

It will all be my fault-

Slamming my hand on the table, I got up from the chair, my breaths quickening.

The team of healers sitting around the table looked at me as I began pacing around the room.

I glanced at the reports spread out on the table once more, desperately searching for a blind spot or some kind of miraculous solution to this problem.

"Alpha, you haven't slept for three days straight. You should rest a little," a young healer suggested.

"Don't tell me what to do," I growled, glaring at her.

her head, cowering

shut my eyes, took a deep breath, and glanced toward the corridor through the watching glass, hoping to see Asher. He had been here with

is Asher?" I

head outside

be back," I said, my voice firm,

treated after his very first power outburst - the same

stabilize him because it was built specifically for this purpose. Moreover, we couldn't risk news of Ezra's condition becoming public; it would cause severe unrest within the pack and draw the relentless attention of the press, fueling unnecessary questions we didn't have the time or answers for. Getting out of the bunker, I scanned the area, releasing my butterflies to look for Asher because he didn't respond to my

sprawled across the grounds where the FA facility once stood. Beyond the woods loomed the accursed walls, cloaked

torn down those walls and erased the ruins was a mystery that only deepened my frustration. Through one of my butterflies, I spotted Asher deep in the

I grumbled as I walked into the

my body froze the moment I saw him sitting on the ground with his back resting against the thick roots of a towering tree, its trunk draped in soft, green moss. I furrowed my brows, widening my eyes as

what I was seeing, I switched to Pheles'

been blank, cold, and devoid of any trace of feeling. He suppressed his emotions so flawlessly that I actually believed he was incapable

impossible to make sense of his emotional state. It was a chaotic storm of feelings so intricate and raw

slowly, each step cautious

felt as though all his emotions were battling, each one

hurts the very person they long to protect. Wisps of deep indigo wove through the chaos, heavy with despair and the suffocating weight of loss. Bright flashes of gold and white clashed with the darker hues. It seemed as though grief and torment fiercely attacked love and

at the

couldn't decipher, his aura was undeniably heavy with -

Asher and pain?

Rubbish.

never feels pain or anything at

world could

be

head hung low, his face eclipsed by shadows, and his breaths were labored. His hand clenched his chest, as though his

chin, my breath caught in my throat, and I instinctively pulled back, a

never seen Asher shed a single tear in his life, not even as a child. So, seeing the tear streaking down his face wasn't just alien, but deeply unsettling. I reacted before I could think things through, overcome by a

already in danger. I

his pulse, his

Nothing was normal.

Nothing.

state of his emotional aura, his heart should be erratic, but there

Wake up! Asher!" Panic surged through me as I gripped his shoulders, shaking him

fingers turning ice cold when he didn't respond. His hand slid off his chest, almost lifeless, and that just messed with my brain even more. The sight of him like this... it twisted something heavy inside me, and

ominous feeling that something terrible, irreversible, had already happened to

fucking hate this place!" My hands shook as

instant, his emotional aura snapped back to its usual blankness, his emotions and

to reality. He squinted his eyes,

"Raven?" He mumbled.

to hide the frenzied worry that had consumed me only moments ago. "What happened to you?" I asked,

me?" Asher's eyes flickered with

"You were... hurting..."

his fingers brushing the

he asked in a

beside him, scrubbing my hand over my face

was... I thought..." My voice faltered as I clenched my fists, resting my elbows on my curled-up knees. "I thought it was the

shut his eyes and gulped hard, as if trying to shake off

muttered, his voice low,