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.

lowered her head, cowering under

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

Asher?"

I saw him head outside the bunker earlier,"

to me immediately. I'll be back," I said, my voice firm, before turning and

bunker where Ezra was treated after his very first power

made it hard to return. But I couldn't deny that this was the only lab that could contain and 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

once stood. Beyond the woods loomed the accursed walls, cloaked in vines and creeping vegetation, still as tall

down those walls and erased the ruins was a mystery that only deepened my frustration. Through one of my butterflies,

doing here?" I grumbled as I walked into

roots of a towering tree, its trunk draped in soft, green moss. I furrowed my

what I was seeing,

trace of feeling. He suppressed his emotions

of his emotional

him slowly, each step

all his emotions were battling, each one clashing against the other in

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

by swirls of jagged black edges, rippling at the boundaries of his aura, symbolizing something darker that even an

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

Asher and pain?

Rubbish.

pain or anything at

what in the world could be

it be the

shadows, and his breaths

throat, and I instinctively pulled back, a rush of unease

struggled to make sense of what was happening with him. I had never seen Asher shed a single tear in his life, not even as a child. So, seeing the tear streaking

in danger. I couldn't lose Asher

checked his

Nothing was normal.

Nothing.

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

Wake up! Asher!" Panic surged through me as I gripped his

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...

an ominous feeling that something terrible, irreversible, had

in frustration. "I hate this place! I fucking hate this place!" My hands shook as I

eyes fluttered open. In an instant, his emotional aura snapped back to

minutes to fully return to reality. He squinted his eyes, his hand pressing to his forehead as if trying to orient

"Raven?" He mumbled.

forced myself to calm down, trying to hide the frenzied worry that had consumed me only moments ago. "What happened to you?" I asked, my

Asher's eyes flickered

"You were... hurting..."

at his body, his fingers brushing the

he asked in a

gulp, I sat beside him, scrubbing my hand over my face as relief washed all over

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

gulped hard, as if trying to shake off the remnants

his voice low, and I stared at him,