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.

head, cowering under

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 me for the past three days, and somehow, just his

is Asher?"

head outside the bunker earlier," another healer

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

underground bunker where Ezra was treated after his very first power outburst - the same lab that had once been part of the

condition becoming public; it would cause severe unrest within the pack and draw the relentless attention of the press, fueling unnecessary questions

facility once stood. Beyond the woods loomed the accursed walls, cloaked in

hadn't torn down those walls and erased the ruins

grumbled

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

I was seeing, I switched

been blank, cold, and devoid of any trace of feeling. He suppressed his emotions so flawlessly that

impossible to make sense of his emotional state. It was a chaotic storm of feelings

slowly, each

were battling, each one clashing against the other

of red that forms when someone 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.

chaotic emotions were bound by swirls of jagged black edges, rippling at the boundaries of

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

Asher and pain?

Rubbish.

never feels pain or

world

it be the

wasn't unconscious - he was asleep. His head hung low, his face eclipsed by shadows, and his breaths were labored. His hand clenched his chest, as though his heart hurt. "Asher..." I

breath caught in my throat, and I instinctively pulled

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 down his face wasn't just alien, but deeply unsettling. I reacted before I could think things through, overcome by a disturbing anxiety that tightened like a knot

I couldn't lose

checked his

Nothing was normal.

Nothing.

state of his emotional aura, his heart should be

Panic surged through me as

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

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

teeth clenched in frustration. "I hate this place! I fucking hate this place!" My hands shook as I gripped him tighter. "Asher! Don't fucking

In an instant, his emotional aura snapped back to its usual blankness, his

He squinted his eyes, his hand pressing to his forehead

"Raven?" He mumbled.

at him, panting. Licking the dryness from my lips, I forced myself to calm down, trying to hide the frenzied worry that had consumed me only moments ago. "What

Asher's eyes flickered with

"You were... hurting..."

at his body, his fingers brushing

I?" he asked in a

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

was... I thought..." My voice faltered as I clenched my fists, resting

to shake off the remnants of whatever had just

muttered, his voice low, and