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,

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 presence had kept me going.

Asher?" I

him head outside the bunker earlier,"

Report any fluctuations to me immediately. I'll be back," I

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

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

where the FA facility once stood. Beyond the woods loomed the accursed walls, cloaked in vines and creeping vegetation, still

walls and erased the ruins was a mystery that only deepened my frustration.

I grumbled as I walked into the forest, following Asher's

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

seeing, I switched to Pheles'

emotional aura had always been blank, cold, and devoid of any trace of feeling. He suppressed his emotions so flawlessly

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

toward him slowly, each step

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 darker hues. It

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

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

Asher and pain?

Rubbish.

pain or

world

be

I realized he 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..."

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

tear in his life, not even as a child. So, seeing the

already in danger. I couldn't lose Asher

his pulse, his

Nothing was normal.

Nothing.

the state of his emotional aura, his heart should be erratic, but there was an eerie

me as I gripped

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,

fucking hate this place!" My hands shook as I gripped

shaky gasp before his eyes fluttered open. In an instant, his emotional aura snapped back to its usual

reality. He squinted his eyes, his hand pressing to his

"Raven?" He mumbled.

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

asked

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

my fists, resting my elbows on my curled-up knees. "I thought it was the

as if trying to shake off the remnants of

his voice low, and I stared at him,