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 my

glass, hoping to see Asher. He had

Asher?"

saw him head outside the bunker earlier," another healer

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

Ezra was treated after his very first power outburst - the same lab that had

when Asher suggested bringing Ezra here. The memories tied to this place 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

dense forest now sprawled across the grounds where the FA facility once stood. Beyond the woods loomed the accursed walls, cloaked in vines

boiled with uncontainable rage every time I saw this place. Why Asher hadn't torn down those walls and erased the ruins was

I grumbled as I walked

against the thick roots of a towering

was seeing, I switched to Pheles'

any trace of feeling. He suppressed his

of his emotional state. It was a chaotic

trudged toward him slowly, each step cautious

as though all his emotions were battling, each one clashing against the

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. It seemed as though grief

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

I couldn't decipher, his aura

Asher and pain?

Rubbish.

never feels pain

what in the world could be causing

it be the

face eclipsed by shadows, and his

I lifted his chin, my breath caught in my throat, and

So, seeing the tear streaking down his face wasn't just alien,

danger. I

his pulse, his

Nothing was normal.

Nothing.

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

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

hand slid off his chest, almost lifeless, and that just messed with my

something

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

gasp before his eyes fluttered open. In an instant, his emotional aura snapped back to its usual blankness, his emotions and his pain

his eyes, his hand pressing to

"Raven?" He mumbled.

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 happened to you?"

me?" Asher's eyes flickered

"You were... hurting..."

at his body, his fingers brushing the tear on

I?" he asked in

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

he muttered, his voice low, and I stared