Shifted Fate by Alicia S.Rivers

Chapter 459

I woke to see Luke standing over me, and I screamed. I pushed back, surprising both of us. He dropped the scalpel that was in his hands, and the nurse goddess forgive her dropped the tray she was carrying.

“Whoa there.” Luke raised his hands a little more. “You passed out from the pain.”

I settled against the bed. Wrong life. My hand drifted to my flat stomach. There is no pup here. I closed my eyes and took a few deep breaths. “Sorry.” I shook my head to clear it, but pain exploded behind my eyes and I dry heaved.

"No apologies needed. You have been through a lot.” He turned and grabbed a new scalpel, then he stepped up to my bedside. The nurse rushed back in with a new tray and the old one was left on the ground.

"Don't you need to grab all of that?"

The nurse nodded. "I'll grab it after." She dropped the tray on the bedside table.

"We have great healing, but werewolf or not, the royal doctor taught us to keep our sterile field." Luke put the scalpel down on

the tray, next to everything else. "Now. I have to cut the skin around your ribs."

“Why?” My voice was riddled with suspicion, but Luke just smiled softly.

“You aren't healing fast, but you are still healing. Your skin healed around the bone. I have to cut the skin from the bone, push it

back into place, stitch the wounds with dissolvable stitches and then bind your ribs in place."

I shuddered. Nix came running out of the forest. Just let us heal you. She screamed at me, and I felt guilty, but I sent her calming

thoughts.

As

soon as the doctor pushes our ribs in, I'm healing them. And the

but I just chuckled.

until I limp out of here and

scoffed and then turned away from me. Stupid humans, and

at Luke, and

would really like to give you something to

shook my head.

grimaced, but nodded. "Your funeral.” He looked to the

not

and then back to the doctor. "I'll do my best." She looked back at me. "This is going to hurt, but

fight me. I'm not

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and rolled me. The pain was blinding, and I screamed as she forced me into the position the doctor needed. Breathing became hard, and my vision flickered.

on my side. "Take a deep breath and blow it out." He waited for me to

breathing. I want to say that this will help, but I won't lie to you.”

on my breathing.

sliced into me. The pain turned

breathing was ragged intakes that my body forced me to take.

insect bites. The burning of silver. I white hot poker being pressed into

in. “It's okay to scream.