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83 Ava: Dr. Ellison’s Disregard

83 Ava: Dr. Ellison’s Disregard

I brace myself as the rude doctor turns his attention fully on me. His eyes are cold, assessing, and I feel stripped bare under his clinical gaze.

“Ava Grey,” he says, no longer even pretending to look at my chart. His tone is cold. He’s a frigid man of ice, and I want to take a pickaxe to chip him into tiny little ice pieces that I throw into the toilet.

I straighten my back as best I can around the pain, lifting my chin as high as it can go with the bandages and pain. I refuse to be looked down on by some asshole with a superiority complex.

I had that enough from my own pack!

His lip curls into a slight sneer. “Let’s get one thing straight–you’re getting far more care and attention than you deserve, but you’re stable, and you’ll be on your way to recovery soon enough. You can thank me for that later.“@

I shoot Vanessa an incredulous glance, and she rolls her eyes and shakes her head.

13:16

83 Ava: Dr. Ellison’s Disregard

Yeah. That’s what I thought.

He’s just taking the credit for all the work she’s put in. I can remember, now, her soft voice just before I lost consciousness. She was in the car with me, wasn’t she? Sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ Findɴovel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

Where was this guy? Probably at home, drinking some wine and browsing some sort of medical journal.

He looks at Vanessa too, but his face is full of disdain.

“Honestly, I don’t know why we’re wasting resources

on a Blackwood mutt.””

stings, but I force myself to keep my expression neutral. I won’t

a reaction.

scrutinizing stare. “Tell me, are you a shifter or a human? Your “scent varies too much for

the doctor providing care, so I answer. Reluctantly, and only with the partial truth. “I’m

“Figures. A human pet.

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Ava: Dr. Ellison’s

won’t have you

effort. Miss Grey, you’ll be

bright red

into fists at her sides. If life was a cartoon, steam would be coming

of her ears.

my heart with a feeling that’s a little ticklish and uncomfortable, like a wool blanket. Comfortable and cozy, until the

face me,

completely unacceptable. I’m going to report him to Alpha Lucas immediately. I can guarantee you that

at the thought

13.16

Ava: Dr.

through so much just by existing. The last thing I want is to be a burden or a source of

report him on my account. I don’t want to cause any

she looks at

of confusion and concern. “Ava, why wouldn’t you want to stand up for yourself? You have

It’s true that Lucas risked everything to rescue me from the Blackwood Pack,

me really change the

He made it clear at the Lunar Gala

change of heart, I’m still just me. An outcast in my own

lifetime ago now that he was trying

13:10

Dr. Ellison’s Disregard

I hadn’t been ready for that then, either. Full of suspicion, which seems to