Tangled

Chapter 83

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.

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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.””

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

a reaction.

me with a scrutinizing stare. “Tell me, are you a shifter

the doctor providing care, so I answer. Reluctantly, and only with

shakes his head. “Figures. A human pet. One of the Blackwood Alpha’s play toys, I

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words. “I won’t

effort. Miss Grey, you’ll be just fine. Antibiotics, pain meds. That’s all you need. Broth if

flushes Vanessa’s cheeks bright red

into fists at her

of her

with a feeling that’s a little ticklish and uncomfortable, like

before turning to face me, an apologetic look on her

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

at the thought of

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by existing. The last

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

she looks at

You have Alpha Lucas on your side now. He’ll

off guard, and I find myself at a loss for how to respond. It’s true that Lucas risked everything to rescue me from the Blackwood Pack, but aside from feeling immense gratitude, I’m not sure how

saving me really change the

He made it clear at the Lunar Gala that he

to do with me. And even if he’s had a change of heart, I’m still just me. An outcast in my own pack. A shifter

ago now that he was trying to

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ready for that then, either. Full of suspicion, which seems to be

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