Ethan

I blink my eyes open to bright white lights and the sterile scent of a hospital.

It takes a few moments for my senses to focus on the details around me. At first I see only my surgeon’s face hovering above me. Has the surgery not begun yet? I wonder dazedly. I could have sworn I’d already started counting backwards for the anesthesiologist.

But when my doctor speaks, there’s a smile in his voice. “Welcome back Ethan. Everything went perfectly. You’ve been asleep for a while, but your family is eager to see you.

My family, I muse, the wheels in my mind turning much too slowly. Does he mean Nina and Matthew? But even as I think these words, my wolf pipes up.

I smell Jane. I smell the pups! They’re here! He exclaims.

No, they can’t be. It’s not possible. I reply, groaning internally at the pain this simple fact causes me.

Jane’s scent washes over me, much too potent to be my wolf’s imagination. Gentle fingers stroke my cheek, and the next thing I know, her sweet voice is floating through my consciousness. “Open your eyes, Ethan.”

I hadn’t even realized that I closed them again. I’m hovering on the edge of sleep, barely able to tell dreams from reality. I shake my head stubbornly, determined to stay in the dream. “No.” The word is little more than a whisper, my lips slurring the hard consonant. “Wanna stay.. in dream.”

I feel soft, familiar lips graze my temple, and I want to cry for wanting Jane. “Okay, my love.

There’s no rush.”

She feels so real- sounds so real. My wolf is whining in my head, and I gradually lift my heavy eyelids, caving to his pressure. At once I see Jane’s stunning features hovering above me. Her face is blurred around the edges, like an out of focus photo, but I don’t care. She’s beaming down at me, her emerald eyes swimming with tears. “Hello mate

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything so beautiful, and suddenly I’m afraid I imagined the doctor’s words. “Am I in heaven?” I murmur, trying to reach for her but realizing I can’t lift my hand. That fact alone tells me this isn’t entirely my imagination – if I had it my way she would already be in my arms.

“No, of course not.” Jane answers, caressing my jaw. “You’re just a little hazy from the drugs.”

is this possible?” I mutter, sounding completely

are upset. “The surgery was a success. You’re going to be able to walk again –

sluggish pace, but the mention of my surgery jolts me into the present quicker than anything else.

Jane replies, hiccupping a laugh. “I

the other. This isn’t right. She can’t know. “No,” I manage to shake my head, my

inside of me starts to crack.

weight of my arms and legs,

Jane’s voice intimates, sounding pained. “It’s

step out, maybe send his mate in.” The doctor suggests, sounding farther away

want to shout at the man for suggesting Jane leave, but I can’t make the words come,

get the message. “Nevermind.” The doctor

she looks a bit subdued, there’s still a stubborn tilt to her mouth that tells me

to throttle her and kiss her at once. “You didn’t seem to like the idea of me

was my wolf.” I mumble drunkenly, “He’s not being

edge entering her voice. “So you think it was reasonable to push me

wanted to hurt you.” I fight back a sob, wishing for the thousandth time that

have

Instead she lets me feel her warm curves pressing against my side, her slender limbs cradling whatever they can

the pup in her belly, kicking out to say hello. A few stray tears

an inch, in fact if anything she simply cuddles closer. “Because mates give each other what

rumble in

of everyone else, Ethan – even when it kills you. Now it’s time you let us

still slurring like a man who’s ten drinks in.

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