The Pack's Doctor by Cooper

Chapter 133

Chapter 133

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I feel like Quirin and I have leaped over a hurdle. Just the fact that he came to find me, to show me how much he wanted me, feels like a feat in and of itself.

‘And it didn’t even hurt this time,‘ Echo purrs. No, it didn’t, it just felt good.

‘We needed to adjust to him and now we have,’ she says, stretching in my mind like a damn cat.

Between her and the tingles that I’m still feeling in my body, I’m struggling to figure out this damn microscope. It was slow before Quirin came and distracted me in the best possible way, but now … I give up. There’s no way I can focus on this.

So, instead, I spend the rest of the afternoon putting the last of the supplies away and making sure that everything is organized in a way that I can get to it quickly if necessary.

“Wow, Luna, I’ve never seen so much stuff in here,” Deborah says, walking in.

“Well, I doubt we’ll need to replace most of it for a while, but it’s good to have it on hand if we need it,” I tell her.

“Do you know how to use all this stuff?” she asks, walking into the storage room and looking around.

“Yeah. I learned how to use it while I was taking classes and most of this I have practical knowledge of having been in my mother’s teaching hospital all my life.”

She turns and looks at me before looking at the items that I’ve put away.

“What classes taught you to use these things?” she asks.

“Well, I double majored in biology and chemistry. Both are key foundations for the medical and veterinarian degrees that I want to get.”

She turns and looks at me, frowning.

“What?” I ask.

“You double majored?”

“Yes.”

“Didn’t you just turn eighteen?”

before. It would have been a lot to

she asks me slowly as if making sure she understands what I’m saying.

know it sounds hard, but I grew up in my mother’s teaching hospital. I’ve been listening to the same. classes and lectures since I was six. I mean really, it isn’t a big deal that I passed my first college test at ten I’d heard the same. lectures, watched the

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what they teach in college builds on what you learn in high school, so those courses I didn’t pass until I fifteen and sixteen. But the biology ones were great, and I was able to start

huh,” she says, still staring at me. It’s making me a bit uncomfortable, so I

say that I know how to use this equipment. I’ll know how to use the microscope once I

didn’t come assembled?” she asks.

since I was purchasing so many things, I thought

says again, still

have any thoughts about how I’ve got things put away in here?” I ask, still not sure I understand why she’s

head and looks around. “No, it

“Okay, good.”

going to head back to the packhouse.

you

at all what

good?”

is,” she says, smiling at me before heading

as a warrior, but I’m chalking that up to getting my second

I go back to the microscope. Now that Echo has settled and my body has stopped humming with

together, I go get the samples I took from Tommy’s knee. I dab the swab with saline and then smear it on the slide before putting it under the microscope. I see the usual microorganisms that you’d expect to find on the skin, along with some bacteria that you’d expect, especially with a young pup who skinned his knee. There’s no

of his skin. This time when I put it under the microscope, there’s more of the trace

be traces

where are you?‘ Quirin’s voice floats

realize that

hospital. I’ll head over now.‘

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with my thoughts of how this could happen. Is it intentional? Is it some sort of contamination on the pack lands that we need to handle immediately? Is it only on the pup playground and if so, do other

into the packhouse, Quirin comes jogging over, a rare smile on his face. “Hey gorgeous.