Exchanging Vows: The Swapped Wife Is a Top Shaman novel Chapter 59

Chapter 59: Chapter 59

Ivy’s Point of View

Today was the day. If everything went according to plan, I would finally begin Dominic’s real recovery. But to do that, I had to play a dangerous game of charades.

I watched from the courtyard as Ash, Shadow, and Stone slipped out of the side gates. They weren’t my guards today. They headed toward a pre-arranged safe house on the edge of the pack territory to shed their warrior clothes, and don the robes of the Divine Doctors.

It was a classic misdirection. While my other guards stayed behind to act as a decoy... keeping up appearances so no one wondered why my entire security detail had vanished... these three were about to become the most important men in the pack.

I spent the next hour pacing. My heart hammered. “Deep breaths, Ivy.” I told myself.

When the Divine Doctors were announced at the main gates, I took my place beside Alpha Alaric and Luna Helena. I tried to look the part of the dutiful, worried wife.

Stone led the way. He looked completely unrecognizable in long, flowing linen robes, his face partially obscured by a mask. Ash and Shadow followed a step behind, carrying a wooden chests filled with herbs, which were actually my shamanic ritual tools.

Alpha Alaric stood in front of them, his gaze piercing through the third mask. He looked at Stone with deep hesitation. I held my breath. Alaric was an Alpha, his instincts were sharp. He looked at Stone’s build... a bit too muscular for a typical wandering healer.

"I was told the Divine Doctors were traveling from the Southern peaks," Alpha Alaric said, his voice a low rumble. "But you don’t carry the scent. Where exactly are you from?" He asked.

My stomach did a somersault. This was the moment.

Stone didn’t miss a beat. I had told them what to answer for three nights straight. He bowed low, his voice slightly raspy and altered... a trick of deep voice manipulation, so he won’t be recognized.

"We are but wandering men, Alpha," Stone said, his tone humble. "We go where the spirits of the earth call us to heal. We do not belong to one place, we wander."

Shadow and Ash chimed in, echoing the rehearsed backstories about their travels and the ailments they had cured. They sounded so convincing I almost believed them myself.

"A wandering soul often sees more than one bound to a throne," Luna Helena said softly, her eyes shimmering with a flicker of hope.

She turned to her husband. "Please, let them see our son now."

He gestured for them to follow. We walked through the winding hallways toward Dominic’s wing.

When we entered the room, there lay the unconscious Dominic.

Stone approached the bed, he began the examination, pressing his fingers to Dominic’s pulse points and chanting under his breath. It sounded like ancient words.

"Can you save him?" Luna Helena whispered, her hands clasped tightly over her heart.

Stone turned to her. "I can save him, though the recovery will be a slow climb, not a sprint."

Luna Helena let out a sob of relief, clutching Alpha Alaric’s arm. But the moment of peace was shattered when the door creaked open.

"A fraud! That’s what this is!"

I didn’t even have to look to know who it was. Mrs. Margot swept into the room, her nose wrinkled in disgust. She pointed a trembling finger at Stone.

"Look at them! They look like mercenaries. Alpha, you are letting charlatans play with your son’s life?"

She shot me a look of pure venom. “You allow them touch a man you claim to be your husband?” She said.

I lowered my head, playing the victim. "Mrs. Margot, I only want my husband to wake up. The healers came highly recommended..."

"Recommended by whom? Commoners?" Margot scoffed.

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