Healing Kisses (Sophia and Santiago) novel Chapter 195

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Ragnar decided that since I'm leaving without his permission, he wont send me off. I haven't seen him in two days, and since he's being a shit about this, l've taken it further. I'd been sleeping in my lab. I even locked myself in and changed the passwords. Not once has he tried to reach me through the link, and I've granted him the same courtesy.

"Is everything all right with you and the King?" Ana asks when we're alone in her private plane.

"He doesn't think I should be helping Kaylee," I say softly so that Kaylee can't hear me in the front of the plane. I doubt she would even care at the moment. This is her first time on a plane, and she has been keeping her head down.

"I give it twelve hours before he has an excuse to follow, she smirks.

"I haven't seen him in two days or spoken to him," I shrug.

"So, maybe not."

"Bitch, what are you doing?" she glares at me. I laugh and sit back. "You're supposed to be the good one."

"I am the good one," I roll my eyes.

"What are you going to do when all of this is over?" she grins.

"I guess it depends on how big | get," I shrug. My grandmother and Kaylee join us. "I did something you might not like, but l am going to make you do it anyway."

"If anyone can force me to do something, it might as well be you," she sighs. I pull out my phone and show her the list of maternity clothes I'm planning for us. She scrolls through it and laughs. "I am so down."

"We're going to look so cute," | laugh.

"What's happening?" my grandmother asks. 

"I made us a list of matching maternity outfits," I say, then Ana hands her my phone so she can see.

"Can I add to it?" Ana' smirks.

"Sure," I nod. When I look up at Kaylee, shes looking out of the window. I press the table button on the wall beside me. "There are a few things we all need to know before we land."

"Like how American wolves are insane?" my grandmother asks. The four of us laugh.

"Yes, and these are particular. When we arrive, two teams of our own stationed here will welcome us. We're not going to be staying long. I only promised to show them what I found regarding Kaylee's condition. They want to see them and get a live sample.

"Their labs are divided into six sectors. Grandma, I didn't tell them you and Ana were coming with us. Kaylee and I will stick together. However, I reach for my carry-on and place it on the table. "These are guard suits!

"Yes," Ana is the first to reach for them.

I can still smell the sweet scent in the air when she was preparing the syringe. I can feel it calming the anxiety in my body until the pain faded in seconds. Half the syringe was more than enough for me, but she would give me double the dose when my grandmother was going to show up, so that I could be too drugged up to speak.

The addiction I developed to it was not easy to shake. It was painful and added to the distress I already had when I was going through physical therapy. It was easy getting my hands on it when I was on my own. And when I found her stash in the apartment she was renting, I told myself that it was just temporary. The second half of those viles sit in the floorboards of my family home.

How many others were there? How many died to get that woman to where I was? I don't believe she started with those of us who needed help after the attack. I continue to scroll through the sacred items they use and pause at some of the ingredients I used to heal Ana.

-You wouldn't be this stressed if you were home, right now.-his voice echoes in my head for the first time since we argued.

I don't answer, but the knot in my belly tightens. I didn't realize I was so focused on this that I let my guard down.

I close it off again and place the tablet on the table. I could really use his help with this, but his hatred for Kaylee outweighs his desire to help his brother.

I mean, what are we supposed to do? Let him lose her?

He would lose his mind. She is his mate. I can't just stand here and let her die, thinking everyone hates her. I look up to see that my grandmother and Ana are watching a movie under some blankets on the seats up front. Kaylee is still sitting quietly, looking out the window.

"It's pretty, huh?" I ask.

"It's weird," she smiles, glancing over at me. "Being this high up, seeing the world from above. We're just little specs floating around. Kind of makes you wonder why we're fighting over properties that don't really even belong to us."