Healing Slowly But Surely By R. Joseph novel Chapter 290

Chapter 290: Not impossible.

Kael.

Leilani’s cries nearly tore down the entire house. And for some reason, my only response to it was pain.

I was not aroused that she was naked. Not curious or anxious especially since this was the first time I was seeing her in such a state.

I was hurt. Completely. Utterly.

And I was afraid.

It felt like I was the one in pain… like I was the one whose body was burning up with a fever so intense it melted away ice cubes and nearly steamed whenever the washcloth was placed against her skin.

From where I stood against the door, I watched my brothers attend to her. But I couldn’t. Not because I didn’t want to but because I couldn’t bring myself to move. Because I was afraid of touching her… of feeling her… of knowing the extent to which she was hurting.

And then, there was something else.

—The fact that I was the only one who could see that she was stuck in a state of mid-shift.

Maybe it was due to the fact that Caelum and Zevran were distracted by her presence, but they seemed completely oblivious to the fact that her forelimbs had elongated visibly. Her legs had stretched a few inches longer than they usually were and her hair was glittering in a way that I would have found ethereal if she wasn’t in so much pain.

So when she struck Caelum in the face— his nose— I wasn’t so shocked. I wasn’t surprised either because I knew what it meant; That her wolf was closer to the surface. That it wouldn’t take long before she goes completely berserk or beast mode on us—

“Let’s mark her!” Zevran suddenly said, causing me to freeze in place..

My eyes widened especially since Leilani’s flew open just then and she screamed; “NO!”

And I cannot say that I know Leilani like the back of my palm. I cannot say that I can read her like a book. But as soon as she refused, I knew that it was better to let her be. To let it go. If it was me talking to her, that’s exactly what I would’ve done.

But Zevran didn’t.

He pushed her. He tried to make her see reason with him, and that… that infuriated her even more than his outrageous but very smartly drawn conclusion to mark her and rid her of this pain.

I gritted my teeth together and squeezed my eyes shut, trembling when she threw her head back and cried out. But what I didn’t expect was what happened next.

What I didn’t expect was how she simply rough housed us— three full blooded Alphas without even raising a finger(or maybe she did raise a finger but not in the way that you may think.

I couldn’t speak. I couldn’t move. And that was not even an exaggeration.

My entire body felt like it was under a spell, like I had no power of my own to fight against the hold she had on me; and it felt like…

“Compulsion,” I whispered under my breath, but the words couldn’t come out any louder.

I knew my brothers were in pain— I could feel it— but I was powerless to help them. Scratch that, I was even powerless to help myself.

Then there was darkness before the crash.

The very loud crash.

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