Mated to the Beast of the Wasteland novel Chapter 40

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Six years of fighting side by side. Letting Lucian take Tristan away and out of Gilliary’s sight was already mercy.

What did Lucian want now? For Merrick to drag Gillian over and let her beat Tristan herself before he’d call it square?

Lucian looked down at the little fox, taking more breaths out than in, and decided to throw his pride out the window.

He held his neck stiff as he spoke.

“That’s not it. Captain Sterling seeded Tris with the taint yesterday. The fight just now lit it off, and now it’s coursing through his whole body. He won’t make it out of the wasteland alive.”

Merrick’s brow knit. “Don’t we have healing alloy? Gillian said it works.”

“If only it were that simple. The taint is buried deep inside Tris, and we don’t know where exactly. Cutting in blind could kill him before we find it. The regression serum can only keep him in beast form, hanging on by a thread.”

Merrick crouched down to examine the pink-white fox.

Part of the front paw had been sliced open. The moment he peeled the wound back, a foul stench hit him in the face.

The bone underneath had turned pitch black, and the surrounding tissue was rotting into a soft pulp.

The corruption had spread far past the visible wound, working its way deeper into the body.

Just like Lucian had said. Without purification, Tristan was going to lose the arm at

minimum.

Merrick let go and rose to his feet. The whole misunderstanding between Tristan and Gillian was just bad luck, a chain of crossed wires that had ended in family blood on the floor.

“I’ll take you to Gillian. If she’s willing to step in, great. If not, I’ll have Sylas and the medical team cut him open all the way and pump him full of healing alloy. Then you take him to Firefox City to find a cleric.”

“Understood.”

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Lucian had figured on something like this. Consider it a lesson learned for Tristan.

Charging in without knowing your opponent was a fatal mistake.

If the Lawson family ever fell into Tristan’s hands, the whole house would crumble.

“Number Three, take the others and wait for me un the aircraft.”

“Yes, commander.”

Over in the medical team’s fifth auxiliary hall.

Gillian finished cutting open the last soldier and let out a slow breath.

“Lucky for us, the last group wasn’t hit too hard by the taint.”

Sylas applied the healing alloy to the soldier in quick, practiced motions.

“Great work, Captain Sterling. That’s the last one.”

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Sylas hadn’t noticed it himself, but his entire read on Gillian had flipped. Even his tone had softened.

In just over eight hours, Gillian had completely won over the entire medical team.

Gillian shot Sylas a startled look.

That morning he had looked ready to eat her alive. Now he was smiling at her like this. Was he planning to jump her with a sack after shift?

Hearing there were no more soldiers in the queue, Gillian’s whole body relaxed.

“Every soldier who needed the healing alloy treatment is taken care of. Thanks for the hard work, everyone.”

The medics looked up at Gillian’s smile with a touch of shame in their faces.

They hadn’t expected her to actually roll up her sleeves and do real work.

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