The Omni-Wolf’s Choice novel Chapter 50

Chapter 50 Time to wake up…

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We make it back to the pack grounds and don’t stop until we’re inside the hospital.

Rhett and Rocco get whisked away so fast I barely catch a glimpse before the doors to surgery swing shut. Critical. That’s the word everyone keeps using. Bridget has already had their families called in,

like she was born knowing how to hold a pack together. She fits the Luna role too damn well.

Montgomery and I are getting Ingrid transferred to the maximum-lockdown cells. Part of me is clawing

to go see Evelyn first, but the bond tells me she’s steady. Still. Stable.

“Connor, I’m grateful you all got home.” Luna Kendra pulls me into a hug.

Pain shoots through my side and I can’t hide the flinch.

Her arms loosen immediately. Her gaze drops, sharp and assessing, and then she lifts my shirt without asking. “You’re injured. Why hasn’t this closed?”

Ryder steps in, one arm circling Bridget while he studies me. “Connor, you’re getting checked. Now.”

“I’m fine,” I push out, even as my ribs feel like they’re full of broken glass. “I just want Ingrid locked up so we can question her. I’ll heal. It’s just slower. The blade went deep.”

“That’s exactly why you’re seeing a doctor,” Luna Kendra snaps, not unkindly. “You shouldn’t still look like this-especially with your lineage. Go. Immediately.”

She flags down a physician, and the look she gives me makes it clear there’s no argument left. I nod and follow, keeping my hand off my side only because pride is apparently its own disease.

Ryder turns to the others. “I’ll take Montgomery to secure the prisoner. Violet-come with us. I need

that cell spell-proofed, and Ingrid needs to stay medicated until we’re ready to talk.”

Violet answers with a nod and falls in behind him as they head out.

Bridget trails me into an exam room, offering a sympathetic half-smile. I’m on Evelyn’s floor. A few doors away.

Goddess, I want to go to her.

“How is she?” I ask the second the door shuts. “Any changes?”

“She’s better,” Bridget says softly. “But we can’t figure out why she won’t wake up. She stirred hard a few hours ago-like she was hurting-but she still didn’t come around.”

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The doctor walks in, already gloving up. “Dr. Kira. I’m taking a look at you, Beta Connor. We’ll see why your healing is lagging.”

She lifts my shirt and peels back the field bandage Violet wrapped earlier.

Blood is still there-fresh, ugly-and the bruise is wide and dark. The wound throbs like it has its own heartbeat. Dr. Kira presses lightly; it leaks more.

“Hm,” she hums. “Knife wound, correct? Silver?”

“Yes, doctor.”

“Let’s do an x-ray. If this is infection, we’ll start antibiotics, but we need imaging first. I’ll have the machine brought in.”

She steps out.

Bridget’s stare doesn’t leave me. “Connor… this is strange.”

“What is?”

“Evelyn had a bruise in the exact same spot.” Her voice drops. “They scanned her-everything was normal. Then the bruise just… faded.”

I close my eyes.

So it’s already bleeding onto her. Into her.

I swallow hard. “Is she okay right now?”

“Yes. They gave her medication, it relaxed her, and the bruise disappeared.” Bridget hesitates.

“Connor…”

“Please, Luna,” I cut in, and the word comes out like a plea. “Don’t ask me what you’re about to ask.

Please.”

Her brow pinches. “I don’t understand.”

“There are things I can’t control,” I say carefully. “And I can’t explain them. Just… trust that I’m doing

everything I can to manage this. Let me handle it.”

She studies me, then nods once. “Fine. But Ryder needs to know. I won’t keep something from him if it

could help her.”

I nod back, because she’s right, and because my life is spinning out of my grip.

The door opens again and staff wheel in the portable x-ray. The technician angles the arm, the image

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blooms on the screen, and his eyes flick up to mine before he mind-links for the doctor.

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Dr. Kira returns, leans in, and her jaw tightens. “There’s a fragment of the blade inside you. It broke off. It looks like it chipped a rib-that will heal. But the shard needs to come out.”

She points. “It’s likely coated in toxins. That’s what’s getting into your bloodstream and interfering with

your healing.”

“Okay,” I say. “Get it out.”

“I can schedule surgery-”

“No.” My voice turns iron. “Right here. Right now. Numb it and remove it. The sooner it’s gone, the

sooner I can heal. I can take it.”

“That isn’t standard protocol,” she warns.

Bridget steps in without hesitation. “It’s what the Beta wants, Dr. Kira. I’ll stay with him.”

Dr. Kira looks between us, then gives a short nod.

Minutes later I’m on the table, pads stuck along my stomach and side, a harsh exam light pinned to the wound like an interrogation lamp. Dr. Kira injects around the injury.

Even with the numbing, I feel the stretch-skin pulling, tissue parting-then the pressure of the tool forcing space where my body doesn’t want to give any. Breathing turns shallow.

I hiss.

“Breathe, Connor,” Bridget murmurs, her hand closing over mine.

I force air in, then out.

Metal instruments search inside me, cold and invasive. Then-there. The unmistakable bite of sharp

steel.

“Alright,” Dr. Kira says, calm like she’s narrating a lesson. “I can see it. I’m going to clamp and

remove.”

The shard scrapes on the way out, carving its farewell, and heat floods my side.

“Irrigation,” she orders.

Cool fluid follows, washing away the worst of it. The darkness that had been sitting inside me is gone.

Dr. Kira exhales. “There. It’s out. Now we stitch you, start an IV drip with antibiotics, and re-bandage.

You’ll be back to normal.”

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Everything here is too vivid to be a dream-sunlight splintering through leaves, soft earth underfoot, air that tastes clean. Zephyr runs with me, all speed and laughter, and we chase rabbits until my lungs

burn in the best way.

Seeing her like this-face to face-is different. My wolf’s fur is bright white, her paws brown like she stepped in paint. When she turns, her blue eyes flash, alive with mischief.

Even here, I’ve been hearing them.

Voices. My family. Friends. Day after day, telling me they love me, refusing to let me drift too far.

Then a new voice cuts through the woods. “Hello, Evelyn. It’s time we spoke.”

This one isn’t coming from far away. This one is here.

Zephyr tilts her head and nods to my left.

I turn-and my breath catches.

A woman stands between the trees like she belongs to the sky. Her hair flows white, her skin glows gold, and her gown moves as if it isn’t bound by gravity.

“Hi,” I whisper, because my mouth forgets how to do anything else.

“Hello, Evelyn.” Her smile holds too much power to be gentle, yet somehow it is. “I am Seraphina-the Moon Goddess. It’s good to finally meet you.”

“Hi,” I say again, still useless.

Her gaze settles on me, steady and unwavering. “You need to listen. Your future will be extraordinary, but it won’t be easy. You will have to fight for what you want. And you will find a way to claim what

you deserve.”

My stomach knots. “What are you talking about? What am I fighting? Who am I fighting? I don’t

understand.”

“There is more ahead,” she says, voice like wind over water. “But you need to wake up. Remember this: what is meant for you cannot be stolen by anyone.”

“That’s… really vague, Moon Goddess.” I lift my chin despite myself. “No disrespect, but can I get an actual description of what I’m supposed to prepare for? I’m not great at patience.”

Her expression warms, almost amused. “Don’t worry, child. It will be alright. Trust me. Trust yourself. Listen to his voice. Wake up.”

She begins to fade.

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The forest dissolves with her.

Darkness closes in.

“So please, Eve, wake up.”

Connor.

His voice wraps around me like a blanket, soft and desperate.

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Zephyr presses close. ‘I hear him too,’ she tells me. ‘And Drake has been trying to reach us. We have to

get up. Now.’

‘I can hear Connor,’ I answer, panic and relief tangling together. ‘Okay… I’ll try.’

I draw in a breath-deep, forced-like I’m hauling myself up from deep water.

I push.

Again.

Sound rushes back first: machines beeping. Then sensation: cold air on my skin. Light, too bright,

stabbing through my eyelids.

Music floats in the background.

Summertime.

My favorite.

My lashes flutter, and the ceiling tiles swim into focus.

I turn my head left-and there he is.

Connor, slumped asleep in the chair beside me.

“Evelyn!” He jerks awake so fast the chair squeaks. His eyes lock on mine, wide and disbelieving.

“Luna Kendra! She’s awake!”

“Baby-oh, my baby!”

My mom surges in from the left side, and she crushes me into a careful hug like she’s afraid I’ll disappear. Hot tears soak my skin. She hasn’t gone. I know she hasn’t. I felt her there, heard her reading, holding the line for me while I was gone.

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But the Moon Goddess’s warning won’t let go of my mind.

A fight.

A battle.

What is coming for me?

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