Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted novel Chapter 83

83 Ava: Dr. Ellison’s Disregard

83 Ava: Dr. Ellison’s Disregard

I brace myself as the rude doctor turns his attention fully on me. His eyes are cold, assessing, and I feel stripped bare under his clinical gaze.

“Ava Grey,” he says, no longer even pretending to look at my chart. His tone is cold. He’s a frigid man of ice, and I want to take a pickaxe to chip him into tiny little ice pieces that I throw into the toilet.

I straighten my back as best I can around the pain, lifting my chin as high as it can go with the bandages and pain. I refuse to be looked down on by some asshole with a superiority complex.

I had that enough from my own pack!

His lip curls into a slight sneer. “Let’s get one thing straight–you’re getting far more care and attention than you deserve, but you’re stable, and you’ll be on your way to recovery soon enough. You can thank me for that later.“@

I shoot Vanessa an incredulous glance, and she rolls her eyes and shakes her head.

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Yeah. That’s what I thought.

He’s just taking the credit for all the work she’s put in. I can remember, now, her soft voice just before I lost consciousness. She was in the car with me, wasn’t she?

Where was this guy? Probably at home, drinking some wine and browsing some sort of medical journal.

He looks at Vanessa too, but his face is full of disdain.

“Honestly, I don’t know why we’re wasting resources

on a Blackwood mutt.””

The insult stings, but I force myself to keep my expression neutral. I won’t give him the satisfaction of

a reaction.

Turning back to me, he levels me with a scrutinizing stare. “Tell me, are you a shifter or a human? Your “scent varies too much for me to be certain.”

I hate having to tell him anything, but he is the doctor providing care, so I answer. Reluctantly, and only with the partial truth. “I’m unable to shift.”

His lip curls in a sneer of disgust, and he shakes his head. “Figures. A human pet. One of the Blackwood Alpha’s play toys, I bet.”

“That’s enough De Ellison” Vanagga intorionta

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83 Ava: Dr. Ellison’s Disregard

professional despite the ice lining her words. “I won’t have you speaking to my patient that way.”

He waves a dismissive hand at her. “Save your fake niceties for someone who cares, Vanessa. This one isn’t worth the effort. Miss Grey, you’ll be just fine. Antibiotics, pain meds. That’s all you need. Broth if you’re hungry. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have an actual job to do.”

Anger flushes Vanessa’s cheeks bright red as Dr.

Ellison walks away. Her hands are clenched into fists at her sides. If life was a cartoon, steam would be coming

out of her ears.

It warms my heart with a feeling that’s a little ticklish and uncomfortable, like a wool blanket. Comfortable and cozy, until the itch begins.

Vanessa takes a deep breath before turning to face me, an apologetic look on her face.

wanted nothing to do with me. And even if he’s had a change of heart, I’m still just me. An outcast in my own pack. A shifter who can’t shift.