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I scoffed, kicking myself. I should have never trusted that damned man, especially after everything he’d put me through five years
ago.
I hurried back to my office.
“Everything alright?” Noah asked, popping his head back into my office.
“Oh, yeah,” I replied, hoping toe off nonchnt.
“You know, next time you need something done, you can just ask me,” Noah said. “It’s my job, and I’m honored to be the
assistant to the best Healer currently living.”
I thanked him, then set to creating my schedule. I packed myself to the brim, hoping to stay busy in order to shove the thoughts of
Julian out of my mind.
When I arrived home after work, Alice flew into my arms. I smiled, savoring the moment. Alice was getting older, and I was
thankful for every moment we were able to share together, especially when so much of my life was focused on working.
Of course,
Alice was the reason for it all. She was my everything, the purpose behind my life, my work, and my strength.
Alice tugged at my hand, eager to show me the Lego she’d just finished building. She held up the figure, a blonde woman in a
doctor’s uniform. She’d built a model of me.
Of course, LEGO hadn’t made a model specifically of me. Alice had pieced it together herself from different colored bricks. My
heart swelled at her thoughtfulness, and I scooped her into my arms, kissing her temple.
Alice iled yfully in my arms, and I noticed a small cut on her foot.
“Is this from stepping on the Lego?” I asked.
“Yes. It really hurt!” Alice replied.
“Not to worry,” I said. “I’ll fix it for you.”
I concentrated my healing abilities on her foot, watching the small cut disappear in front of my eyes with satisfaction.
Alice bounced excitedly. “I want to be a Healer when I grow up, too!”
Iughed, noticing my own innocent enthusiasm in another young mind for the second time that day.
“You’d better learn how to deal with difficult patients, then,” I teased. Olivia’s face shed through my mind, and I shook my head to clear it away.
Alice formed a finger gun with her hand, her pointer and middle fingers forming the barrel. “Then I just won’t treat them!”
Iughed. I loved my girl’s strength, her conviction. “Healing is a sacred calling. You can’t just quit because you’re not in the
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Alice pouted, hugging me tightly. “Then when I be a Healer, you treat the easy patients, and I’ll take care of the difficult
ones!”
Love flooded my body as I gently stroked my daughter’s hair, thinking she truly was a gift from the Moon Goddess.
When I arrived at the hospital the next morning, Julian and Olivia were back for their follow-up. I sighed, but I knew that treating
Olivia was the only way I could afford to treat Alice.
Olivia hung onto Julian, kissing him and stroking his arms as if to prove their affection for each other. Although her grant PDA
bothered me, I ignored it, focusing on the task at hand and thinking of Alice when my mind started to wander.
After the appointment, Olivia exited my office, busy with something on her phone. I waited for Julian to follow her down the
hallway, but he didn’t. Instead, he lingered in my doorway, watching me.
My body flushed involuntarily under his gaze.
Julian’s POV
I couldn’t shake my suspicion that Healer Amanda was actually my Amber.
I moved away from her doorframe but stayed in the hallway outside her door, watching as the next patient arrived. Through the
little window in the door, I saw Healer Amanda wee the patient calmly. She pinpointed their ailment with precision, then
prescribed a treatment n.
She even mended flesh wounds in front of my eyes, her healing abilities every bit as strong as they were fabled to be.
I was incredibly impressed, but it came with a twinge of disappointment. My Amber, the dedicated housewife, couldn’t possess
such refined medical expertise. Sure, she’d been a great student when we were in medical school, but that had been a lifetime ago.
She spent her time cooking, not healing wounds. She was a human, so she couldn’t possess the special abilities of Healer Amanda.
Reluctantly, I admitted that the only simrities between Healer Amanda and my Amber were their looks. Other than that, they were different in every possible way.
I heard whispersing from further down the hallway and stopped to listen as I heard my name mentioned.
Two young nurses were huddled together, gossiping.
“How did a Healer this young manage to get so much funding from the Alpha?” one of the nurses asked.
“You don’t get it, do you? You’re so naive,” the second nurse said.
“I mean, infertility is hard to treat, but couldn’t Healer Eric have handled it? Why bring in this outsider?” the first nurse asked, oblivious of the second nurse’s implications.
“Tsk, tsk. She probably spread her legs,” the second nurse replied. “She’s clearly beautiful, scarred face or not.”
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I looked down the other side of the hallway, where Beta stood watch. I signalled him with a nce, as I could tell he’d been
listening in on the nurses’ gossip session, too.
Beta stepped forward. “You two,” he said, motioning to the nurses, e here.”
They quickly obeyed, not wanting to anger anyone on the Alpha’s team.
“Repeat what you just said, please,” Beta demanded.
The nurses were silent, although their necks and faces flushed under his scrutiny.
Healer Amanda stepped out of her office. Apparently, she’d caught the end of the nurses’ conversation as well.
She sneered. “What a vulgar rumor. I would expect better from my fellow women. We’re supposed to look out for each other, and
yet you gossip like this? Your words are even more disgusting than those from the sleaziest men.”
I admired herposure, and her ability to speak up for herself. I stepped in, approaching the nurses myself. They shrivelled once
they realized I’d heard everything they said.
“Unless you can tell me where this nasty rumor started,” I said, “you two will be fired today.”
I watched as the young women panicked, looking at each other in fright, as though weighing the consequences of speaking up or
staying silent.
Then they confessed.
“Head Healer Eric told me it was true,” the second nurse said, the first nurse nodding her head quickly in agreement.
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