Chapter 8

Flora’s P.O.V

“Oh my God!” I whispered in horror. “How did this happen?”

“Well,” Nurse Khwan folded her arms across her chest and looked at the boy disapprovingly. “Someone thought it would be fun to go cliff diving backwards. He made a backflip, hit his head on a branch and landed on the wrong foot.” She shrugged like this was an everyday occurrence. “At least that’s what I was told.”

“Tell me what I need to do.” I told her instantly, even though the sight of the bone jutting out of his skin made me want to vomit. It was a horrifying sight, but my wolf was an empath and a healer. I couldn’t back away from a wounded packmate that needed my help. The urge to heal was like a constant ache deep in my bones.

Nurse Khwan studied me from head to toe. She was a gorgeous woman with short black hair that reached just past her ears and eyes of a dark chocolate brown. She was wearing the usual white uniform that was designated to the school nurse, but her aura as a healer shore the brightest. “We need to twist his leg back into place before it starts healing.” She told me. “Are you sure you can handle the blood?”

“Yes.” I nodded, even though I felt my knees tremble.

“I’m sorry about this.” She gave me a sad smile. “I was initially hoping for a much smaller task. But I’ll need help. My powers alone won’t be enough to help him.”

Taking a deep breath, I placed my backpack on the floor and took off my jacket. “I’m ready. Tell me what I need to do.”

“Come on.”

Moving towards the patient, nurse Khwan gently placed on the boy’s forehead before taking a syringe out of the drawer next to the bed and injecting him with it. His low groans of pain stopped after only a few seconds.

“Anaesthetics?”

“Yes. It’ll prevent him from feeling the pain.” She nodded. “But the wolf will burn off any medication within a few minutes. So we need to act fast.”

I moved closer to the bed as nurse Khwan placed a hand on his wounded leg. Even with the anaesthetics, I saw his eyebrows twitch slightly.

“Grab a hold of his ankle.” Nurse Khwan instructed. “On the count to three, twist it as hard as you can.”

I grabbed on to his ankle while nurse got a tight grip on his knee. My palms were sweaty and my hands trembled, my heartbeat was a tattoo against my ribs, but I swallowed my fear and grabbed on with all the strength I had and braced myself.

“Ready?” She asked once again and I nodded. “One…two…”

“Three.”

Before I could put any effort on the patient’s leg, a pair of strong male arms reached from behind me as my back connected with someone’s chest and before I knew what was happening, a sickening crunching sound filled the room.

I gasped and looked behind me to find Clay looking at the boy who had just yelped in his unconsciousness. Looking down, I found that the boy’s leg was no longer twisted and the bone had somewhat twisted into place, even though it was still visible.

“You should’ve called me.” Clay told nurse Khwan when she suddenly realized that we weren’t the only ones in the room.

“I’m sorry professor, but there was no time.” She looked at me instead of looking at Clay. “We need to start healing him immediately.”

Nodding, I looked up into Clay’s hypnotic eyes to tell him to move back. His eyes were intense and unreadable. I couldn’t tell if he was upset or not but he moved back after a couple seconds, allowing me to reach for the tear on the boy’s leg.

Thankfully, nurse Khwan had done the gruesome task of pulling his torn skin over the bone. I placed my shaky hands over the wound as did nurse Khwan and then I concentrated on the healing.

Jessica, the pack healer had once told me that our healing power could sense the wounded. We just needed to nudge it in the right direction. It was as much magic as it was science. Thankfully, my parents had realized earlier on that I was showing signs of being a healer and had taken me to get a basic ‘talk’ about my healing powers with Jessica. As the primary pack healer, she had gladly obliged and was very happy to find out that another healer had been born into the pack. A lot of people didn’t know it but packs strength also depended on the number of healers in the pack.

So I closed my eyes and concentrated. I imagined my body as a source of energy and then pictured that energy moving through my body to the palm of my hand. It wasn’t long before I felt the tingle of power, the warmth of the healing energy reach my palm. And then I imagined that power being transferred to the patient, little by little as it helped speed up his healing.

Like I said before, healing was as much science as it was magic. I had completed the magical part, now it was turn for the patient’s body to use the energy to speed up the healing process. Since wolves had already high metabolism and healing rate. I was merely speeding up the process.

I swayed on my feet a bit, making me aware that I was giving up too much. Since I wasn’t connected to the Alpha, any energy spent was my own and not that of the entire pack combined. Soon enough, stars appeared in my vision, even though my eyes were closed.

“Flora, that’s enough.” Nurse Khwan gently tapped me on my shoulders to indicate that my work was done.

Opening my eyes slowly, I looked at the boy’s leg to find only skin that was an angry red colour, but the cut was gone; muscles and tendons having knitted back into place.

“Thank goodness.” I whispered and fell back, unable to keep upright any longer.

“Hey!” Clay caught me as I almost fell to the ground. “I’ve got you.”

He picked me up in his arms and held me tightly to his chest before looking at nurse Khwan. “So?”

“She did a very good job considering this was her first day and such a gruelling task.” Nurse Khwan smiled at me as she patted my head to show support. “But she needs the Alpha’s bond to draw power from and to build up her tolerance. I’d advice that she comes to help me out at least twice a week.”

“I’ll talk to the Principal.” Clay reassured her. “But how long will she take to recover now?”

“She’s fine, just exhausted.” Nurse Khwan smiled, her own face showing signs of exhaustion. “Just get her something to eat and let her rest for a few hours and she’s good to go.”

“Thanks. Will do.” With that Clay turned and left the nurse’s office, with me still in his arms.