Alpha's Remorse After Her Death (Amber and Julian) novel Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Amber’s POV

I gazed at the Thorn Pack hospital, thinking back to the last time I’d stepped foot in its halls.

Five years. It’d been five years since I’d last stepped foot in Thorn Pack, nevertheless the hospital where my marriage had ended.

Five years ago, my plane had crashed into the ocean. Luckily, we weren’t so far from the shore of Dawn Pack, the nearest pack, and a group of generous fishers hauled me onto their boat where I sat, shivering, amongst crates of lobsters.

My backpack, where I’d put all my documents and identification papers for safe keeping, was lost somewhere in water. I had no

money, nor anywhere to go.

Luckily, the Dawn Pack hospital extended the same unbelievable generosity of the fishermen, and they gave me a job as a nurse. It

wasn’t quite the doctor’s position I’d dreamt of in college, but it was just enough to earn a living. I was exhausted, and I was poor,

but I was alive.

Plus, I had Eve. My wolf.

She’d awakened during the accident. When I plunged into the cold water, my wolf was shocked awake, her voice appearing in my

mind. It grew louder and louder as fell I deeper and deeper into the ocean.

Swim, she commanded.

I flailed my arms.

Turn around, she growled. You’re going deeper.

I did my best to flip myself around, then dug my arms through the cold.

Good, she said. Keep going. Don’t stop.

When I broke the surface, Eve howled inside me in victory, the joy of survival coursing through my bones.

You saved us, she said. All three of us.

With the help of Eve’s strength, I stayed afloat until the fishing boat appeared and the fishermen rescued me.

I awoke in the moment between life and death, Eve told me once we were safe on the shore.

“I’m sorry,” I told her. “I didn’t know you were there. I didn’t know you were a part of me.’

While Eve’s presence required some adjustment on my part, I adjusted quickly. I found myself more likely to take care of myself, as I was taking care of Eve as well. She was quicker to anger, but she was also quicker to feel joy. Her companionship became a

saving grace in my new life.

I had always been a wolf, as it turned out, but Eve had been made to lie dormant for reasons unknown to either of us. Along with

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Eve’s arrival, I acquired the ability to heal others quickly. Combined with my medical degree, my powers leant to my work at Dawn

Pack Hospital.

The bigger adjustment, it turned out, was having my daughter.

The process of childbirth was extremely dangerous. Alice was born half-werewolf, as the accident had caused her wolf to awaken early, just as it had caused Eve to awaken late. She’d been partially transformed as she exited my womb, clawing her way through my flesh.

As life went on, Alice’s wolf proved to make life difficult. Although I was grateful that Alice would never be without protection,

never without the ability to defend herself, her mind became overwhelmed easily. When this happened, she’d transform into her

wolf, often harming both herself and whoever happened to be around her.

I had marks on my arms from Alice’s claws, but I would never regret them. I would never hold it against her. Alice was only a child,

too young to control her own emotions, not to mention her wolf’s.

However, that didn’t mean that the process was easy. I often lay awake at night, thinking of how much easier raising Alice would

be with a partner.

Eve would growl at me, reminding me that she was on my side.

“You know what I mean,” I would reply.

I decided to dedicate myself to searching for a cure, which Dawn Pack Hospital graciously approved, as long as it didn’t affect my

nursing work. I wasn’t trying to purposely rid Alice of her wolf, but to simply suppress Alice’s wolf until she was old enough to

control her. I would bring Alice to the hospital, hoping with every stay that it would be the one to heal her.

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