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Soren hummed to himself and checked the inside of my ears, although I wasn’t quite sure what he was looking for.
“How deep does the tear go? Can it still respond to you?”
Saddened by the reality of it, I sighed. “It’s gone. I can’t even access my power anymore. I can’t shift, I can’t heal as fast, and I feel like a human. It’s like he was taken from me.”
Soren frowned since it would likely only make his job more difficult. He glanced at Griffin. “And you are the same?”
Griffin, with his arms crossed, nodded.
“Interesting,” Soren murmured, dropping his stethoscope to migrate over to where a stack of books awaited him.
Finn had arrived several minutes prior as he leaned against the doorframe and listened intently to what was going on. The power emanating from not only him but Kai also made that envy rise within me.
I longed to feel what it was like again to know I was a force of nature. To feel that strength and power coursing through my veins. More importantly, to feel the wind through my fur as I ran through the woods.
One way or another, it had been taken from me, and I was more desperate than ever to get it back.
Listening as he cracked open one of the books and started sifting through the pages, I watched him closely. “Do you think we’ll be able to reverse it?”
Soren sighed. “I can’t say anything with absolute certainty yet. If you could feel your wolf and we knew that it was only resisting you, then we’d have an easier time coaxing it back out. But it almost sounds like that part of you is quite literally missing.”
“How is that even possible?” Kai asked, arms crossed and brows furrowed. “Being a shifter is in our blood. How can that be taken away without dying?”
Soren ran a hand down his face. “As shifters, we are a two-sided coin. Our human side, and our wolf. It is uncommon but not impossible for one to injure that connection they have with their wolf. It is more of a spiritual thing with its own consciousness, and if your wolf feels threatened or disrespected in any way, it may refuse to cooperate.
“But in this sense, that consciousness seems to be absent. Without that presence and power, Rowan and his men are essentially human. While his blood is still the same, the fundamental part of him that acts as a wolf is gone from what I can tell.”
While it didn’t come as a surprise, it was still difficult to hear. To know that my inclinations were true and it really was gone. Not just dormant, but absent.
“What can we do about it then?” I asked, hurting deeply within.
Soren continued to sift through those pages more urgently, seemingly at a loss.
From across the room, Finn’s irritated look was placed firmly on Griffin, who noticed immediately. They stared one another down, and I thought I heard a low sound that came from the alpha’s second-in-command.
“I will be honest with you; I don’t have a cause or a solution at the present. I’ll need some time to do more research,” Soren said, closing the book with disappointment in his eyes. “It’s unusual for the human-to-wolf connection to be severed like that. I don’t doubt this will be a tough one to crack.”
While I tried to keep my attention on the doctor, I couldn’t ignore the nasty looks that were thrown between Finn and Griffin, in which the latter seemed more defensive.
“Unlucky,” Finn mumbled, eyes squarely on my best friend. “It looks like you’ll continue to be weak.”
Griffin glowered at him, to which Finn snarled in return. Aggravated, they charged at each other, right in the examination room.
Despite the absence of his animalistic strength, Griffin was able to shove Finn back with his sheer size. This seemed to catch him off-guard, and Finn came down on him even harder.
Leaping from the table, I reached for Griffin. “Enough!”
They were a tangle of muscle as they tried to get their punches in, migrating back to the waiting room. The sickening sound of their fists colliding with skin made my anger flare.
Kai was on Finn immediately as he grabbed a shoulder and shoved him back, eyes piercing with dominance into his. “Keep yourself in line, or else you’ll be excluded from this.”
Griffin and Finn exchanged a final glare as I directed him to the front door and pointed to it. “Take a walk.”
He huffed out a breath and wiped at the blood that trickled from his eyebrow, then he turned and pushed his way outside.
Finn was breathing hard when he fell into one of the chairs, looking infuriated.
“You can’t be pulling that shit,” Kai warned him, face hard as he spoke. “We don’t need more problems.”
