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It’s not so much about healing as connection. I think she trusted you because of what happened in the Graveyard and needed to feel the connection in order to live. For all I know, she may have been hunting for you just now, in the afterlife.
What a strange world we live in.
Yes. It is.
She glanced at him and met his gaze. His eyes were an unusual shade of gold and green with small shards of brown. They were exquisite. Maybe they were his wolf’s coloring. She knew some wolves’ eyes changed color.
The blips on the monitor grew closer together. Steadier.
He shifted his gaze toward it. “She’s getting stronger.”
Emma spoke, “Your touch brought her back. She was gone, Grant. I promise you. She was gone.”
“It’s a miracle,” one of the nurses said.
Emma asked, “How did you know to touch her?”
“I didn’t. Natalie did.” He glanced at her and dipped his chin.
Emma smiled at Natalie. “Well, then, how did you know?”
“I accessed the immediate future and saw Officer Grant just like this, or rather I saw us.” She glanced down at her hand. One of hers still covered his. The truth was, she feared letting go. She didn’t want the woman to slip away again, but she had no idea how long they should remain as they were or even if her involvement mattered.
“She’s safe now,” Emma said as though answering the unasked question. “You can see by the wounds. Many of them have finally started to heal. They weren’t before.”
Natalie’s gaze was drawn to several of the cuts that had been left open to the air. Emma directed the nurse to start pulling back the gauze on some of the larger wounds and it was the same everywhere. Emma’s healing abilities were now having a profound affect.
Natalie withdrew her hand from on top of Grant’s, but he didn’t break contact with the victim. Maybe he sensed the woman still needed the connection.
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Grant felt better as well. Maybe he was experiencing a residual effect of Emma’s care for the woman. Or maybe it was the additional wolf’s blood flowing through his veins. He would need to return the favor and give a donation of his own to the refuge in the coming weeks. The least he could do.
Natalie believed this woman was important to Five Bridges, though she didn’t know why.
Within a few minutes, he experienced a conviction he could now withdraw his touch from the woman. Emma truly was gifted and most of the cuts on her arms and legs and were completely gone.
The more serious abdominal wound might require another full day of healing to see her completely restored. He had to agree; the whole thing was a miracle.
As he backed away from the bed, Natalie moved with him.
The nurses began to bathe the woman and it no longer seemed appropriate to be looking at her mostly naked body. One of the nurses must have felt the same way, since she drew the curtain to conceal the bed from view.
He moved close to the wall opposite the emergency bay to allow traffic to move easily. He no longer felt like he would faint again, though he kept one hand planted on his IV stand.
The refuge had close to thirty employees and there was still quite a bit of activity even though the early morning hours were closing in on dawn.
“So, you’re a wolf.”
He glanced at Natalie and his lips quirked. “Seems I am. And you’re fae.”
“Hopelessly.”
Her response made him chuckle.
When a nurse drew near and began unhooking him from the IV, he stole a glance at the woman who had saved his ass in the Graveyard.
She was lovely. That was the exact word that went through his head. She had a light complexion and a faint pink bloom on her cheeks. Even her lips had a rosy color. Her eyes were large, hazel and fringed with dark lashes.
