“No. Trust me. Just do it! Or… Or at least, let me touch him.” I felt if I could do it myself, it’d go a long way in making him better.
Marta ignored me.
Damn it.
“Just do it! He’s dying!”
“Shut up and get out, Lyric! I know what I’m doing!” She snarled at me.
Anger surged through my veins in an instant.
“I’m afraid I have to ask you to leave, ma’am. This is restricted to only staff,” a nurse walked up to me and said.
I glared hard at Marta who was no longer staring at me, then stormed out of the ward. But I remained there by the door, watching, my blood seething.
Why was she so stubborn? That was the only thing that would help the boy. I could see it.
They all worked hard, giving him the IV and all. But it wasn’t helping.
And a few minutes later, the boy stopped writhing. He stopped crying.
He was dead.
A bomb went off in my bed, shattering the remnants of my heart, and I couldn’t stop the tears that rolled down.
Marta tried using an AED to revive him, but it was as useless as her earlier attempts.
Their faces were filled with sorrow as they covered him up with a linen.
“Time of death. Eleven a.m” Marta announced
There was another doctor coming beside me. idem as I stormed into the ward.
“I told you to make that hole. You could’ve saved him!” I yelled.
“Oh, please shut up. Creating that good would’ve been deadlier. Stop trying to act like the savior all the time.” She snapped back.
Oh, damn it. I wanted to hit her in the face,
“You’re just selfish! And egoistic! Admit it, Marta! You didn’t want anyone else seeing what I can do. You put your selfish interest above that little boy’s life when you could’ve healed him!”
“Have you lost your mind? I am the head of this department. That has only happened because I’m quite good with my job.”
“Well, obviously, you’re not that experienced. Tell me, how many lives have you lost in the past month?”
She looked past me, like she was staring at someone, and I could see her fighting her fury.
“You’re not perfect! It doesn’t hurt to get a little help sometimes,” I added angrily.
I heard the footsteps of someone entering the room and spun around to see an elderly woman before us, wearing a lab coat.
She accessed me. “Who are you?”
I was still so pissed. It was hard to sound normal. “Lyric.”
She shifted her gaze to Marta, then the boy at the bed.
“How’re you so certain that the tube in his hole would’ve saved him?” She asked me.
That was the problem. I couldn’t explain how I knew. “I just know.”
“Hm.” She gave me a head to toe stare. “And what’re you doing here exactly?”
I handed my file to her. “I came to apply to be a doctor here. But Marta was just kicking me out before the incident.”
The woman looked at Marta with surprise in her eyes while holding my file. “You were dismissing an applicant without bringing her to me?”
1 watched Marta’s face pale. “She….she doesn’t have any experience. I thought it’d be a waste of time.”
“I thought we’ve already established the fact that every applicant must go through me, whether accepted or rejected. Your only job is to do the first assessment, Ms Monroe. You have no right to just dismiss people without my knowledge.”
Marta dropped her gaze to the floor, shame coloring her cheeks. I felt a little calm as Marta got scolded. Hm. Whoever this woman was, she must have some real power in the place. She must be Marta’s superior.
The woman lowered her angry eyes to my file and went through it. It took some seconds, then she handed it back.
“You’ll get a call in a couple of days. I’ll see what we can do with you.”
I dipped my head. “Thank you so much, ma’am.”
She glared at Marta once more before walking away.
“Good thing there are people with brains in this place,” I mumbled to the hearing of Marta.
1 caught her glare and glared back at her before leaving.
The death of the little boy still stung. It could’ve been avoided. Marta was a real bitch.
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I drove at an infuriating speed until I got to Darkspire. I was still in the car when I checked my email and discovered the garden manager had sent the footage. I was a little nervous as I clicked play, and the video came into view.
The camera was only at the entrance to the garden. So I couldn’t see what happened in there.
But it showed the moment Marta entered, followed by me, minutes later.
A while later, Marta left. And to my astonishment, Alpha Zarek went in.
What the heck?
I replayed the video to make sure my eyes weren’t deceiving me. Marta must have left when I was already asleep on the table. So, what was Alpha Zarek doing there!?
JARIS
Today was the most important day in our world. And I wasn’t going to miss out on it.
I walked into the Silver Citadel and found the Alphas, the chairman and other representatives gathered as expected. Everything was getting set, and they were all very shocked to see me. That, also expected.
“Alpha Jaris. What’re you doing here?” One of the representatives asked. Although, I could see the hope in his eyes.
“What does it look like, Adan? I am here to participate.” I shrugged.
Today was the registration for the Alphas seeking to contend for the King’s Throne.
“What are you talking about? I thought you were not interested?” One of the Alphas asked.
Their fear was so obvious. They already knew they didn’t stand a chance against someone like me.
Well, initially, I had no interest in participating. But not anymore.
I pinned Zarek with a stare as I replied to the other Alpha. “I changed my mind. I just realized having this power would be awesome.”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.