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Chapter 779

Chapter 124 : Who’s Your Boyfriend

When I first got to Marno, I wasn’t able to afford to live in the lap of luxury.

I kept a small apartment on the edge of the packland. The building was pretty beat up, the shingles slipping off and the siding had big chunks taken out of it.

Now, on a clinic salary, I could move to a nicer place, but I had grown fond of the neighborhood.

Despite Marno’s active trading business and tourist industry, its wealth wasn’t evenly distributed among the pack members. For example, most people that lived in this area of the packland were in a rough place financially. Life wasn’t easy for them, and thus, they weren’t exactly friendly to begin with.

At first, people in my building had given me the cold shoulder or even cursed for no reason under their breath as I walked by. However, they didn’t do anything to hurt me. After I’d ignored their harmless provocation for a while and helped one elderly with his rheumatic disorder, their attitude had changed 180 degrees.

Now, I knew they’d look out for me. After all, those were good people with rough shells.

I walked up the steps to my apartment and ran into one of my neighbors who was heading down.

“Heather, you’re home early today. Slow day at the clinic?”

“Honey, she’s a doctor,” my neighbor’s wife jumped in, poking her head out their door. “Call her Dr. Way! Oh, she shouldn’t be carrying those grocery bags. Too heavy for pregnant women. Honey, help her up the stairs with those!”

She stepped out into the hall, her own seven-month-old baby on her hip.

“Oh, right, Dr. Way,” the young husband took the groceries from me. “And, yes, let me help you.”

He walked me down the hall and set my groceries in front of my apartment door. “There you are, Dr. Heather Way!”

To make his wife happy, he raised his voice so that his wife could hear him “properly” pronounce my “full name”.

“You can call me Heather outside the clinic,” I said, smiling. “Thank you for the help.”

“No problem! Really, it should be us thanking you. You did cure our son. We had no idea he was sick… just thought he was throwing a tantrum and refusing to eat.” He sighed and shook his head.

“Well, if you want to carry my groceries more often, that could make up for it,” I suggested jokingly.

The young husband grinned and nodded. Then he frowned.

“Oh, by the way…”

“Yes?” I asked.

“You should be careful the next few days. Maybe even better to stay home. The trading season has started. A pretty, single young woman like you will attract a lot of unwanted attention from strangers.”

“Trading…” I muttered. He was referring to the slave trade that rolled through. “Thank you. I will keep that in mind.

After that, he left me alone in the hall.

pulled the groceries inside. I chopped up all the veggies and threw them into a pot for soup. Once it was simmering, I put my herbs

I pressed my hand against

“Anno hitho atem.”

A doorknob appeared.

to keep this room hidden so that random visitors wouldn’t know my secret. I had no interest in knowing what people would think of me if

barely breathing and that was why even Helen thought he was dead. Until that one night, the bear almost attacked him. He bled and

on him. The spell I’d used was helping him heal. Maybe he hadn’t been fully dead when I started it and it kept Soren

repeated the healing chant. Then, I’d pray

and not fully there, I made this part

he was making steady

heartbeat was getting stronger, too. I could feel it now. Before… it had

wake up. Maybe he’d wake tomorrow, maybe in 10 years, maybe…never. I didn’t care. He

first time, I felt like I could actually understand Chandler’s motives with his

let her go? It was easy to tell him that when

I’m back. I’m right here,” I

vase beside his bed and

have been closed but I still wanted him to feel the sunshine. It would keep

cheeks and made his hair shimmer. His face was a bit pale,

The chant came easily to me now. “Amina hasteth corro

lightened a little and he looked a lot healthier suddenly. The hallows of

own body had weakened, like some of

and rested my head on his shoulder. I started telling him about my day. For some reason, it made me

got some new herbs. They are really rare

moment I lay like this, I longed for him to take me into his

You know, one of those herbs I got, it might be a good healing herb but it makes an even better soup! You’ll have

point, I wasn’t sure if I talked to Soren for him or for myself. I grabbed his hand and

has been nice and easy…” I sighed, my cheeriness fading slightly. “Work was… well, a

awake and conscious. Maybe, part of me thought he’d wake

I

imagined that cocky smirk on

in my head, or imagined his voice in my head, telling me that Peter could try all he

“You know, just imagining your taunts is… I

walked in and watched me having a conversation with Soren’s unconscious body, they’d think I was completely insane.

I almost felt insane. Then again, talking to him also felt like the only thing

growing inside me. Not just the baby. It was something I hadn’t fully felt before.

devoted to him. It made me more certain that I would only be complete if I was

no doubt what that connection

The matebond.

of the last of the Blackfire poison,

It meant that he was still alive—at least

day about a month ago when I’d been talking to Soren

his feelings before during the few times the

kept talking to him because sometimes I’d get glimmers of his feelings and