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.

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

nearest wall, I pressed my hand against

“Anno hitho atem.”

A doorknob appeared.

first arrived here, I had to keep this room hidden so that random visitors wouldn’t know my secret. I had no interest in knowing what people would

thought he was dead. Until that one night, the bear almost attacked him. He bled and I felt the slightest breathing

never give up on him. The spell I’d used was helping him heal. Maybe he hadn’t been fully dead

healing chant. Then, I’d pray to

though he was still unconscious and not fully there,

was

breathing was steadier and more consistent. His heartbeat was getting stronger, too. I could feel it now. Before… it had been so

had no idea when he’d wake up. Maybe he’d wake tomorrow, maybe in 10 years, maybe…never. I didn’t care. He was still with me and I would care for him

time, I felt like I could actually

was easy to tell him that when I hadn’t experienced the

I’m right here,”

the vase beside his bed and

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

and made his hair shimmer. His face was a bit

easily to me now. “Amina hasteth corro sinat, amina hasteth corro sinat. Amina hasteth corro sinat, amina hasteth

little and he looked a lot healthier suddenly. The hallows of his cheeks filled out some and his muscles tensed

like some of

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

I started. I laced my fingers through his. “I also got some new herbs. They are really rare and have unique properties.

against him. Every moment I lay like this, I longed

I got, it might be a good healing herb but it makes an even better soup! You’ll have to try

to Soren for him or for myself. I grabbed his hand

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

at Soren’s face, imagining how angry he’d be if he was awake and conscious. Maybe,

turned him down.” I ran a finger

head bobbed slightly and I imagined

his voice in my head, or imagined his voice in my head, telling me that Peter could try all he wants in that smug way he did, reminding

and shook my head. “You know, just imagining your taunts is…

in and watched me having a conversation with Soren’s unconscious body,

Then again, talking to him also felt like the only thing

the baby. It was something

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

doubt

The matebond.

the Blackfire poison,

in me too. It meant that he was still alive—at least

been talking to Soren and I clearly felt an emotion that didn’t belong to

his feelings before during the few times the mindlink between us

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

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