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And I’d thought no one could be worse than the head of that hospital in Asia that we’d dealt with.

No, I knew the truth and there was always someone worse.

I was beyond floored when the South American government doubled down on what that asshole aide had tried to pull. One of their most popular senators showed up in his place… Apparently, to try and put me in mine.

He never touched me, but he had several choice things to say about me including that it was disgusting I ran a UN hospital when my father was a gambling addict and criminal who stole money from the coven he ran.

I let him go on and on and on, even letting the media that was there get soundbites that he was thrilled about.

Then it was my turn.

I asked for two doctors to join me and gave them a list of tests I wanted run on the senator. Focusing mostly on head injuries.

“Are you mad?” the senator bellowed after his shock kept his ranting mouth quiet for a few moments.

I raised an eyebrow at him. “I apologize for not having someone see to you sooner, but I didn’t realize you were involved in the catastrophe. You’re suffering from a head injury, right? You hit your head on the way out or—”

“I was nowhere near the sinkhole,” he snapped. “I live hundreds and hundreds of miles away.

“Oh, I assumed you got hurt when you went there to help and do something useful instead of harassing the person authorizing all of this to help the citizens of South America,” I replied sweetly, knowing the press was getting a good view of this.

“It’s the only thing that made sense given how much you were mixed up in what you said.

“And you were confused where you were at and apparently what year it was to think any woman would be obedient. That you had any right to ream her for thinking and not listening to her better—none of which I see here.” I gestured behind me when he opened his mouth to blast me.

“I understand the situation is a lot, but you’re confused, Senator.

“This is All Supes Hospital, a privately-owned hospital, not a UN funded medical facility. I understand that we both agree that’s where the victims should have been taken first, certainly the uninjured, but they weren’t and we’re still kindly helping them.

Now, if you would be so kind as to shut the hell up of your idiocy and leave if you’re not going to help. ”

He sputtered for a good full minute, my amusement growing as he couldn’t recover fast enough. “I am a senator . You have no right to—”

“She has every right,” one of our military officers said as he stormed over.

“And since you apparently can’t do anything besides distract the woman in charge of all of this, unable to handle dealing with a beautiful woman like the rest of us, I asked to be authorized to send you back.

Our president approved it along with anyone else getting in the way of the help here. ”

No one was surprised when he listened to the man with a penis instead of me with my boobs.

Dickhead.

But I did thank the officer later. I had way too much going on and piles more to handle.

He cleared his throat and was suddenly focused out at the chaos. “I apologize for being unprofessional. As sad as this all is, I was happy to have a chance to work with you again. Less happy now that I’ve heard you have a lover.”

I slowly blinked up at the ridiculously handsome man in uniform and felt my face flush so hot I was very sure my ears were also red.

“Oh boy, grab popcorn because when the jealous Alpha wolf hears about this, we’re going to get a good show,” one of the residents joked as she raced to help more people coming through the portal.

She wasn’t wrong.

I thanked the officer for his… I wasn’t sure, but I said it was flattering. However, I was very happy in my committed relationship.

But I wasn’t dead, and that man was fine and wore a military uniform better than most. Like, for real it was made for him. Top one percent of best military booties for sure.

Damn.

Carla found me later and warned me that it was all over the hospital that a colonel was my knight in shining armor and asked me out. I didn’t even bother to tell her that wasn’t exactly what happened, simply pointing him out when she demanded to know who it had been.

“Shit, that man is so fine I want to take several bites… Or let him take them from me. I love feeding hot vamps while naked. Always naked. Excuse me.”

“Happy hunting,” I chuckled under my breath. I could never be that confident and behave that way.

But I also never judged women who did. Good for her. As long as she backed off when someone wasn’t interested just like we expected men to do, there was nothing wrong with being the one to start the fun.

Nothing. At. All.

I thought the resident might be right when a pissed-off Alpha wolf known as Ha-joon came storming towards me an hour or so later. “It’s fine. He was polite and accepted we’re a real thing.”

He frowned, looking adorably confused before rolling his eyes. “I don’t care that someone flirted with you. I trust you.” He snorted. “You’re gorgeous , love, and people say it all the time behind your back and shit to your face. Good on him for having the balls to actually say something to you.”

“Then I’m confused,” I admitted.

That made him pout. “You thought I was going to be some jealous dick?”

“No, not—maybe?” I gestured to him and then where he’d come from as if saying he had stormed out and that made me wonder.

“I want the asshole who put his hands on you,” he growled. “I’m in surgery and I hear some git— multiple gits are ordering you around like their little woman and to be obedient and—where are they?”

“She beat one of them up, broke his arm in several places before he was kicked back, and the other one was kicked back as well,” one of the EMTs from New York said as she shot me an impressed look.

“Must be nice to have the kind of power that you won’t get in trouble for that later.

I would use and abuse that with the crap we have to take. ”

I reached over and patted her shoulder. “If someone ever gets grabby with you, just get them here and I’ll gladly break them.”

“I normally accidentally get the gurney stuck so they get jostled around and their injuries hurt more after someone grabs her,” the man next to her said under his breath. “Something like that. Oops, I dropped something heavy on them too. I’m a klutz like that.”

“Yeah, but your file now says that from all the complaints,” she muttered, looking worried.

The guy was not. The glance he gave her clearly said he gave zero fucks.

Okay, they were pretty adorable, and I shouldn’t use this crisis to poach… But I was probably going to try and poach them for the hospital.

“I’m fine,” I assured Ha-joon, getting us back to the beginning. “How was surgery?”

“Good. Faster than expected and we saved the mom and baby.” He wasn’t happy though and he sighed when I waved him on. “The warlock who brought the bus through the portal to save all those kids and everyone died. His body just couldn’t recover from using all that magic like that so fast.”

“Fuck,” I cursed under my breath, and I wasn’t the only one around us. “The kid?”

“Inconsolable and asking if the gods will take him instead of his dad,” Ha-joon rasped. “Apparently, all he had was his dad. Someone overheard him blabbing that his grandparents disowned them because his dad wouldn’t force his mom to marry and she ran off. He has no one.”

“Let’s make sure people like them or someone else doesn’t just scoop up that kid,” I said to one of my admins since several of them were being runners for me.

“Talk to Jackie Dillon and see if she can get a background on the kid and find the mom. Maybe she’s willing to be a mom now and start over in Atlanta instead of… ” I shrugged.

“Seriously, you’re too kind for this world,” my admin said with a sigh. “I’ll handle it so you can focus on saving everyone else that isn’t your responsibility to save either.”

I felt kind of good about myself when she put it like that. I’d been getting torn into and demanded more of left and right.

It was really, really nice that someone saw what was really going on and took the time to praise me.

After a quick kiss, Ha-joon jumped on the next case that came in and helped out all over. The town that had been affected was mostly magics. Like ninety percent or more, so he wasn’t needed to check shifters and help there because we’d only had a few come through.

And most were kids or uninjured people to get them out of the danger zone.

We worked tirelessly for hours and hours.

Finally, after about ten hours, South America stopped being assholes and started giving real help after the backlash they received.

I didn’t know all of the details, but their citizens were protesting all over South America to overthrow the government if they didn’t help in a crisis but dumped it off on someone else.

That was a good start. Definitely a turning point for the least developed and poorest of the supe continents. I was glad to see people were willing to fight for better lives instead of with each other over petty shit.

At least for today.