Page 28 of Healing Fate

“I certainly wouldn’t have minded that this morning. I’m out of coffee filters,” she said with a yawn.

I grinned to myself. “I’m on my way.”

I was still lying in bed naked and hard from thinking of her. I was just about to take care of that when Lucy called. Seeing her would be even better.

I quickly put on a fresh pot of coffee unsure of how she took it but figured she’d have what she needed at her house anyway. While it was brewing, I got dressed, and filled a large thermos, grabbed half a pack of filters and made my way to Lucy’s house as quickly as possible.

I was just about to knock on the door when I heard a scream followed by a loud bang. I practically knocked the door off its hinges as I burst into the room. My wolf was on edge but was going into a fury when I smelled blood.

“Lucy? Lucy, where are you?”

“Dammit. We’re back here.”

I could barely hear anything over the roaring in my ears, but as I walked down the hall still clenching the thermos that probably had claw prints in it, I could hear Vada’s sobs.

“Is everything okay?”

“Fine,” she said but I could feel her anxiety rising. Something was going on and she clearly didn’t want me to know about it. “You’re practically wolfing out. We’re okay.”

She surprised me by reaching out and touching my arm. It calmed my wolf in an instant.

“What happened?”

“It was nothing, really, just a minor accident.”

Vada’s eyes were puffy and red, and the shower curtain was pulled off the wall. I knew I had smelled blood but there only seemed to be a tiny amount on the floor next to a razor. I leaned down and picked it up as the little girl withdrew from it.

I didn’t say a word but put it up high and out of her reach in the shower.

“I can fix this.”

“It’s okay,” she insisted. “I’ll get it later.”

Why was she so nervous? It looked like a normal casual accident.

“I falled,” Vada confessed. “Owie, Doc.”

“Well, I can fix that all up. Where does it hurt?”

She pointed to her leg where there was a very faint red line.

“Well, it looks okay. Not too bad.”

“Mommy fix. All better.”

“Mommy’s are good at making everything better, huh?”

Her head bobbed up and down.

I smiled, but when I turned to look at Lucy her face was drained of color, and I thought she might be sick. Our bond was beginning to grow which thrilled me, but in that moment, it also terrified me, because whatever had happened in there before I arrived had Lucy scared, really scared.

I set down the thermos and filters and pulled her into my arms.

“Hey, she’s okay. Everything’s okay.”

I held her closely until she started to calm down.

“Hungry!” Vada yelled. “I hungry.”