Chapter 222\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tristan\u00a0<\/p>\n
The first thing I felt was Athena\u2019s bands on my chest, warm and steady and alive,\u00a0<\/p>\n
The second thing was air filling my lungs without that horrible rattling sound that had been there before. I could breathe, really breathe.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I opened my eyes and everything was blurry at first, just shapes and colors that didn\u2019t make sense.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then my vision cleared and I saw Athena\u2019s face above me, tears streaming down her cheeks, and her eyes were glowing with this soft light that should\u00a0<\/p>\n
have been scary but wasn\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Was I dead or alive?\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDid it work?\u201d I asked, and my voice came out weak but getting stronger with each word.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She laughed and cried at the same time, and the sound was the most beautiful thing I\u2019d ever heard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, she whispered, and then she was kissing my forehead. \u201cIt worked.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I tried to sit up but my body felt heavy, like I\u2019d been asleep for days instead of minutes. Athena helped me, her hands supporting my back as I pushed\u00a0<\/p>\n
myself upright on the mattress.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when it really hit me. I\u2019d been dying, actually dying. I\u2019d felt my heart slowing down, felt the cold creeping through my body, felt everything starting to shut down. And now I was sitting up and breathing and alive.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But something felt different. I pressed my hand to my chest where the wound had been, expecting to feel torn flesh and broken ribs that my alpha healing would need hours to repair. Instead, there was nothing. Not healing, not scarred, just smooth skin like I\u2019d never been injured at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWait, I said, looking down at my blood\u2013stained shirt in confusion. I pulled it up and stared at my chest. \u201cHow is this possible?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
*She healed you,\u201d Athena said, and her voice was full of wonder. \u201cThe power, she\u2019s not what I\u2019d thought. She\u2019s exactly as you said she is. She\u2019s not trying to hurt anyone, she just needed someone to understand her.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I kept staring at my chest, at the place where there should have been a gaping wound..\u00a0<\/p>\n
My alpha healing was strong, one of the strongest in our pack, but it wasn\u2019t this strong. Even with my abilities, that kind of injury would have taken hours to close, days to fully heal. But there was nothing there, like it had never happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018She healed me completely,\u201d I said, the realization washing over me. \u201cI didn\u2019t even have to heal myself.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I looked at Orion standing by the wall, his eyes red like he\u2019d been crying. Sarah was next to him with her hand over her mouth. Derek was staring at me\u00a0<\/p>\n
like I was some kind of miracle, and maybe I was.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re really okay?\u201d Orion asked, his voice rough.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019m better than okay,\u201d I said, and it was true. I felt good, better than I had in days, maybe better than I had in my whole life. \u201cI thought she\u2019d just bring me back and then I\u2019d have to heal myself the rest of the way, but she did everything. She actually healed me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
C O\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Chapter 222\u00a0<\/p>\n
The plan had been simple in my head. Let Athena drain me to the point where she\u2019d be forced to go inside herself and confront whatever was causing\u00a0<\/p>\n
this power.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I knew my alpha healing would kick in once she figured out how to stop taking, knew I\u2019d survive long enough for my body to repair itself. It was a calculated risk, one I was willing to take.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But this, what she\u2019d actually done, this was so much more than I\u2019d hoped for.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you know what this means?\u201d I said, looking at Athena with pride swelling in my chest. \u201cYou didn\u2019t just stop taking, you learned how to give. You\u00a0<\/p>\n
learned how to heal.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Athena made a sound that was half laugh, half sob, and then she threw her arms around me. She hugged me so tight I could barely breathe, but I didn\u2019t care. I hugged her back just as hard, burying my face in her hair.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought I lost you,\u201d she said against my shoulder, her whole body shaking. \u201cI thought you were gone and it was my fault.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m here,\u201d I told her, running my hand through her hair. \u201cI\u2019m right here, and look what you did. Look what you\u2019re capable of.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
She pulled back just enough to look at my face, tears still streaming down her cheeks. \u201cYou planned this. You\u00a0<\/p>\n
knew\u00a0<\/p>\n
you\u00a0<\/p>\n
were going to die.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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