“What did you have in mind, Agent Luna?” he asked.
“I need you to sabotage Healer Amanda’s efforts in this study Alpha Julian assigned,” Olivia said. “I don’t care how you do it, but you must find a way to ruin her treatments.”
Healer Amanda needed taken down a peg. She was far too confident.
And some type of mix-up in the treatment would show Julian that perhaps she wasn’t the greatest of Healers after all. Maybe then he would finally stop talking about her like she’s some kind of goddess.
The sting of Julian’s rejection still ate away at Olivia. She couldn’t act against the Alpha; she didn’t want him hurt. What she wanted was marriage, bonding, and his baby.
Once Olivia made sure Julian saw how much every other woman in his life was not reliable and untrustworthy, he would realize he could only depend on her.
Then, she would finally have everything she wanted.
“Sabotage. I like it,” the Head Healer said, his lips curling into a sly grin. “Leave it to me, Agent Luna. I know just what to do. I’ll steal-“
Olivia held up her hand at once, stopping him. “Don’t tell me the specifics. I wish to maintain plausible deniability. Just make it happen.”
He seemed disappointed that he couldn’t share his plan, but his grin only wavered for a moment before he returning again with full force.
“Yes, Luna.”
Amber’s POV
I wasn’t supposed to go to work for another hour yet, but a frantic message to my pager had me quickly dialing Noah in my office.
“It’s gone, Healer. I can’t find it at all.” Noah’s voice was frantic.
“Can’t find what, Noah? What are you talking about?”
We’d been running tests on the potion to ensure it was safe for werewolf consumption, so it was possible that he just misplaced it. That didn’t seem like Noah, though. He was still training, but he’d never make a mistake like losing an entire potion bottle.
Especially not one that carried so much importance.
“Stay put,” I said. “I’ll be right there.”
My own anxieties heightened, as I rushed around, looking for my coat and keys.
How could the potion be lost? Could someone have taken it?
I didn’t want to think so poorly about anyone in the hospital. Every Healer took an oath to always protect the people, to never knowingly do harm.
By stealing that potion, the potential thief was endangering all of the lives of those who the potion was designed to save.
Some of the ingredients in the potion were rare. Did I even have enough of everything to make more if I needed to?
I wasn’t sure. I had to get to the hospital and assess the situation. This not knowing was making my head spin.
Because I was in such a rush, I didn’t notice until I was pulling into the parking lot that I had forgotten about my disguise. I didn’t have my scar stickers or my medical mask. But there wasn’t time to go back for it.
With lives on the line, I had to just risk it.
Inside, I hurried up the stairs to the floor that held my office. As soon as I stepped out from the stairwell, I saw Olivia headed toward my same destination. It was then that I remembered she was to be my first appointment of the day. She was running early.
She reached the door before I could, then, glancing down the hallway, saw me and stopped. At once, her eyes went wide as her jaw locked.
“What is a whore like you doing here?” she snapped at me.
Just like that, we were at a standstill. I needed to get into the office Olivia was standing right in front of, but with her hand on the door handle, I couldn’t exactly sneak by her. To bully my way in, I’d have to forcibly move her, and I wasn’t keen on that idea either.
Physical strength was not one of my fortes, but even if it was, Olivia was still a patient. As a professional, I could keep a level head about this. I could resolve this standstill without resorting to mockery or violence.
I wasn’t Olivia.
She looks at the door in front of her, and then back to me. “Did you think you could see Healer Amanda yourself?” Her face remained skewed up with anger, even as she laughed. “The best Healer in the world isn’t going to make time for some lowly ex-
Tue 26 Aug housewife who works at a grocery store.”
The truth sat on the tip of my tongue, but I held it back. I didn’t really want Olivia to know the truth, yet it was getting more and more difficult to conceal it with each insult she flung at me.
“How would you even afford to pay her bill?” Olivia said. “In fact, someone like you shouldn’t even be at this hospital. It’s only for elites. Who are you again? No one.”
She lifted her chin so that she stared down her nose at me.
“You should have never come back here,” she said. “No me. Not the pack. And certainly not Julian.”
At that exact moment, Noah opened the door to the office from inside. Olivia stumbled, not expecting the door to open, but then steadied herself. As she did, Noah looked at me.
“Ah, Healer,” he said to me. “There you are.”
Olivia’s eyes went wide. She checked behind herself but there was no one else in the hallway.
“I’ve been waiting for you to arrive,” he continued. “We have urgent matters to discuss.”
“Yes. Of course,” I said, and moved to step closer to the door. I couldn’t step through it yet, though. Olivia remained in the way.
She looked between Noah and me in disbelief.
“If you could please step aside,” Noah said to her. “The Healer needs to enter.”
Olivia’s face was one of shock. “…Healer?”
Julian’s POV
I arrived at the hospital a few minutes earlier than necessary, wanting to speak more to Head Healer Eric before his press conference began. The timing of the announcement of this new cure just felt… off to me. I didn’t know how else to describe it.
My contract, and therefore the funding, had been made with Healer Amanda. Unless Head Healer Eric had also been working on a cure on his own…
That seemed unlikely.
I didn’t want to go around accusing anyone of anything, especially someone like Head Healer Eric, who had been a respectable member of the pack for even longer than I’d been alive.
But the timing…
It just didn’t make sense.
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