Logan | The Bedside

This hospital chair’s uncomfortable as fuck, which seems fitting given that everything else about this situation is equally unbearable. My body’s folded into this plastic and metal monstrosity that was very clearly designed by a moron who’s never sat in a chair before. Hours I've been sat here, the whole time my hands clasped together so tightly in front of me that my knuckles have long gone white. The pressure of keeping them locked together like this is the only thing stopping me from putting my fist through the wall, or the window, or the face of whoever did this to her. Earlier, the trembling started in my fingers, it’s since worked its way up through my wrists, my forearms, and settled in my shoulders where it’s a coiled, living, breathing thing. Fear isn’t my thing, this is rage. Pure, distilled, barely contained rage. It’s taking every ounce of control I have to keep it from spilling over into something catastrophic.Emma lies in the bed in front of me, and the sight of her

Logan | Pain Management

I push some of my energy into her. Just the finest thread at first, testing, feeling my way through the broken landscape of her body. Fae energy moves through her like water, seeking out the places where she's damaged. What I find makes my jaw clench. Her pelvis is shattered alright, the bones fractured in ways that are going to take months to heal, and I can sense the torn tissue around it, inflammation, her body trying desperately to repair itself and failing. Her ribs are cracked, not broken but close. There's bruising deep in the muscle, still bleeding from tiny tears and will hurt like hell for weeks. I can feel the pain radiating from every injury, sharp and relentless. It takes everything I have not to pull my hand back and scorch the city with my vengeance alone. I can't heal her. That's not my gift.Healing’s delicate work, precise, and it's not my gift. As much as I want to, I cannot give her that. The call is already out though. I have an exceptionally skilled cousin who

Maci | Shower Chronicles

The water's been running so long my skin's gone soft and wrinkled. My fingers are pruned, the pads of them white and puckered, and when I press them together they feel strange, foreign, like they belong to someone else. Could have been an hour, three. For all I know I've been standing here for months, letting the spray beat down on my shoulders. The heat of the water has turned the bathroom into a sauna, steam curling thick in the air, clinging to every surface, fogging up the glass walls of the shower until the world beyond is nothing but blurred shapes and muted light. As soon as I woke up all I could think about was slipping into this glorious shower. That's another lost piece of time, I have no clue how long I slept. Time's become this slippery, unreliable thing that I can't seem to hold onto, and standing here under the endless cascade of water is the only thing that feels real, the only thing that anchors me to the present moment.The never-ending nausea clawing at my insides

Maci | Nothing Simple

I sniffle, wiping at my face with one hand while still holding Trouble with the other, and try to pull myself together. It's not working. My voice comes out thick and wobbly when I speak, and I hate how small I sound. "He's okay?"Thorne's expression softens, the amusement fading into something gentler, and he pushes off the door frame, stepping into the bathroom properly. His eyes flick down to Trouble, who has finally stopped wriggling and is now glaring at me with the kind of betrayed that only a cat can muster. "He's okay, Emma too," Thorne confirms, his voice steady and sure. "But please, put him down before he claws your eyes out."I do as I'm told, setting Trouble gently on the floor, and he shakes himself off with an affronted huff before turning his attention to my legs. His rough little tongue starts licking at the water droplets clinging to my skin, and the sensation is so absurdly normal, so perfectly mundane, that I feel another wave of tears threatening to spill over.

All Chapters of The Alpha Billionaire's Secrets: Chapter 101 - Chapter 104

Logan | The Bedside

Logan | Pain Management

Maci | Shower Chronicles

Maci | Nothing Simple