Dumped Omega? Now Their Alpha King Begs at My Feet novel Chapter 15

Kai's POV

I couldn't stay in that room. The air was too thick with a power I didn't understand, a crackling energy that made the hairs on my arms stand up.

I moved to the glass-walled observation room overlooking the ICU suite, a small, dark space for observation. I needed to see this, but I needed a barrier between me and... whatever she was.

I had to witness the outcome of my impossible, insane choice.

I watched as Valerie made the first incision. Her hand was perfectly steady, without a single tremor, without a moment's hesitation.

It moved with a grace and certainty that was mesmerizing, more like an artist's brushstroke than a surgeon's cut.

It was the hand of a master, yet she was doing something far beyond surgery.

As she worked, I saw it clearly now. It wasn't a trick of the light, not a product of my desperate, grieving mind.

A silver-gold energy was flowing from her hands, pulsing with a soft, warm light. It poured from her fingertips, down the blade of the scalpel, and into my grandfather's open chest.

It wasn't cutting him further; it was... cleansing him. The light sank into his body, a living, breathing thing. It seemed to be seeking something out, targeting an enemy I couldn't see.

This wasn't surgery. It was something more. Something ancient and powerful. It was magic.

Real, tangible magic was happening in that sterile, modern room.

Valerie, however, remained completely focused, her expression calm and concentrated, her brow furrowed slightly as if she were merely solving a complex puzzle. She seemed completely unaware of the miracle she was performing.

The beeping of the monitor was steady now, a strong, even rhythm that was the most beautiful sound I had ever heard. My grandfather was alive.

I pressed my hand against the cool glass, my eyes locked on the strange, quiet woman who had just pulled the most important person in my life back from the very edge of death.

I didn't know who she was. I didn't know where she came from or what she was.

But I knew one thing with absolute, primal certainty, a feeling that rose from the deepest part of my soul, from the core of the wolf inside me.

I had to have her.