"She did a great job, right Doc?" He yfully asks, trying to diffuse my rising paranoia. Taking the attention off me and onto him.


    "Hmmm..." She shines a small torch into Kieran''s eyes, assessing him for brain injury. She then ces a stethoscope to his heart before cing it back around her shoulders seemingly satisfied. She turns to Knox and me, that stern look remaining until it breaks out into a smile and I can feel the tension melt away within me.


    "You should...you clearly have a gift. We will check for a head wound, thank you Josie, I can take it from here."


    "And Petra?" I turn to see Petra still breathing through the mask, watching me intently. Shit...she would have seen what had happened from there.


    "I will of course make sure she receives the care she needs."


    A hand snakes around my lower back andnds on my hip, gripping me into him.


    I''m speechless...unable tophrehend what just happened. My eyes peering down at the palm of my hands.


    I let a finger touch one of them, the one that emitted a red glow to see if it was still hot, whether it had a trace of any heat left about it.


    But nothing...just normal mmy hands.


    My eyes don''t leave Petra''s, or hers mine until I am out of view.


    Knox marches me back to the Alpha house inplete silence, his gripping hand not wavering from my side once.


    As we enter the alpha house he ignores Auntie Alora and Ezra, as they both call out to me with questions of the hospital.


    He says nothing and I''m trying to keep my feet moving at the same speed as his, until we are in our room, and he has closed the door behind him.


    He starts pacing the carpeted floor as I slowly move backwards towards the bed and lower myself down onto it


    "What was that?" He finally stops, his heated gaze locked on me.


    "What?" I y dumb, hoping that I had been hallucinating. That he and in fact Petra, hadn''t seen anything. That it was all in my head.


    "The red light that glowed from your fucking hand Josie?"


    "I...I don''t know."


    "Has that ever happened before?"


    "No...never. Maybe it was just some kind of reaction..."


    "Reaction?"


    "I had remnants of spice and herbs on my hands, maybe they reacted with thegoon water...created a chemical reaction." Yes, yes that''s what had happened. That would be the logical exnation, it had to be. "Josie..." His head tilts, his demeanour softening before me.


    "That''s the only way to exin it right..." I look up to him, a fear within my eyes that I don''t want to admit to because inside I was terrified at what had just happened. What had just happened....


    "What did you feel?" His hands take mine, his fingertip stroking across my palm as he traces across the soft skin...seemingly trying to look for evidence. "Nothing..." As soon as I say it, I know it isn''t going to fly.


    "Josie, it''s me, you can tell me..." He closes the gap between us, his fingers now cing a stray of hair back behind my ear before itnds on my neck and stays. That pull between us as strong as ever, my wolf motioning in my head to be honest with him, that he won''t think we are crazy.


    "I could feel his heart."


    "His heart?"


    "I could feel the energying off it, feel its strength." This sounds like madness, just thinking it ispletely bonkers.


    "What else?" His eyes continue to hold mine steadily.


    "I could feel that his shoulder was dislocated, sense it through my hand. I knew he didn''t have a head injury, that the shoulder took the brunt of the fall.


    The doctor will run tests, but I already know, deep in the centre of my core...of my very being that there is no head injury... that the boy is fine now." ""You can sense that?"


    "I think so, yes...yes I just knew it. What does this mean?"


    "I don''t know...but we need to be careful...keep this to ourselves just for now. When we get back to the Dark Phantom pack we will ask your parents." "Ask my parents?"


    "I think your Mum might know more about this than she is letting on."