Heartless Angels

Chapter 67 – Lisa

Chapter 67 – Lisa

I’m walking down to the messhall from the room that I’m really only sharing with Cassie now when I hear the sounds of a fight. I run to see what’s going on, making it there in time to hear Jer ry’s explanation of what happened between Cassie and Mary and that now Cassie and Je rry are mates.

F ucking hell! That’s right f ucked up right there. I had heard that twins can occasionally share a mate if they are close enough, but I’d never heard this before. Talk about keeping it in the family.

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Oakley is standing between the two, but she looks just as shocked as everyone else does.

Suddenly, Trainer Ethan is on the field. “Get him into the cells before he hurts someone!” he yells at the males holding Jer ry

“Treject you! L Jerr y Black, reject you, Cas sandra Sky, as my mate!” he screams at Cassie and she wails the most agonized scream that I’ve ever heard. The amount of pain that she has to be going though to make a sound like that has to be excruciating and it’s then that I realize that she’s still in pain from rejecting Mary and now she has the pain of her second chance mate rejecting her on top of it.

Oakley seems to snap out of her stupor faster than any of us and runs to Cassie as she continues to scream at the pain that seems to be covering her in huge waves. But the second that Oakley touches her, Cassie’s screams become shriller, higher pitched, and impossibly louder,

“Ivy!” Trainer Ethan calls me by my last name. “Go get Doc Oscar. Tell him we need a tranquilizer now!”

Inod and take off towards the infirmary. Even though I haven’t really ever gotten along with Je rry and Cassie, their situation is not enviable by any wolf and I wouldn’t wish that pain on my worst enemy. I run as fast as I can

As I pass him, Jer ry seems to stop fighting against the wolves holding him and looks at Cassie, realizing how badly she is hurting. His wolf starts to recede, his human countenance coming back. He’s lost his anger and now he’s struggling to get to her for an entirely different reason. He wants to comfort her. Because she hasn’t accepted his rejection so he still has a connection with her. And he knows how bad he’s just hurt her.

I don’t stay to see what happens, I just run, making the 10-minute walk to the infirmary in two. “Doe! Doc! We’ve got a she-wolf that’s been twice-rejected in the last hour. Trainer Ethan says that she needs a tranquilizer. We can’t even touch her!”

“F uck!” Doc Oscar says, which is quite the outburst for this mild-mannered older doctor. He starts rattling off instructions to the nurses as he runs to the cabinet to get a syringe and fill it with medication. He quickly gets the dosage right, caps the needle, and nods for me to lead him to Cassie.

We make it back quickly, hearing her screams the second that we ran out the doors. Doc Oscar rushes to her, pulling the cap off of the needle with his teeth and pulling up the leg of her shorts so that he can jab the needle into her thigh. He quickly pushes down the plunger and tries to massage the area, but she’s writhing against the pain of his touch and he can’t.

“Hold her down! I have to massage the medication in so that it gets into her system faster!” he cries.

Oakley, Ray. Trainer Ethan, and I all grab one limb each and her screams become so loud that I’m not sure how she hasn’t ruptured a vocal fold yet. The doc sets to work massaging her thigh and, within a minute she starts to calm. Eventually, she falls asleep, though she’s still whimpering, even with the heavy tranquilizer in her system.

We all let go and the doctor has Ray carry Cassie to the infirmary while Trainer Ethan breaks everyone up before heading down to the cells to talk to Je rry.

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Chapter 67 – Lisa

Oakley looks at me, giving me a nod of thanks and I think that this is the time. This is when I have to talk to her.

“Oakley! Wait.” She turns back to look at me, confused. I get it. We don’t exactly have the best relationship, and most of that is my fault. I was a complete and utter bit ch, taking my mother’s word for what happened instead of finding out what really went down. When Trainer Ethan told me the real story…well, it made much more sense. And I knew that I needed to make things right with Oakley.

“What is it?” she asks, looking over her shoulder towards the messhall. I know that Ray will be looking for her when he gets back from the infirmary and she will want to be there with him. But this is important. I need to tell her.

“Can we talk? I have to tell you some things that you need to know,” I say, sheepishly.

She narrows her eyes at me, crossing her arms. “What could you possibly have to tell me?”

“Could we take a walk?” I ask, hoping to get her away from any gossips that might come through here. We’re in a main part of the campus and not everyone needs to know our business.

But she shakes her head. T’m good here. We really don’t ever have that much to talk about and, with our history, I don’t know what you’ll attempt to do. Ouch, I mean, valid feelings, but that still hurts.

“Ok, um…I’m not sure how to start this. There’s some things that you don’t know about me…and our relationship,” I say, all e words that I had wanted to say flying from my head now that I’m standing in front of Oakley.

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“What relationship? We don’t have a relationship. You made it very clear that we weren’t going to be friends from our very first interaction,” she says, arms still crossed.

“Yeah, I know, I was acting on some bad information and I’ve just recently found out how wrong it was, I say,

Oakley just stares at me with an eyebrow raised. She’s not making this easy for me, but I don’t really deserve easy, do I?

Finally, still not su

sure how to broach the subject, I unhook the locket from around my n*eck and hold it out to her

The pis sed off expression on her face turns into one of confusion. “Why are you giving me your locket?”

This time, I can’t help but roll my eyes. I know that she doesn’t like me, but does she really have to make it this hard? “Just open the locket.”

She stares at me for another heartbeat before taking the locket from my hand. She holds the locket in her hand, studying it for a second to find the catch and then opens it. I know the second that she sees the picture inside because her entire b*dy stills. She doesn’t even breathe. She just stares at the picture inside for several beats, not really knowing how to react.

Finally, she looks up at me. “Why do you have a picture of my mother?”

I give her a nervous smile. “I don’t. That’s my mother.”

Her jaw drops and I’m afraid that she’s going to pass out since she still doesn’t seem to be breathing. “What do you mean?” she whispers.

“My mom and your mom were twins, I say, gently. Tm your cousin.”

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