The crowd gasped in unison. It was pretty clear that most of my ribs had cracked and with her nails still digging into me, I could feel the thick blood flow down my fur. The injury was so serious that it would even take Elaine hours, or maybe an entire day, to heal. Or would she be able to heal it?

I cried out desperately, wincing as I tried to take the pain. I couldn't use my abilities, as it was to be kept a secret. But the pain was just unbearable and my control over my Blood Noesis was nothing. If I were to use it, I would end up healing immediately and it would attract all kinds of attention. But the pain was getting unbearable and Hailey was persistent.

I had to take it. I can't let anyone know that my Blood Noesis was the most rapid healing ability to have ever existed in the history of Adalolpha.

Hailey's body was jerked back, and in that momentum, she let go of me. The warm blood was pooling around me and I heard Suzan come to my side immediately. "Selene! O-OH MY GOD, Call an ambulance Arina" Her voice discreetly getting fuzzy inside my head. She was quick to drape a bright cloth over me and I turned by into my naked self with a punctured chest. A painful cough slipped through my throat and blood spewed out of my mouth.

The werewolves usually turned back into the human form as that was our natural body before the curse of the moon was lifted. It was better for me to have turned back. If I was still in my wolf, I might have given in and healed.

But that didn't mean I suffered away from public eyes as well, "Ch-Channing" my weak voice tried to reach the ears around me but it only had Suzan lean closer to my mouth.

"What?" Suzan asked and my head rather shifted on the other side and saw Channing pin down Hailey and tie her in ropes. It would be useless if she turned, but she was compliant.

I didn't want to go to the hospital, and it had left me with almost no choice but to ask Channing secretly. I was fine with letting him know. There was an odd trust that had formed around him. "Channing, please take me home," I telecommunicated, and his head raised up immediately. For some time, he observed around why I had telecommunicated when I did it again. "Channing! Just help me get home. I don't want to go to the hospital"

No one around me was reacting and Suzan's ear that was close to my mouth came up. "You wanted to say something, Selene?" She traced my gaze, which was fixated on Channing, and called out to him, "I think she wants to say something to you"

The ambulance's sound became louder as it approached and stopped. My eyes pleadingly darted back to Channing, "I can heal myself Channing please help me get home"

He left Hailey's side and came closer. Seeing him this close, I could see his eyes flaring. They held back anger, which was waiting to spill out. What was he angry about? Was it me? He had been acting a little distant since the morning and maybe had sensed that I had actually broken Hailey's skull while everyone thought it to be an illusion. With me being able to telecommunicate individually with him, only something an Alpha blood can do may have challenged his trust in me.

But he held back his anger and telecommunicated, "Let me send Hailey behind the bars. I will join you at your house. I hope you know I will expect answers" He prioritising his duty about Hailey made me worry more about his distant behaviour.

While we, the two Alphas, were telecommunicating, everyone else was concernedly asking questions that went over my deaf ears. My breathing was laborious, with pangs of pain shooting through my body with every intake of air. This had me take in less air and the dizziness was hitting me. The hospital staff was quick to pull me on a stretcher, and I didn't even have the strength left to whimper in pain.

"Elaine," Channing called her from beside me. She was busy trying to heal me and it was only helping numb the pain. "Take her to her house and keep healing her"

Elaine's gentle eyes moved between Channing and the hospital staff carrying me into the back of the Ambulance, "I can't heal her. The injuries are beyond my abilities, Channing. She needs an immediate surgery"

My eyes met Channing's, and he ordered this time an odd side of him surfacing. "Are you going to make me repeat? Get her home I will be there in minutes"

His tone was shocking enough for everyone. They wanted to ask why he was being this cruel to me, but they just couldn't. It was clear they had received such words from him before. Elaine and Suzan were quick to get in the Ambulance as it sped to my house.

Suzan caressed my head while my injury constantly focused Elaine on healing me the best she could.

"Why would he ask to take her home, she had lost so much blood" Suzan's concern only received a shrug from Elaine as she was concentrating on healing. I could feel the bleeding stop and the open wound trying to fix itself, but the fractures were taking a toll on me. Breathing was a little easier with the numbing effect her abilities had, but stings were still there.

They carefully placed me on my bed when home and Suzan was frantically pacing around, trying to call someone. Elaine couldn't speak as she was precipitating due to overexerting her abilities.

Where was Channing? I cannot heal in my human form and I still cannot do it in front of the two girls. The clock ticking sound was agonising me when we finally heard a knock on the door. Suzan swung the door open. "Where were you? She needs to be taken to the hospital"

"Both the girls leave" His voice was stern, and it had Elaine leave with a fright-filled expression. Any Omega would submit under the Alpha's daunting command.

Suzan, though her voice quivered, stood her ground, "I am not letting you treat her like this"

Channing did not have patience for this and neither did I. A groan escaped my lips and it had Suzan turn to me. Channing ran his hands over his dishevelled blonde locks and held Suzan by her elbow, pulling her outside the bedroom.

As soon as they stepped out, I twisted myself and before falling to the ground, turned into my wolf. My healing abilities only worked this way, and as soon as I shifted, it took effect.

Just five seconds and I was healed as if nothing had ever happened before. My body rejuvenated as if reborn, and I basked in the feeling.

Seeing Channing was yet to return, I went to the closet. Turning back to human, I slipped on the one-piece cotton gown and let out a sigh of relief. Running my hands over my lower ribs. It was all healed, like new, but the horror was still fresh in my head.

"Selene!" Hearing Channing's voice, I spun around, watching him narrow his eyes at my perfectly fine self. "Are you a witch?"