Scratch by Skye MacKinnon

Author:Skye MacKinnon [MacKinnon, Skye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Peryton Press
Published: 2019-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

I don’t know how long I sleep. It’s not enough though. When I wake up, I’m still tired. Not quite as exhausted, but still not as awake as I’d like to be. I’m still in the armchair in the living room. Someone’s put a blanket over my legs. Seriously? Do they think I’m an old woman who needs a blanket? I need to teach them that I’m not weak, not in the slightest. Things are getting out of control and I can’t afford to lose my reputation.

The little girl is still asleep, but there are crumbs on her shirt now. She must have eaten something while I slept. Good.

Everyone else has left, so I let myself yawn and stretch for a while, before getting up from the armchair. I half expect the world to sway again, but besides a slight weakness in my knees, I’m feeling much better.

I listen to the sounds of the house. Someone’s downstairs in the lab, rummaging in cupboards. I concentrate on the scent. Bethany. I can’t sense Benjamin anywhere, but Gryphon is in the kitchen. What is he still doing here? His scent is mixed with that of salty broth. Is he making soup? Now that’s something I have to see.

Slowly, I walk to the kitchen. I might be able to walk faster now, but I want to conserve my energy as much as possible. This feels like a moment of peace before the storm. I better enjoy it while it lasts.

“You’re up,” Gryphon says without turning around.

“Stating the obvious. What are you doing?”

“Making soup. The girl had trouble eating solid food, so I thought this might be better for her.” He continues stirring the broth without looking at me. My mouth is starting to water. It smells delicious.

I walk over to his side and take a spoon from a drawer. “I need to test it for poison,” I tell him and dip my spoon into the soup.

He chuckles. “Obviously.”

The soup doesn’t just smell delicious, it also tastes amazing. “What did you put in there?” I ask. “Some kind of miracle spices?”

Gryphon laughs. “Exactly. Secret ingredients like carrots, parsley and parsnips. Which are so secret that they’re hidden in plain sight, without actually being hidden.”

He points at the carrot peels to his left. Yeah, right. As if. Carrots don’t taste this good. At least not when I try to cook them. And parsnips, they’re just white ugly carrots. Definitely not as divine tasting as whatever he’s put in his soup.

“Give it another ten minutes to stew, then you’ll get a whole bowl full,” he promises. “The others told me what happened to you. The fluids will be good for you. Losing that amount of blood isn’t to be taken lightly, even as a shifter.”

I scoff. “So you’re a doctor now?”

“In a way.”

“Wait, you’re a doctor?”

“I never finished my exams, but I studied long enough to know the basics. But even a blind person could see that you’re not at your full strength just now. You need to rest.

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