Special Forces: Operation Alpha: Discovering Beauty (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Robyn Peterman

Author:Robyn Peterman [Peterman, Robyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2018-01-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Georgia

Waiting for the results was excruciating. Carter had gone off with Caleb after they’d taken me to a beautiful guest room to shower and change clothes. Nancy was my size and had loaned me a pretty floral sundress that floated around me along with some fabulous jeweled sandals.

Looking in the mirror I felt like a girl without a care in the world. My eyes appeared bright and my hair was clean and silky. It was a true luxury and I felt like a princess. All of it was a lie of course, but I wanted to hold onto the fantasy for as long as I could.

Wearing a spaghetti strap dress wasn’t something I ever thought I’d do again but these amazing people had scars of their own and mine didn’t scare or repulse them. The marks on Nancy’s back had horrified me and made me want to hurt the people that had done it to her. They were old scars that I was fairly sure had been burned into her skin by their parents from the little Carter had shared and Caleb’s reaction. For the first time I was grateful I’d simply been ignored by my parents. I’d wanted to ask Nancy more, but would wait until she chose to tell me.

However, it really didn’t matter if she ever did. Nancy had made her point. What hadn’t killed her made her stronger. She’d become a doctor—the exact opposite of someone who causes harm.

If I got out of this shit show alive, would I be able to turn my pain into something good? Could I become something whole or would I forever be broken?

“You didn’t infect Carter,” Nancy announced, walking into the room and sitting down on the bed.

Relief made my knees buckle. I dropped onto a chair so I didn’t hit the floor like a sack of potatoes.

“Are you sure?” I asked, feeling lightheaded and wildly grateful for at least one small favor in the enormous mess I’d made.

She nodded and spread her notes on the bed. “That’s not the way it works. He’d have to be injected like you were.”

“But he was out for three days,” I told her.

Nodding again, she studied her findings. “You have traces of poison in your system, Georgia. It was in a higher concentration when Tex evaluated your blood. Now it’s far weaker. Your bite put some of that poison into Carter’s bloodstream, but it never would have caused him to turn into a panther. It could possibly have killed him, but my brother is a tough motherfucker. I’m sure the vaccines he’s had for going overseas to fight helped.”

“So my bite is poisonous?” I asked, feeling ill.

“Was,” she corrected me. “I’d hazard a guess since you’re off the regimen of shots and ointments, you’re losing the poison. Therefore losing the ability to turn.”

“Are you sure?”

“Not a hundred percent, but that’s doctor speak. As an MD, I’m never allowed to be a hundred percent sure about anything. However, as a human being and

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