The Alpha's Weakness Episode 2: An Omegaverse Romance Serial by Arabella Green

Author:Arabella Green [Green, Arabella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2020-12-05T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3

Time moved slower the closer I moved toward the village. The gods of time sought to torture me. I couldn’t move quickly enough. Every second I wasted was a second that Garett sat alone, bleeding.

A rotting oval wooden sign sat perched above the tall grasses of the forest floor. In bold, neat script read the name Fae’s Landing.

Frantically, my eyes scanned the mostly barren dirt streets of the village. The only signs of life were the flickering porch lights of a storefront, and a young pup chasing after some small rodent further down the way. Assuming the five-year-old wasn’t a healing prodigy, my best bet appeared to be the general store with faulty lighting.

The screen door of the store swung inward with a deafening creak. A wall of dust hit my nose, causing an annoying tickle in the back of my nostril. Everything in the cluttered room of mismatched shelves was covered in a layer of gray dander. Lovely.

“Hello?” I called out.

A short woman with red hair teased high upon her head stepped out from behind a bookshelf. She held a notepad in her well-manicured hands.

“What can I do for ya?” Her voice was nasal and shrill.

“I need a healer. Urgently.”

“You and me both. I’ve got boils like ya wouldn’t believe. Sorry kid, no healer around these parts.”

I gaped at her. What sort of village didn’t have a healer? How did they heal or tend to the sick?

Seeming to sense my unasked question, the woman pointed to the back corner of the room.

“We keep healing poultices and potions stocked for anyone who needs ‘em.”

“Do you have anything to stop bleeding? Maybe some pain-reducers?”

The woman’s face scrunched up. She scratched at the back of her neck as she thought. If she didn’t start thinking faster, I’d strangle her where she stood.

“Ya probably could use a cubwart poultice for the bleeding. As for the pain, ya can’t go wrong with a mushroom mix. Should be plenty of both back there. Just look for a purple bottle and a round box with cubwart written on it.”

I was nearly halfway down the aisle by the time she finished talking. I bumbled out a thank you over my shoulder and hurried to the eclectic display she’d pointed to. There was no obvious rhyme or reason to the mess on the shelves. The clutter overwhelmed me. I focused in, trying to disregard everything that wasn’t purple. When I saw a tall purplish-blue glass bottle, I sighed in relief. The cubwart box sat directly next to it. Suddenly I believed in miracles.

Without a second glance, I chucked a small sack of silver coins onto the sales counter and sprinted out the creaky door.

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