The Romantic Suspense Novel 94
Posted on July 03, 2025 · 0 mins read
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Chapter 94 Yara

We only had a couple of hours before the injured started coming in. The first thing I realized was that every single one of them had splinters all over them. Because they used wood in the bombs, they’d all been hit with various sizes and amounts of debris.

I needed to let them know: "Make sure you get every piece of wood out of them. If you don't, they'll become infected. Warriors, let your team know if you feel pain somewhere so we can get all these wood pieces out of you. If we don't and you get an infection, I'll pull you from duty until you’re healed.”

“Yes, Luna,” they said with varying degrees of strength in their voice.

Savannah and I began doing triage, and I took the worst ones while she took the ones that she could handle.

The first group that came in had large pieces of tree that had punctured them. I’m guessing others did as well, but this group couldn’t pull these pieces out without causing more damage to their bodies. I took the one with a large piece of wood in the thigh, and Savannah took the one with wood through the shoulder. Both warriors would be down for a while.

While I worked, Noelle began cleaning out the other wood pieces. I’d just gotten the large piece of wood out of this warrior’s leg when I heard a commotion in the front of the hospital.

“LUNA!”

I looked at Noelle. “Stitch him up and come find me,” I said, rushing from the room.

When I got to the front, one of the warriors was screaming in pain. Several warriors were holding him, as Anna pushed a gurney toward them. As soon as he was on the gurney, I saw the problem. He must have stepped on a bomb. One of his legs from the knee down was missing; what was left of the bone was sticking out below his knee. Thankfully, someone put a tourniquet just above his knee so he didn’t bleed out.

“Just let me die, Luna,” he said, and when I got to him, I saw that it was Carson.

“You know the rules of my hospital, Carson,” I said, looking over his injury quickly.

“What can I do?” Anna asked.

“Go take over for Noelle, finish stitching up that warrior, and let her come help me."

“Luna, I can help you,” Savannah said, rushing out.

I looked at Anna, who quickly looked behind her, assessing the next most critical injury we had.

“We can keep the others stable, Luna.”

“Let’s go,” I said to Savannah. She rushed ahead of me, holding the door as I pushed Carson into the room.

“Luna, please. I’m a warrior. A warrior needs both legs. Just let me die,” he said. I could tell that he truly wanted this. He wanted to die.

“Now you listen to me, Carson! First of all, you’re more than a warrior. You’re a mate, and you’re going to be a father. You need to think about Eva and your pup. What happens if you die? You’re marked and mated now. If you die, she’ll feel it, and what if that kills her and your pup? Is that what you want?” I asked while Savannah got an IV into him.

I took his face in my hands, forcing him to look at me. “And second, you can be a warrior with one leg. You are still an amazing fighter, Carson. When you come out of this—and I said when, Carson, not if—when you come out of this, we’ll talk to Warren about what we can do. There are prosthetics for you and your wolf that we can look into. You are NOT dying in my hospital. Do you hear me?”

When his eyes started to close, I lifted my hand, telling Savannah to hold off on putting him under completely.

“Do you hear me, Carson?” I growled, right next to his ear.

“Yes, Luna,” he murmured.

“Good man. Make your Luna proud,” I said, then nodded to Savannah.

The surgery took hours. Eventually, Noelle switched out with Savannah so she could continue to take the others who came in with critical injuries. I had to remove the broken bone and the knee, but I was able to salvage the rest of his leg.

“How long will it take for him to heal, Luna?” Noelle asked.

“That depends on him. Let’s keep him sedated overnight and let his body and his wolf rest. Then we’ll see how he’s doing tomorrow.”

“Yes, Luna.”

I stepped out of the room, mentally preparing myself to take the next person who needed assistance, but instead, I got Eva.

“Luna! How is he? Is he going to survive?” she asked.

I pulled her aside. “I’m going to be honest with you, Eva. He lost part of one of his legs, and he wanted to die.”

“But no one dies in your hospital,” she said, her voice desperate.

“That’s right. That’s what I told him. I also told him that he has a mate and a pup on the way, so dying isn’t really an option for him. He has a long recovery ahead of him, Eva. You need to be prepared for that. But a lot of that will be mental. His role in the pack will change, but I’ll be talking to Warren about what we can do to keep him on in some sort of warrior capacity. I mentioned prosthetics to him, but we can talk about that more once he’s awake. I’m keeping him sedated overnight so that he can rest, and his wolf can heal.”

“Can I stay with him?” she asked me.

“Of course. If anything changes, find one of us, but he’s stable right now.”

I opened the door and let her in as Noelle finished stitching some of his smaller injuries from the wood chips.

I watched Eva square her shoulders and walk over to Carson. “Now you listen to me, Carson Row. You don’t get to leave me…”

I smiled and stepped out of the room. I have no idea if our minds or wolves can hear their mates when they’re unconscious, but I believe that they at least know that they’re there. Having Eva beside him will help him to heal faster.

When I turned back, Savannah was stepping out of another room. “How’s it going?” I asked her.

“They’ve obviously moved past the borders of Alpha Brady’s pack because the injuries we’re getting now are slash marks and bite wounds. They’re all still coming in with splinters and wood chips in their bodies, but those aren’t the injuries that we have to worry about now.”

When I got back to the waiting room, I saw that they had stations set up for warriors to have their splinters and wood pieces removed from their bodies while they waited to be treated. Henry, Laney, and some of our other warriors who were forced to stay behind were helping to pull the wood out of these warriors. I quickly looked them over, realizing that Anna and Érica had already triaged this group because their injuries weren’t critical.

When I moved into the room where the others were waiting to be treated, I saw that the entire room was full. With only Erica and Anna able to assist, treatment was slow. I checked in with Erica and started with the most critical injuries, beginning to stitch up the deepest wounds. Soon, Noelle, Savannah, and Piper joined us, and we began to move much more quickly through the warriors.

“Luna, you need to eat,” Bradley said to me.

I felt exhausted. I have no idea how long we’ve been at this, but I know that I can’t stop. Until Warren and the others return home, I know that they are still fighting.

Bradley handed me a wrap, and I stepped aside to eat it quickly. “Have you heard anything?” I asked him.

Bradley grinned viciously. “Yeah. I heard they found Dr. Stephens!"


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