“Shit, that man is so fine I want to take several bites… Or let him take them from me. I love feeding hot vamps while naked. Always naked. Excuse me.”
“Happy hunting,” I chuckled under my breath. I could never be that confident and behave that way.
But I also never judged women who did. Good for her. As long as she backed off when someone wasn’t interested just like we expected men to do, there was nothing wrong with being the one to start the fun.
Nothing. At. All.
I thought the resident might be right when a pissed-off Alpha wolf known as Ha-joon came storming towards me an hour or so later. “It’s fine. He was polite and accepted we’re a real thing.”
He frowned, looking adorably confused before rolling his eyes. “I don’t care that someone flirted with you. I trust you.” He snorted. “You’regorgeous, love, and people say it all the time behind your back and shit to your face. Good on him for having the balls to actually say something to you.”
“Then I’m confused,” I admitted.
That made him pout. “You thought I was going to be some jealous dick?”
“No, not—maybe?” I gestured to him and then where he’d come from as if saying he had stormed out and that made me wonder.
“I want the asshole who put his hands on you,” he growled. “I’m in surgery and I hear some git—multiplegits are ordering you around liketheirlittle woman and to be obedient and—where are they?”
“She beat one of them up, broke his arm in several places before he was kicked back, and the other one was kicked back as well,” one of the EMTs from New York said as she shot me an impressed look. “Must be nice to have the kind of power that you won’t get in trouble for that later. I would use and abuse that with the crap we have to take.”
I reached over and patted her shoulder. “If someone ever gets grabby with you, just get them here and I’ll gladly break them.”
“I normallyaccidentallyget the gurney stuck so they get jostled around and their injuries hurt more after someone grabs her,” the man next to her said under his breath. “Something like that. Oops, I dropped something heavy on them too. I’m a klutz like that.”
“Yeah, but your file now says that from all the complaints,” she muttered, looking worried.
The guy was not. The glance he gave her clearly said he gave zero fucks.
Okay, they were pretty adorable, and I shouldn’t use this crisis to poach… But I was probably going to try and poach them for the hospital.
“I’m fine,” I assured Ha-joon, getting us back to the beginning. “How was surgery?”
“Good. Faster than expected and we saved the mom and baby.” He wasn’t happy though and he sighed when I waved him on. “The warlock who brought the bus through the portal to saveall those kids and everyone died. His body just couldn’t recover from using all that magic like that so fast.”
“Fuck,” I cursed under my breath, and I wasn’t the only one around us. “The kid?”
“Inconsolable and asking if the gods will take him instead of his dad,” Ha-joon rasped. “Apparently, all he had was his dad. Someone overheard him blabbing that his grandparents disowned them because his dad wouldn’t force his mom to marry and she ran off. He has no one.”
“Let’s make sure people like them or someone else doesn’t just scoop up that kid,” I said to one of my admins since several of them were being runners for me. “Talk to Jackie Dillon and see if she can get a background on the kid and find the mom. Maybe she’s willing to be a mom now and start over in Atlanta instead of…” I shrugged.
“Seriously, you’re too kind for this world,” my admin said with a sigh. “I’ll handle it so you can focus on saving everyone else that isn’t your responsibility to save either.”
I felt kind of good about myself when she put it like that. I’d been getting torn into and demanded more of left and right.
It was really,reallynice that someone saw what was really going on and took the time to praise me.
After a quick kiss, Ha-joon jumped on the next case that came in and helped out all over. The town that had been affected was mostly magics. Like ninety percent or more, so he wasn’t needed to check shifters and help there because we’d only had a few come through.
And most were kids or uninjured people to get them out of the danger zone.
We worked tirelessly for hours and hours. Finally, after about ten hours, South America stopped being assholes and started giving real help after the backlash they received. I didn’t know all of the details, but their citizens were protesting all overSouth America to overthrow the government if they didn’t help in a crisis but dumped it off on someone else.
That was a good start. Definitely a turning point for the least developed and poorest of the supe continents. I was glad to see people were willing to fight for better lives instead of with each other over petty shit.
At least for today.
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