Chapter 136 - 136 The first shift (Part 1)

136 The first shift (Part 1)

(Warning: Inside the chapter, there’s a problem with a serious conversation of an implied sexual relationship, and having children out of marriage, reader’s discretion is a must.)

The look on Vale’s face makes Xavier so ashamed. He drops himself to the sofa and closes his face with his two hands.

“But, Xave, you’ve told me that they were just your drinking friends. You touched no one of them.” Said Vale to his friend, who looks so desperate.

“I wasn’t lying. They were just my drinking friends. I do nothing to them, besides maybe flirt a bit and drink together.” He said with a sigh, “But then, two months ago, I was so drunk when I was at some drinking party with them, I don’t even remember any detail… Until I woke up the next day with one of my drinking friends beside me.”

“What? What?! That’s why I’ve told you never got so drunk!” Vale felt the headache coming again. He took some time to lie down and gruntled at Xavier, “Oh my Gods! Xavier, what did you do?!”

Looking desperately at his friend, he tried to explain the situation, “I… Honestly don’t know. I mean, Henry in the past always played with women all the time and he doesn’t have any consequences, right?”

“Henry took a medicine,” Vale told his friend, laying out every reason for Xavier, “He took some medicine every month so that he can’t sire any children. That’s why he could play so much back then, no unwanted diseases, and also prevented anyone from taking advantage of his noble rank.”

“Why have all of you never told me about this?!” Xavier so frustratedly shouting at Vale right now.

Vale calmly tells him the reason. “First of all, I thought you knew already. Second of all, I thought you wanted to remain pure, you sh*thead!”

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“I… I don’t even remember anything, I was so blank… and she told me about it last night when we met at the pub…” Xavier closed his eyes, remembering about last night after he stop Henry and Vale’s fighting on the floor.

The look of anger on Henry’s face was something out of the ordinary for Xavier to see in his best friend. Henry was rarely angry, even with his obnoxious sister. But last night, when Vale said something about Anne, he went berserk and attacked Vale. It’s a good thing Vale immediately cast a protection spell or his face will be broken in no time.

Henry becomes so powerful after two years of journey with his grandfather. He hates to admit it, but it will be hard to fight his friend now in empty-handed combat. Not the case two years ago, when he was the weakest of them all. After Henry was gone with a small burn on his cheek from Vale’s desperate attack, he leave the two of them and go somewhere else. Xavier tried to chase him, but a hand of a woman prevented him from going.

The woman is Yasmine, a beautiful woman with dark short hair, and the eyes like the green leaves of the forest. She looks at Xavier and told him that they need to talk, and after Vale goes home on his own, Xavier let Yasmine talks about her problem. The problem that has now also become his, when he heard the news, his ears were ringing, and he almost threw up right at the table. As apologetic as she could be, Xavier was confused and his golden eyes staring at Yasmine, He told her to give her some time, and she gave him a week to decide.

“You already make your decision, then. You will marry her.” Said Vale to Xavier, who was now sitting in the window, staring at the street below.

“Yes, I will announce after Justice is back from his hiding place.” Xavier not denying Vale, he was going to marry the girl but will wait for Justice to come back, and also he will try to get Vale and Henry on speaking terms once more.

Vale looks at his friend and shakes his head. “Are you sure, Xave? I mean, you could just become the father, but you don’t need to marry the mother. We have the law for it.”

Smiling at his friend, Xavier gave Vale his reason. “No, I will do this in the right way, and the right way for me is to marry the girl and become a father.”

“Xavier, you don’t even love the girl.” Said Vale bluntly at him.

With a bittered smile on his face, Xavier said, “I could try.”

Now, after the commotion and the news, we are going back to see our Heroine, who was satisfied with the looks of her room, she took a day just to paint and decorate her room, with a white pearl color of a fresh coat of paint, inside of the shed looks brand new, she added two layers of the curtain on every window for privacy and even brought flowers in the vase and a jar of cookies for her familiar, Chikara, who loves to eat cookies and cakes.

‘Can I sample one, master?’

A sound of a pestering monster inside of her shadows gave some giggles to Anne. She nodded her head and drop the cookie into her shadow. In just a second, the cookie was gone. She smiles and gets back to work.

“In three days, we probably could go to the nearest river for you to be materialized there. It will be big enough for you.” Said Anne, softly to her familiar.

‘I would love that. I think I know the perfect place for it, master.’

“I know, Chikara, now, let me finish decorating my humble but pretty shed so I could take a rest early.” With a huge smile on her face, she walks around her shed and makes a small touch to every corner of her shed.

At nine o’clock, she went to rest and ignore dinner time. She put on her nightgown after the refreshing bath and look into the moonlight at her window while laying on her bed. A feeling of contentment came into her and slept as soon as she closed her eyes, while a big shadow of a man staring at her from afar.

The moonlight shies away from the sky and the sunlight came bravely and shines on the world. Anne, as usual, was already awake and begin her light exercise before the gardening club came and terrorize the rooftop. Fifteen minutes later, a handful of people already cared for their plant. Anne bravely approached one of them.

“Excuse me, I wanted to enter the gardening club. How could I apply? Or maybe meet with the coordinator of this club?” She asked a young woman with brown hair.

The brown-hair healer saw her and immediately extended her hand. “That would be me, miss Anne. How do you do? My name is Aly.”

She was an odd young woman, with cute freckles on her face and majestic brown eyes that almost match her hair color, she wear a straw hat and seems never to care if her hand was full of dirt. A green thumb, that’s what she is, the rare talent where a person could use their hands and grow magnificent plants everywhere.

“Nice to meet you, miss Aly, so when can I apply?” Asked Anne politely to the young woman that seems not even in her mid twenty yet.

Chuckles at Anne, she stands up while cleaning her hands, “Eager I see, well, I will give you the form to be signed, and you will be officially one of us. I’ll send the form to your temp bed at the main hospital. I know that you have a busy schedule there.”

Aly, the quirky coordinator of the gardening club, then leaves our heroine without even saying anything. Anne is already impressed by her carefree attitude. She took a deep breath, savoring the sweet aromas of the flowers, and go to have her bath and breakfast. At seven-thirty, Leo was already waiting for her in the lounge, and they walked together to the main hospital.

“So, I will give you a tour before we begin our shifts. From there, senior Nathan will give us the instructions for our duty today.” Said Leon when the two of them still walking along the streets.

Nodding her head. Anne took the time to ask Leo another question. “I’m sorry, but I thought chief Hale giving me an instruction to see the disease patient immediately.”

“Although chief Hale is the leader in the main hospital, the one that gives us our duty comes from the senior healer that was in charge of us.” Answered Leo to the eager Anne.

When they arrived at the hospital, Leo showed her the temp bed first. The temp bed was actually bunk beds where healers could rest for one or two hours during their shift. Her temp bed is in the room with Nathan’s name on the door. As soon as Leo open the room, she knew they will sleep together as a group, where their senior healer also have their bed close to their bunk bed.

“Leo, could I ask you one more thing?” She smiles nervously at her acquaintance.

Leo was leaning on the desk and just shrug his shoulder, “Sure, what do you want to know?”

“How many females are in senior Nathan’s team?”

“Oh, you’re the only girl on our team.”

She almost drops onto the floor, thinking that she will share a room with a group of men that she doesn’t even know.