Selfless Hero

And my god, was she gorgeous. I found myself staring at her lips as she spoke. They were so shapely and looked so soft. I found myself momentarily imagining how perfect they’d be around my cock…

I shook my head, trying to clear the thought.

“The little girl asked who in the world could have put a spell on her,” Kylie continued. “And the doctor told her, ‘Someone who is very jealous of you, because you are so young and beautiful and will one day have a handsome prince who wants to take you as his bride!’”

“Yuck!” Raya exclaimed.

Kylie laughed, her face brightening and those impossibly blue eyes of hers sparkling. “Oh, you won’t be saying ‘yuck’ to that in a few years!”

“What happened next?” Raya asked, done considering whether she’d someday want a handsome prince.

“The doctor asked the little girl if she knew anyone who wanted to hurt her, or had tried to hurt her before in the past. And the little girl—she was nervous because she was afraid she would get in trouble if she told the truth. So she decided she would have to keep it a secret. Besides, she wasn’t even sure if the person who had tried to hurt her before could do magic. So she convinced herself that she didn’t have to tell. ‘I don’t know,’ the little girl told the doctor.

“‘I guess I’m just going to have to figure this out for myself,’ the doctor replied. But he knew he couldn’t really do it all alone. So he called a few of his friends and asked if any of them had psychic powers to figure out who had put a spell on this beautiful little girl. But unfortunately, none of them were psychic. So you know what they had to do then?”

“What?” Raya asked.

“They had to play detective!”

“Like Inspector Gadget?”

“Yes! Exactly like Inspector Gadget!”

“Did it work?”

“Well, the doctor and his friends, they searched all around the kingdom trying to figure out who was casting evil spells. They went from door to door, but they couldn’t find out who did it. So they started to feel discouraged and feared they would never know who hurt the little girl. And this worried them all a g

reat deal because they hated seeing such a beautiful little princess feeling bad. They wanted her to be happy and healthy.”

“Did they ever find the bad people?”

Kylie exchanged a quick glance with me, letting me know that she too, had caught on to the fact that the little girl asked about bad people, not a bad person.

“Well, the little princess could see how worried the doctor and his friends were. And she saw how hard they were trying to help her. So she eventually decided that maybe she needed to go ahead and let them know who had tried hurting her before because deep down, the little girl knew that these people probably really were the ones casting spells on her. So after thinking about it for a long time, the little princess finally went up to her doctor and said, ‘I think I know who did it. I remember now!’ And she told the doctor and his friends about the bad people who had been mean to her and hurt her before. She told them that more than likely, these were the people who were jealous of her, and they had probably found ways to cast evil spells to hurt her.

“The doctor and his friends were so happy the little princess told them, because she was right! So they found the bad people and made sure the little girl never got hurt again. And then the little girl grew up, met a handsome prince, and lived happily ever after.”

Raya had stopped crying completely now and seemed to consider the story.

“Raya, I want you to be brave like the little princess, okay? You have to be brave while Dr. Lewis and I figure out how to make you feel better, and make sure nobody can put any evil spells on you, all right?”

“All right,” Raya said, nodding her head. “Can you open my lollipop for me?”

“Of course.”

Just as Kylie opened the lollipop, the curtain was drawn back once again. This time, it was Raya’s mother.

“Sorry for the wait, doc,” she said in a half-hearted apology. “So, what I miss? What’s wrong with her?”

I glanced at Kylie. “Thank you, Nurse Hackett. Can you give us a moment?”

“Sure thing, Dr. Lewis,” she said, and then made her exit.

CHAPTER 7

Kylie

“Yes, she’s seven-years-old and has suspicious markings on her wrist,” I said over the phone. “And she seemed a little bit uncomfortable with her mother. She was just here a couple hours ago. She was suffering from a bacterial infection and fever.”