Eyes to the Soul (18 page)

She didn’t take to strangers. And that’s where this situation deviated. He was no stranger. She just didn’t understand why not.

*

Stefan walked Celina
down the hallway toward Dr. Maddy’s inner office. He loved this place. The ambience was hushed with love and healing. Surely no one could miss the extraordinary atmosphere. He watched Celina lift her head slightly and relax a little with each step. Her smile loosened, and when she took a deep breath and released it slowly he knew she was accepting the benefits of being surrounded by strong healing vibes. He liked to visit to get his fix too. The wing at the children’s hospital was the same. Both places functioned like a micro ecosystem for healing. Each location required a tremendous amount of energy to maintain, although as the people healed they in turn added that positive healing energy back in. Each new patient had to go through a specific regime to get in. And each place could only accept so many at once. The energy level needed to be raised to accept the new lower-vibration additions so that the energy of the whole area balanced out in such a way to remain equalized for the other patients.

And the system was working. The children’s hospital had some incredible results. Then again, children were so much more open to energetic healing than adults.

Stefan slid a sideways glance toward Celina, loving the way peace had settled on her classic features. High cheekbones, huge silvery eyes, and a wide, mobile mouth. He forced himself to look away. He was a long ways from being able to kiss her, and that fact drove him into frustration every damn time he saw her.

“Problems?”

“No.” He glanced at her again. “Not at all.”

“Oh. It just seemed like you were pulling away. I know I make some people uncomfortable.”

“Not me,” he said quietly. “You could never do that.”

“Oh.” This time humor tinged her voice. “Why is that?”

“I could say you’re too beautiful, and it would be the truth, but chances are you wouldn’t like hearing that.”

She gave an indelicate snort. “It’s not my looks that people see. They only see that I’m blind.”

“And they are missing out on seeing something very special.” He knew his voice had dropped – despite his best efforts – but hoped she didn’t hear the longing in his voice.

When she stared directly at him, her brows together in a small frown, he knew she had. Whether she’d understood the emotion was a different story.

“There you are.” Dr. Maddy’s voice intruded into the arcing energy between him and Celina. Damn. Crappy timing. Still, Celina was here to see Maddy.

“I was just showing her to your office,” Stefan said with a smile, stepping back slightly.

“Thank you.” Dr. Maddy waited for them to pass inside before she stepped in and closed the door.

Celina cocked her head to one side. “You have a beautiful place here, Dr. Maddy. I don’t think I’ve ever been to another place with a sense of peace as there is here.”

“Thank you. We do good work here.” Dr. Maddy shifted to her desk and sat down. “Celina, there is a chair on the left hand side – please sit down. Stefan, I’m going to ask you to wait outside for the time being.”

He nodded and walked to the door.

“For the time being?” Celina asked. “Why is he here at all?”

Dr. Maddy laughed. “For lots of reasons. I’ll explain in a moment.”

And Stefan knew he’d been dismissed. Hating to, he stepped out into the hallway and closed the door behind him.

*

Maddy studied the
troubled young woman in front of her. Celina had recognized Stefan as she’d expected, but as Stefan was so much more than a consultant in a field that she likely had little knowledge about, she didn’t know how to start.

Then she remembered something Stefan had mentioned earlier.

“Celina, this question is likely to come out of the blue, but I do have a few reasons for asking so please answer as honestly as you can. And no, I won’t judge you for your answers or withhold treatment if you think they are wrong. I just want the truth.”

She watched Celina straighten and a protective shield drop down over her aura. Stefan scored a point there. Her defenses were impressive. So Maddy took a deep breath and said, “Can you see ghosts?”

*

“Okay, Randy, we’re
going to change your diet and tweak your meds slightly, then I want to see you back in a couple of weeks.”

The doctor wrote something on a pad of paper, ripped the top sheet off, and handed it to him.

Randy stared at the new prescription, wondering when this nightmare would be over. He understood he was alive because of the surgery, but was it a life worth having? He’d been in pain ever since the transplant. He’d wanted to live desperately when it looked like he wasn’t going to, but now that he was, he wondered if he’d cheated death and was paying for it.

One of the medications was giving him horrible nightmares, and he woke up in a cold sweat more often than not. Every time he came to explain the various problems his doctor just changed the drugs.

As he stared down at the paper in his hand, he wondered at what point in time a person had enough.

He’d lost his own wife a couple of months ago, and every day he wondered if this kidney that had saved his life wouldn’t be better off saving someone else’s.

You know what to do.

He did.

If he’d listened to that voice he’d have done it already. Now he realized the voice was correct.

He stared down at the prescription and couldn’t help but think that if he took the whole bottle his pain would finally be over.

Do it,
the voice urged.
You know it’s what you want.

That he did. Feeling better than he had in long time, he headed to the pharmacy to get his prescription filled. This was the answer. One he could live with – or not.

C
elina froze at
the question. She wanted to bolt as far and as fast as she could away from there. Yet the lure of what Dr. Maddy might be able to do for her kept her glued in place.

“Why would you ask such a question?” she protested.

“Because I think you do, and I know someone else who does.”

The smile in Dr. Maddy’s voice had Celina instinctively smiling back. How did that work? “You’re joking, right?”

“No, I’m not.” And she waited.

Celina grimaced. “And what bearing does that question have on why I’m here?”

“Because although I don’t see dead people per se, I do see energy. Maddy’s Floor is an energetic healing project.”

Maddy launched into an explanation that had Celina’s jaw dropping. She gaped. How could she not? This woman was a doctor. Had numerous degrees. Appeared to be a smart, beautiful woman who cared. And here she was talking about something so esoteric, something so far out there, so foreign to Celina that the talk of ghosts slid into being a minor side discussion.

She couldn’t help her head moving from side to side.

Dr. Maddy laughed, a joyous sound that held Celina entranced. There was no way she could call this woman crazy, and it was obvious it came from her heart, but this…she couldn’t help but turn toward the exit.

“A bit much, is it?” Her beautiful laughter twinkled around the room again. “And I’m not crazy.”

A wave of heat washed over Celina’s cheeks. “I’m sorry,” she muttered. “It’s just so…” She stopped and shrugged helplessly.

“Energy is energy regardless of the form, and I make good use of it here. Now I’m not trying to convert you to our way of doing things, but healing happens in wonderful ways. I think the doctor who did your eye surgery is correct in that everything went well and there is no physical reason why you can’t see.” She smiled.

Celina stilled. This was what she’d come for. She held her breath and waited.

“When I saw you last,” Dr. Maddy continued slowly, “I ran a quick scan of your energy and saw a blockage around your eyes.”

“A blockage?” Celina leaned forward, her unseeing gaze intent on the doctor. And damn near thought she’d caught the doctor smiling.

“I don’t understand what you mean by a blockage. Surely there’d be a lot of pain if I had a blockage?” She frowned and eased back slightly. “And Dr. Jorgenson would have seen something as destructive as that, wouldn’t he have?”

“Exactly.” Dr. Maddy beamed.

Celina felt warm, as though waves of benevolence were coming towards her. She had no idea what was going on, but it was starting to feel like she’d dropped into another world. She wanted to be open and able to receive whatever good things Dr. Maddy had going on here, yet this was starting to go way past her comfort zone.

“He would have. So would I. However, I can see a level most doctors can’t. For instance, I can tell right now that you’re feeling extremely out of your depth. Wondering if I’m a little off and whether you’ve wasted your time coming here. You have hopeful energy about being here, but that’s been cut back by over half since I started talking. I can also tell you that you are draining a lot of much-needed energy to old friends, as if you are the one that can’t let go. That you are holding a few people, special people, very close to your heart. As if in the very act of protecting them you can save them from harm.”

Celina listened in shock. She swallowed hard. She wanted to refute the words as they flew her way, but for the most part the doctor was right on. “Look, I don’t know how much of this I believe. The real issue is this blockage. If it’s there… can you remove it? Is it stopping me from seeing? And if you remove it, will I be able to see again?”

“All good questions. The answers are…I don’t know. I can’t say why for sure. I’ve never seen anything quite like your case before.” She said it with such honesty that Celina believed her.

“Then what do you know?”

“I know that I can go in and—”

“Go in?” Celina asked in alarm. “More surgery?”

“No, not at all.”

Celina listened to Dr. Maddy’s hair swish about her shoulders as she shook her head. There was something light in here, something…almost joyful. She was desperate to stay, but didn’t know why. The place just felt right.