Chapter 84

My stomach pitches into my throat and I run to the sink.

I’ve had a protein bar and a bottle of water- I vomit them up violently.

Adam comes and holds back my hair.

I run the water and rinse my mo uth.

My mou th is salivating and the flood of adrenaline makes it hard to breathe. This is NOT the news I was expecting.

“I don’t understand. I’ve been trying to play it cool, but come on…I was tortured in that Grove and I felt the power of my lineage come into me. What good is being an Alpha if I’m just going to d ie, and now, what!? More quickly?”

push out of his arms and stalk around the lab. I have to keep moving. This anxious energy is burning through my system and I want to cry and scream.

It’s all so unfair.

For a few days, I dared to dream.

That I was cured.

That I wasn’t a pawn.

That I could wield power and control over my future and

family.

But that was all delusional it seems.

“I’m running tests, Leah. I’m trying. Believe me.”

He looks gutted.

bun. “I know, Adam. I appreciate everything

back to a computer and points to the screen. I see a series

in the week. but I don’t know what the numbers

actually mean.

think the issue lies with your wolf genetics. You have all

it’s attacking

autoimmune disease.”

as well be

back

is it!? I just get my affairs in order,

still have some time,” he

“How long?”

to say,”

My mind whirls.

eyes pri ck with the burn of unshed tears. “I really thought….

Adam…”

he says quietly. “Look, there are still treatments. We can fight this. We won’t give up.” He points to the refrigerator at

my

arm is

to the nearest hospital bed and

props up the bed so I’m sitting mostly

over me and I’m hit with the smell of

his aftershave. The smell makes me gag and

lunges to the side for a waste basket.

thankfully my stomach

he

nose. “I don’t know. Something about your cologne-no

laughs. Then quickly sobers.

table and pulls a

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