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.

a messy bun. “I know, Adam. I appreciate everything you’re doing,

to the screen. I see

but I

actually mean.

your wolf genetics. You have all the markers, Leah. But there

manifesting. And whatever that element is, it’s attacking your

autoimmune disease.”

may as well be speaking ancient Greek.

pace back

just get my affairs in order,

still have some

“How long?”

hard to say,” he says honestly.

My mind whirls.

with the burn

Adam…”

We can fight this. We won’t give up.” He points to the refrigerator at the opposite side of the room. “The chemo treatments are here. You can begin

to my head because I feel

Adam’s arm is

carries me to the nearest hospital bed and sets

I’m sitting mostly upright. “Just take a

I’m hit with the smell of his cologne

smell makes me

side for

thankfully my stomach is empty.

happened?” he asks.

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

Then

the table and pulls a vial

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