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.

my hair back and twist it into a messy bun. “I know,

to a computer and points to the screen. I see a series of DNA genes, the results of the

week. but I don’t know what the numbers

actually mean.

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

element is, it’s attacking your own body

autoimmune disease.”

be speaking ancient Greek.

back and forth.

is it!? I just get my affairs in

still have some time,”

“How long?”

say,” he says honestly.

My mind whirls.

with the burn of

Adam…”

We won’t give up.” He points to the refrigerator

my hand to my head because I feel

arm

carries me to the nearest hospital bed and sets me

bed so I’m sitting mostly upright. “Just take a

over me and I’m hit with

aftershave. The smell makes

to the side

gag and heave, but thankfully my stomach is empty.

happened?” he

“I don’t know. Something about

laughs. Then quickly sobers.

back to the table and pulls a vial of my blood from

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