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.

messy bun. “I know,

the screen. I see a series of DNA genes, the

the week. but I don’t know what the

actually mean.

think the issue lies with your wolf genetics. You have all the markers, Leah. But there is

manifesting. And whatever that element is, it’s attacking your own body too. It’s almost like

autoimmune disease.”

may as well be speaking ancient

pace back and forth.

get my affairs in order, huh?”

some

“How long?”

say,” he says honestly.

My mind whirls.

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

Adam…”

up.” He points to the refrigerator at the

my head because I feel

once, Adam’s arm is around

the nearest hospital bed and sets me

then he props up the bed so I’m sitting mostly

me and I’m hit with the smell of his cologne or

makes me gag and I

the side for a waste

but thankfully my

happened?” he asks.

my nose. “I don’t know. Something about

Then quickly

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

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