The Lna 266

Chapter 266

Xena's POV

I gathered every ounce of strength I had left and pulled violently on the IV tube

connected to my left hand. Pain shot through my arm as the needle tore free, and the metal stand crashed to the floor with a tremendous clatter. I immediately closed my eyes and let my body go limp, frowning and trembling as if I were having some kind of medical emergency.

The noise immediately caught the doctors' attention. They turned from their computers, speaking in rapid, panicked voices.

"What happened?"

*Her vitals are spiking!"

"The IV came loose she's lost too much blood!"

situation, reaching down to lift the fallen IV stand. As he bent over me, I let my hand shift partially, extending my claws

with shock and terror, his hands flying to his neck as he tried to stem the flow of blood. But it was too late. He collapsed backward, crashing into the cabinet beside the surgical table and sending medical

two doctors, who spun around with

"What the hell-"

"She's awake! She's-"

the door, but William was already moving. Despite

claws extended fully as he drove them into both doctors' backs, piercing through their scrubs. Their screams of

fallen

managed to say through our mind link, offering him a weak

He began crawling toward me, using the last of his strength

extended his claws once more and cut through the leather restraints binding my wrists and kles. The effort seemed to drain the last of his energy, and he collapsed

out through our mind link, but there was no

When I looked at William more closely, I was horrified to see the trail of blood he'd left across the

in the hallway outside, growing closer by the second. Alpha Wiley was returning, probably with reinforcements. My heart sank as

could hide. But the space was filled with medical equipment and overturned furniture from our fight. There was nowhere to

gaze fell on the computer desk where the doctors had been working. Various vials and test tubes containing different colored liquids

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