The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 62

Liam & Alexander

Liam

Liam was just heading back to his room when he heard the commotion. There were muffled shouts upstairs, and then a doctor swept into the house–the same doctor from the hospital.

Curious, he followed the sounds and was nearly bowled over by a thunderous Alexander, who came barreling out of his bedroom with his Beta on his heels.

Liam froze. “What happened?”

But Alexander wasn’t listening. He stormed away, shoulders tense, fists clenched. The Beta was saying something to him quietly, although Liam couldn’t hear it. And then they were gone.

Frowning, Liam approached the bedroom door, reaching out to grab the handle. But before he could open

it, he heard the muffled voices within.

“How bad is it?” Lilith sounded like she was crying.

“Worse than I hoped,” Dr. Evelyn’s voice replied. “The dormancy is progressing faster now. Her body is essentially shutting down because her wolf has been dormant for so long.”

Liam’s hand dropped to his side. Dormancy?

“But she should have had months left,” Lilith sobbed. “How is this possible?”

The doctor sighed. “I’m not sure. This disease–if we can call it that–is completely new to me. There have only been a few cases of someone losing their wolf due to their mate not marking or rejecting them in recorded history, and none of them are detailed enough. I don’t know how the symptoms will progress—all I know is that she’ll certainly die within the year.”

Liam staggered back against the wall behind him, each word like a gunshot. Ella was dying?

Lilith’s sobs within the bedroom were enough to make tears spring to Liam’s own eyes. Ella was dying of some… mysterious disease. Something to do with her wolf going dormant due to Alexander not marking her or rejecting her.

But the mating mark he’d seen in those pictures… Was that fake?

It had to be; Ella had told Liam that Alexander didn’t love her. At the time, he’d thought she said that out of

lovesickness, but now he realized that it had little to do with that and everything to do with her very life.

“He has to mark her or reject her,” the doctor said. “Otherwise, she will die. And it might be sooner than we

thought.”

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Fury washed over Liam as he heard those words. If it was true and Alexander had refused to help her, Liam

kill him with his bare hands. He

him?” Lilith asked.

make,” Dr. Evelyn said. “Ella begged me not to tell him.

I have no right to make her

spun, fury turning into confusion. So

all the while,

If Alexander didn’t know, then how could he

Liam wouldn’t let his best friend die because she was too afraid to tell Alexander the truth.

to help and protect her; perhaps she

she would be alive to

a second thought, Liam pushed away from the wall and headed downstairs to find

by the window

the doorway. “I need to talk

turned, and Liam could see the worry etched across his face. “If it’s about the

“It’s about Ella.”

Alexander

the room. “I overheard the doctor talking to Lilith. Alexander, Ella’s wolf is

“What?”

months, maybe longer. And if it stays dormant too long without the mate bond being

make sense at first.

said. “I’ve never heard of anything

I heard the doctor saying it just now. She said that if

Was he messing with me?

“Yes. You have.”

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was like a gunshot in my mind, and then it

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more righteous than I’d ever seen her, and she had told me exactly what Liam just did. It had been the

hadn’t

she was lying, that she just wanted attention because she was unhappy in our marriage. I had never heard of

bloody fucking fool

thoughts. “The doctor said she’ll die. Your mate will die. My friend will die. Alexander, if you don’t

fucking kill you.”

eyes glowing a dangerous hue. My own wolf bristled in response. The threat was clear enough even if

want me to mark her. She asked for a

and she thinks you

risk letting her close. But now, finding out that my distance had led to

see what she wants, and whatever it

the fury seemed to deflate from Liam’s shoulders, but only a little. He was still

rightfully so.

who had distanced myself from Ella for five years. I was the one who had refused to mark her. I was the one who had forced her

her die because you’re too stubborn to admit

the parlor and headed back upstairs. The doctor and Lilith had finished their examination, and Dr. Evelyn was packing up her medical bag when I stepped into

she?” I