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

his bare hands. He

him?” Lilith asked. “Surely if he

decision to make,” Dr. Evelyn said. “Ella begged

no right to make her

fury turning into confusion. So Alexander

inside the room, and all the while, Liam’s chest ached. But his mind also made

know, then how could he help

die because she was too afraid to tell Alexander

vow to help and protect her; perhaps she would be angry if he told Alexander without

least she would

Liam pushed away from the wall and headed downstairs to find

him in the parlor, standing by the window with a glass of bourbon in

the doorway. “I

etched across his face. “If

“It’s about Ella.”

Alexander

overheard the doctor talking to Lilith. Alexander,

“What?”

months, maybe longer. And if it stays dormant too long without the mate bond being completed…” Liam’s face was grim. “She’ll

didn’t make sense at first.

possible,” I said. “I’ve never heard of anything

Liam’s face darkened. “But I heard the doctor saying it just now. She said that if you don’t mark or reject her, she’ll

Liam. Was he messing with me? In all my years, I’d never heard

“Yes. You have.”

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voice was like a gunshot in my mind, and then it hit me. Nearly three months ago

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

hadn’t believed

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

what a bloody fucking

as he stormed up to me, ripping me out of my thoughts.

fucking kill you.”

he spoke, his fangs flashed, eyes glowing a dangerous hue. My own wolf bristled in response. The threat was clear enough even if he

mark her. She asked for a

“Alexander, she’s been dying for months, and she thinks you hate her. Of course she asked for a divorce. She knew you wouldn’t mark her, so she chose the

risk letting her

I said. “I’ll see what she wants, and whatever

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

rightfully so.

was the one who had forced her to sleep on the opposite side of the mansion and made her eat dinner alone and made

Liam growled. “Don’t let her die

in the parlor and headed back upstairs. The doctor and Lilith had finished their examination, and Dr. Evelyn was packing up her

she?”