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

him with his bare hands.

tell him?” Lilith asked. “Surely if he

“Ella begged me not to

have no right to make her personal

fury turning into confusion. So Alexander didn’t even

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

Alexander didn’t know, then how

his best friend die because she was too afraid to tell Alexander the

vow to help and protect her; perhaps she would be angry if

at least she would be alive

away from the

by the window with a glass

the doorway.

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

“It’s about Ella.”

Alexander

overheard the doctor talking to Lilith.

“What?”

if it stays dormant too long without

make sense at first. Die? From

I said. “I’ve never heard of

neither.” 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 wither away

just stared at Liam. Was he messing with me? In all

“Yes. You have.”

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gunshot in my mind, and then it hit

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seen her, and she had told me exactly

I hadn’t

that she just wanted attention because she was unhappy in our marriage. I had never heard of such a disease, so how could it

bloody

Liam’s voice was sharp as he stormed up to me, ripping me out of my thoughts. “The doctor

fucking kill you.”

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

she doesn’t want me to mark her.

himself and lowered it again. “Alexander, she’s been dying for months, and she thinks

years, I’d kept my distance because I couldn’t trust her, couldn’t risk letting

what she wants, and

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

rightfully so.

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

Alexander,” Liam growled. “Don’t let her die because you’re too stubborn

doctor and Lilith had finished their examination, and Dr. Evelyn was packing up her medical bag when

she?” I