The sickened luna’s last chance

Chapter 115

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.”

the wall behind him, each word like a

enough to make tears spring to Liam’s own eyes. Ella was dying of some… mysterious disease.

he’d seen in those pictures… Was that

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

has to mark her or reject her,” the doctor said. “Otherwise, she will die.

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words. If it was true and Alexander had refused to help her,

Lilith asked. “Surely if

my decision to make,” Dr. Evelyn said. “Ella begged me not to tell him. I may be her physician, but I have no right to make

spun, fury turning into confusion. So Alexander

all the while, Liam’s chest ached. But his mind also made itself up, too. If Alexander didn’t know then how

wouldn’t let his best friend die because she was too afraid to tell Alexander the truth. Liam had made a vow to help and protect her; perhaps she would be angry if he told Alexander without her permission, but at least she would be alive to

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

window with a glass of bourbon in his

from the doorway.

turned, and Liam could see the worry etched

“It’s about Ella.”

Alexander

overheard the doctor talking to

“What?”

longer. And if it stays dormant too long without the mate bond

didn’t make sense at first. Die?

said. “I’ve never heard of anything like

I heard the doctor saying it just now. She said that if you don’t mark or reject her,