Chapter 84

My stomach pitches into my throat and I run to the sink.

I’ve had a protein bar and a bottle of water- I vomit them up violently.

Adam comes and holds back my hair.

I run the water and rinse my mo uth.

My mou th is salivating and the flood of adrenaline makes it hard to breathe. This is NOT the news I was expecting.

“I don’t understand. I’ve been trying to play it cool, but come on…I was tortured in that Grove and I felt the power of my lineage come into me. What good is being an Alpha if I’m just going to d ie, and now, what!? More quickly?”

push out of his arms and stalk around the lab. I have to keep moving. This anxious energy is burning through my system and I want to cry and scream.

It’s all so unfair.

For a few days, I dared to dream.

That I was cured.

That I wasn’t a pawn.

That I could wield power and control over my future and

family.

But that was all delusional it seems.

I’m trying. Believe me.”

He looks gutted.

back and twist it into a messy bun. “I know, Adam. I appreciate everything

crosses back to a computer and points to the screen. I see a series of DNA genes, the results of the

earlier in the week. but I don’t know what the numbers

actually mean.

genetics. You have all the markers, Leah.

attacking your own body too. It’s almost

autoimmune disease.”

well be speaking ancient Greek.

back and forth.

get my affairs in

have some time,”

“How long?”

hard to say,” he says honestly.

My mind whirls.

the burn of unshed tears. “I really

Adam…”

treatments. We can fight this. We won’t give up.” He points to the refrigerator at

to my head

once, Adam’s arm

to the nearest hospital

the bed so I’m sitting mostly upright. “Just take a

over me and I’m hit with the smell of

makes me gag and

lunges to the side for a

thankfully my stomach is

he

nose. “I don’t know. Something about

Then quickly sobers.

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