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.

tests, Leah. I’m

He looks gutted.

into a messy bun. “I know, Adam. I appreciate

to a computer and points to the screen. I see a

but I don’t know what

actually mean.

genetics. You have all the markers, Leah. But there is

attacking your own body too. It’s almost like some

autoimmune disease.”

well be speaking

back and forth.

I just get my affairs in

have some time,” he

“How long?”

to say,” he says

My mind whirls.

with the burn of unshed tears. “I

Adam…”

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

to my head because

arm is

to the nearest hospital bed and

he props up the bed so I’m sitting mostly upright. “Just

over me and I’m hit with the smell of his

smell makes

the side for

thankfully my stomach is empty.

he asks.

nose. “I don’t know. Something about your cologne-no

Then quickly

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