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.

running tests, Leah. I’m

He looks gutted.

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

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

week. but I don’t know what the

actually mean.

the issue lies with your wolf genetics. You have all the markers, Leah. But there

element is, it’s attacking your own body too. It’s almost like some sort

autoimmune disease.”

well be

back and

get my affairs in order,

some time,” he says.

“How long?”

hard to say,” he says honestly.

My mind whirls.

with the burn

Adam…”

know,” he says quietly. “Look, there are still treatments. We can fight this. We won’t give up.” He points to the refrigerator at the opposite side of the room. “The chemo treatments

to my head because I

Adam’s arm

me to the nearest hospital

I’m sitting mostly upright. “Just take a

I’m hit with the smell of

his aftershave. The smell makes

lunges to the side for a waste

thankfully my stomach

happened?” he

wrinkle my nose. “I don’t know. Something

Then quickly sobers.

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