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

He looks gutted.

bun. “I know, Adam. I appreciate everything

see a series of DNA

in the week. but I don’t know

actually mean.

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

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

autoimmune disease.”

may as well be speaking ancient

back and forth.

this is it!? I just get my affairs in order,

have some

“How long?”

to say,” he says

My mind whirls.

with the burn of unshed tears.

Adam…”

We can fight this. We won’t give up.” He points to the refrigerator at the opposite side of the room. “The chemo treatments are here. You

my hand to my head because I

once, Adam’s arm is around

me to the nearest hospital bed

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

and I’m hit with the smell of his cologne or

smell makes me gag and I

side for a waste basket.

heave, but thankfully my

happened?” he asks.

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

laughs. Then quickly

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