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 trying. Believe me.”

He looks gutted.

it into a messy bun. “I know, Adam. I appreciate everything you’re doing,

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

week. but I don’t know what the numbers

actually mean.

genetics. You have

is, it’s attacking

autoimmune disease.”

well be speaking ancient

pace back

it!? I just get my affairs in order,

still have some time,”

“How long?”

say,”

My mind whirls.

ck with the burn of unshed tears.

Adam…”

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

hand to my head because I feel lightheaded.

Adam’s arm is around me.

the nearest hospital bed and sets

props up the bed so I’m sitting mostly upright. “Just take a minute, Leah. Breathe.”

with the

The smell makes me gag and I wretch

the side for a

gag and heave, but thankfully my stomach is empty.

he asks.

my nose. “I don’t know.

laughs. Then quickly

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