Chapter 49 Wolfsbane

“What’s going on, doctor?” Alpha Ulric said.

“It’s the wolfsbane,” Dr. Boman said. “I don’t know if a pregnancy would have taken hold, but the wolfsbane reacted to the werewolf semen inside her. It made her body identify it as poison, and now it has to expel it. This is a bad time to be losing more blood. We don’t have any more to give her.”

“Would the blood of unshifted wolves work?”

“Maybe,” Dr. Boman said, thinking. “I can test it before we transfuse it into the future Luna.”

“I’ll send out a call for any unshifted wolves, see if anyone is a match, and will donate,” Alpha Ulric said. His eyes glazed over as he mind linked the entire pack. He informed them their future Luna needed blood from an unshifted wolf. He told them the blood type, and if anyone could donate, come to the pack doctor immediately.

“Was I pregnant?” Thea said. Her voice was weak and raspy, but they had no trouble hearing her with their werewolf senses.

“Luna,” Dr. Boman said. He and the Alpha walked over to her. The triplets were sitting beside her, holding onto her, eyes red from crying. She was on a new bed. “If I’m right, you were a virgin before the mating ceremony?” “Yes,” Thea said.

“Then it had only been thirty-six hours. It can take up to ten days before you become pregnant. It takes time for the sperm to travel to the egg and fertilize it. Then it takes time for the fertilized egg to implant, and that’s only if you recently ovulated. It’s unlikely that happened before the wolfsbane reacted. Right now, your system is trying to flush out what it sees as poison.”

“Would I have been pregnant if this didn’t happen?”

“There’s no way to know for sure if you were or would have been,” Dr. Boman said. “It was too early.”

“Did this cause permanent damage? Can I still have pups in the future?” It took all her energy to speak, but she had to know. The triplets looked at Dr. Boman for his answer.

“I don’t know. Something like this, we’ll have to wait and see.” The triplets felt Thea’s heartache immediately. “You’ll have to wait until your body heals before you can try. Did you hear that, future Alphas? You cannot put your werewolf semen inside her until she’s healed, and we know the wolfsbane is completely out of her system.”

“Yes, doctor,” they said in unison.

“Luna, the more immediate danger is that you’re losing blood, and you don’t have a lot to lose,” Dr. Boman said. Just then, a group of parents and their children knocked on the door.

“I’ll be back as quickly as I can,” Dr. Boman said. He hurried away.

“We want to help,” the group said.

“Follow me,” Dr. Boman said.

He called in his nurses to start taking blood from the children. “Only a quarter pint each,” he said to the nurses.

He took the first donation and put a bit on the sheet with Thea’s blood. He looked at it under a microscope.

lens. Waited. Focused

bags of blood into Thea’s room. He hooked the first one into her IV and squeezed it to push it in as fast as possible. He put the next bag on and repeated the process. A nurse brought in several more. Lizzy burst into the room with Misty in tow. They took in the room—red-eyed triplets, worried Alpha, doctor and nurses working

You can take more of it than from the

Misty said. “I called him on the way.

Alpha Ulric said. He pulled his phone out and stepped out into

Thea’s IV. The nurse and Misty came back a few minutes later. The

does before we take any more. How are you feeling, Luna?” Dr.

said. Her voice sounded a

and spoke to their minds. “Will

over for

for the wolfsbane to work its way

Thea nodded.

into the room. “Your father is coming,” he said

Misty said, being formal and using his surname since she wasn’t a part

Thea said. Her voice

of her bed.

Thea smiled

going to be okay?”

at Dr. Boman. He squeezed the blood bag then

so. With this blood,

I ask what

then started coughing. Thea asked the triplets in her mind to speak

cut her throat. Her carotid artery,” Kai said. “He strangled her too.

nodded. “Did you catch the

They shook their heads.

comforting,”

your father to take extra

gave blood? Write down their names. I want to thank them later,”

nodded and walked out of the room. Thea lifted one hand toward Misty and the other toward Lizzy, who was standing off to the side by Thea’s Delta team

Thea

my class, yelling my name and looking crazed,” Misty said. “She practically dragged me out

Ulric’s call to the pack, and! remembered Misty was a universal donor,” Lizzy said, voice

out what she was talking

you okay?” Lizzy

something to write with. Lizzy handed

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