The Sickened Luna's Last Chance novel Chapter 91

Chapter 91

Chapter 91

“Tell her I hope she feels better,” I said. “I’ll check in tomorrow.”

With that, I turned away, striding down the hallway without looking back.

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Ella

I woke to the sound of beeping medical monitors and scratchy hospital sheets against my skin. For a moment, I was confused as to where I was. My head was pounding and I felt dehydrated

-a hangover? Or something else?

And then I remembered.

I groaned and rolled over in the uncomfortable hospital bed, squinting against the morning light streaming through the blinds. Last night had started off so perfectly, only for everything to go to shit. One mistake after another. And then… my condition.

Tears filled my eyes, but I blinked them away. I wouldn’t tell Alexander about my illness. Instead, I’d made Lilith promise to keep my secret while I focused on completing our contract so he would reject me.

Besides, he hadn’t even returned from getting my soda, and Liam said he had to leave to prepare for a meeting, which only solidified my belief that what had happened between us in the alley had been a mistake.

Suddenly, I noticed something on the bedside table that hadn’t been there when I fell asleep.

A vase filled with cherry blossoms.

I gasped softly, sitting up. My favorite flowers. But who would have brought them? Lilith had left to get some rest and gather some things for me at the house, and she wasn’t back yet. Maybe Liam?

Before I could ponder it further, the door opened and Dr. Evelyn walked in with a clipboard in hand. She smiled when she saw I was awake.

“Good morning, Luna Ella,” she said. “How are you feeling?”

“Like someone hit me with a truck,” I admitted.

“That’s to be expected, given your condition.”

I bit the inside of my cheek. “Has it gotten worse?”

“I’m afraid so.” The doctor pulled up a chair and sat beside the bed. Her expression was grave. “When you first came to see me, your condition was so rare that I couldn’t predict exactly how it would progress. But after what happened last night… It seems the dormancy is affecting

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your body more severely than I anticipated.”

I swallowed hard. “What does that mean?”

Dr. Evelyn gave me a sympathetic look. “Luna Ella, you need to resolve this soon. Either through marking or rejection. Otherwise, you’ll continue to deteriorate. It won’t be like flipping a switch-you won’t just suddenly die one day. It will be a slow, painful process. Increasing weakness. Organ failure. Coma. Then, finally, death.”

The clinical description of my impending death sent a chill down my spine. It was one thing to know I was dying in the abstract, another to hear it spelled out so viscerally.

“I’d really recommend talking to your mate,” Dr. Evelyn said gently. “He’d certainly mark you if you would only tell him.”

“You don’t understand,” I said quietly. “It’s not that simple. Alexander won’t mark me.’

Dr. Evelyn’s eyebrows shot up in surprise. “That’s surprising. The Alpha seemed incredibly concerned when he brought you in last night. And again this morning when he came by with those flowers.” She nodded toward the cherry blossoms. “You’re certain he wouldn’t mark you?”

I jerked my head up so quickly that pain shot behind my eyes. “Alexander brought those?”

The doctor nodded. “Around six this morning. You were still sleeping. He didn’t want to wake you, so he just asked me to make sure you were comfortable and said he’d check in later.”

I stared at the cherry blossoms, and my heart did a strange little flip in my chest. Alexander had brought me flowers? My favorite flowers, no less? After everything that had happened between us, he’d still thought to bring me a gift.

The simple gesture shouldn’t have affected me so much. It was just flowers, after all. But something about knowing that Alexander had been here when I was sleeping, had checked on me, had been thoughtful enough to bring something to brighten my day…

It touched me more deeply than I expected.

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