My hand trembled with indecision. I didn’t want this man to die. I couldn’t bring myself to do it. My father’s eyes were on me, narrowed, watching my every movement. The Alpha could hardly get mad if I failed to follow proper etiquette could he? He would probably put it down to ignorance due to my station or perhaps even the upbringing of my father’s pack, I told myself, slowly handing the other drinks out to everyone else. I gave the Beta one, my father his, and Damiens. They began to sip, confident that none of theirs contained the poison. That left one drink left.
I picked the drink up. My hands shook slightly. The Alpha waited for his drink, his eyes on me. I stared directly at him. He raised a brow and began to reach for it. I held it just out of reach, my father and brother oblivious to what I was about to do. What I was about to do was dangerous. It was risky. But it could end up saving a lot of lives, lives that were more important than my own, and of the pack that had treated me like a disease or pest to be exterminated.
The Alpha was looking slightly bewildered now. I stared at him even harder, willing him to see what I was doing.
“Alpha Jaxon” My father began apologetically and I moved, out of reach tipping the drink up and swallowing all of it my father shouted in anger finishing the drink off and staring at him defiantly, while the Alpha looked stunned, the Beta moving, certain there had been a reason to my actions.
“You stupid fool” my father thundered, his hand squeezing around my throat “How dare you interfere in my plans? I’m going to kill you” he thundered.
I scrabbled at his hands and then felt my body drop as my father was flung into the nearest wall, desperately gasping for air. My vision was dimming and I fell to my knees, the Beta supporting me to stay kneeling upright. I could hear his voice in the background, even as I heard the sounds of my brother running “Get that man” roared Alpha Jaxon while my father got back up snarling.
Shame he hadn’t been hurt worse, I thought a little violently.
“She’s been poisoned,” Beta Callum said panicked, as I coughed up blood, my stomach beginning to cramp and my body beginning to grow cold “If I don’t get her to the hospital wing, she might not survive. What are your orders?” he asked glancing in the direction of his Alpha.
Did he care if I lived or died? That was surprising I thought a little dazedly. Had it been my father he would have let me die. He was letting me die, I corrected myself.
A loud growl. So loud and so furious it caused the windows to shake and break, glass splintering everywhere. My father shifted into his wolf form hurriedly. I could barely make out the image of his wolf in my eyes, my vision was so blurry. Alpha Jaxon sounded angry. More than angry as he yelled at his Beta in desperation.
“Get her there. She saved my life. The least we can do is save hers. That bastard. I’m going after him and I’m going to kill him, slowly” he vowed with a growl.
More sounds of shifting behind me. A loud roar. Then nothing but silence. The beta picked me up in his strong arms, carrying me like a limp rag doll, as though I weighed nothing. Alpha Jaxon had gone after my father and there was no doubt in my mind that he would catch him. I gave a smile, even though I was in so much pain. My father would get his just desserts, even if I wasn’t alive to see it.
“Alpha Jaxon’s gone after your Alpha” the Beta informed me grimly as he continued to carry me, informing me as though it might make a difference to me “and we’re going to get you some help. God knows what you are thinking, but we owe you,” he told me with his eyes fixated on me “you saved his life. Now you just have to hold on so that we can save yours” he added grimly as my head flopped down and my breathing began to slow.”Poor girl” he murmured, as I felt my body weaken and darkness beginning to surround me “so young and so brave. Alpha Jaxon will avenge your death if it comes down to it” he muttered but his words were of little comfort as I fell into unconsciousness, succumbing to the darkness and aware of nothing more that was happening around me. Whether I lived or died, it was no longer in my hands or was it?
Riley POV
There was so much pain that I knew instinctively that I was dying. I could hear the incessant beeping of multiple machines, hear the sound of scurrying footsteps and panicked voices as I lingered in a state between life and death, barely clinging on as I felt needles poking and prodding me, a voice familiar and gruff speaking with desperation in the room.
“Why isn’t she getting any better? What’s wrong with her?
It’s poison she should be healing if you’ve managed to keep her alive this damn long!” He was practically shouting by now and I could sense the distress from the nurses.
“We don’t know what poison it is. We don’t know what she ingested. There is very little we can do except keep trying everything at our disposal to keep her alive Alpha Jaxon.
We’re blind. We’re doing the best we can. Are you willing to donate blood in order to help her heal?” the nurse questioned him in a soft voice.
That would be the day. As if an Alpha would ever lower himself to heal a lower being such as myself. She might as well have asked him to hand her the moon. I wanted to snort but I didn’t have the energy. I was listless. I had stopped puking up blood, but I couldn’t even force my eyes open.
“If you think that will help her, then by all means, set me up and take it” the Alpha snarled and there was a stunned silence in the room.
Take his blood? Was he joking? An alpha would never help a pitiful omega such as myself, especially a wolfless one. I feared I had misheard him. The nurse sounded cautious when she spoke “with all due respect Alpha Jaxon, that is…” she trailed off.
“Just do it” he roared and the windows in the room shook so violently it was a miracle they didn’t shatter.
Another sharp sting in my arm. The feeling of another needle being pushed into my delicate flesh. I heard the Alphas footsteps as he moved to the corner of the room, heard him sit down, and heard the nurse give him instructions in a low voice. I could not move. I lay there listless. My body began to feel different as I lay there, taking in his Alpha blood. Stronger. It was like the poison was being thrust out of my body with a great degree of force, or being consumed by the Alpha’s blood. I began to feel revigorated
“Her vitals appear to be growing stronger” the nurse spoke, sounding a little surprised, “your blood must be helping to rid the body of the poison she ingested. There’s hope yet that she might live.”
Live. I could live. What good would it be though if I was to be killed upon opening my eyes? I didn’t know what had happened to my father, or my brother. I only knew that the
Beta had rushed me to the hospital in his arms. When Alpha Jaxon spoke, it was in a controlled voice that was reverberating with rage “the bastard that used the poison is rotting in the dungeon as we speak as is the son.”
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