Chapter 21
“Get to it.” I gritted out.
“You can’t react.” Leon stated firmly.
“I can’t do anything if you don’t tell me what’s going on.”
“Grace is struggling right now. Sawyer thinks it has to do with the aftermath of her
marking.”
“I’m curious if this marking was new or if she’s had symptoms before like this.” Sawyer adds uneasily.
I stood up without thinking and walked to our room mindlessly before Sawyer put his hand on my shoulder pulling me back just before I entered her room.
“I need to go to her,” I told him simply. “She needs me.”
“You need to just let her come out of this on her own.” Sawyer told me. “You can’t help
her through this.”
I took a deep breath and opened the door anyway, and I wished I hadn’t gone in at all. She was lying on the bed in the fetal position, writhing in pain. I could see her flushed
face from here.
“Grace.” I breathed. “I have to help her.”
“It will pass.” Sawyer said gently. “We just have to let it pass.”
“We can’t just sit here!” I all but shouted. “I have to go to her!”
“No.” Sawyer said firmly. “If you go to her, it will make it worse. She can handle this. You
have to let her.”
For 4 days I sat in that chair next to her bed. For 4 days, I made sure she was never alone, so when I had to shower or eat, my beta and gamma sat with her. For 4 days her fever and
pain raged on, and there was little I could do. I wanted nothing more than to wrap her up in my arms and hold her, but it would make it worse, so that’s what I kept telling myself. My pack could sense that I was restless, and it made the whole pack restless, and there
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was nothing I could do to ease it for myself or them. I told myself that I would be this worried over any pack member in this condition, but my wolf reminded me that was a lie.
It wasn’t until late on the fourth night that her fever broke. She was still writhing in pain, but I thought we were through the worst. However, the next time I awoke, I was startled by her raspy, short breaths.
I touched her, thinking maybe she was having a nightmare, and I could wake her up… But I was startled by how cold she was, and how pale her face was. Her eyes were closed, but the pain was still very evident.
“Screw it.” I said to myself and began taking off my shirt and sweatpants. It didn’t matter if it would make it worse now, I wasn’t going to lose her when I could do something to try and help.
I carefully climbed into bed next to her and pulled her close to me before I wrapped us both up in the blankets. Her body felt cool against mine, but I was hoping my own body heat would warm her up quickly.
I texted Sawyer, knowing that he was sleeping and had been up for days trying to help. But the truth was, there was little we could do for her. I didn’t want to make the effects worse, but I also didn’t know what else to do. I just stroked her hair and waited.
It took a while, but finally, her heart rate came down, and her breathing evened out. And for the first time in days, I let myself relax. Grace was going to be fine.
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