The Lunas Second Chance Mate – Chapter 123

Alyson

I try to fight Olivera from going into the office, but he easily grabs my wrist, twists it, and nudges me out the doorway. He’s too smart and too strong for me right now, my head blotted with the sleepiness that I can’t seem to shake. I grab at his arm, at his shirt sleeve, and dig my heals against the ground. He drags me a few paces before finally stopping.

“You’re a persistent little bug,” he snaps, releasing my hands off of his shirt and giving me a stern look. “We have to find out what this cure does to an Alpha and as it stands, I’m the one best capable here of verbalizing the aftermath of taking this cure. If it makes things worse, so be it.”

es worse contain?”

the desk nearby, and then back to meet my eyes. “I could die, of course, or I could only loose my wolf. I’m happy to put both on the line to see if this stuff is worthy of fixing Ryan, fixing all the rogues locked up, and freeing them all of the cage this infection

die? Olivera, no. You can’t take this risk. It’s too dangerous, please, don’t.”

grin, snooty and snarky as ever

. I am scared for you.”

s that, sweetheart?”

y own passing. “It’s not fun. It’s terrifying and disorienting and—and you’d be gone. Away from this world.”

me break into a weep.

just work enough to heal Ryan after all, and I will be fine.”

don’t allow this to happen.”

opposite sleeve up, exposing his arm as he nods the healer over.

e outward. “If that means running this test on a willing wolf, then I have to take that opportu

m to scream, to push Oliver

esting my palms onto his knees. He stares at me blankly, shaking his head like he is trying to shake a headache.

you okay? How do you f

it.”

e a little stirred up in his mind but other than the sheen of sweat over his forehead, he seems fairly normal.

” I beg.

r. They swap back and forth a few times, dizzyingly changing how Olivera relaxes and tenses between transitions.

fingers threaten to snap my wrist into a million boney splinters. The healer dislodges my hand from the rogue Alpha and we both back up, watching him struggle between shifting and not shifting. Olivera is trying hard to stay in this form but just in case he can’t manage to do so successfully,

suppose to happen?” I pan

ripping into the fabric of the chair where

what will happen. I think this is the change in the blood compounds right now. He could possibly be taking the mo

I gasp.

it, hitting the floor on his hands and knees and screaming into the tile floor.

helplessly as Olivera gives his life and his wolf up for the mere change that this cure will save my mate, save the rogues, and yet I only believed half of his reasoning.

ant mate. He hadn’t known she was pregnant long, but since then, I can’t deny that he has probably considered this moment a lot, just under different circumstances. He is content with dying in order to prove the cure works.

ion at all.

will be heartbre