The Lunas Second Chance Mate – Chapter 26
Alyson’s POV
I was laying warm in my bed, still feeling a touch of nausea. It had been days already- after a lot of objections, I’d finally allowed Ryan to call me a pack doctor to take a look at me. I’d had an allergic reaction to the wolfs bane. He’d given me an elixir to help flush it from my blood. It would make the symptoms more intense for about a day, but then I’d be better.
I had intense stomach pain, nausea, dizziness and fever. Ryan sat with me, putting a damp cloth over my sweaty forehead. I was comforted by his presence but too sick to say much to him.
there too. He would come in to the room sometimes.
e?” Dylan
an said back.
d sit with her for a while.”
ave noth
’m here, so you could let me help you.” Dylan remained in th
or not.”
e’d leaned over me- his intense bright eyes burrowing into mine.
?” He s
eep.”
roat, and Dylan backed
ank you, Ryan.” I said, thinking of his rescue.
e.”
oice indicated something really bothered him.
e me. I sat up, and my head felt practically normal. The muscles in my body responded to my wishes
ing there, and he rushed to help me. “Are you sure you’re ok? Maybe lay down a little more.”
.”
too much might hurt me. My body swarmed
wake?”
nd plot.
one of these days.”
’t be rude,” I said, pulling away from Ryan. “Didn’t he help you find me?” I had gathered that much from hearing their conversations.
ess.”
never seen anything like it. It was not as if I hadn’t seen him shift many times, but there had been something different. I hadn’t known he was capable of a mas
that?”
ke what?”
ed, a little amazed maybe.”
o tell him about my past.
ere?” Ryan said. Suddenly his eyes shifted, t
had been the first time we’d slept side by side. “You think if I like him, I would have done that?” Ryan could be so obtuse sometimes, as if all those days of mating and intimacy would not have meant more to me than a silly invitation for Dylan to visit?
e.
if you have that authority.”
l to be abused and destroyed.
s was? I realized in that moment something else that I could never admit to him, I wanted to be free and have control over my life. With his power, he could never understand how terrible it was to live such a powerless life.
through me to Ryan who wanted me to be his mate like that.
’t feel it after everything?” He sounded in pa
d the hurt in his eyes and voice, I would not give myself over to it.
room, “Dylan? Could you come in here, please?”
expression matching his swift gait. Dylan entered the room, and Ryan sulked off on the other side of the room. I shut the door behind him, even while Michael
you here?” I said.
irritated ag
e to show you how to find an herb that is incredibly valuable to Crowalt Pack.”
hat’s that?”
down in the south primarily and they pay any price for good quality.
of it before.
lity of gaining control of this supply and trade.”
trade relations. It likely grows on your territory, hopefully in abundance. We will have to find it.”
”
hat?” I said, my heart was beating in my chest. He was afraid, and I knew it was not for himself.
ho kidnapped you. They have found me.” With terrible distraught, he stormed out of the room.