Elora’s POV
“Poison.” The healers’ verdict hit me square in the chest, no warning.
My world spun a little. I swear, the floor tried to pull me under. There lay Dominic...Alpha, husband, my north star, white as the damn sheets. Breathing like it hurt, making these awful sounds that carved up my insides. The man was always larger than everything, all bite and energy, and to see him knocked flat like this… it was like watching the sun just blink out.
“No,” I whispered, knuckling bone-white on the mattress, as if sheer will might summon him back. Or at least keep the bed from flying apart. “No way, you’re wrong. He’s not...he isn’t...”
Healers just ducked their heads and bailed, leaving a handful of potions like that was gonna help. The cowards didn’t even glance at me on the way out.
I d
