Chapter 67: Desperate Measures
(Alexander's POV)
Grace lay in the sterile hospital bed, her frail form almost swallowed by the stark whiteness of the sheets. Her once-vibrant beauty was now a shadow of itself, her skin stretched painfully tight over her bones.
The silver poisoning wracked her body, faint metallic streaks snaking under her translucent skin. Every so often, a low groan of pain escaped her lips, sending another dagger of helplessness through my chest.
I sat hunched in a chair beside her, unable to look away. My hand twitched, clenching and unclenching as if there might somehow be something I could do to fix this. But there wasn’t.
I was left with nothing but the sight of my mate burning alive in her own skin, tormented from the inside out. And no matter how hard I tr
