Alpha Damon (Sienna) novel Chapter 221

Sienna:

I had my arm wrapped around myself as I walked inside, trying to ignore the pain and trying to shake the frightening sight that I saw in front of me.

Even the idea of seeing a man’s body like that was one that I did not expect. He is and was an enemy, but he lost his life saving them, my sister and the woman that I believed to be against me.

I didn’t know why he did it. I did not know what made him change his heart, but I knew this considering that he did… he was not to be deemed an enemy. He wants to become a friend, a man who loses his life, changing his side, changing what he believed in, seeing light in the last moment is a friend, not enemy.

But I wasn’t going to break. Not now. Not when everyone needed me.

“Luna…” One of the nurses said calling me. I turned to face her and shook my head in question.

“She has been refusing to eat. She curls up as afraid and is only surviving on the IV. I do not know how long she’s going to be able to keep up. She is still weak and dehydrated.” She said, and I closed my eyes, pinching the bridge of my nose. Had anyone else told me that I would be defending her, that I would be standing by her side, that I would be worried about her, I would have said that they were wrong. I would have claimed that she did not deserve that from me. But here I was.

Because I knew that no one deserved this. “I’ll come and speak to her.”

I closed my eyes and took a deep breath before walking towards the Infirmary where she was.

I stepped into the dimly lit room where Lysandra had been kept since Delilah brought her back. She hadn’t spoken since then. At least not to me. At least not when I was around. “She barely moved. She didn’t flinch or fight anymore. She just sat, wrapped in a blanket, staring at nothing. She refuses anyone speaking to her and does not want to say a word when asked if she needs anything. She does not even ask to go to the bathroom. Sometimes she makes a mess under her. She is completely unaware.”

I nodded at the nurse before taking a step forward. “You may leave the two of us alone.”

“But Luna, what if she becomes aggressive? We do not know anything about her state and she is not in the right of her mind.” The nurse asked, and I shook my head.

“I’m going to be able to handle it.” I said, watching us. She and her colleague took a step back.

They left the two of us alone. I kept my eyes on her, watching as she stared into space. Watching as she looked completely void and empty.

She was alive. And that meant something.

I approached slowly, not wanting to startle her. I stopped just beside the edge of the small couch she was curled on.

“Lysandra?” I said softly, crouching to meet her eyes. “Can I sit? Do you mind me approaching you?”

She didn’t answer. But she didn’t say no either. So, I did.

For a moment, I didn’t speak. I just sat there beside her, letting the silence stretch.

I froze, my hand tightening around hers.

“But no one came, I cried for help for days I cried for help.” she said, her voice barely a thread. “I begged him. I begged him not to shut the door. I begged him not to leave me alone in that room. I begged him to give me something to eat. I told him I was cold. He did not listen.”

Tears welled in her eyes, and this time, she didn’t hide them.

“He said I wasn’t worth saving, I wasn’t worth being a person that was around him. I did not deserve to eat the same food.” she choked, her whole body trembling. “He said I wasn’t strong enough. That he could make another daughter. That he could make someone else to take my place. That others aren’t going to be worth the fight when I was not.”

I held her tighter, letting her sobs break through the dam that had held her for so long. I didn’t speak. I just pulled her into my arms and let her cry.

“You are worth saving,” I said against her hair. “You always were. And no one, not a single person is going to take care of place. He can make a hundred other daughters, but no one is going to be you.”

And for the first time, Lysandra cried in my arms. I held her tightly. Not knowing why I did, but knowing that I would be more than willing to keep doing it.

“I know that it’s been painful and hard, but I promise you we are going to get back at him. And he’s going to be alone. He is going to take his last breath being alone, I promise you that…”