Dumped Omega? Now Their Alpha King Begs at My Feet novel Chapter 40

Valerie's POV

The moment we pulled up to the hospital, I knew it was bad.

A sick, dark energy was pulsing from the building. It wasn't something you could see. It was something you felt, a palpable wave of wrongness that made my skin crawl and the hairs on my arms stand up.

The air itself felt wrong. It was thick and tasted like poison and fear.

Inside, the usual chaos of the ER was gone. It had been replaced by something much worse. A dead, terrified silence.

The medical staff weren't running. They were frozen. They stood in small, silent groups, staring in horror toward the ICU suite.

They looked like they'd seen a ghost. Their faces were pale with a kind of fear that had nothing to do with medical emergencies. This was supernatural terror.

I pushed my way through them.

The Elder was on the bed, and his body was convulsing. Violent, uncontrollable spasms that shook the entire bed frame.

The monitors weren't silent this time. They were screaming, a symphony of chaos, a dozen different alarms blaring at once as his vital signs spiked and crashed.

But it was the sight of him that made my breath catch in my throat.

Dark, ugly veins, as black as ink, were crawling across his skin. They pulsed with a sick, black light, spreading up from his chest, across his neck, and onto his face like poisonous vines taking root in his body.

It wasn't just a symptom. It was alive. The curse had been weaponized.

Kai met me at the entrance to the ICU. He looked like a different man.

The arrogant, controlled Alpha from the other night was gone. Completely.

In his place was a man who looked utterly broken. His face was a mask of raw anguish and desperation. His eyes, when they met mine, weren't filled with power. They were filled with a desperate, pleading prayer.

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