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Chapter 68
Her voice sounded weak, like the was barely hanging on, like if left her she was just going to close her eyes and never open it again. Feat gripped as I perished the thought of leaving her to get help from the infirmary.
| slammed the door shut, the wood crashing against the frame be a scream that echoed through the silent corridors. I was furious, my anger burning through me like fire that threatened consume the whole. I didn’t understand why I was so marl that she was ill. Why did it get under my skin so much? Why wasiny heart heavy with worry and my eyes burning with rage at the same time!
The feeling was weird and unfamiliar and I could not do anything about it. It just wouldn’t go away and Kira was the only thing I could think about.
1 stormed to Kira’s bedside, feeling her forehead like a mother checking on her child, my hand trembling with worry. Her skin was hot like a furnace, radating heat that seemed to scorch my fingertips. I was probably over reacting but it felt as though the heat coming from her could conveniently cook a meal, it was a miracle how her skin wasn’t melting off yet.
She was talking but I could not make out what she was saying. Her words were incoherent, like a babbling brook that made no sense, and her eyes were sunken, like two wells of despair. It looked like it was taking all the strength in her to speak and I could not stay calm. It was painful to watch her suffer so much and I couldn’t even ask how she was feeling because she would not be able to answer. Her eyes rammed shut and I felt my heart jump out of my chest.
I shook her awake, my hand on her shoulder like a vice that grasped tightly, trying to shake some sense into her, “Kira, wake up! What’s wrong with you?” 1 delnanded, my voice like a general ordering his troops into battle, firm and commanding. I knew the way I sounded was probably not how I should talk to a sick person but I couldn’t help it. How could I not y vell in a situation like this. I felt so useless, I didn’t know what to do.
She mumbled something, her words were like a puzzle I couldn’t solve, her was voice barely audible over the pounding of my heart. It was like she was speaking a different language while she stammered.This belongs to NôvelDrama.Org.
I shook her again, my hand trembling like a leaf in a hurricane. “What did you say? I couldn’t hear you.” I said, my voice softening a little bit.
“I don’t know what to do with you!” I lamented. “Why didn’t you call for help or something? Why didn’t you say anything when the guards came to get you?” I asked remembering how mad I was when I made my way to her room. I almost tore the door down. I practically did and now that I was here, I didn’t know what to do anymore.
She opened her eyes, like two doors creaking open to reveal a room full of secrets. “Too weak… couldn’t move,” she managed to say with what seemed to be all of her might, her voice like a sigh that seemed to carry the weight of the f** world. 1 could only imagine how much pain she was in right now.
I cursed under my breath. “You’re so dumb, Kira. What if you died here alone? What would I do then?” I felt a pang of like a needle was p**g at my heart, and I knew I had to act fast,
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If I could not leave her to go get help then I would just have to get her to where help was. Without putting much thought into it, I lifted her into my arms being careful not to hurt her anymore than she was already hurting. She winced and it felt like I was the one in pain, if it hurt her to be held then I could only imagine how hard it would have been to try to get up. I wash such a fool, I should not have believed her when she said she didn’t need to go to the hospital after almost drowning.
1 felt so s**d.
She felt so delicate and fragile in my arms and I felt a sudden urge to protect her, to keep her safe from harm. I reassured her, my voice like I was practicing to sing a lullaby. “Don’t worry, Kira. I’ve got you. You’ll be okay.” I said and I meant every single word of it. I wasn’t going to let anything bad happen to her, not on my watch. I couldn’t.
I carried her out of the room bridal style, walking really carefully so no part of her body was going hit the walls of the narrow passageway. Her feet and her hands were dangling as I tried to hurry us up to the infirmary.
We half way through the railways when Brax appeared out of nowhere, his eyes wide like two moons that shone bright in
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the night sky. “Acton, what are you doing?” he asked, his voice sounded suspicious that I almost dropped Kira our of guile T Teh like a kid that was caught oraling sudy. I managed to regain my composure, extra careful not to let anything happen to
“Why aren’t you saying anything! Lasked a question. I said what jure you doing with her? his voice sounded harsh, almost accusing I understood that he cared about her but wasn’t he making it a little too obvious? It sort annoyed me too.
1 felt caught, like a thief in the night, and I knew I had to think ft hard to give him a good excuse for carrying the same woman I tried to get rid of countless number of times in my hand like I was taking her on a honeymoon but I stood my ground. I didn’t owe him any explanations. She was my maid and I could do whatever I wanted with her, it was none of his d***n business. “Tin taking Kira to the infirmary. She needs treatment,” I said, my voice firm like a rock.
Bras raised an eyebrow, his face a mask of confusion that didn’t quite hide his surprise. “You care about her well-being? But you told me to ignore her. You said she was nothing but a **e so what are you doing going out of your way to take her to the infirmary
I cleared my throat, Brax was really getting on my nerves with his question. I didn’t have the time for a chit chat with him. “I
can do what I want, Bras. And I need her. She’s a valuable sl**e. I can’t afford to lose her.”
Brax snorted, his laughter like a burst of fireworks. “Valuable sl**e? You mean like a prized horse or a precious gem?”
I glared at Inm, my eyes cutting through his sarcasm. “Shut up, Brax. You don’t understand.”
Brax offered to carry Kira, his arms outstretched like a crane that offered to take the weight off my shoulders. But I refused, my grip on her like a vice that wouldn’t let go. “I’ve got this, Brax Don’t worry about it.”
As I walked past him, I felt Brax’s gaze on me, his eyes like two burning coals that seemed to see right through me. I knew he was wondering what was going on, why I was suddenly so concerned about Kira’s well-being. But I didn’t owe him an explanation. I was the Alpha, after all. I could do what I wanted. He didn’t call the shots, I did.
I hurried my steps even more when I saw how much she was groaning.
When we finally got to the infirmary, the doctors fussed over Kira like bees around a hive, their hands moving with a precision that seemed almost surgical. I had no idea what they were doing but I just needed them to hurry the f**k up
with it and tell me what was wrong with her apart from her body temperature almost burning my clothes.
They took her temperature, their hands like gentle like I instructed them to be. They gave her medicine, their needles like! tiny pinpricks that seemed to pierce her skin with a precision that was almost painful. I watched them, my mind wandering like a lost traveller who didn’t quite know where he was going.
Why was I doing this? Why was I risking my reputation, my throne, for a **e? I didn’t owe her anything. She was nothing but a piece of property, a tool to be used and discarded. But as I looked at her, I wanted to throw it all away, everything that I owned. I wanted to risk it all for her. I don’t know what I would have done if anything bad had happened to her.
“What’s going on. What’s wrong with her, she almost drowned yesterday, do you think she ingested something that she shouldn’t have?”
“I was going to say that she was probably out in the cold late but the water makes more sense. She’s just suffering from a little fever, that’s all. The pain she’s feeling is also quite normal, Ell give her something for the fever and with a little rest, she’ll be good as new.” The doctor answered and I let out a breath that I didn’t even know I was holding.