Chapter 77: Healing The 77

Heating The Ruthless Alpha Sihana’s POV Finished I regained consciousness slowly. It started with the sounds around me, the harsh breathing, intermittent cursing and the beeping of a machine. Then I felt a hand clutching mine in a death grip after which I felt the uncomfortable bed underneath me. It took more effort than usual to blink my eyes open and when I did, the brightness of the room almost burnt my eyeballs.

“I feel like shit.” My words were broken and raspy, my throat dry – parched, and my body heavy like I’d been pummeled within every inch of my body.

“Don’t you –“I blinked my heavy eyes at Cahir who was crushing my left palm in his. “Don’t ever do that again.” His tone was quiet yet rough, his eyes looking soulless with large bags around them.

“I – I’ll try.” I whispered with a throat that burned every time I uttered a word.

“Water – L-” I’d never seen Cahir so out of his elements before. His shoulders slumped forward, his voice was thicker and his Adam’s apple bobbed as he forced words out. “I’ll get you a glass of water. As he said that, he still held on to my hand, his gaze fixed on me, unblinking as if he feared I would crumble to dust if he let go of my hand and vanish into thin air if he blinked.

With a sigh, he let go of my hand and rushed to the water dispenser in the room. I could still feel his eyes burning into my skin as he poured me a glass of water. When he returned, he helped me sit up and then I drank. I let out an involuntary sigh after I gulped down the glass of water, my throat thanking me.

“You look haggard,” I muttered, feeling a bit refreshed.

“This – This isn’t about me, Sia.” His quiet voice made me look away. The air around him felt strange. His expression flittered between relief and an unidentifiable emotion that looked suspiciously like fear.

“You’re awake.” I turned to see Aristo entering my hospital room with a nurse.

“How are you feeling?” The lady asked as Aristo clamped a hand on his best friend’s shoulder.

“Not very good.” I mumbled in a low voice. That was an understatement.

It felt like ten people had taken axes to my head, trying to split my skull. My throat felt scratched as if I’d been screaming for hours. My entire body felt like a truckload of wood too heavy for me but the worst of the sensation was the fire spreading inside me. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the heat inside me could make me breathe fire or at least smoke.

The nurse checked my temperature and her expression wasn’t good. “Your temperature jumped,”

she said, writing in her notepad. “Since you’re awake now, we can collect the samples for your test.

I’ll get the doctor,” she concluded after a series of basic tests from my temperature to my blood pressure and heart rale.

“I’m hungry,” I muttered after the nurse left.

“Okay. Okay,” Cahir took a deep breath as if the words were difficult for him to speak. “What do you want? Aristo will get it.” I looked at the Beta who had been silent since he walked into the ward:

“Are you okay?” I asked him. He looked almost as bad as Cahir. His skin had lost its colour, his face turned. gaunt and his shirt was buttoned wrong.

Finished “I–ab–I am fine, he replied with a smile. It was the first time I saw him give such a blatantly fake smile. Just worried about you. That and your worried sick mate has left the running of the pack to me. He tried for a joke but then he winced. “It’s not funny,” he responded to his joke. “Get well soon, Sia. You’re scaring “I will,” I answered in a subdued tone, sneaking a glance at Cahir. His gaze did not stray from my face.

“So- uh – what do you want to eat?” Aristo asked. I snuck another glance at Cabir. His expression was dark and guarded with blank emotionless eyes. He sat up straight and stiff as a log “I don’t know” I turned my attention to his Beta. “I’m not “The words about to fall from my lips paused. I’d just said I was hungry but that hunger had vanished in the minutes between sneaking glances at Cahir and answering Aristo’s questions.

“Get Laura to prepare her favourite food and snacks,” Cahir came to my rescue. “Make it fast.” He dismissed his beta with a shooing hand gesture. Aristo nodded and exited the hospital ward.

“How long – How long was I out?” I asked Cahir.

“Seventeen hours and twenty–six minutes,” he blurted.

O–Oh I looked away, feeling goosebumps on my skin despite the heat roasting me from the inside.

“Were you worried? The silence in the room forced me to turn back to him. The expression in his eyes made me swallow a thick lump. “I–I sec.” It was a foolish thing to ask. ‘Were you worried?‘

Someone who had counted the hours and even the minutes I’d been unconscious must certainly have been worried.

“I’m sorry.” I lay back down, the pounding in my head becoming too much to bear. “Sorry for worrying you.” I closed my eyes and heaved a breath.

“Don’t that.” His tone was flat. Large, cool hands grabbed mine and I blinked lazy eyes open when I felt his lips kiss each of the knuckles on my left hand. “Don’t say that, Sihana.”

“I don’t know what’s wrong with me.” Despite my best effort, my tone came out wretched. “I don’t- I don’t understand.” It felt as if my body was rebelling against me as if something was eating me up from inside, something that spread like a burning fire. “Just Say something. Talk to me.” I urged my mate. The fire inside me responded to his voice.

You fainted and for a second, love, I felt I watched my world come crumbling down.” His grip on my arm tightened and he kissed my knuckles again. “I got you before you hit the ground. You were limp in my arms, unresponsive.” His flat voice got choked up. If I didn’t know better, I would say he was crying. “Sihana Asena,” he called my name with a tight voice. “If anything happens to you” He left the sentence hanging but I heard the promise in his voice.

I’ll lose my mind.

His words held that promise. A promise that had me shivering.

“You can’t leave me, belle.” He kissed my knuckles again, then I heard shuffling before I felt his lips on my burning forehead. “That fucking doctor-“The doctor appeared with the nurse as he started to curse.

“Hello, Luna. How are you feeling?” It was the same man that had come to see me at home the previous day.

“Awful,” I responded. Like the nurse had done, he checked my temperature and shook his head. He said something to the nurse but I felt myself starting to black out again.

B.

“What’s happening to her?” I heard Cahir’s voice from a distant land.

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Finished “That is yet to be determined, Alpha. We will have to fix her on drips for her to regain her energy but first, we have to collect samples for the tests.”

Something cool wiped my bicep, something pricked me but I felt myself continue to slip away until darkness took me.

‘Sihana. An unfamiliar voice called my name from the darkness. I could make out a faint outline in the darkness but before I could respond, a wolf moving with the speed of light pounced on me.

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