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My Alpha Laughed When She Called Me Lazy, but I Never Woke Up
My Alpha Laughed When She Called Me Lazy, but I Never Woke Up
ผู้แต่ง: Clara

Chapter 1

ผู้เขียน: Clara
My wolf was hurt in a rogue attack three years ago, and she never healed.

I have to sleep eighteen hours a day just to keep my body running.

My Alpha’s best friend, Jo Vance, says I’m lazy.

She hid alarm clocks under my pillow. She dumped ice in my bed. She crawled up to my headboard in the middle of the night wearing a ghost mask.

I woke up terrified so many times that my heart would shake in my chest, and each time I came back a little worse.

Dominic Hale, Alpha of the Silver Ridge Pack and my fated mate, laughed and ruffled her hair.

“That’s just Jo. Don’t take it personally.”

An Omega with a broken wolf doesn’t get to argue with the Alpha’s best friend.

The night before my Mating Ceremony, my doctor gave me a warning. If I got forced awake one more time, my heart could stop.

I sent the diagnosis to Dominic.

Don’t worry. I’ll tell her to back off.

At three in the morning, something exploded next to my ear.

Jo stood over my bed with a confetti cannon in one hand and her phone in the other, livestreaming.

“Every pack in the territory, say good morning to the Lazy Luna!”

I grabbed my chest and rolled off the bed. I got hold of Dominic’s pant leg and hung on with everything I had.

He bent down and pried my fingers off, one at a time.

“It’s a joke, Aurora. Don’t make it a thing.”

The comments filled up with laughing faces.

I slowly stopped moving.

Jo nudged me with her foot. “Asleep again?”

Dominic turned off the light on his way out. “Let her sleep. She’d better not be late in the morning.”

He didn’t know.

I was never waking up again.

* * *

At eight o’clock, Dominic came back.

I was still on the floor beside the bed.

My cheek was on the cold boards. My right hand was pressed over my heart. My left hand was closed around a strand of black thread from the hem of his pants.

He opened the door, saw me, and stopped for half a second.

“Why are you on the floor?”

Jo came in behind him carrying two coffees. She glanced down and snorted.

“Still acting?”

She handed him a cup. “You have to respect it. She’s been going since three a.m. Somebody get this girl an Oscar.”

Dominic frowned. “Knock it off.”

God help me, I got my hopes up.

He bent down and lifted my body off the floor, and all I heard in his voice was how tired he was.

“Aurora, enough.”

My head dropped back over his arm.

He caught the back of my neck, fast.

That attack wrecked my neck too. Other wolves heal in days. Mine never set right. Every time he picked me up, I’d wrap my arms around him and remind him.

“Support it. You break me, you’re stuck taking care of me for life.”

He’d lean down and kiss me.

“I’d love nothing more.”

Now I lay quiet in his arms and reminded him of nothing.

He sighed. “Is this really necessary?”

A wolf can hear a heartbeat through a wall. All he had to do was stop talking and listen.

But he just laid me on the bed and pulled the blanket up. His hand brushed my face and stayed there.

“Why are you so cold?”

“The AC’s set to sixty. What do you expect?” Jo kicked the ice bucket in the corner. “And she spent all night with no blanket. Of course she’s a popsicle.”

Dominic looked at the nightstand.

My pills were there, the ones I took every day. So was the sleep monitor my doctor had ordered for me.

The screen was black.

“Why’s the monitor off?”

Jo’s eyes flicked away. “The second the cannon went off it started screaming. It was giving me a headache, so I pulled the plug.” She shrugged. “She’s sleeping, Dominic. This isn’t the ICU.”

That monitor was paired to my wristband. If my heart rate went wrong, it sounded an alarm.

Last night, when I went down, it screamed for four straight minutes.

Jo was the one who shut it up.

Dominic’s jaw tightened. “The doctor said never to unplug that.”

“Okay, okay. My bad.” She put both hands up, and there wasn’t a trace of sorry on her face. “Your Sleeping Beauty’s very delicate. A grunt like me shouldn’t touch her things.”

She walked out.

He took two steps after her before he caught himself.

“Jo, that’s not what I meant.”

Then he must have remembered what day it was, because he came back to the bed.

He pulled the blackout curtains tight and picked up my sleep mask, the way he had a thousand times.

“You’re the one who says a little light ruins your sleep.”

He slid it over my eyes.

“Two more hours. I’ll come get you at ten.”

Six months ago, I landed in the hospital for the first time because of being startled awake. He sat by my bed for two days and two nights.

The doctor told him my sleep was my wolf keeping me alive. Anyone else who lost a few hours would be tired. I could die.

The day they discharged me, his eyes were red.

“Anyone who wakes you up again answers to me. I’ll kill them.”

I laughed at him for being dramatic.

The wolf who ended up killing me was out in the hall, drinking her coffee.

He took the ring box off the dresser and stopped at the door.

“Aurora. Last night, okay, Jo went too far.” He rubbed his eyes. “After the ceremony I’ll make her apologize.”

The door closed.

The room went dark.

Then the monitor on the nightstand lit up on its backup battery. Red letters crawled across the screen.

Wearer’s vitals abnormal. Please confirm immediately.

Jo came back.

She stared at those words, and for two seconds her face didn’t move.

She pulled the wristband off my arm and tossed it in the drawer.

“Piece of junk. Who are you trying to scare?”

Before the drawer slid shut, I saw the last line on its little screen.

Heart rate stopped: 03:07.
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