Lycan

KACELA

I woke up to the beeps of the monitor keeping track of my heartrate again. This time I wasn’t in so much pain. I looked over to see a man fiddling with one of the machines. It had two large circles on the front that were turning, and it looked like my blood was going into it. I knew that it was cleaning the wolfsbane out of my blood and I began to panic.

“Please, turn that machine off,” I begged, pulling at my wrist restraints. For some reason, being tied to the bed made the whole thing almost unbearable.

“I’m sorry, miss, but I can’t. You need this. The wolfsbane almost killed you.”

I turned my head away and the tears came unbidden to my eyes. I hated that I was feeling so weak.

“Do you want to sit up a little?” Wyatt asked me, moving from behind the bed so that I could see him. He looked terrible, like he hadn’t slept for a long time.

I just shook my head and turned away. I didn’t want to have to ask for anything. I didn’t want to owe the wolf I was destined to k