All Chapters of Alpha, it's Time for Divorce: Chapter 41 - Chapter 46

I was confined to the room. There were no iron bars but every time I took a step out the door, I was met with unfamiliar people who stared at me until I retreated. I hadn’t seen Kian since he carried me back into the room, leaving me with my thoughts.“Shouldn’t you be sleeping?” Think of the devil and he waltzes in.He’d changed the bandage around his chest. It left me tempted to ask why he had a bandage and why it stayed on for so long but I wasn’t sure I cared much about his well-being at this point.“Are you worried about this?” He asked, pointing at his chest.“I’m not.”“Their weapons were poisoned. They have formulated a new poison and we are yet to find the antidote.”“How deadly is it?” I asked.“As you can see, I’m bleeding out. I’m not sure I have long to live.”My chest pricked as my wolf let out a gasp of horror. I stared at him with my mouth hanging slightly open but then he laughed and I realized I’d been played.“I’m not going to die, Natalie.” He climbed into bed and

KIAN’S POVIf she had tried once, then she would try a second time. My Natalie did not understand what it meant to give up. In that sense, we were pretty similar. But I would never let her out of my sight again. Not as long as I was still alive.I missed her.It was a terrible, chilly feeling of something missing, something so close yet so far away. While she was gone, I found myself randomly stretching out my arms as if to grasp her but she was out of reach. There were nights when I smelt her scent on my sheets but when I opened my eyes, she was not there. It had only been a short while since we started sharing a bed, but I had gotten used to having her in my arms. She had terrible sleeping habits, so no matter how much she tried to keep her distance in bed, she always gravitated towards me, like a cold pup seeking comfort.All these compounded into one thought - I’d underestimated how much my little mate had burrowed into my life. I’d underestimated how much her presence meant to me.

I didn’t know when I fell asleep but I woke up in a pool of sweat, my heart racing like a deer chased by a hunter and with a bitter taste in my mouth. My eyes moved to Kian beside me as I sat up in bed and my heart – already doing over a hundred beats per minute – dropped to my stomach.He was pale – too pale – almost as white as paper, his breath harsh. At first, I thought I was imagining things – the sight of him stretched out in bed beside me, stiff and shrunken, was too surreal to be real. Yet, it was.My insides froze for a second and I became immobile but as he stretched out even more, looking too much like a corpse, I had no choice but to move, sleep vanishing from my eyes in a second as my heart quivered. “Kian.” I flinched when I touched his forehead. His forehead burned hotter than an open flame, seeming to scorch my hand. “Oh, goddess. Kian, wake up.” My voice cracked as I said his name, repeatedly shaking his shoulders but he barely moved. “Kian!” I shook him harder, my b