All Chapters of His Rejected Luna is The Lycan’s Queen: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

I watched Aiden from the couch and I could barely keep focus. My eyes kept threatening to close and every time they did, Nathan's hand tightened against my neck and his voice cut through the fog — stay with me, stay awake — and I'd drag myself back.Somehow, I was confused about why the people I had called the bad guys were trying so hard to save my life. Nathan was still pressing the makeshift bandage against my neck and holding it firmly in place, stopping the bleeding and making sure I didn't lose consciousness. That was the dangerous part — falling asleep now could kill me faster than the venom.The blood wasn't stopping. I could feel it, warm and continuous, soaking through the bandage.It was running down my collarbone, soaking into my clothes, and I couldn't tell anymore if I was cold because of blood loss or because the venom was still spreading or both.It was probably both.But I could still see what was happening across the room.I could still see Aiden holding Joshua in p

"I said I might know of a cure." His voice came back sharp. "Not that I have one. Those aren't the same thing.""That's not—" I started to sit up again and the world tilted so violently I nearly went off the couch entirely. Nathan's hands caught me and pressed me back down."Easy," he said. "Easy girl, you're making it spread faster.""Spread faster." A laugh came out of me that sounded wrong — thin and unhinged and not like me at all. "Fantastic. So I just lie here and let it kill me?""You lie there, shut up and let me think," Aiden snapped and stood up.God, I wanted to blast him. My mouth has never wanted to insult someone as badly as I felt right now, but I knew it was best to let him work a solution out. I didn't even have the strength to do so anyway. I was holding onto my life by a thin thread.I stared at the ceiling I couldn't fully see. My chest was heaving. Every breath hurt now, a deep pulling ache that hadn't been there an hour ago.The room went quiet except for my brea

Nathan had left to get whatever Aiden had requested.It was just me and Aiden now, and I was resting against his chest because sitting up on my own had stopped being an option somewhere in the last twenty minutes. Death was lurking around me.Sweat covered every part of me — my neck, my back, the inside of my palms — and the burning hadn't let up for a single second. If anything it had gotten quieter, and somehow that was worse than when it was screaming through me. Quiet meant it was settling in. Quiet meant it was winning.My fingers had stopped responding properly. I noticed it the way you notice something small and strange — oh, my fingers aren't working anymore — like my body was already making decisions without consulting me. Already checking out before I was ready to leave it.Yet I didn't want to die, I was fighting to stay alive at all cost.I had faced pain before back at the pack. Training had been brutal in ways most wolves never experienced, because I had always known th

Just when I thought it was over for me and the life inside my body had been taken away from me, I suddenly woke up with a deep inhale and my heart started beating again. The first thing I saw was Aiden's face fixed on mine, worry and concern filling every part of it. Then the sounds started coming in. I could hear voices — Aiden, Nathan and one other person, who had to be Marcus, who Aiden had requested earlier. My eyes followed the sounds and opened fully, my vision blurry at first, then slowly sharpening.That's when I saw everyone present.It seemed I was really fighting for my life here. I didn't want to die like this. Thankfully, I had come back."What happened?" I asked."You died," Aiden replied. "But I brought you back. I fed you vampire blood to heal your body temporarily." He paused. "But it won't help much because the venom is still fighting inside your system."Then I felt it. The sensation came back like it had never left — the burning in my veins, worse than before, like

Aiden's eyes narrowed. He and Nathan exchanged a look over my body that communicated something I couldn't read."You feel it, don't you?" Aiden asked, looking back down at me.I nodded, not trusting my voice because I was using everything I had left to hold back the scream building in my chest.I failed at that too."Argh—" The sound tore out of me before I could stop it, raw and broken, because the burning where silver met skin was spreading now and I couldn't contain it anymore. "*I don't feel good Aiden…I don't feel—*"And then I just screamed, unable to hold out anymore."Easy there," Marcus said, his hands pressing more firmly, keeping me flat against the table. His voice didn't waver. "I've got your left. You're not going anywhere.""She's reacting faster than I expected," Nathan said to Aiden, his voice tight."Good," Aiden said. "That means this might actually work."How — how — was that good? I screamed again, louder this time, and Marcus leaned his weight into keeping me sti