Chapter 5
The familiar smell of antiseptic.
I had been taken to the hospital, Alpha Logan’s voice thick with remorse as he cried by my side.
“Melissa, please open your eyes and look at me.”
“Melissa, don’t leave me alone!”
“Melissa, please…”
“Alpha, please don’t interfere with our work!” a nurse scolded, echoing my thoughts. Every word Alpha Logan said made me feel sick.
My body was covered in tubes and wires, and the doctor broke the news of my cancer
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to Alpha Logan.
“No… That’s impossible!” Logan’s voice cracked, disbelief laced with panic. “She was fine–how could it get this bad so suddenly?”
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I to laugh at the irony, but even that required energy I didn’t have. Fine? Did he think I’d been *fine* as I wasted away, night after night, in silence?
The doctor didn’t soften his tone. “With cancer at this stage, the patient likely hasn’t been eating properly and is in constant pain. Didn’t you notice anything, Alpha?”
Of course, he didn’t notice. Logan was too busy with Joanna, He spent every night in Joanna’s arms, taking care of their unborn child.
“No! She won’t die!” Logan’s denial bordered
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on hysteria. “You’re all incompetent! I’ll take her abroad for treatment–she’s not going to die!”
Alpha Logan tried to use the mate bond to awaken my will to live, but it was ineffective. My wolf Amber and I both deeply hated him.
We no longer responded to his mate bond.
He became a man possessed, trying to drag me from the hospital as though sheer willpower could reverse my condition. Doctors and nurses had to restrain him; if he’d forced me out, I wouldn’t have lasted half a day.
When I woke up, Alpha Logan was sitting at my bedside, holding my hand tightly. Overnight, he looked years older, unshaven. his eyes bloodshot. Seeing me awake, a glimmer of joy filled his exhausted gaze
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“Melissa, you’re awake.”
His tears fell on my face, and before I could say a word, he pulled me into a suffocating embrace. “Luna Melissa, I’m sorry. I was wrong. Don’t leave me.”
He held me as if he could physically tether me to this world. His voice trembled with desperation. “Promise me you won’t leave me, okay? I’ll fix everything–I swear.”
My face turned red with suppression, and it took me a while to catch my breath before I had the strength to scold him, “Get out!”
Alpha Logan’s face was streaming with tears, overwhelmed by the intensity of his pain. “Luna Melissa, didn’t you want to see the cherry blossoms? When you get better let’s go see them together, okay?”
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His eyes were filled with pleading, as if he was genuinely afraid that I might die.
I rarely saw him cry. Years ago, to save him, I had been in a rogues‘ attack, and my body had been damaged to the point that I could no longer bear children. He had held me, crying like a child, swearing he would give his life to me in this lifetime.
Perhaps it was my heart melting at his tears and trusting his deceitful words, that led me to such a miserable end.
I closed my eyes in exhaustion.
My life had been like those cherry blossoms
already fallen, and my life, too, was nearing its end.
“After I die, please hold a funeral for me,
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invite all our relatives and friends, and make it as grand as possible.”
I had prepared a gift, one I planned to give him after I was gone.
