The howl of my heart

Chapter 26

Joseph arrived back at his pack to see chaos all around him. As he stepped out of his car, he could hear the panicked voices of his pack members. He quickly made his way to the hospital where he was informed that 12 of his highest-ranking people were sick.

 When he arrived at the hospital, he saw his people were writhing in pain, their bodies covered in white blisters. He had never seen anything like it before.

"What's happening here?" he asked the head doctor.

"I'm not sure," the doctor replied, shaking his head. "This disease is unlike anything I've ever seen or heard of before. We're doing everything we can to keep them sedated, but the sickness seems to be progressing faster than we can treat it."

Joseph was shocked to hear the news, but he knew that he had to stay strong and keep his pack together during this crisis.

As he walked through the hospital, he saw that his beta, the second in command, was the most sick. He was covered with white blisters and struggling to comprehend anything. Joseph was heartbroken to see his friend in this state. The other sick pack members were in similar conditions, constantly turning into their wolf and back into human form.

Joseph felt a knot forming in his stomach. He knew he had to find a way to stop this disease from spreading. He called a meeting with his top advisors, including the pack's healer, the cook, and his second-in-command's wife Sally that was the only one of the pack leaders that didn't get sick.

"We need to find a way to stop this sickness from spreading," Joseph said, his voice full of urgency. "We need to keep the infected isolated and figure out what's causing this disease."

The cook shook his head. "I've never seen anything like this before," he said. "It's like nothing I've ever encountered in my years of cooking. I don't know what to do."

Joseph turned to his second-in-command's wife "Can you tell us how did it start?"

"Um... We were all in the conference room when it started... We were just having meeting as always discussing the border control. We didn't really managed to get that far in the meeting... John, the gamma was the first one it happened to, then was his wife, then my husband..." She started crying "I am sorry Alpha, I am just so worried. After Ben... I don't really know I run to him and was trying to help then I called the pack doctor and by the time I looked around the table all of them were infected..."

"Except you?"

"Yes..." she responded and then was blowing her nose loudly

"What did you do different?"

"Nothing... I... I... I don't know..." she stuttered in response

"Ok, has there been anything unusual during the meeting? Did anyone called or visited? Any letters? Threats?"

"No, Alpha"

"Anything suspicious on the borders?"

"No... Nothing like that"

"Ok, so what did you do before the meeting?"

"I was late... I just found out I am pregnant this morning..."She started sobbing again, but calmed herself down to continue. " When I arrived they were already there having some coffee and biscuits, I got so upset that they eaten pretty much all the biscuits, leaving just the ones with custard, which I really don't like.."

"Oh, ok... Don't worry Sally, we will sort this out." Joseph said calmly while putting an arm on her shoulder to calm her down a bit. "Why don't you go and lay down a bit. All this stress is no good for your pup... And congratulations on your pup, I am sure Ben is going to be thrilled when he finds out." Susan nodded in agreement and left to her room.