Alpha Games

Chapter 61-Blood in the Sand

Vicky's room was cold, the kind of cold you feel deep in your bones. The ice feeling in your  veins that gives a paralytic sensation straight to your heart. I stared slack jawed at her pale complexion, she was writhing on the floor, her neck and shoulder swollen red. The skin looked as though she had a flesh eating parasite embedded in her skin.

I covered my mouth as she screamed again and her body convulsed, her eyes rolling back and her hands clenched. She looked like a woman possessed as she flailed around on the floor muffling words slipping past her blue lips. 

She looked like she was on her death bed, i couldn't help the tears streaming down my cheeks. I wanted to kill Max, i couldn't understand why he would do this to her. There was no reason, no explanation he could give to justify his actions.

Vicky had stopped moving and was lying still, if her heartbeat was any slower i would have thought she was dead. I moved towards her slowly, kneeling at her side i wiped the sweat from her brow. I could see her body was fighting, but  how long could she keep this up. 

My thoughts were interrupted when doctor Connors walked in, "Princess, Beta. I need to check her vitals and administer another sedative, her body is to weak to keep going this way." 

I looked over her and sighed "Doctor what are the odds she will survive this?"  

"Very low i am afraid princess. Her body is not responding to the antiviral medication, she will not stay conscious long enough to be able to shift. The shift may help her healing but her body may not be able to facilitate the change, it could do more harm than good. All we can do for her now is keep her comfortable." He motioned for a few nurses to lift her back onto her mattress. 

I moved slightly allowing him to check her vitals, when he pulled a needle from his white coat pocket i sucked in a deep breath. I hated needles, that was one of the main reasons i had never gotten a tattoo. He turned her neck to the side as her face was now towards my own. 

I reached and grabbed her hand, Millie came behind me and held her arm. We stood there beside her bed looking at our friends life slip away, wondering how we could help her. Her eyes flew open and she squeezed my hand causing a yelp from Millie and I.

"Just kill me" her strangled voice rasped out as she clutched my hand harder. Tears streamed down my face as i shook my head no. I couldn't make the words form to tell her how sorry i was, how i felt guilt eating my alive at her condition. 

Sadie whined a low long noise in my mind and more tears fell. " Vic, i am so sorry," she squeezed my hand and gave a small shake of her head in a no. 

'This is not your fault, you have been a wonderful friend and a great leader. Just do me one favor, kill that bastard and put us out of our misery.' her small voice carried in my head as her eyes closed and her grip went slack.

"Doctor if my brother is killed, could that save Vicky?" Millie's eyes were tear filled as she looked at him. 

I looked up at him searching his face, finding it filled with pity."No, it would release his mark on the princess but if Vicky is his true mate it could cause her death." 

I growled in annoyance and pain, i had not known of Vicky's condition when i agreed to this, but no matter what decision i made Vicky could still die. I was trying to control more tears from flowing when he moved towards me.

"Lets have a look at your mark as well" He came around the bedside and pulled my dress slightly aside. He hummed and tapped at the mark, i flinched but held in my cry. The wound was still tender, the flesh burned as tingled as he sighed but didn't say anything more as he set the fabric back into place and stepped away.