Chapter 33 Unusual Sickness

• The quiet formality of the Alpha’s study shattered the moment the unbearable pain crested. One moment, Elara was perched stiffly on Fenris’s lap; the next, agony tore through her, a violation far worse. It began deep in her marrow, not the dull ache of growing life, but a catastrophic, grinding hurt…as if every bone were simultaneously being crushed and set ablaze.
• “Ahh!” She gasped, the sound a ragged, involuntary thing. The blood drained instantly from her face, leaving her skin the colour of ash. Her carefully constructed facade of defiance crumbled into a terrifying, animalistic need for relief.
• ​“What is this?” Fenris’s voice low yet carried concern, annoyance quickly overwritten by alarm. He felt the tremors wracking her small frame, the unnatural heat radiating from her skin.