My Professor Is My Alpha Mate (Lila) novel Chapter 62

Lila’s POV

“What’s going on?” I asked as Brody quickly pulled away from me.

I recognized the sound of Rachel’s piercing scream right away. I had never heard her sound like this before, but I knew it was her.

The sound made its way through the hospital, bouncing off the walls and sending chills down everyone’s spine. My heart fell into my stomach as I imagined what could possibly be wrong.

Then, she said words that felt like a knife to my stomach.

“Ryan!!! You can’t be dead!!!” She screamed and sobbed.

The hospital nurses and doctors were holding her back, pulling her out of the room. Brody had the curtain of my section open, and I could see them physically pulling her away. She fought them every step of the way though.

It broke my heart to see her like this.

My only hope was that she was just so distraught that she didn’t know what she was talking about. Perhaps she was still a little drunk.

My eyes found Enzo’s and they locked for a moment. My breathing got caught in my throat and I had trouble looking away. But it only lasted a moment; he was the first to pull his gaze away from mine and I nearly fell backward onto the bed when he did.

I realized he probably saw Brody in my section, and I wondered if it bothered him.

Then I remembered how cruel he was to me earlier and brushed the thought out of my mind.

“Get the IVs out of my wrist,” I told Brody who looked at me with confusion crossing his face. “I need to get to Rachel,” I tell him urgently. ‘Get these out of my wrist.”

Before he could even react or move closer to me, Enzo was entering the area, which surprised me. I stared up at him with wide eyes and I thought he was going to protest in having Brody remove the IVs, but then he moved around to my bedside and began taking them out himself.

He grabbed some bandages off the nearby counter and placed one over my wrist where the puncture wound was before it started to bleed.

He released my hand and stepped back without saying anything.

Brody looked between us curiously for a moment; I could see the questions in his eyes, but he wasn’t going to ask them with Enzo standing right there.

He was smart for that.

I didn’t say anything to either of them either; my main focus was Rachel. I could hear her screaming and crying still, though it got quieter which meant they were pulling her further away.

This time I could hear some of the crying from the others as well and my heart tugged. This meant something seriously terrible had happened and I needed to find out what it was.

I slid out of bed and went into the open room where most were clustered. I saw Becca right away and her eyes were bloodshot. She was pressed against the wall with tears streaming down her face. She covered her mouth with her hands and sobbed silently by herself.

“Becca, what’s going on?” I asked. “Where did they bring Rachel?”

“They want to sedate her…” Becca said in a hoarse whisper. “She was too frantic… she couldn’t handle the news…”

“What news?” I asked, at that point, I wasn’t even sure I wanted to know.

“Ryan might be dying…”

It felt like there was no air in the room. I felt sick to my stomach, and I stumbled away from her. I couldn’t have heard her correctly.

He was a wolf. Wolves were known to be stronger than most and that meant it took a lot to kill a wolf.

Ryan had to be okay.

“What’s going on?” Brody asked and I realized both Brody and Enzo were approaching.

I turned away, not wanting to look at Enzo right now but also not able to get the words out of my mouth so I looked back at Becca with pleading eyes.

Becca looked at both, getting the hint right away.