She passed by one of the workers, who was pushing a cart of medications down the hall, delivering the doses to each room. Ayla smiled softly. When the nurse was turned away, delivering one of the next cups, she snatched a bottle from beneath the cart.
Then continued to her room.
“You’ll come for me, my love. We will be reunited soon…”
It was ten minutes later that the nurses found her.
Lucas walked into his study, tossing a piece of paper on the desk. The desk phone began to ring.
“Should I call the other Alphas as well?” Kyle asked in passing, pausing at the study door.
Lucas nodded. “I will do it later today. They all need to know the situation,” Lucas said, picking up his phone. “Hello?”
“Alpha Lucas!” a distressed voice on the other line said. “Thank goddess you picked up! We had a situation not thirty minutes ago. Ayla is currently being--”
“Ayla?” Lucas interrupted, his brow furrowing. “You are with the sanitarium?”
“Yes, Sir. Ayla was found in her room. She had attempted…well, Alpha, she attempted suicide. She’s been rushed to the hospital as well speak but they say her--”
Lucas didn’t even hang up the desk phone. He simply dropped it and ran out of his office. He shouldn’t care about Ayla anymore, he knew that. But he couldn’t help it. She was still his fated mate.
Something inside him refused to let her die based on that fact alone.
It didn’t take him long to rush out of the estate and head to the hospital. Kyle had asked where he was going, and he didn’t even say a word. Lucas simply left.
He stepped on the gas, speeding as quickly as he could. On the way, his mobile phone began to ring again. Lucas pulled it out of his pocket, half-expecting to see the sanitarium’s number again or maybe the hospital with bad news…
It wasn’t either. It was Liam. Why was Liam calling him at this hour? He ignored it, silencing the phone and tossing it onto the seat next to him. He didn’t have time for that right now.
The ER was a bustle of activity when Lucas got there. A nurse noticed him and came forward.
“Alpha Lucas, are you ok--”
“Where is she? Where is Ayla?” Lucas demanded.


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