Greymoor Academy: I Accidentally Bonded With Four Lycan Royals! novel Chapter 283

Chapter 283: 283. Trial I

Maisie

The days blurred together in a painful haze of pain and cold.

So cold.

My teeth knocked together hard enough to hurt. I curled tighter beneath the blankets, but it did nothing. The cold had gotten into my bones.

"Maisie." A hand pressed against my forehead and I flinched away. Quinlan’s voice was tight with worry. "Goddess, she’s burning."

Burning? No. I was certainly freezing to death. My eyes must have slipped shut, because they opened again to the weight of blankets dropping on me. I moaned, shivering as my knees pulled toward my chest, but pain speared through me so sharply I cried out.

Hands wrapped around me immediately. "Easy, Adams," Soren murmured.

"Hurts," I moaned.

"I know," he replied softly, his voice fading as I drifted once again.

Something wet touched my forehead, and my eyes fluttered open to a darkened room. I hissed as a cold rag rubbed over my skin. "No. Cold."

"I know. Just for a second." Quinlan’s deep voice was a low rumble.

"Piss off," I croaked.

He didn’t piss off. The cold cloth returned. I whimpered and turned my face away from it, blindly searching for warmth until my cheek hit skin.

A chest. Bare. Hot. I moaned, pressing closer without thinking. Arms that smelled a little like ink closed around me securely. Jericho. He’d probably been working again.

"There you go," he murmured.

My fingers curled weakly against him. The heartbeat beneath my ear was steady and strong, and I listened, letting it anchor me as my entire body shook.

"Stay," I said.

"I’m staying," Jericho promised, his fingers gently scratching my scalp.

"Don’t m-move."

"I won’t."

The room drifted. Or maybe it was me.

There was a clink and cold metal touched my lips. A spoon. Something smelled good, but my stomach roiled with nausea. I turned my face away, burying it deeper into Jericho’s chest.

"You have to eat something," Soren said from my other side.

"Don’t wanna," I slurred.

"You haven’t had a bite in two days." I didn’t respond. I was so sleepy. Soren sighed dramatically. "I suppose Quinn and I will just have to eat all of the chocolate cakes Corazon made you alone."

My eyes opened instantly. The sunlight stabbed straight through my skull, and I winced. "Chocolate...?"

A spoonful of soup was expertly shoved into my mouth, and Soren’s violet eyes crinkled with mirth. "Works every time," he laughed.

His lips twitched, and he nodded. "I am beautiful, aren’t I?"

"For what, cherie?" Quinlan’s voice was so soft I nearly missed it.

My clothes were wet. Sweat and puke stuck them to my skin. I was weak and exhausted, and my eyes wouldn’t stop leaking. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

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