Rejected By The Beta, Claimed By His Alpha Uncle novel Chapter 33

She blinked, but the light overhead dimmed unnaturally. Her heartbeat raced unevenly. Lexa whimpered restlessly in her head.

Something was wrong.

Pain shot through her abdomen, sharp, unnatural. Jenna gasped and clutched her side, her knees buckling beneath her. The brush clattered to the marble floor.

“Jenna?” a servant whispered nearby, but she couldn’t make out the voice. The world spun.

“I…I can’t…” she tried to say, but her mouth wouldn’t form the words.

Then darkness.

She collapsed.

The sound of her body hitting the stone echoed down the hallway, drawing startled gasps and panicked footsteps.

**

Jenna heard distant voices as she struggled to open her eyes.

She didn’t remember falling.

Slowly her memory was coming back.

One second she was scrubbing the marble floor of the eastern hallway, her body trembling from fatigue, the next… the world tilted. Her vision narrowed. The mop handle slipped from her fingers. Her breath turned sharp, then ragged. Her wolf howled in her mind, distant and panicked.

She gasped, shutting her eyes open but she wasn’t on the cold floor. She was in a room she didn’t recognize. The smell of herbs and smoke is warm but not comforting. Her body lay on a soft cot, a thick woolen blanket tucked

around her.

A woman leaned over her, gray-braided and frowning, muttering incantations under her breath.

“She must be from his pack considering it’s not a doctor,” Jenna muttered to herself.

“You’re awake,” the woman said without looking at her. “Good.”,

Jenna shifted and winced. Her back ached. Her hands stung. Her mouth felt like ash.

Jenna stirred weakly, her throat dry. “Where am I?”

“You fainted,” the healer said without looking up. “They brought you here when you didn’t respond. You’re lucky the guards didn’t ignore it.”

Jenna tried to sit up. “I’m fine. I just need…”

“You’re not fine,” the woman snapped, placing a firm hand on her shoulder. “You’re not just tired. You’re breaking.”

She placed a bowl of dark liquid to the side and dipped a stone pendant into it. The pendant glowed briefly, then

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