Sacrificed To The Triplet Alpha Kings novel Chapter 202

Chapter 202: Lilith Fainted

He was halfway down the hall when he heard Agnes screaming.

He had known Agnes for twenty six years, and in those years she had never made that sound.

He was running before he even decided to run. Down the rest of the stairs. Through the east corridor. Past two servants who pressed themselves flat against the wall as he went by. The door to Lilith’s suite was open and he went straight through it.

Agnes was on the floor.

The morning tea tray was overturned beside her. The cup broken in two pieces. Hot tea spreading slowly across the stone. Agnes was on her knees and next to her was Lilith, face down on the floor between the bed and the nightstand. One arm stretched out toward the water glass she never reached. Completely still.

He crossed the room and dropped down beside her.

Two fingers to her throat. Her pulse was there. Fast and too shallow but there.

He pressed his palm flat to her forehead.

The heat that came off her skin stopped him cold.

She wasn’t just warm. She was burning. Radiating heat in a way that didn’t make sense for a simple fever. It came off her in waves and he felt it move up through his palm and into his wrist.

Kael stopped pacing at that same moment.

The wolf stopped pacing for the first time since midnight. Nicholas felt the stillness inside his chest like a held breath.

Then Kael started pushing.

Not pacing anymore. Pushing.....at something Nicholas couldn’t see or name. Like there was a wall right there in front of him and something he needed was on the other side of it and he couldn’t get through. He pushed and pushed and the wall held and he pushed harder.

Nicholas didn’t have time to figure out what that meant.

He picked Lilith up off the floor.

She was completely limp in his arms. Her head fell against his shoulder. Her skin was so hot it was almost uncomfortable to hold her and he held her anyway and carried her to the bed and laid her down carefully.

"Get Dr Aldric," he said to Agnes. "Right now. And find my brothers."

Agnes was already on her feet.

Sebastian came through the door two minutes later.

He came fast. Eyes going straight to Lilith on the bed and then straight to Nicholas standing over her. He looked at Nicholas’s face and something shifted in his expression.

"What happened," he said.

"Agnes found her on the floor. She’s running a fever." Nicholas didn’t move from the bed. Couldn’t make himself step back from her. "A bad one. Feel her skin."

Sebastian came to the bed and pressed his hand to Lilith’s forehead the same way Nicholas had. His jaw tightened immediately.

"How long has she been like this."

"I don’t know."

Sebastian looked at him. At the way Nicholas was standing. At the way Kael was sitting just behind Nicholas’s eyes and he could see Nicholas trying to hold him back.

He didn’t ask about that.

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