Chapter 62 When He Gets Poisoned (II)
Calhoun's POV
My vision blurs as another wave of pain strikes through me, and I hold onto the table for support, to keep from falling.
"That...that wine," I am referring to the half bottle of wine settled in front of me.
What the heck did they put in it? Why do I feel funny and in pain at the same time? Something doesn't even feel right at all, with the way my throat is getting itchy and how tears are starting to brim in my eyes.
Alpha Ezra still appears calm like nothing is happening in front of him. Even his men had the same expression on their faces.
"Does anyone feel the way that I do?" I manage to ask, but there's no response from them. Alpha Ezra has his hand on his chin as he smirks at my predicament.
Is this real or am I starting to imagine things? I doubt so.
"You're still a fool, Calhoun. For trusting me after everything I have done to destroy you." Alpha Ezra says and it's right at the same time I ground my teeth because the pain this time is doing no justice to my brain.
"What are you talking about?" I manage to rasp out, wanting him to repeat what he just said.
"Your wedding, the attack on the yacht, it was all me." Alpha Ezra's face sets in a menacing grin as he rises from his seat.
Wait a minute, is he trying to make it known to me that it was him this entire time?
The poisoned cake at the wedding, and then the poisoned wine on the yacht. Layla's gruesome death.
How in the hell is that possible? He's been a close friend of mine for fifteen good years! I trusted him.
"You never thought it'd be me, right? I've always been envious of you right from the onset. I wanted everything you had and now if you die this way, I'll ultimately become Alpha of the Greyhound pack." Alpha Ezra tsked.
He's been envious? When I gave him everything he asked, I helped him when he was in need. Stood by him when he was at his lowest and he still did all those things to kill me?
"What have you done to me?" My voice is rough when I ask him this question.
"Poison. It was already in the glass cup before my butler served you the wine." Alpha Ezra drops the bombshell.
The pain shooting through my stomach is as if my intestines are getting slit in my stomach. My grip on the table isn't strong anymore, and as my hands drop to my side, I fall, landing on the floor with the side of my face.
Alpha Ezra chuckles and walks until he's at the side where I'm groaning on the floor, clutching my stomach and coughing out black blood.
"Finally, the Almighty Alpha Calhoun is at my feet, an inch away from kissing my dirt-stained shoes," Alpha Ezra taunts while holding out his hand as a smug smirk settles on his face, and his men burst into a fit of laughter.
I can't even get off the floor because half of my body is already paralyzed and I am having a nosebleed. I can't even shift because the poison is having the same effect on my wolf.
Never for once did it cross my mind that Alpha Ezra could turn and stab me in the back when I almost took him like the brother I never had.
Through my hazy eyes, I see him squat and then he pulls my head through my hair.
"Black bane poison, it has no cure and it causes men to die slowly and painfully." He feigns sadness as he looks at me. "Why would you do this to me?"
"Don't you recognize envy when you see it? I stuck my ass around you because I wanted all that you had. People worshiped the floor you walked on, you were admired by many. My wolf is no match for yours because you have the large Alpha bone while I don't. People never spoke ill of you."
Tears slide down my cheeks because I've never felt so betrayed before. Had it been an enemy who did this? To think it's Alpha Ezra of all people, and I'm currently paralyzed and helpless with none of my men around to save me.
Striving against my body to survive hurts, even breathing is torturous.
"I planned to kill you on the day of your wedding but it failed because the people I sent were caught by your men," Alpha Extra kicks me directly in the face and scoffs bitterly.
"You've always been stronger and more skillful than I am but today it all ends. You'll die." With this, he signals his men to take me away.
Four pairs of hands grab each of my limbs and a dreadful feeling slams through my gut because I have no idea of where they're taking me.
That feeling of knowing I've reached the brink of my downfall. I'll die today and I won't get to rule my pack anymore. Nor will I see Kristen.
I shut my eyes as I try to mind link with my beta. We're over fifty miles away from each other, I'll be able to connect with his mind if he lets me. But it's to no avail.
Just like the whole world is conspiring against me.
Alpha Ezra's men bundle and put me in the backseat of a car, before taking me away.
Trying to get accustomed to the pain doesn't help because it's worsening momentarily. At this rate, the poison will kill me even before an hour.
Alpha Ezra of all people betrayed me. Poisoned me because he's envious, and wants to take over my pack.
Anger courses through my veins despite the pain and upon deciding I can't die like this, I take the form of my wolf.
The door of the car boot gets uprooted by my wolf and I manage to escape, before taking a different route. Kristen.
It's best I die in her arms, rather than dying in a forest or a seashore.