Chapter 64 Bad News
Kristen's POV
I've been panicking and tearing up for the past two hours since Calhoun was taken to the pack hospital.
To think he was poisoned and then ran all the way to my school in such a state, breaks my heart the most. I was the first person he wanted to meet even when he was on the verge of dying.
"Kristen, just calm down, he'll be okay." Maddy tries to assure me but it's not working. My mind keeps replaying what happened on campus ground, the way a bleeding Calhoun collapsed on my body. There was so much blood. Even my dress and hands are still stained with his blood.
My friends are here with Ben. We arrived at the hospital in Ben's car.
And Ben, he's yet to utter a word. He is staring at his feet from where he's standing, with his hands folded across his chest.
More tears cloud my vision as I pull my knees up to my chest and support my chin there. I am sitting on the floor with my back pressed to the wall, right outside where Calhoun is being treated.
Who could've ever done such a thing to him? Calhoun has been this person who I never thought would get hurt. He's Alpha of all Alpha's on the Eastside, someone who isn't powerful cannot uphold such a position.
How did he get poisoned with black bane?
Where did he even go?
Why didn't he use his heightened sense of smell to detect the poison?
A thousand thoughts are slamming through my mind, frightening me to the extent I'm starting to wonder if he'll ever make it out alive.
The doctors won't even let us in, they've been working on Calhoun since we brought him here.
Running footsteps along the hallway captures my attention and when I look, it's mom and Bruce.
Seeing Mom just forms a tight knot in my stomach, it was Bruce I called. How stupid of me to think he wouldn't tell her that Calhoun is still her husband.
"Where is he?" Her voice trembles when she asks Sapphire this question. Her appearance is unusual from her normal self, it's almost like she ran all the way down here.
"There," Sapphire slowly points at the door. And Bruce is the first to go in, despite the doctor's protest.
Mom doesn't even look at me to acknowledge me as her daughter as she burst into Calhoun's ward. It's more like we've been enemies. And despite all the drama, chaos, and the fact that our relationship was rocky since she had me, it still hurts that we're now distant from each other. She's still my mom no matter what. Even if she hates me and thinks of me as her enemy.
Will she ever look at me as her daughter again? I'm the reason Calhoun wants to divorce her. She must think of me as a potential rival who wants to steal her place because marrying Calhoun will ultimately make me Luna of the Greyhound pack.
She's inside but I still tuck my hand in my shirt because I don't want her to see the engagement ring. It will only complicate things at this point.
I overhear her addressing the doctors, her tone bold and commanding. I believe they can't turn her away because of his domineering she seems.
"I will stay here and watch because he's my husband," she's already sobbing as she stands firm on this.
I can tell she's at Calhoun's side, hurting at the sight of him being unconscious like that.
She has every right to feel this way, even though their marriage is about to go into shambles.
"Don't even think about pulling me out of here. Calhoun needs me more than ever," Mom adds and then sniffs.
"As you wish," the head doctor agrees. It's clear he can't send her away because she's still Calhoun's wife and his Luna.
I don't even want to let that bother me, all that matters is Calhoun's life.
He needs to fight against this poison to stay alive.
Two hours later.
It's evening already and my friends are already gone. Ben took them back. They wanted to stay longer but I was against it and told all three of them to go.
And they reluctantly left, promising to still return tonight because they are aware I have a strained relationship with my mom. I'm fighting against falling asleep when Mom's shrieks make me flinch. She's wailing right now and I am hearing Bruce screaming, "Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"
In a rush, I dash into the ward.
Mom is already sprawled on the floor, crying her eyes out. And Bruce, he doesn't seem approachable at all. His eyes are red with tears and it's almost like he wants to punch something or someone.
The doctors are surrounding Calhoun so I can't even see him.
"What's going on?" I ask with my heart pounding in my chest.
No one responds. They just roll up a white sheet to cover Calhoun's body.
And my knees give out underneath me, throwing me to the floor.
"What the fuck is going on, someone say something!" I scream. Because they're already giving me hints that I don't even want to believe.
"Alpha Calhoun is dead." someone tells me.
And my world stops functioning.
"No!" This horrified scream erupts from my mouth like a banshee in the dead of the night. And it bounces on the wall.
"He couldn't make it," another doctor adds with his face in distress as he looks at me.
"No. He's not dead. Do something! Anything you can to suck the poison out of his body," my whole body is trembling as if I am near convulsion.
"It's already too late, nothing can be done anymore. Alpha Calhoun is dead."
"Don't say that!" I crawl until I am pushing them away from Calhoun, not giving a care in the world.
"Calhoun cannot die. He's not dead!" My hand swats the white sheet from his body and when his lifeless face meets mine, I drop to the cold floor for the second time.