Chapter 79

Chapter 79
Lucy POV


I paced the hall in the hospital ward, waiting for the pack doctor to come and give me news on my parents. Avery was in the room next door with Aamon, and I was shocked to learn she was pregnant.


"Lucy, stop pacing," Ace growled. We had been waiting hours; they managed to revive my stepfather. However, he hadn't woken up, and neither had my mother. Apparently, a fair few pack members, except those of the original pack belonging to my grandmother, were knocked out along with Ryker.


Only those that served the original Hybrid Queen remained awake and the mutations. Tyson and Ace explained it was some sort of default. Luckily it only affected those he personally brought into the pack and had pledged to him. Despite my stepfather being the King, the rest were bound to my grandmother Aria and grandfather Reid who were apparently on their way here.


"Lucy, stop!" Ace snarled, his temper bubbling over, and I glared at him. I still hadn't forgiven him for knocking me out. Tyson suddenly walked out of Avery's room with Aamon, but my attention was diverted to the pack doctor; when I saw him walking down the corridor toward us, I all but pounced on the man.


"My parents?"

He sighed, looking over my shoulder at my mates, and I growled when Ace stepped closer to listen to the doctor.


"Your mother is in a coma which appears to be induced by the King, same as the rest of his blood-bound members. Until he wakes up, she won’t either."


"When will that be? My brothers are out there somewhere. I need them awake to help find them. We haven't the manpower to search the entire City without all of his pack," I snapped, tears brimming in my eyes at my frustration.


Everything was so fucked up. My brothers were god knows where and my mother was knocked out due to her bond. We already had every person out looking for them, and an amber alert had been broadcasted on the radio, yet nothing. It was like they had just vanished. At the same time, I am stuck here, wasting time that could be spent searching for my brothers.


"Ryker has burns to over sixty-five percent of his body. The only thing that keeps him alive right now is the machine he is hooked to. His lungs are burned. We have vacuumed them twice now, and his wolf genes are too weak at the moment to heal him. It is hard to say when or if he will wake up."


Ace suddenly walked off, and I felt his heartache at the news of his brother, yet all I could think of right now was my own brothers. Ryden was completely defenseless since he was a baby and at the mercy of a psycho, and Rayan wasn't much better off. He still hadn't shifted, so he was also defenseless against Josie and god knows who else.


Aamon came over with Tyson, and I listened to the doctor talk to them too. When he left, Aamon turned to me.


"How is Avery?" I asked.


"Fine, for now. She overloaded herself. Her magic isn't at full strength right now."


"But the baby is okay?"


"Yes, our daughter is fine. It's why she was visiting her father, but she felt I needed help. Misting is dangerous while pregnant, and then using her magic drained her."


"You're having a girl?"


"Yeah, hopefully, this one makes it."


"This one?"


"We don't like to get our hopes up, and this isn't her first pregnancy. But Avery is a hybrid witch. Half-succubus and also a priestess, her pregnancies have trouble going to term, her power too strong for them, but this baby seems to be holding on."


"I don't understand."


"She is half-succubus. It would be fine if she were just a witch like her mother, but being half-succubus, her body powers up off magic. She feeds on it. We think this baby has made it nearly to term because it is more demon than a witch, so her energy hasn't been feeding off it like it has the others, which killed them. Although now she is growing weaker, the baby is draining her."


"So, she can't use her magic?"


"She can, but it isn't particularly safe."


A few of Tyson's warriors made their way down the corridor, and we all turned to face them when we wandered over to them.


"Anything?" I asked, but they shook their heads.


"They weren't searching. They went to Alpha Jamie's pack," Tyson said, and my shoulders sagged.


"What did you find? Was she telling the truth?" Tyson asked just as three gurneys were rushed down the hallway by paramedics toward the pack doctor's ward.