Filed to story: The Billionaire Alpha’s Contract Lover by Caesar Erickson
I dried my hair and lay down on the bed, extremely tired, and fell deeply asleep again.
After getting drenched in the rain, my condition worsened significantly. I buried my head in sleep until the afternoon of the next day.
Harper had been on duty all night, so she slept from morning to afternoon. When she got up and prepared dinner, Taya was still asleep.
She had no choice but to knock on Taya’s door. She called out to her, but there was no response. Only then did she realize that something was wrong.
Harper quickly pushed the door open and walked in. When she saw Taya’s flushed face, she quickly reached out and touched her forehead.
She was burning up!
Harper quickly lifted the quilt to help Taya up. “Taya, you have a high fever. Get up quickly. I’ll take you to the hospital.”
Taya, in and out of consciousness due to the fever, resisted when she heard the word “hospital.”
“We’re not going to the hospital…”
Harper didn’t allow Taya to refuse. Thanks to her wolf’s added strength, Harper was easily able to carry the small woman, get her into the car, and drive to the hospital.
As soon as Harper carried Taya into the emergency room, staff rushed over.
“She’s not a shifter,” Harper hurried to tell them.
Harper knew that Taya had congenital heart disease, and if the hospital a*sumed she was a shifter, they wouldn’t give her the proper treatment. It was easy for her to run short of oxygen if she caught a cold or fever, and her body wouldn’t work to heal itself the way a wolf shifter’s would.
Taya was quickly settled into a room, given an IV and oxygen, and monitors were set up to keep an eye on her.
It wasn’t until midnight that Taya’s high fever slowly subsided.
Harper sighed in relief, picked up her phone, and took two days off. Then she leaned against the bed and silently waited for Taya to wake.
They’d both been dropped off at the orphanage when they were about a year old, within days of each other. They had become each other’s everything, and the only other person they’d had any relationship with growing up had been the orphanage director.
Harper raised her hand, touched Taya’s pale face, and sighed.
Taya was unlucky in every way. From the orphanage, to never getting her wolf, to her heart issues.
And the two men she had met and fallen for were both scu mbags.
fell in and out of a fevered sleep.
In a daze, I saw a young man reaching out his b loody hands to me.
His face was full of pain. He opened his mo uth as if he had said something, but I was too far away to hear him.
I subconsciously walked toward him. “What did you say?”
The young man suddenly stopped talking. His clear eyes were fixed on me.
It suddenly rained heavily from the night sky, washing the youth’s blood-stained face clean.
Only then did I see his face. I rushed forward and shouted,
“Silas!”
The scene changed, and the young man disappeared. I saw myself kneeling at the door of a nightclub.
A man with a black umbrella walked up to me and asked condescendingly, “Are you clean?”
I nodded with a blush and shyly put my hand in his palm.
When he held my hand, I saw that the hand holding mine turned into a pair of blo ody hands.
The man in front of me also turned into that ferocious young boy. His eyes were red with the ire of his wolf. He grabbed my neck, squeezing, and roared at me.
“Taya! Why did you sell yourself to him? Why did you betray me? Why did you do this?!”
I shook my head desperately. “No, no, it’s not like that…”
I shouted and explained, but the man still pushed me away and turned to leave.
I managed to catch up with him and grabbed his clothes, crying and shouting, “Silas, don’t go!
“Taya! Taya, what’s wrong?”
I felt someone nudging me awake.
Gradually, I came back to my senses. I slowly opened my eyes, only to see that Griffon and Silas had disappeared, leaving only a worried Harper standing over me, a distraught look on her face.
Only then did I realize it had just been a nightmare. It wasn’t real, and I wasn’t with Silas and Griffon. I was safe.
At least, I had to be if Harper was here, right?
I cleared my mind and swallowed my saliva. I raised my hand to get some water, only to find an IV attached to it.
“You had a high fever, so I brought you to the hospital.”
Seeing that I was in a daze from the fever, Harper spoke softly, explaining, then picked up the gla*s of water next to me and helped me drink it.
After a few sips of water, I slowly regained a little life.
“Harper…”
“I’m here,” Harper responded gently. She lifted the hair on my forehead that was wet with sweat, put it behind my ear, and asked softly, “Are you hungry?”
I shook my head-slowly and with difficulty-and asked, “Did the doctor tell you anything?”
I still hadn’t figured out how to talk to Harper about what was wrong with me. Now that I’d fell ill and Harper had to take me to the ER, I was terrified she would now know everything.
“The doctor didn’t say anything. When he saw that you had a high fever and were in and out of consciousness, he gave you fluids and antibiotics. They’ve done a blood draw, and we should have the results any time now.” Harper got up and looked around. “Actually, I think it might be in your chart in here already.”
I quickly stopped her. “I’m a little hungry. Can you get me something to eat first?”
Harper nodded. “I’ll go see what they have for you. Maybe some Jell-O.”
After watching her leave, I struggled to get up, looking around the room.
There. At the foot of the bed. My chart.
Maybe the results would be in it?
I slid the IV pole over enough to give me room to reach the folder and picked it up.
The blood test would show my heart failure, and the last thing I wanted was for Harper to see it. She would be devastated. We had grown up together and relied on each other for survival.
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