The Biker Alpha Who Became My Second Chance Mate\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 215\u00a0<\/p>\n
Blood starts spreading across his chest immediately, dark red and too much of it. It soaks into the white sheet under him and spreads outward in a circle that keeps getting bigger.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hold him down, Derek says urgently, throwing his weight across Tristan\u2019s legs as his body starts to convulse.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Orion drops the knife and grabs Tristan\u2019s shoulders, pressing him back against the mattress with all his strength. I\u2019m sorry, I\u2019m so sorry,\u201d he keeps repeating, and his voice is broken and desperate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tristan\u2019s eyes are wide and wild, darting around the room like he doesn\u2019t know where he is anymore. His breathing is coming in short, sharp gasps that sound painful, and there\u2019s blood on his lips now.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s okay,\u201d I hear myself saying, even though nothing about this is okay. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be okay, you\u2019re going to be okay.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s not okay, it\u2019s the opposite of okay. I\u2019m watching the person I love most in the world dying in front of me, and it\u2019s my fault. This is happening because of me, because of what I am and what I need to prove.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sarah\u2019s arm comes around my shoulders, and I realize I\u2019m swaying on my feet. The room feels like it\u2019s tilting, and I have to concentrate on staying\u00a0<\/p>\n
upright.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cStay with us, Athena,\u201d she says firmly. \u201cHe needs you to stay focused.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tristan\u2019s body starts to shake, and I can see the moment when his wolf tries to surface. His muscles bulge and his bones start to shift under his skin,\u00a0<\/p>\n
and his face begins to elongate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d Derek says sharply, pressing down harder on his legs. \u201cDon\u2019t shift, the wolfsbane will kill you\u00a0<\/p>\n
if\u00a0<\/p>\n
you\u00a0<\/p>\n
shift.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
But I don\u2019t think Tristan can hear him anymore. His eyes have gone completely wolf, golden and desperate and filled with pain. His body is fighting against what\u2019s happening to it, trying to heal itself in the only way it knows how.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The problem is that shifting will spread the wolfsbane through his system faster, and it\u2019ll kill him in seconds instead of minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Orion leans his full weight on Tristan\u2019s shoulders, trying to hold him in human form through sheer force. \u201cStay human, stay with us, don\u2019t let the wolf\u00a0<\/p>\n
take over.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The sound Tristan makes is half human, half wolf, and all pain. It\u2019s the worst thing I\u2019ve ever heard in my life, worse than his initial scream, because this\u00a0<\/p>\n
sound is hopeless.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHow long?\u201d I ask Derek, but my voice comes out as barely a whisper.\u00a0<\/p>\n
*Not long now, his breathing is already slowing down. The wolfsbane is working faster than I expected.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He\u2019s right, the gasps that were coming fast and sharp are getting slower now. Deeper but more spaced out, like his body is having to work harder to\u00a0<\/p>\n
remember how to breathe.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTristan,\u201d I call out, stepping closer to the mattress. \u201cCan you hear me?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
His golden eyes find mine, and for a second they\u2019re completely human again. Completely him, not the wolf or the pain or the dying, just Tristan looking\u00a0<\/p>\n
at me with love and trust.\u00a0<\/p>\n
1\/2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 215\u00a0<\/p>\n
I love you,\u201d I say, and tears start streaming down my face. I love you so much, more than anything in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He tries to say something back, his lips move and his throat works, but no words come out. Just a wet, gasping sound that makes my chest feel like t\u00a0<\/p>\n
caving in.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Blood is still flowing from the wound in his chest, soaking through the towels that Derek keeps pressing against it. His skin is getting pale, and there\u00a0<\/p>\n
are dark circles under his eyes that weren\u2019t there before.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His breathing slows down even more, and the spaces between each breath get longer and longer. I find myself holding my breath during the pauses. waiting for his chest to rise again.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Athena, Derek says urgently, and his voice cuts through my panic. \u201cIt\u2019s time.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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