~Samantha~
I woke up to someone shaking my shoulder.
"Luna. Luna, you need to come now." A healer. Young. Panicked. "It's the Alpha."
I was on my feet before fully processing. "What happened?"
"The shadow poison. It's not responding to treatment. He's getting worse."
I ran. Down the hallway. Down the stairs. Into the medical wing. Burst through the door to Dominic's room.
He was seizing. Body arching off the bed. Black veins spreading across his skin like ink in water.
"What's happening?!" I grabbed the nearest healer. "You said he was stable!"
"He was! But the poison is spreading faster than we anticipated!" The healer was trying to hold Dominic down. "We've tried every antidote. Nothing works!"
"There has to be something!" I moved to the bed. Took Dominic's hand. It was ice cold. "Dominic, can you hear me?"
His eyes opened. Pupils blown wide. Unfocused. "Sam?"
"I'm here. I'm right here."
"It hurts so badly. I can see death smiling at me." His voice slipped out weak.
