Soraya's POV
My heart was on the edge of bursting from happiness.
Jada pranced about in my head, he'd excitement as huge as mine.
~Mates are with us!
She purred still in slight disbelief.
My eyes bounced from one triplet to the other, as if to confirm to myself it wasn't an illusion.
I myself couldn't believe they were staying with me.
I had ask on a whim, but they actually stayed! I grinned, gripping Kael's cloth tightly as I placed my head on his chest.
His skin under the shirt was hot, the sound of his pumping heart reaching my ears as I placed my head above his chest.
The sound alone excited me.
Kael's physique, like his brothers were huge, his tight muscular body attractive, it made me feel safe being held like this.
I wanted to bury myself in his huge chest.
Feeling their eyes on me, I purred loudly.
Days ago if anyone told me I would be surrounded in their scents, I would have scoffed at them.
My heart thumped loudly in my chest, that the heart monitor hooked to me spiked a little.
"What's wrong with her?" Draven asked, looking from me to the monitor.
Although reluctant, Lucen's brow creased slightly as he studied my face.
I turned to him, staring at him with shiny eyes, the heart monitor beeping even louder.
Lucen's looking at me!
I gushed, gripping Kael's shirt even tighter.
Deep down, I knew I should have been angry at them, but I couldn't being myself too.
My heart riddled mind told me I couldn't do that.
They were my mates.
You don't hate your mates. No one does. That's like disrespecting the moon goddess.
"Call the doctor over." I heard Kael say, his voice loud. "Hurry!"
Suddenly, I felt my body start to spike, everything turning hot.
"Hot." I murmured, sweat dripping from my forehead so soon it shocked me.
The harsh beeping sound from the heart monitor filled the room, following every pound my heart made.
"Soraya?" I heard Kael call to me, but everything was starting to fade. "Can you hear me?"
Only a little.
I said in my head, arching my back painfully.
My body twitched occasionally, jerking in Kael's arms.
"Where is he?!" He growled loudly.
My vision turned blurry, every part of my body going limp as if filled with lead.
What's happening to me?
"Ahhh!" A scream so high tore through my throat, cracking slightly.
It hurts. Everything hurts.
"What did you guys do to her?" A new voice asked, panicked as well.
"We didn't do anything that's why we called you since you are the doctor." Draven responded. "Just find out what's wrong with her and fix her."
The doctor, Daniel, I now remembered, pursed his lips with a grim expression.
"What is it?" Lucen snapped angrily at him, holding my jerking legs.
"I told you two earlier that her condition was no good, well now it's worsened." He calmly said, causing the temperature in the room to fall.
The triplets looked like they had swallowed a bitter pill, each one looking more grim than the other.
Kael, the ever calm triplet asked. "How bad?"
"Bad, bad." He paused in his words, making it sink in. "Like near death bad. The trauma she suffered combined with her heat was too much, so her brain is likely shutting down. It would be a miracle if she can hear us."
I could though.
I heard them loud and clear, but I couldn't control my body.
It felt like I was watching myself act behind a screen, and it felt scary.
Jada retreated to the back of my head, her presence fleeting.
Except from my screams, and the beeping sounds from the heart monitor, the room could have been silent.
They were shocked.
Shocked that my situation had gone this bad.
Finally, Draven asked. "What can we do now?"
"I—" The doctor tried to say, but I cut him off with a piercing scream.
My scream was high, bouncing off the walls as I thrashed in Kael's arms while he struggled to hold me in place.
My body temperature rise like fanned flamrd, my brain going foggy.
"Hot, hot, hot…" I sang brokenly, tears sliding down my cheeks.
In my haze, I saw myself really in a fire, burning, my skin melting like wax.
Dear?
A sweet gentle voice called out to me, and I looked up in response.
That was my mom's voice.
Where was she? I looked around.
"Mom?" I mumbled out dwearily.
"You guys need to do something quick. She's already delusional, and it could get worse." The doctor's words filtered in.
Me delusional?
Was I? I thought, straining my ears to listen.
I heard my mother's voice. It was there, so it couldn't have vanished that easily.
I turned to look at the doctor, as if to prove to him he was wrong, my scream dying— only because I felt thirsty, and that my throat was dry.
The doctor stood a few feet away from us, Draven standing beside him as they both said something.
When did Draven stand up?
I wondered, watching his lips move rapidly along with the doctor's, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't hear what they said.
Is my hearing damaged?
I tried again, but nothing worked.
Tears blurred my eyes, threatening to fall, the fear that my ears were damaged scaring me.
I was so close to sobbing until Draven turned, heading towards the door.
"Noooo!" I yelled, stretching my arms frantically, reaching out for him, panic filling my chest.
My heart thumped rapidly in beat, fear rushing up. "Don't leave me! Please, don't leave me!" I screamed, reaching out violently for him.
Draven froze, his eyes going wide as he looked at me.
I flailed, struggling in their arms, accidentally pulling at the IV needle in my veins.
Pain shot through my arm, as the needle yanked out, spilling blood.
"Shit! Hold her tight." Kael instructed, his huge palms, tightening around my wrists, Lucen's hands holding my legs firmly in place.
Kael looked at Draven who stood rooted. "Don't just stand there, come and help."
Draven blinked, coming out of his stupor, staring at me with a strange look in his eyes.
Nevertheless, he moved closer to the bed, holding me, but I was too far gone to feel it.
My heart was filled with panic. Fear eating at my heart I could feel the pit it created.
All I could think about was Draven trying to leave.
Why did he want to abandon me?
Wasn't I worth it?
Why did everyone who came into my life abandon me?
First it was mom and dad, now them?
Moon goddess, why?
It was my heat talking, but I couldn't recognize what was real and what was fake anymore.
Like he could read my mind, Kael said gently. "Calm down, Draven isn't leaving you, and we won't either. Right?"
He motioned for his brothers to speak.
Quickly catching the hint, Draven spoke as well. "Soraya listen. I only wanted to get you help, I am not abandoning you."
I choked, my tears pouring silently as I looked at him.
Did he really mean that?
I sniffled, looking into his eyes for anything that might contradict what he had said, but found nothing.
Just as I opened my mouth to speak, the doctor returned with a needle. "Hold her down. I'll give her another injection."
"No! I don't want it!" I shouted, thrashing again in panic.
My mates quickly held me down, pushing at the doctor to leave. "Take that thing away from her, she doesn't want it."
They tried talking to me again, however this time I wasn't listening.
My body grew hotter the more I thrashed, fear gripping my heart with each passing moment.
I felt like I was about to die.
The sensation, so real, I was about to pass out.
My body grew limp with each passing second, Jada moving about restlessly as heat burst through my body.
"She's overheating." I heard one of them say, to bleary to recognize who it was.
"If this continues, her brain might actually fry, or worse she could lose her wolf forever."
"What are we going to do then?" Lucen asked frustrated.
Kael, I think, continued to say. "We have no voice but to bond with her. Maybe that will calm her wolf down a little and stop her heat."
"But we've never done it with her before, will it work?"
Kael frowned. "We'll just have to try."
The three brothers surrounded me, each of them holding me down.
They closed their eyes, going silent despite how hard I screamed.
I had no idea what they were doing.
I thrashed for a while, the pain I felt intensified.
Sweat clung on their foreheads, their frowns turning deeper.
Suddenly I felt something in me and I stilled.
Inside, I felt their wolves touch the surface of my mind, reaching out to Jada, but no matter how they did it felt like a barrier or something was blocking it.
"It's not working." Lucen huffed, frustrated.
"What are we going to do now?" Draven sighed, looking at me with that same look in his eyes.
I could see worry, in them. I wanted to wipe them off.
Uncounciously I reached out, gripping his wrist.
Immediately, my hands touched his, I felt something snap.