The Mighty She-wolf of King novel Chapter 8

"And your human form?"

"Ever now and again it pinches but it doesn't last long. Why you ask?"

"It's about your appointment the other day," he said, taking a seat in the chair on the other end of the room. "The x-ray we took shows that the sliver is still in your body and growing."

"I see," Blake sighed in disappointment.

Five years ago, when Blake was shot with the silver bullet, it was shown that it was not just any silver bullet. It was a strange new bullet that was able to liquify and explore throughout her entire body that nearly killed her in a span of just two months after being shot. Even with the bullet safely out of her shoulder all those years ago, the silver was still inside her, and it was able to grow like a disease. Only now it wasn't inside her bloodstream but in fact inside her bones.

"How long . . . how long do I have to live."

"Blake, we can try another-"

"How long!" she yelled throwing herself out of her chair.

"I don't know for sure, but my guess is two weeks," he whispered.

"Two . . . two weeks. That's all I have?"

He nodded his head, "The silver is growing rapidly than before. I don't know why it is."

"Does anyone else know about this?" she asked.

"No, I thought about telling the Alpha-"

"Don't" she spoke quickly, "don't tell anyone." She couldn't believe what she was hearing, just two weeks.

"Blake, we can find a way around this," The doctor said placing a hand on her bare shoulder.

Blake wanted to cry, yell, scream to the ends of the Earth. "What . . . for the past five years, I've been in and out of this place. I've been going through surgery after surgery, to get the sliver out of my body and you haven't done one successful damn operation on me!" she furiously yelled, turning away from the doctor, she held her tears in, "I can't keep doing this doc. My brother, the Alpha, I can't keep hiding this." Blake took a deep breath before looking at the doctor, "I thought for sure we were in the clear but this is the reality, right."

"Blake-"

Blake couldn't believe the doctor, he was crazy to even think that a child's tale would save her.

"And how do you suppose one can become an Everlasting. Everyone knows the tales that the Everlasting were chosen since the day they were born and they had to do something of great sacrifice or die to even awaken the Moon Goddess gift. Meaning there is a chance I'm not even an Everlasting also meaning there is a fifty-fifty chance that I'll die anyway.

"It's all we have at this point. What do you have to lose?" He asked mimicking her from before.

"Everything," She replied in a whisper.

Blake escaped home after leaving the infirmary. The first thing she did was march up the stairs and blessed herself with a nice hot bath. She stripped her new bloody clothes on the white tile floor and turned the water on before jumping in.

Tilted her head back to wash her face from the rogue's blood that filled her senses. Turning around she placed her hair under the water, running her hands through it to clean off what was left of the rogues.

With a little sigh, she ran her hands down her neck and down to the scare that was on her shoulder. Closing her eyes, her heart ached. And she cried. Blake crouched down, hugging her knees close to her chest.

She didn't know how much more she could take. How much more she could keep going. Even if there was a chance she could survive, there was still that chance she was going to die. Rubbing her face with her hands, she already knew she was living dangerously just being a Bate and throwing herself at every possible moment that could lead her to her death.