Chapter 66

Danica’s POV

Blake led me into the room a while ago and since then, I’d stood there frozen like my brain and body suddenly had a battle that none was willing to back out from. My limbs felt weak and my chest… Holy hell, it couldn’t be more painful to breathe. Because right there before my eyes was Alexander. The strongest man I’ve ever met all my entire life, lying there like an advanced statue, growling and howling in pain, if that counts.

His eyes were tightly closed. He was unconscious, but even his unconscious state couldn’t resist the extent of whatever pain he was feeling.

My heart squeezed tightly with every painful growl and I blinked once, twice, thrice, wondering if this was probably a dream. A nightmare. A prank. I swear it could be anything else and I won’t be mad. Just not this. Just not Alexander at a death bed.

But this was all real. Everything felt real. The pain in Blake’s eyes, the hatred that lingered there when he looked at me like