*****Erika''s POV*****


    "A masked person?" Jace asked and I gave a nod.


    "But how did they get in here?"


    "Through the window." Pa replied, gesturing to the opened window. Jace frowned and turned to look at me.


    "Didn''t you appoint guards to guard me?" He asked and I sighed.


    "Of course I did, but ording to the doctor, something was injected into the air


    and that brought about you falling asleep quickly. The guards too." I exined and the frown on Jace''s face disappeared slightly.


    "They even had toe after me?" He asked through clenched teeth and my eyes lit up.


    "Tell us Jace, who are they?" I asked him and his gaze shot to mine.


    Before he could say a word, I saw Jace suddenly begin to convulse.


    My blood ran cold as fear captured my entire being.


    "Jace!" Kat yelled and held him before he fell over.


    Pa again ran out of the room to call the doctor. I and Kat rushed over to his side to hold onto him.


    "Jace stay with me, Jace stay with me and don''t close your eyes!" I yelled as Kat kept fanning him with her right hand.


    Jace''s eyes turned blood red as his body shook uncontrobly.


    The door was bursted open and the doctor walked in with some nurses.


    Kat and I stepped aside as they began their checks on him. Kat''s tears wouldn''t stop falling as she watched them try to stabilize Jace''s convulsing figure.


    I closed my mouth with my hands, trying to hold back the tears and the wail that was threatening to burst out.


    If anything ever happened to Jace, I would be done for. Jace was my family, especially now that our father was still ina.


    What would happen to me if Jace ended up dying?


    "Alpha, Ladies, please step out for a while." A nurse walked up to us and said. We


    nodded and slowly left the room, my gaze never leaving Jace''s figure.


    Jace better not think of dying and leaving all these for me to handle.


    We sat in the hallways, waiting for a reply from the doctor.


    It took a while, but soon the door was pushed open and the doctor walked out.


    "Doc, what''s wrong with him?" I asked as I went to stand before him.


    The doctor sighed as he looked into my eyes.


    "Alpha, please stay calm. Jace unfortunately was poisoned by that figure just now." He said.


    I frowned at his words, the masked person poisoned Jace?


    But how did that masked person even poison him when we saw him still about to perform the act?


    "Doctor what are you saying? We stopped that person before he or she could do that." I said to him and he shook his head as if to say I was wrong.


    "I''m afraid you came after the poison had been injected into his drip bag. He was precisely poisoned with the same demon orchid that was used on Alpha Jerome." The doctor said pitifully and cast his gaze downwards.


    I starggard as the words registered


    into


    my mind. Jace was also


    poisoned with the same demon


    orchid just when he was about to tell us the truth of what happened to


    him?


    I felt arms around me and I turned to see Pa and Kat holding me still.


    "Alpha, the good news is that the poison was just a little amount of it and we would perform a surgery to get rid of it soon. Please pick a date."


    "Are you fucking with me?!" I yelled and the doctor shook his head. "I''m sorry, Alpha."


    "Get that poison out of him now!" I yelled and I watched him bow before walking back into the room.


    A deep growl left my lips as I ran a hand through my hair in anger. "Rika calm down."


    "Don''t tell me to calm down, Pa How are we ever going to know what happened?" I asked her as the tear I was trying so hard to bold back came falling from my eyes.


    "By continuing the interrogation on Melisse. That bitch has to know the truth and I''m tired of her lies" Kat said from the side and we turned to look at her darkened expression.


    "You think Melisse knows the answer?" Pa asked and Kat nodded.


    "She knows something, I can feel it." When Kat felt something, then it means it would be true.


    We all left the hospital and back to the packhouse.


    Melisse was brought into the interrogation room where we all stood waiting for her.


    The moment she saw us three, she began to whimper in fear as she sat before


    us.


    "Hello, Melisse." Pa greeted, shing her a smile and waving a hand. She could actually kill someone while smiling.


    Melisse shuddered in fear as she saw the smile.


    "Alpha, what do you want?" She asked in a small voice.


    I didn''t beat around the bush as a whip was brought forward again, this time there weren''t any traces of a smile on my face.


    "Melisse, my brother was poisoned and if you still have any humanity left in you, tell me who these people are and their motive." I began and I saw her gulp.


    "Alpha, like I said before, I''m sorry I can''t tell you who they are, they''ll kill me." Melisse repeated her earlier words and I felt the anger in me boil over. "Melisse! Don''t test me!" I yelled and without a word, Ished her with the whip. She must have felt numb from the first strike because she only whimpered and breathed through her mouth.


    Seeing her in such a state actually tugged at my heart, she used to be my favorite out of all the maids in the packhouse.


    But she ruined the closeness and broke my trust.


    "Melisse, please." This time, my voice broke as I suddenly went on my knees.


    I felt dizzy for some reason, maybe because I had been stressed for so long.


    Melisse looked up at me and the girls, then she coughed a bit.


    "Alpha" she called out softly and I nced at her.


    "They want to overthrow you, they want to take over what belongs to you." She


    voiced out painfully before she fainted.