Chapter 178
Xandar tried to push himself up but Lucianne made him stay down. The Queen stood, and emitted her
Authority on all the rogues charging at them.
They halted in their tracks, and confusion filled them as they stared at the blue-eyed she-wolf in disbelief.
With amanding growl, Lucianne made them all kneel before her. Every rogue was forced to oblige
as they tried to decipher what was happening. They had already ingested the shell before battle. They
were supposed to be immune to the King’s Authority, which was the most powerfulmanding power
they knew of 2
The rogues were brought out of their frantic thoughts when Lucianne’s low and cold voice ordered, “Cuff
them.”
“Yes, my Queen.” Dalloway and the rest of the policemen replied as they started cuffing every rogue.
Even when Lucianne had tumed away from the rogues, her Authority remained intact. The rogues
couldn’t move from where they were until they were cuffed and ushered out by the police and warriors.
One by one, the rogues were forced to shift back as soon as the Oleander cuffs were fastened around
their wrists.
When Lucianne tumed back to Xandar, her sapphire eyes regained their original ck color, and her cold
expression turned worried when she saw her mate’s dazed eyes and weakened physique. The medical
crew came in when Phelton told them it was safe. They rushed to the injured wolves and Lycans, and
started tending to their injuries, carrying bags of blood with them should a transfusion be necessary. 1
Two doctors and three nurses rushed towards Xandar, who had already shifted back as hey t on the
ground, his head resting o n his mate’sp as his hand raised to touch her cheek.
The medical crew covered the lower part of his body. Dr Lorenz saw the dark grey veins all over the
King’s body, and it was reaching his heart. He then told Lucianne, “The Oleander has been in his
bloodstream for too long. We don’t have time to bring him back for the transfusion.”
“Do it now, then!” Lucianne eximed.
Lorenz looked at her apologetically and said, “We don’t have enough blood here for that either, Lucy. We
could use what we have now and send word to our neighboring pack to send more blood over but it’s
hard to say whether there’d be enough time for that.”
Christian heard everything as he knelt beside his cousin with saddened, glistening eyes. As Xandar’s
thumb stroked his mate’s cheek to wipe away her stray tear, Xandar muttered, “I, Alexandar Thomas
w, bestow you, Lucianne Freesia P.”
“What the h*ll are you doing, Xandar?” Lucianne asked in anger.
Christian continued to stare at his cousin as he muttered, “He’s transferring the ruling power to you, my
Queen. And I’m the witness to this transfer.”
Lucianne’s eyes widened as she stared at Christian until her mate started again, “I…” p! The impact
Lucianne made on Xandar’s cheek made everyone around them flinch. Lucianne then spoke to her mate
in a low, stern but choppy voice, “Not today, my King. You’re NOT leaving us. You’re NOT leaving ME.”
Her hard face and teary eyes faced Lorenz as she demanded, “Use my blood. Take the poison out of his
bloodstream, and use my blood to fuel him.”
“We can’t drain you of your blood, Lucy. You’d faint in less than a minute. He’s twice your size!” Lorenz
exined in worry.
Christian then offered, “Use mine, then.”
“There’s a danger in that, your Grace. With this amount of Oleander in the King’s system, there’s a
possibility that some of the poison would sip into your body when we connect his bloodstream to yours.”
Before Christian could respond, Lucianne said, “I can heal from Oleander the same way I heal from
silver. Use my blood for the. transfusion. Transfer his blood to me so that I won’t faint too soon, and give
him my blood for him to heal.”
The doctors and nurses were dumbfounded and worried as Lorenz uttered, “Lucy, we don’t know if your
body can heal itself fast enough to ovee this concentration of poison. You and your wolf might lose
some form of functionality, and.”
“I DON’T CARE! JUST DO IT!” Lucianne yelled, restraining herself from using her Authority on her
friends who treated her allies several times before as they frantically inserted the tubes: one into her, and
one into Xandar, who was already unconscious.
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“Lucy,” Christian called out in a worried whisper, his tears threatening to spill.
Lucianne looked at him through her line of vision blurred by her own tears as she forced an assuring
smile and whispered, “It’s going to be alright, Christian. We’ll both make it. It’s going to be alright.”
Juan and Tate joined them as soon as the silver was out of their systems. Both Alphas looked exhausted
and weak, and what they
saw afterwards with a tube between the back of Lucianne’s hand and Xandar’s arm made them even
weaker.
Juan called out to his sister, and she could only give him and Tate an assuring smile, praying that she
didn’t just lie to Christian. She was certain the healing effects of her blood would save Xandar but she
didn’t know if, by the time there was enough blood to save him, there’d be any healed blood left to
sustain herself. She didn’t care. She just needed her mate to be alive.
Lucianne felt the familiar sting of Oleander as it entered her bloodstream, and took steady breaths as
she held back showing any painful expressions to avoid startling everyone around her. Tate hissed at
Lorenz, asking how much more of Lucianne’s blood was needed. Lorenz’s forehead already had beads
of sweat when he admitted that he didn’t know.
As Lucianne’s small thumb stroked Xandar’s thick locks, she sniffled and nted a deep kiss on his
forehead before whispering,” Please be okay. Please.”
Lucianne knew that she was getting weaker when she felt Xandar’s head in herp getting heavier. Her
body was starting to give i n when she had trouble sitting upright. Juan came over to hold her up as he
bit his lip and fought back tears. Soon, Juan had to support her whole upper-body weight.
Lucianne’s vision was blurring out but she stubbornly fought to stay conscious because she knew that
one of them would ask Lorenz to stop the transfusion if she passed out. So, she held on with all her
might. When everyone saw the grey veins on Xandar’s body fading, and eventually returned to his
original green color, they were still not relieved because that only meant the poison was now in
Lucianne’s system, and the grey lines on her arms and legs were getting more visible by the second.
When thest of the grey lines vanished and cleared from Xandar’s body, Lorenz checked Xandar’s
heart rate, which he said was picking up, and his breathing was nearing normal. Lorenz removed the
tube from Xandar’s arm and Lucianne’s hand. He then started measuring the Oleander in Lucianne’s
system with his indicator, hoping it wasn’t as high as he predicted since she said she could heal from it.
Lucianne heard everything that was being said but she couldn’t respond. All she wanted to do was sleep.
As her thumb brushed her mate’s hair lightly, she listened to his steady breathing. At the very moment
the pair of lc eyes below her opened, Lucianne gave into her exhaustion and copsed into her
brother’s arms. 1 “LUCY!”