Page 65 of Brutal Alpha Dragon

“She was caught in the war…” I explain everything about Lily’s fall from the top of the castle. “... She’s human.”

“I thought as much,” Saphia reveals. Luckily, she doesn’t ask me any further questions.

Like why a human is on Aurora Island.

Until today, it’s been a secret to the clan that their Alpha was to breed with a human mate. Only the Vulkan family knew about Lily’s existence. Everything is in the open now.

It’s not like it matters anyway. All I can care about is Lily’s life as Saphia hooks her up to machines and then presses an electric charge on her chest.

Once… Twice… Three times before the heartrate monitor zaps to life. I breathe a sigh of relief, lifting Lily’s hand to my lips to press a grateful kiss on her knuckles.

When Doctor Amell lifts her blouse, I see the full consequence of Lily’s fall. Her flesh is marred with bruises and battering from when she hit the rails, and her ribcage caved in where her ribs cracked. Bile rises to the surface, souring my tongue.

“What now?” I breathe dubiously as my heart drops to the soles of my feet.

“Don’t worry, Alpha,” Saphia assures as she gets to work poking needles through Lily’s veins and preparing drips. “She’s going to be fine.”

The doctor’s reassurance comes with little hope as I pull up a chair and watch her breathe. Every breath seems staggered, her throat screeching into the oxygen mask. I can’t bear it, but I can’t leave her side either. So I walk up to the window just in time to watch the Blaze Legion dragons retreating.

The fight is over, to my relief. Turning back, I look at Lily forlornly and realize how important she is to me. I would do anything to protect her—even leave my clan in the midst of war to save her.

My only consolation is Saphia’s impeccable medical skills as she works on Lily. Suturing her cuts and cleaning her wounds, she then draws Lily’s blood into a vial.

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“Brother!” The door comes crashing in long after the doctor has left. My siblings file into the room, their faces turning ashen when they spot Lily lying on the bed.

“How is she?” Kairo steps forward with dread contorting her face.

“Doctor Amell says she’ll be fine,” I say without much conviction. It’s been a few hours, and she hasn’t even stirred.

Kairo goes to the bed and begins weeping softly. “I really hope she’ll be fine.”

Clearing my throat when I feel a sob lodging there, I turn to face my brothers. They update me on everything that’s happened and how the fighting finally ended.

“Cadmus?” I ask.

“He’s dead,” Aragon informs me flatly.

“How many casualties?”

“Five,” Stryker says as he hangs his head in a show of grief. “Maybe six.”

“That brings us down to two-hundred and eighty-one,” I calculate the population of the Aurora Dragon clan.

“Two-hundred and eighty-three, if you’re counting the human.”

I frowned as I lifted my head to see the doctor coming back in. She’s carrying a clipboard under her arm, more composed than before.

“What do you mean, Doctor?” I ask with confusion.

“Well, if the human is considered one of us…” Saphia begins, “... You’ll have to account for the child she’s carrying.”

Hushed gasps go around the room as I lose the ability to breathe. I stand there frozen, trying to process what I’ve just learned.

“She-she’s pregnant?” I mumble almost unintelligibly.

Doctor Amell nods her head as she passes me the clipboard. “According to the tests I’ve run, she is.”

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