Poisoned. I was being poisoned. The idea barely registered in my mind. But honestly, it wasn’t much of a surprise. After all, Dad had done everything else to me — why wouldn’t he poison me too?
“Ever since you arrived, you mentioned the food tasted different,” Alpha Elias pointed out.
“Yeah, it really did,” I answered quietly.
“Your father was putting poison in your food,” he said firmly.
“That’s why your wounds aren’t healing. They won’t start to heal until all that poison is flushed out of your system,” Dr. Eris explained.
“How long will that take?” Alpha Elias asked, leaning forward on his knees as we all sat in the living room.
“It’s difficult to say. It depends on how much poison was ingested. It could be days or even weeks. Eventually it will leave her body, but it will take ti
