Chapter 431

Beau
The second I get out of the meeting and see Isabelle outside my room, I know that something is up. Maybe it is just the part of me that is connected to him. Maybe it is just the part of me that worries for his safety. Or maybe it is just the part of me that has been worried since he felt that pain this morning.
“Why are you outside my room?’’ I ask her as I get closer to the door.
She looks at me with a warm smile “I am just waiting on him.’’ she tells me with no worry in her voice.
“It has been over an hour,’’ I tell her, walking into the room. I hear him in the bathroom immediately and I run over to the door “Lanis,’’ I call his name as I open the door and enter the room.
He is there in the corner, in pain and shaking from head to toe. I walk over to him and kneel down beside him. ’’Lanis, what is wrong?’’ I ask him as he looks up at me with his beautiful eyes that are now red. I see a tear stream down his face and he opens his mouth to speak, but nothing comes. His fangs are out, his eyes are red. I look at his stomach and there is a bruise on it.
“It..it hurts,” he finally manages to say, looking up at me and seeing fear in my eyes.
I don’t wait to hear anything else after that, I just lift him up in my arms and carry him out of the room. He was worried all day about us getting back to the grind, of me abandoning him, being alone and just when he needed me the most, I wasn’t there.
I walk out of the room and Bells is there waiting for me. She looks at me with her eyes wide open and she looks at me and him in shock. “What happened?” she asks me as I walk past her.
“I don’t know, but he is in pain,’’ I tell her as I walk out of the house and to the infirmary. He is still moaning out in pain, clutching his stomach and I don’t stop walking. I don’t stop until I get to the infirmary, where I lay him on one bed in one of the empty rooms. I take a deep breath and try to calm myself down. I have to keep it together for him. As I look at him, my heart breaks and I feel the pain he feels. I look at him and I want to make it all go away.
“I am fine,’’ he tells me as he tries to sit up. He is trying to be strong right now but I don’t want him to mask it all. I don’t want him to try to be strong for me.
I am fine with him just lying there and letting me take care of him. I can feel his pain, I can feel how scared he is right now. I can feel how worried he is. “Lanis, please lay down,’’ I tell him as I grab his hand. He looks at me and I know he wants to object or prove something but he doesn’t get the chance as someone enters the room, interrupting us. I look away from him and see one of the healers as she walks into the room.
I watch her as she walks over to him and starts to examine him. I watch as she looks at the bruise on his stomach and then at his face she looks over his body, trying to find the source of the pain. “Well, what is it?” I ask her as she looks at my worried face.
“I am not sure right now. I will have to examine him further to see what is causing all his pain. But from what I can tell, he is fighting the growth inside him, that is why he is like this,’’ She gestures to his eyes and the fangs. He is in his vampire form. I don’t know why he needs to fight the growth. They are his babies.’’
I turn back to Lanis and he manages a faint smile, trying to reassure me that he is okay. I am not so sure because I am scared.
I am scared for him. I am scared for our babies. I don’t know what is happening and I don’t know how to help him.
The healer looks at me and smiles “He is going to be okay, the babies are healthy and still growing. The pace at which they are growing is just making him weaker. He needs a lot of blood,’’ she tells me as she leans down and takes a blood sample. She moves around him, taking his blood pressure and wrapping an arm with a blood pressure cuff.
“How long is this going to take?” I ask her as I walk over to the bed and sit by his side. He is struggling to breathe as if something heavy is sitting on his chest.
“I will be able to tell you more after a couple of hours,’’ she tells me calmly.
She doesn’t want me to worry but I can’t help it I don’t like this. I don’t like feeling helpless.
I look at Lanis and he looks at me. He tries to smile again but he can’t.
“I will be back in a couple of hours. By then I will have more answers for you,’’ she tells us as she walks out of the room, leaving me alone with him.
“You are spiraling,’’ he mutters quietly, his voice is hoarse, he is trying to hold back his tears.
“I am not,’’ I assure him as I grab his hand in mine and squeezing it gently. If this is the only thing I can do for him–then I want to be there for him.
“You are. You are scared and you are trying to hold it in. I can feel it,’’ he whispers to me as he looks at me.
“I am not scared, I am worried. I wasn’t there when this happened. I hate that.’’
“Not your fault. I knew there will be hard days, I signed up for this. You don’t have to feel guilty. What matters is that you were there, after.”
The door opens and another one of the healers walks in with blood. I watch her as she sets it up on an IV.
He groans in pain as she puts the needle in his arm and starts to infuse the blood. I thought they were just going to feed him the blood.
“He should be drinking the blood,’’ I tell her because that is the only way this makes sense.
“I was told to infuse it in him,’’ she tells me and walks out of the room. I don’t know what they are doing but he is a fucking vampire. He doesn’t need it this way.
“Where the fuck is Ogma?’’ I ask wanting someone that understands this situation. I know I am getting upset but I need the best care for him right now.