Chapter 79

Luca POV

I hadn’t meant to be home that long. Hell, I hadn’t meant to go home at all. The plan had been to get Nico to the pack doctor and then disappear before my mother caught wind of my presence on the island. Well, that didn’t happen.

In the single day that it took for me to get Nico home, he had started having stomach cramps, developed a fever and had begun convulsing as I got him into the clinic. Doc had immediately taken blood and sent me into isolation at the clinic, not knowing what pathogen we had picked up in that hell of a shed. I had been washed from head to toe with a specialised soap by a nurse who was far too enthusiastic about her job, and then given an utterly horrendous gown which was far too short and came up to my thighs, and was open in the back.

“Sorry, Alpha,” Doc had the decency to seem empathetic. “We just can’t risk the rest of the pack until we know what has been brought back with you and the Gamma.”

“I understand, Doc,” I had told him reassuringly, “the p