Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
Her heart sounded normal, there was nothing to be heard in her lungs, her pulse was steady and even just like her breathing. Everything was pointing toward her just being asleep. Aside from the fact that she was faintly cold even though she was covered up with what looked like three blankets.
“Since when does Riviana get cold?” I didn’t really mean to get an answer to that question, I was just talking to myself.
“She doesn’t.” Vincent answered me anyway. “That is just one more suspicious thing about this.”
“Oh yeah, what else is there?”
Vincent went on to describe that he had tried to wake Riviana several times. He had called for her, shaken her shoulder, lightly tapped her face, he even poked her foot with a needle to see if she would respond, and all of it was to no avail.
“Wait, seriously? Even the needle?” He nodded in response. “Well, I was going to take a blood sample, but I didn’t want to hurt her.”
“Do it!” He snapped at me. “Do it and tell me what is wrong with her.”
“Fine.” I sighed and took out the tourniquet, needle, vial, and sterile alcohol pad.
True to Vincent’s word, Riviana didn’t even flinch when I poked the needle into her arm. That was odd if I was being honest. What the hell was the matter with her.
“I will run this and see what comes up.” I told him as I took a couple extra vials of blood, just to be safe.
“Be quick about it.”
I repacked the bag and started toward the clinic instead of my residence. I needed to make sure that I ran this blood tonight. Vincent would not wait until the morning. And honestly, I didn’t know if I could either. This really was weird. Based on what I had been told, Riviana had been asleep since this morning and she hadn’t so much as moved since Vincent found her just laying in the hallway of the castle.
“What the hell is going on here?” I asked myself as I shut the door to my lab.
Griffin – Running Tests
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Griffin
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I wanted to be as thorough as I could with this testing. I knew that, both Vincent and Joaquin, would tell me to make sure that I didn’t miss anything at all. Joaquin may not be here, but Vincent was, and he could be just as bad when it came to worrying about Riviana.
I could understand it though. I mean, she was the Goddess Queen, the Luna Queen, and his friend. Vincent has been Riviana’s head of security since the very beginning, and it is literally his job to worry about her. This was nothing new to me, or anyone else for that matter.
Not to mention that I was starting to get worried. I mean, drawing blood from Riviana and her not even flinching, that was not something that I was expecting. And Vincent, having told me he had tried waking Riviana up by pressing a needle against her foot and she didn’t respond, that wasn’t normal at all.
I had ended up taking three vials of blood to start with, there were a few different tests that I could run with each one and if I couldn’t find something wrong before exhausting all that I had. I needed to approach this differently.
I started by running a full panel as well as a pregnancy test. I didn’t really expect anything but a negative from the latter of those two since both Riviana and Joaquin got overly excited whenever they were expecting kids so there was no way that they hadn’t told someone yet. Well, unless they just found out or something. Still, I needed to run the test just to be certain. I had to follow all the steps that I would with a human patient.
I started a new page in Riviana’s chart while I waited for the results of the bloodwork to come back, and I started to think of somethings that might have happened to her. She didn’t appear to be sick or anything like that, but I guess appearances can be deceiving.
Riviana has had the most unusual medical history out of any other shifter that I have ever treated. One thing can definitely be said about treating her, it was never boring. Though, I am not quite sure if that was a good thing or not.
When the beep told me that the blood tests were done, I switched over to the computer where the results would be displayed. I pulled them up and started to look at everything as I went down the list.
“Hmm, red cells are within normal range for a shifter, so are the white cells. Platelets are normal as well. Everything on the panel looks normal, so I guess I will need to run more thorough tests.” I sighed as I scrolled down and looked at the results from the other test that I ran. “What in the hell?”
I most definitely did not suspect this when I ran that test. I needed to call Vincent right away and get some equipment over to the royal tower as soon as I could.
Vincent 鈥?What We Know So Far
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Vincent
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“I’m on my way back to run some more tests on Riviana.” Griffin was already in his truck and on his way here from his office. I could tell because I heard the sound of the wind on his end of the line.
“What did you find out?” I demanded of him the moment that he said those words. I didn’t care that it was after midnight or that almost everyone else in the castle was sleeping. I raised my voice and basically growled as I told him to answer me.
“Let us talk in person, I think that will be a lot better. I don’t know how many people you have let know about Riviana so far, but I will be bringing some equipment with me. I assume that you would prefer for me to hide what it truly is right now.”
“Yeah, I do not want to alarm the staff.” Griffin had been right about that. I hadn’t told anyone else about Riviana yet, not even Joaquin. I wanted to see if Griffin could find out what was wrong with her first. If he could do that then I wouldn’t feel so bad when it came time for me to call Joaquin.
Dammit! This was not going very well. Joaquin was going to kill me. I let this happen to Riviana on my watch. WHY!_ Why did all of this bad stuff happen to my Riviana? Why was it that I was not able to protect her from this stuff?
As I wallowed in that despair, I had one quick thought. At least I only needed to get Griffin’s equipment past the night guards. There were no maids or butlers that were awake right now, so it was less likely that anyone would see Griffin bringing in his equipment.
I will admit, I was outside, pacing back and forth, when Griffin arrived. I wasn’t going to wait for him upstairs. I needed to make sure that he hurried and got this shit upstairs as soon as possible.
