Chapter 63

Ava's POV

It was as though they'd lit my nose on fire. Those couldn't be bathing salts.

“Wh–” sneeze. “–at. The –” sneeze. “– Hell is –” sneeze. “– that!” Sneeze.

I coughed and coughed for some moments, my eyes watering, clouding Alaric's worried face from my view.

After a few minutes I stopped wheezing.

“How do you feel now?” Alaric asked as I took deep breaths to steady myself.

I glared at the maid, dying to hurl insults at her and slap her till she cried. My lungs burned because of her!

“Thank you so much.” Alaric said to her, then opened the bottle of water for me to drink.

I took a few swigs and then said weakly,

“Please tell them to leave, I'm feeling crowded.”

In reality I was almost ready to lash out at the both of them, I decided that it was better they left than I exposed myself.

Alaric nodded and waved them away and the guard and maid disappeared immediately.

I hugged Alaric around his neck tightly.

“Thank you Allie. I thought I was going to die.”

“Die? What the hell do you