Chapter 167: Fever
Darkness clouded the sky and night fell upon the beast world.
Noah woke up from his sleep when he heard feeble whimpers from his side. He turned to his side to only see his cubs’ anguish-filled faces.
He stretched his hand forward and touched their foreheads. Noah immediately panicked by their high temperature. Males were normally warm but the cubs’ temperature now was too much.
"Babies?" Noah scooped them into his arms and tried to wake them up but their eyes remained tightly closed. The only relieving thing was the rise and fall in their chest which indicated that they were still alive. Then he also noticed that once in a while they whimpered as though in some kind of pain.
Without wasting any more time, he tucked them back into the bed and went out of his room towards the second floor.
Killian wrinkled his brows and opened his eyes due to a knock on his room’s door. He glanced at his mate in his arms and carefully removed himself to not disturb her sleep. Stepping out of the bed, he strode towards the door and opened it.
"What?" He bluntly asked after seeing Noah but frowned noticing the latter’s panic-ridden face, "What happened?"
Noah took a deep breath and parted his lips, "The cubs are running a high fever. I didn’t know what to do so I came to ask my mate"
Killian sensed Noah’s distress. There was no way someone as calm as him would act like this for a simple fever but then again they were his children and Killian didn’t want to judge someone.
Then he turned to call Lyra but Noah beat him to it and entered his room.
Killian had a hard time fighting his urge from throwing Noah out of his room. He didn’t like other males entering his space. Beastmen were territorial, to begin with, and any infringement into their space was taken as a challenge. All of them staying in the same house was already a great deal but they endured it for their mate’s sake. And here he was enduring once again as he looked at Noah waking his mate from her sleep.