Chapter 24 : Antibiotics

Erik’s POV

“I’m fine!” I argued with Myrtle for the hundredth time. That old bat wasn’t backing down either, hooking me up to a bag of intravenously injected antibiotics. “This will pass. I don’t need all of this! I will not die from something like a measly infection.”

Myrtle wasn’t responding to me. Instead, she looked over at Magnus and said, “Keep him in this bed.”

“My pleasure, ma’am,” Magnus replied and I knew I was done for.

The one time I wanted to go to a meeting, I was on bed rest. Just my fucking luck.

Myrtle pat Magnus on the arm and said, “Good to know that one of you is a good boy.”

I snorted a laugh, but Magnus ate it up. “Oh, yes, always.”

The nurse went back over to her desk, shouting, “Let the antibiotics work, boy. You’re not leaving until that fever is under control.”

I didn’t have a—