Harper didn't allow Taya to refuse. Thanks to her wolf's added strength, Harper was easily able to carry the small woman, get her into the car, and drive to the hospital.

As soon as Harper carried Taya into the emergency room, staff rushed over.

"She's not a shifter," Harper hurried to tell them.

Harper knew that Taya had congenital heart disease, and if the hospital assumed she was a shifter, they wouldn't give her the proper treatment. It was easy for her to run short of oxygen if she caught a cold or fever, and her body wouldn't work to heal itself the way a wolf shifter's would.

Taya was quickly settled into a room, given an IV and oxygen, and monitors were set up to keep an eye on her.

It wasn't until midnight that Taya's high fever slowly subsided.

Harper sighed in relief, picked up her phone, and took two days off. Then she leaned against the bed and silently waited for Taya to wake.

They'd both been dropped off at the orphanage when they were about a year old, within days of each other. They had become each other's everything, and the only other person they'd had any relationship with growing up had been the orphanage director. Harper raised her hand, touched Taya's pale face, and sighed.

way. From the orphanage, to never

she had met and fallen for were both

***

out of a

saw a young man reaching

as if he had said something, but I was too far away

subconsciously walked toward him. "What

suddenly stopped talking. His clear eyes were

from the night sky, washing the youth's

see his face. I rushed

and the young man disappeared. I saw myself kneeling

walked up

a blush and shyly put my

saw that the hand holding mine turned into a

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