Grace of a Wolf by Lenaleia

Chapter 59: Caine: Took Everything She Had to Give

CAINE

Grace’s limp body fuels a new feeling, something old and unfamiliar. It’s an emotion I haven’t felt since I was a young pup, long before I came into strength and power.

Terror.

What is it? Fenris asks. He’s been silent, politely blocking himself off from our intimacy, even when that rainbow-haired chit was banging on the door.

She’s unconscious.

"Grace."

I shake her shoulder, the skin under my palm cool to the touch. Too cool.

"Grace, wake up."

Her head lolls as I jostle her, hair splaying across the pillow in bleached golden waves. Not a flutter of eyelashes, not a twitch. My stomach drops with dread.

"Grace!" My voice sharpens with command, an alpha’s order.

Nothing. Just her pale face, lips slightly parted, chest rising and falling in shallow breaths.

What’s wrong with her? Why isn’t she waking?

Fenris explodes into panic, his howl ripping through my mind and air both. Strange voices join in, but they’re the least of my worries.

You killed her. You killed our mate!

"Shut up," I growl, placing two fingers against the pulse in her throat. It flutters weakly beneath my touch. "She’s alive."

The sudden crash of the door flying open makes me whip around, a snarl building in my throat as I storm around the corner and into the hall, Grace still limp on the daybed. Just moments ago, she’d been so alive, so vibrant, with the scent of her climax filling the air.

Now...

awa—" The rainbow-haired nuisance halts as soon as she sees my face, and her

human ambulance," I order, trying to contain the panic edging into my voice. A Lycan King doesn’t panic.

wild, uncontrolled yodel

shifts in her strange eyes, until her pupils become slitted. It’s exactly what Jack-Eye had

forward to shove past me with surprising strength for

with the accusation. Did I demand too much of

against the wall as she rushes to Grace, pushing me aside as if I’m not the most dangerous predator she’ll ever

with all of

calls Lyre doesn’t look at me again, her focus entirely on Grace. She presses two fingers to

circumstances, it would bother me she can

circumstance, it... still bothers me. I dash past Lyre to yank a corner

voice as sharp as any Lycan’s. The command within it is no less than an

words stick in my

Her fingers press gently along Grace’s throat, examining the skin with a scowl. There’s no mark there. Not yet.

dependent I am on this strange

her pocket. "This

minutes. My chest squeezes painfully.

in numbers, holds the phone to her ear. "We could drive her, but

a young woman, is unconscious and unresponsive after..." A quick glance at Grace’s

a volley of questions, and Lyre answers them decisively as I pull Grace’s limp body into my arms, fighting a growl when

Lyre

think I...? No. It wasn’t like

hair, noticing Fenris behind Lyre. He’s flat on the

Will she be okay?

the question. I’d just accepted this tiny, frail little

only proof humans can never be mates with

bond would never

And yet it has.