Chapter 110

GRAYSON

“You told me she’s going to wake up!”

“You told me it’s going to work!”

Shut up. Shut up.

My head is splitting in half. Right between the eyes. Like someone’s driving a spike through my skull. I grip the edge of the cot. Hard

go white. Theo’s pacing again. Saying shit like it matters. Pierce is slamming drawers like that’s going to fix anything. They keep making n breathing. But she’s still not fucking moving.

Her body’s burning through another fever. Skin wet and red like she’s being boiled from the inside out. I lean over her. Close enough to hear her heartbeat stutter. Then stall. Then start again.

I want to tear the fucking walls down.

“You said-”

“I said shut your mouth,” I snap.

Three days.

Three days since I carved that cut into her side and fed her my blood like it was enough to save her. Three days since I ripped Riot’s fucking leash off her

neck and chained her to me instead. Three days of her not opening her eyes.

What the hell did I do wrong?

Pierce grabs my collar and drags me outside like I’m the fucking problem. Slams me into the side of the cabin, breathing hard, like he’s ready to throw hands. Like I won’t split his spine for touching me.

“You said she’d wake up,” he snaps, shaking.

I don’t say a word.

“You said your blood would work-”

“I said shut your fucking mouth.”

He grips harder. I let him–for one second. Then I slam my forehead into his nose.

Crack. Blood everywhere.

He stumbles back, yelling, hands flying to his face. I don’t move. I don’t breathe. I just watch him bleed like I want to rip open ha ubs and check it ha heart’s still fucking beating.

“You think I won’t kill for her?” I ask, Low. Too calm

“You think I haven’t already?”

He spits into the dirt. “She’s not breathing right

“She’s breathing enough”

“She’s dying-”

1/5

Chapter 110

“No,” I snarl, stepping in. “She’s changing”

1 grab him by the throat this time. Drag him forward until we’re nose to nose, his blood on my mouth now.

“Riot buried himself in her spine. He left anchors in her scent. Leashes behind her eyes. You don’t come back clean from that

you even know what’s happening to her?”

don’t answer. Because yes, I know. And no, I don’t. Not fully But I’ve seen the aftermath of what Riot leaves behind. I’ve seen bod imprint sickness. I’ve

back, exhaling through my

air hits my lungs

every gust of wind. Its licken shadows over the forest clearing

in like they’re

from Pierce, toward the edge of the clearing where we dumped the emergency water tanks and sterilization gear. My boots crust

makeshift bench we dragged out here two nights ago when her fever speed and

going?” Pierce asks, trailing after me like a kicked dog.“We need to fucking

“About what?”

walking–through the trees, past the shed we dumped the spare cot in, toward the clearing

Pierce follows.

the pack,” he snaps. “About Riot. About

Set the jug

steps up

says. “No calls. No messengers. No scouts.

“So?”

“So that’s not normal.”

at

think I

your soulmate like a goddamn butcher

I grab the knife.

stiffens. But

Not yet.

275

06:31 Sun, 31 Aug

Chapter 110

wanna say that again?”

He doesn’t.

the bench wood between us. The metal

coming, Gray. That’s what I’m saying. No backup. No intel. No signal. The

it. Let it rot in my

“Has to be.”

Of course it is.

9920

just poison people–he poisons systems. He spreads. Quiet. Fast. Like mold under the floorboards. You don’t

said he was limping,”

him. But

she ran. Before she bled. Before he tasted her. Now he’s not just limping. He’s pissed. Hungry. Imprinted. He has her scent in his lungs and. blood on his

tether,” I say under

at me sideways.

to chase her.

why block

threat. He can’t pull her if I’m still

back at the cabin. His

“She’s not waking up.”

“She will.”

“She’s burning”

“I know.”

it in blood. It Riot’s rotting the pack from the inside, then wu stay outside. We hold

understand, do you? The line’s gone. There’s no one left

That gives me pause.

it. Steps

like maybe that’ll soften the blow think Riot already took the

his next question ruins

3/5

Chapter 110

about your people

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255