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-”
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“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.
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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
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