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
even know what’s happening to
seen the aftermath of what Riot leaves behind. I’ve seen bod imprint sickness. I’ve seen wolves cannibalize their own mates
exhaling through my
hits my lungs
with every gust of wind. Its licken shadows over the forest
crowd in like they’re
stalk away from Pierce, toward the edge of the clearing where we dumped the emergency water tanks and sterilization gear. My boots crust sticks under my
makeshift bench we dragged
after me like a kicked
“About what?”
walking–through the trees, past the shed we dumped the spare cot in, toward the clearing where
Pierce follows.
the pack,” he snaps. “About Riot.
at the bench. Set the jug down.
steps up beside
been five days,” he says. “No calls.
“So?”
“So that’s not normal.”
look at
I
busy carving open your soulmate like
I grab the knife.
stiffens. But
Not yet.
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say that again?” I
He doesn’t.
in my hand, then jam it into the bench wood between us. The metal vibrates. “I know it’s quiet,” I mutter. “I know the penat dead. You think I
That’s what I’m saying. No backup. No intel. No signal.
Hold it. Let it rot in my lungs. “Riot’s doing?”
“Has to be.”
Of course it is.
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Quiet. Fast. Like mold under the floorboards. You don’t see it uns house is collapsing under
he was limping,” I
time we saw him. But
not just limping. He’s pissed. Hungry. Imprinted. He has her scent in his lungs and. blood on his tongue
tether,” I say under my breath.
at me sideways.
to chase her. He wants her to
block the
He can’t pull her if
back at the cabin.
“She’s not waking up.”
“She will.”
“She’s burning”
“I know.”
on him. “She’s mine. I carved it in blood. It Riot’s
“You don’t understand, do you? The line’s gone. There’s no one left
That gives me pause.
it.
lower now, like maybe that’ll soften the blow think Riot already took the
that, his next question ruins
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care about your
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