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?” he
the aftermath of what Riot leaves behind. I’ve seen bod imprint sickness. I’ve seen wolves cannibalize their own mates just to stop
exhaling through
hits my lungs
A single floodlight dangles crooked from the gutter, swaying with every gust of wind. Its licken shadows over the forest clearing like a
trees crowd in like
Pierce, toward the edge of the clearing where we dumped
the same time–set them down hard on the makeshift bench we dragged out here two nights ago when her fever speed and Theo
trailing after me like a kicked dog.“We need
“About what?”
walking–through the trees, past the shed we dumped the spare cot in, toward the clearing where everything’s been failing apart since the second we got
Pierce follows.
snaps. “About Riot. About how the line’s gone
at the bench. Set the jug down. The knife
steps up
five days,” he says. “No
“So?”
“So that’s not normal.”
at him.
think I don’t know
soulmate like a goddamn butcher to notice the forest went
I grab the knife.
stiffens. But I
Not yet.
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say that
He doesn’t.
wood between us. The metal vibrates. “I know it’s quiet,” I mutter. “I know the penat dead. You think I don’t
one’s coming, Gray. That’s what I’m saying. No backup. No intel. No signal. The
it. Let it rot in
“Has to be.”
Of course it is.
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systems. He spreads. Quiet. Fast. Like mold under the floorboards. You don’t
he was
time we saw him. But that
he’s not just limping. He’s pissed. Hungry. Imprinted. He has her scent in his lungs and.
under my breath. “That’s why
looks at
doesn’t want to chase her. He wants her to come
block
threat. He can’t pull her if I’m still
looks back at the cabin.
“She’s not waking up.”
“She will.”
“She’s burning”
“I know.”
bench and turn on him. “She’s mine. I carved it in blood. It Riot’s rotting the pack from the
do you? The line’s
That gives me pause.
it.
he says, voice lower now, like maybe that’ll soften the blow think
just like that, his
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