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Seraphina’s POV 1

The medical bay in the back of the training facility was a sterile contrast to the industrial warehouse space we’d just left.

Riley worked with practiced efficiency, pulling medical supplies from cabinets and setting up triage stations on the examination tables. Her earlier friendly demeanor had been replaced by the focused intensity of someone who’d done this before, too many times.

“Sera, I need you to help me get these IV bags ready,” she called out, her hands already busy with gauze and surgical tape. “The healing accelerants work faster when they’re administered directly into the bloodstream.”

I moved to help her, trying to push down the growing knot of anxiety in my stomach. Through the facility’s windows, I could see vehicles arriving-trucks and SUVs filled with warriors heading toward the border conflict. The sound of engines and shouting voices created a backdrop of urgency that made my wolf pace restlessly in my mind.

“How often does this happen?” I asked, hanging IV bags on the mobile stands Riley had wheeled over.

“More frequently lately,” Riley admitted grimly. “The rogue activity has been escalating for months. Usually it’s just probing attacks, testing our defenses. But this…” She gestured toward the wounded messenger who was now being treated by one of the facility’s medics.

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Before I could respond, the main doors burst open again. This time, it wasn’t a messenger-it was a parade of carnage.

Warriors streamed through the entrance carrying their wounded comrades, their faces grim with exhaustion and barely controlled fury. The scent of blood filled the air so completely that I had to fight not to gag. My wolf whimpered in my mind, overwhelmed by the pain

and trauma radiating from the injured wolves.

“Here!” Riley called out, directing the first group of carriers toward the examination tables. “Most critical injuries first! Anyone who can

walk gets treated after we handle the life-threatening cases!”

his tactical vest torn away to reveal massive claw marks that had raked across his

“Possible punctured lung. Sera, I need

of the wounds, feeling the sticky warmth of his blood seeping through

fluttered open, unfocused and

he whispered, his voice barely

sure I believed it myself. “Just stay with me,

urgent medical conversations, and the constant shuffle of feet as the medics worked to save

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when they brought

it was the massive wound on his thigh that made my breath catch-deep

sharp intake of breath told me everything I needed to know about how serious

her professional composure finally cracking as she took in Lucas’s condition. “No,

a fellow pack member. Her hands trembled as she reached out to check his pulse, and tears spilled down her cheeks despite her

asked gently, though I

his tactical pants to get a better look at his injuries. “God, Sera, look at him. Look what they did to

and possibly nicked the femoral artery. Blood was seeping steadily despite the

surgery,” Riley said, her voice hollow with desperation. “We need to

didn’t need to. Even with werewolf healing

into the pack

chest.

That’s when it happened.

Valerie, something stirred deep inside me-not rage this time, but something warmer, more purposeful. My right hand began to tingle, then grow

captured moonbeams.

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