114 Chapter 114

114 Chapter 114

Damien’s POV 1

Time crawled like a dying animal.

I sat in that godforsaken hospital waiting room, my hands clenched into fists so tight my knuckles had gone

white, watching the clock on the wall tick away seconds that felt like centuries. Each minute stretched into

an eternity of torment. The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead like angry wasps, casting everything in harsh,

clinical white light that made my skin look corpse-pale and waxen.

*How long had it been?* Three hours? Four? A fucking lifetime?

The antiseptic smell burned my nostrils, mixing with the underlying scent of fear and death that seemed to

permeate every hospital corridor. My enhanced senses, usually such an advantage, now felt like a curse as

they picked up every nuance of suffering from the rooms beyond these walls.

The doors to the emergency wing remained closed, sealed against me like the gates of hell. Every few

minutes, I’d catch a glimpse of medical staff rushing past through the glass windows-scrubs stained with

blood, faces grim and focused, moving with the kind of urgency that made my stomach clench with dread.

But never any news. Never any answers.

Just endless, suffocating silence.

My wolf Alex was going insane inside my chest, pacing and snarling like a caged beast. He wanted to tear

down those doors, to find our mate, to protect what was ours. But I couldn’t let him loose. Not here.

*She has to be okay,* I told myself for the thousandth time. *She has to be.*

I buried my face in my hands, trying to block out the images that kept flashing through my mind. Sera

unconscious and broken at the border, The finger-shaped bruises around her throat.

“Alpha. Lucas’s voice cut through my spiral of despair.

chair beside me, two cups of coffee in his hands. His face was drawn with exhaustion and worry, but he was trying to project calm. For my

said, pressing one of the cups

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it without looking, my eyes immediately returning to those damn

Everything felt muted, distant, like I

drowning in my

was nothing compared to

like swallowing broken

word from Adrian?” I asked, my

for his mom, but she’s keeping him distracted

studying my face carefully. “Should

me with enough force to make Lucas flinch. “Not

thing I wanted was for my son to see his mother like that.

dead than alive.

my

my

fault.*

around her throat made bile rise in my throat. I’d been ready to

mother

self-destruction in my expression.

couldn’t have known.”

my eyes, trying to push away the image of her battered face. The way she’d felt in my arms when I’d finally realized who she was-so light and

coffee cup to

trying so hard

taking pieces of my sanity with them. Lucas tried to make conversation, but I couldn’t focus

the silence

*What’s taking so long?*

like a lifetime of torture, I heard

“Damien’?”

A

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familiar voice made me look up so fast I nearly gave myself

in the doorway, her surgical scrubs stained with blood that made

from its bun in wispy

eyes like cracks in

But she was smiling.

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