Chapter 240 If She Dies

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Henry could do nothing but watch as the doctors and wolf healers crowded around Aubrey. Every time she disappeared behind their shoulders, panic clawed through him, leaving his chest hollow and his breath short.

Yet when he edged closer, he froze, terrified that his presence might disturb their desperate work.

So he circled the bed like a caged beast for hours, unable to think of anything else, consumed by one question—

What if she dies?

It wasn’t his own death he thought of. Not the fact that without Aubrey, no one could prolong his life.

No–his only thought was that if Aubrey died, then he no longer wanted to live either.

The realization struck like a blow: if she left him, he would follow without hesitation.

That raw, unpolished truth spun endlessly in his mind, dragging him deeper and deeper into the abyss.

Xavier, at least, still had methods. The research team had been fighting the Kajit virus for months, and one of their improved antivirals was injected into Aubrey’s veins.

raging fever broke. Unlike most


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straight, she cooled, her

truth was

Aubrey was infected.

landed like a hammer on the Miguel

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the Shadowmoon Pack would have fallen into chaos. Without her, Henry would already

outright, fainting in shock. When she woke, she sobbed until her voice cracked, whispering over and over that she had failed

grief, a cruel question

carried the Kajit virus, could she still sustain

not, what future remained

all their work this past year–all the sleepless


under

Aubrey’s

ache gnawed through her body–she knew at once.

had passed her

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“Aubrey?”

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