Chapter 114

Chapter 114

I also saw someone who was very sick and very tired.

After Gabriel left, I sat alone with my drink and tried to figure out why the thought of Ella moving back to her room made my chest feel too tight to breathe.

It was ridiculous. We’d slept in separate rooms for five years before Liam arrived. I was used to having the bed to myself, used to having my own space. Used to not lying awake listening to her breathing, or watching the way the moonlight fell across her face when she slept.

Fuck.

When had I started doing that? When had I started looking forward to the weight of her beside me in bed, the way she always slept curled on her side facing away from me, the soft little sounds she made when she dreamed?

During her week in the hospital, I’d barely slept. I kept reaching for her in my sleep, only to find empty space where she should have been. I’d told myself it was just habit, just my body adjusting to the change in routine.

But now, thinking about going back to sleeping alone while Ella was all the way on the opposite end of the mansion in her old room… It felt wrong. Like losing something I hadn’t realized I wanted to keep.

That was what I told myself, at

it was far easier to blame biology than to accept that it could

own space back anyway. The arrangement had been for show and nothing more.

But when I glanced at the

the bathroom door cracked open, light spilling out from within.


I pushed the door

stopped dead when I saw her

pale as death against the cold marble tiles. For a second, I couldn’t move, couldn’t breathe.

wolf howled, my heart pounded, my entire

Chapter 114

Mate.

mate was unconscious on the fucking bathroom floor while I had been

knees beside her, pressing my fingers to her neck. Her pulse was weak but there, and she was breathing, but she wouldn’t wake up

in my arms, surprised by how light she felt, and carried her to the bed. Her head lolled as I gently laid her on the bed then fumbled

I whispered, frantically dialing for help. “Wake

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