Chapter 25 

He would feel my desperation. 

He’d feel how badly I was trying to break though to him. 

And he ignored me 

As the pain in my neck pulsed through, my wolf howled in agony. Curling herself in the corner of my mind, she scratched at Her chest with her claws. Rabid growls surrounding her as she kept clawing at herself. 

slie was trying to kill herself. 

Landon had marked my sister. 

Hestia had marked Landon. 

Tears ran down the side of my face, falling to Lila’s pale cheek. I urged my legs to keep moving, but every wave of pain coming! over me immobilized my body. My legs, paralyzed and unmoving, twitching uncontrollably. 

“No, no, no- 

I cried hoarsely. My nails dug into the ground in a pathetic attempt to crawl my way down. I dragged my body over the soil. collecting mud on the way. Thuds pounding in my skull had me sobbing at my weakness. The last fragment of my bond to Landon cruelly snapping apart. I felt everything. The Moon Goddess‘ punishment for going against her blessings. A punishment I wasn’t deserving of. I felt a drop of water hit my forehead. 

It started to rain. 

The water puddled around my body, rolling off my skin and soaking in my hair. The cool comfort of rain doing nothing to ease the fire burning in my abdomen. My strength slowly dispersed from inside me. I felt so cold but so hot. Shiver after shiver, the heat in my body left me defenseless. I kept holding on, trying my hardest to keep going. Lila’s breathing was shallow. Her shall chest lifting and falling slowly. 

All color was draining from her face. 

Then suddenly another wave of pain overcame me. 

They were mating again. This time, a lot more intense because of the aftershock of marking. My claws extended out. My body – moved on its own. My wolf was trying to take control, to end the life I had because of our mate. She was going crazy, not thinking clearly and purely acting on emotion. A sort of high soaking my mind to numbness. 

“Ma–Mama…” 

Slowly my eyes started to close. Despite the desperation to keep myself awake, I was shipping into the darkness consuming whole. I forced my head to the side, seeing Lila’s hazel eyes piercing into me. Her hand outreached to touch me but failing to. Spurring the last remaining strength inside me, I tried to lift my hand to touch her. To feel her soft curls in my hand but the only thing I could move were my fingers. 

“No–Lila… please no. Please… god- no, baby no-” 

ay from the rain was the last thing I could remember 

I whispered, the feel of my tears sliding down my cheek washed away before passing out. 

Chapter 25 

Darkness. 

I was laying in an ocean of darkness. Unable to see, feel or me anything Only my mind we cudodaje numbed out except my hearing and smell. I gradually picked up on the fund of something beging 

I don’t know where I am, but my sense of smell returned. I caught whits of multiple wit en sne of that I recognize. That could only mean I was in uncharted 

“Alpha Meredith is here. She wants to see the girl” 

al a soft feminine voice. I heard someone respond but I couldar 

that he said. Nest thing liner. I heet 

creak and close shut. I was alone. I couldn’t feel any other presence in the rom eggt mine. 

Alpha Meredith? 

Alpha Meredith Crestfield? 

Isn’t she the Alpha of the Greyhound pack? The only female Alpha on the board as of right? med segna par. I I was on Greyhound territory, then I was on enemy territory. Neither Duskall originale Gestiound was looking bad. 

My eyes suddenly fluttered open upon command. Bright light invading my sight making mest decondi ang away the confusion, I tried to sit up. My body felt so rigid. So stiff I gasped out, fing an ache shoot up trying to move. I let myself fall back into the bed. Turning my head to the side. 

the walls. A few paintings of scenery hung up with a two person couch pressed s 

in a hospital gown with an IV needle punctured in my arm. Sweeping my eyes across the room. I acted a male of carnations on the coffee table. 

What the hell happened? 

t 

I tried to remember the last thing I did before passing out but it only made my head hum. Everything was a blum 1 grasping my forehead in my hands when the door slammed open. I quickly sat up despite the immediate protest of my bod 

I see you’re awake.” 

A tall, older woman with gray hair tied into a bun stood at the doorway. She was dressed ina 

flats. Her intense hazel eyes peering appraisingly at me. I didn’t miss the way her eyes sca 

scrutiny. She was definitely the Alpha. Alpha Meredith Crestfield. The power she was eming id me so anyone other than 

I was sitting here, they would’ve bowed their head in submission. But something told me not