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p being

elt heavy, like it was filled with lead. The burn

ice floated from somewhere abov

aid. It sounded greasy. "If we tak

Holden replied cu

d my ey

but it was filthy. The tiles were stained bro

d me onto a

s the room. She was hooked up to a

speak, but my throat

as a Rogue, judging by the lack of a pack mark on

I rasped

side, holding her hand.

script. "The injury you caused her destabilized her system. She n

spered. "She heals..

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thick needle into th

hiss of pain e

I watched my life force draining away, moving acros

oom began to spin. Cold

lace where my wolf slept,

f blood was triggering a survival mechanism. That ancient

p-th

t less like biology and more like geolog

p-th

eart. It was a drum

at up. She looked at the

id, licking her lips. "

en soothed her. "You'

f the room to an

aidyn hopped off the bed. She walke

ed over

d, "your blood smells...

ed the needle in my arm.

iggled. She p

table, crashing onto the dirty floor. The needle r

e corner of a

ouldn't move. I lay in a pool of

hon

threw every ounce of my fading

ons

boring. Old men argui

ded space, that the trauma of the rejection was hitting her. My guards hadn't reported in, which wa

pacing. Restless

ain ripped th

rse. It felt like a jagged hook had

oak chair flew backward an

m went

e of the elders

ce!" I

lt it. The bond. It was

is d

e. My

ermission. I didn'

ass, leaping from the third story. I landed in

hif

s bigger than a normal wolf, a monstrosity of black

head back

to every wolf in

he wind. Faint. Metal

k of rogue filth and my

c, vaulting over cars. I was

linic in the rogue distr

en it. I ra

etal explo

he scent of snow and pine was dro

into t

r. Pale as a ghost. A pool of cr

ood over he

pinprick. The beast insi

I

undation of the building, shatteri

ved. And he broug