also not been following Elizabeth. Bass had been right

and trusted Elizabe

felt to her, however impossible it might seem. However painful it

h, he still wanted to help her somehow. This was an insane task set to

enneth, and gave him

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ian’s side. She’d begun sleeping in one of the other patient’s rooms in

arely able to shift properly, to gather roots a

ayed by Fi

racle, he was

of, and checked in on him between every patient she saw. He still hadn’t woken up,

cking in on him, when another p

abeth greeted. “H

wide, smiling. “It is I that can

rst time since she’d been w

, the night he was attack

th him that night, I should have thought to bring him

s a little different next time,” she assured him. “What’s al

said again, smiling

abeth gesture

Kenneth said, stepping asi

ped. She moved to the second and third

even mentioned in passing she might need

oftly. “And he hopes that these will help you with

o leave, but Eliz

sort through the emotion. No words would be able to ex

his head slig

her, back when she still hadn’t known who he truly was, was here in these boxes. Everything to s

ian, looking to check in on him

this,” Elizabeth promised him.

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beth thought she’d make a quick run to her home. She would

e worried her more. Instead, his healing was slow and

to go back, when Bass barged in through her front door ag

y taking her off guard. “You leave a sick wolf

izabeth answered. “He’d recovere

hat wolf died and it was because of yo

should have recovered completely. He was nowhere near sick enough that he could have relapsed. El

g was ve

er negligence, completely o

ongue, because even if she’d had everythi

le to save him. Might. Even with the best and immediate medical care under the most skilled of healers, Alpha wounds still kill. Because that’s the power of an Alp

d to claws, his face starts to shift, and he raises

o shift too, ready

but the blow

s claw in his hand

abeth falls into a bow. Bass is kept upright only because

or of it before. Bass starts to walk almost immedia

Bass immediately

nd still an edict, her body ob

ce they were five, and his grief right now is almost beyond him. But his behavior just now was abs

should have worked quicker, used stronger herbs. I do

an anyone else would have been able to. I’ve only ever known of one wolf to recover from an Alpha’s wounds like that. And even

down sobbing. The weight and exhaustion of everything be

I tried every herb I knew. I really thought he was getting better, I real

d to be able to kill ten wolves at a time. One wolf, against that power, is just unbearable. Those wounds are not meant to heal

ing so long, because he was strong, I thought I’d be able to save him. You sent me

, staring into her eyes, she

ould have, for him,” James murmu

what else to say, or h

wer, he brought his face clo