ffered. The act was quick and silent, witnessed by his entire, terrified Pack. He was

romising a reckoning once this was over. "My word

l means privacy, Alpha. I need the quarantine ward secured and the full medical records

his internal structure. Roric was one of the few witnesses to my rejection. A

Kael said, the title tasti

xamin

ing for a sickness linked to ancient fear. The air was thick with the scent

isting Pack Healers. They grumbled at the insult, but m

shown in the scrying pool. He was unconscious, his body stuck in

c," I said, pulling off

ale, thin, and unmarked except for the faint, silvery scar that pulsed almost

didn't summon my white, healing light. Instead, I act

ge. The sickness wasn't a plague; it was a corruption. The lingering Wolfsbane from Kael's wound had settled into the Pack's mate-bond en

passive. "The Pack Elder

ight fade, looked terrified.

e requires time, focus, and complete co

e of the

Kael. I ensured he would be my

rd and found Kael waiting, pacing

s?" he demanded, impatience

, my eyes fixed on his body, not his face. I was search

nfected," I announced for the guards to hear. "The sicknes

illed with dangerous denial. "You dare

gaze. "I am the only one with authori

ot following them. But the weight of the talisman, the sight of his sick warriors, and the Elder's anxious face for

lined with lethal strength. I stopped inches from him. My eyes fell on the

aled him. The hand that bore the faint, pulsing mark o

y palm ove

It wasn't the searing pain of the past; it was a cold, sharp electric shock, as if

e he could process it, the glamour snapped back, burying

sealed the poison deep into your very soul. It is slowly undermining your ability to shi

breathing ragged. The denial was gone, replaced by deep horror. I had just confirmed his g

" he asked, his voic

check while I work on your warriors. You will be my main patient, my shadow, my assistant. You will

d. He would constantly feel the agony of the broken mate bo

st beginning, Alpha. Do

irtless and completely under my command. The stage