As a crippling pain radiated through Pearl’s body she could not focus on what was happening around her, all she could hear was screams and the tearing of flesh. The smell of copper and filth blended together and it was soon joined by the sickly smell of her own odor as she sweated profusely. Drops of cold sweat dripped down from her scalp into her eyes making them sting, and the ropes burned into her flesh. The bite on her neck burned like it was on fire and her muscles twitched in pain. She soon felt this soothing embrace and the familiar scent of her mate, before she blacked out. Pearl woke up in the pack hospital with Wyatt holding her hand. He sat next to her looking like he lost all of his strength. His eyes were baggy and bloodshot, and next to him stood her father and mother. Pear

