LYRA'S POV By the time I opened my eyes they were flooded with the fluorescent lights coming from the roof of the hospital. I looked around, assessing my surroundings and the first thing I noticed apart from the machines in between was Alpha Kael sitting close to me with a face masked with concern. “Lyra,” he called out to me as if I was on my death bed. “You're finally awake! You've been unconscious for a day and a half.” I was about to ask him why I was even here in the hospital, but then my memories came flooding back. How I have been working another extra shift in clawfire bar when Aiden came with his ridiculous offer for me to become his mistress. And when I refused, how he had flung me across the room like a discarded doll. It was then I noticed the pain in my legs and my hand. I

