The link from our pack patrol had come just as the doctor had gone to check Mari over once again. The moment that I heard Beta Kian had potentially been spotted close to our borders, I knew that I had to get out of the hospital and to the edges of my packlands to join my men. I needed to defend my pack but more importantly, something inside me was telling me I had to fulfill my promise and protect this frail she-wolf currently hospitalized because of me… Hudson argued angrily with me as I attempted to create a reason to leave the hospital, despite the fact he would have heard the mindlink too. No matter how I tried, Hudson was not for backing down and agreeing with me, and in the end it slipped from my lips instead of through the mindlink as I intended, while I snarled at him due to his a

