Damian Two days. That’s how long it’s been. Two days since we dragged Stella out of that hellhole and brought her to safety. Two days since Mitchell screamed her name like his soul was being torn apart. Two days since she last opened her eyes. And she still hasn’t woken up. There are machines all around her, beeping softly. She has tubes running into her arms, and her chest is rising only because the ventilator forces it to. Stella can’t breathe for herself because the damage to her body is too much. Her organs are working hard to repair the damage, but so far, nothing has worked. Her wolf is silent—too weak to heal her. Too wounded to fight. And we don’t know that she’ll ever come back. Toby told us that Stella hasn’t been sexuall.y assaulted. He’d done an extensive check and found

