ELARA POV
I'd been in the hallway when I felt it. That phantom pull through our damaged bond, Kai's pain hitting me like a physical blow even though we'd been rejected for three years. Something was wrong. Terribly wrong. I was running before my brain caught up, Aurora screaming in my mind that our mate was dying.
The council chamber was chaos when I burst through the doors. Kai on the floor convulsing, James trying to hold him steady, pack members shouting over each other. And Melissa standing there with an expression I'd seen before. Satisfaction. The look of someone who'd planned this exact outcome.
"Move!" I shoved through the crowd and dropped to my knees beside Kai. His lips were turning blue, foam at the corners of his mouth. Poison. Silver-laced from the smell. Wolfsbane probabl
