**Wakes's POV**
The call came at 3:47 PM, just as I was reviewing contracts in my Manhattan office. Dr. Chen's voice was tight with panic—a sound I'd never heard from him in all our years of professional relationship.
"Mr. Savage, there's been an incident."
The words hit like ice water in my veins. "What kind of incident?"
"Your wife... she jumped from the bathroom window. Second floor. She's unconscious, bleeding extensively. We have paramedics en route, but..."
The phone slipped from my hand, clattering onto my desk. Through my office windows, the city sprawled below me in the afternoon sunlight, completely unchanged despite the fact that my world had just shattered.
Aloe had jumped.
My pregnant wife had thrown herself from a second-story window rather than get on the helicopter I
