Gideon’s POV
The pain was incredible.
Wounds were a familiar part of my life. You don’t get to be werewolf Alpha without many battles. This wasn’t even the worst wound I’d received. I had scars all over my body from injuries that were more mortal than this.
This was one of the few times that I had been injured with silver, however, and the way it set every part of me on fire was heart-stopping.
I could feel the poison advancing through my system, creeping towards my heart. I hoped that my magical healing could stop it before it killed me, but there was a terrifying doubt in the back of my mind that there would be enough time.
Of course, I couldn’t say any of this in front of Avery. I didn’t want to scare her. She was terrified enough.
The way her eyes had looked at me when she w
