“She was awake minutes ago, Luna, but then she slipped back into a deep sleep due to a metabolic imbalance. But she’s otherwise stable, we summoned you because we knew you would want to speak with her,” said the pack doctor to Ember, who was sitting in a chair by her mother’s bed with her hand in hers. The air was stale and smelled of medication, adding to the stark white walls and monotone bedding in the room. She really hated hospitals. Ember was disappointed. When she was informed, she had run down to the pack clinic with her heart in her throat. She missed her mother and couldn’t wait to speak with her, especially with the situation at Thorne’s estate. She wanted to leave as soon as possible, but she knew her old pack and home didn’t have the facilities to nurse her mother back to h

