Ember sat beside Kaya’s bedside in the mansion’s clinic, while her mother rested a room away. It had been a week of bedside waiting, and when she stared at her mother’s face, she willed her to wake up. The pack doctor had informed her that her mother had been overdosed with a high concentration of wolfsbane and that it would take weeks for her to recover, and at the risk of losing her wolf. Ember had shivered at the news. Knowing her mother and how much she loved her wolf, she would rather die than lose her. And Ember understood completely, losing your wolf sounded like the most painful and soul shattering thing that could ever happen to a person. Every day, she made rounds in the clinic, checking on both her mother and Kaya, who was still mourning the loss of her hair. She cursed Darius

