Damian POV
Helpless. It wasn’t a feeling that I was overly familiar with, but I knew enough to recognize it. I hadn’t felt like this since my parents were killed.
I watched as the doctor and the girl moved around Archer, tossing questions and answers back and forth as they worked. Archer’s breathing was so faint that I found myself straining to hear him.
My beta had been my best friend since we were kids. Archer had stood beside me through every terrible moment of my life. My parents’ funeral. My ascension ceremony. The first challenge to my authority after I took over Crescent Peak.
Every time the weight of the pack threatened to crush me, Archer had been there beside me, steady and unshaken. The idea of losing him felt impossible.
I heard the doctor address his helper. Her name w
