Kael’s blood had soaked through my hands before the guards could carry him out of the hall.
The pack was still fighting, but the battle sounds blurred behind me. All I could think about was the way his body went still when I called his name. The poison had already started to turn his skin pale.
The warriors cleared a path through the chaos, shouting orders and pushing back the flames. I barely noticed the heat or the smoke. My entire world had narrowed to the form of the Alpha collapsing against me.
“Get him to his chambers!” someone yelled, but I was already moving.
Two guards lifted him by the arms while I pressed a cloth against the wound in his side. He was heavy, strong even in weakness, and I felt the faint pulse of the bond pulling through the mark on my neck as if search
