DALTON POV
Seeing Simon that unhinged made my stomach drop like a stone.
I’d seen him shaken before—furious, even—but this? This was something else. There was wildness in his eyes, a raw panic that made every alarm in my body go off at once. Something terrible had happened, and when the words finally left his mouth, they hit like a goddamn freight train.
He’d lost Lily.
My brain barely processed the meaning at first. Lost? How the hell do you lose a child? A pup? A girl like that—bright, sharp, half-feral, and stubborn as hell. One who’d latched onto Kai like she’d found home for the first time in her life.
And now she was gone.
The clock’s tick hammered inside my skull, each second a jagged cut.
Next to me, Kai went ballistic.
I felt it—no, I lived it. Her fury wasn’t quiet or con
