XANDER'S POV I've never felt more helpless than I do at this moment, not even when I was at the mercy of those three alphas and my betas. Somehow, seeing her in tears, in that state, sitting on the bare floor in her current condition, pained me more than anything else ever has. I want to go to her. I need to hold her, to calm her down, to console her as best as I can. Nothing else mattered to me at that moment than her tears, not even the fact that I just clearly heard her mention having killed someone. I'll find time to ask her about that later. Everything else can come later or whenever; frankly, I don't even care about all of that right now. As crazy as it sounds, I just can't bring myself to care about who died and who lived or even who killed whom at this moment. I just want to go to

