“I understand. I’m okay, really. My wolf is working fast on healing me. Look, it’s not even bleeding anymore.” She lifted the hem of her shirt, and sure enough, the injury had been reduced to thin pink lines of healing flesh, the wound no longer open. “Promise me you’ll rest. Promise me you won’t try to fight anyone else. Sergei and Kane are here. They won’t leave you unprotected.” “One, you’re sweet, but I was never unprotected.” She tapped her chest, and her eyes glowed with her wolf. She wasn’t a trained fighter, no, but she was right that her wolf was certainly not defenseless. She was the most dominant female I’d met besides my sister, Galyna, and she was away training to become an elite warrior. “Two, I’m fine. You heard Bri.” She cast an anxious glance at her prone friend. “The

