I had never seen Kael look so pitiful in my life.
The Alpha who had always been untouchable, who could bring an entire pack to its knees with one pulse of his pressure, was now collapsed on the cold floor of the medical room like a heap of mud.
The high concentration of wolfsbane hadn't just shredded his nervous system. It had killed his inner wolf completely.
Without his wolf's healing factor, Kael was withering away by the minute, visibly fading right in front of me.
He was a cripple now. Less than an ordinary human. His limbs jerked at unnatural angles. The sound rasping out of his throat was like a broken pair of bellows.
Darian was standing next to him, idly turning the vial of antidote in his fingers. The one that could have saved Kael's life.
Right in front of me and Kael, he
