Kate's POV
The first thing I felt when I woke up wasn't pain. It was silence.
Not the hush of a hospital room. The silence inside my own body.
My wolf wasn't there. Or she was there and refusing to answer me, the way she always used to. No voice. No scent. No trace of the creature who had stood up inside that lab and torn it open on my behalf. My head was a white, empty room, and the last thing I remembered was my mother's brother coming through the doors.
The two nurses changing my IV hadn't noticed I was awake. They kept talking under their breath.
"Over twenty in the lab. Critical."
"I heard she ripped them apart. With her hands."
"What if they don't make it? What is she?"
Broken pictures flashed behind my eyes. Darkness. Blood. Vivienne yanking a man in front of her like a shie
