Damon’s POV I was already heading to the hospital where John and the others were when Alex's voice hit me through the mind link. "The vampire's dead," he said, and everything inside me froze. "What the hell are you talking about?" I snapped, my palm clenching into a fist. "I took the witch to his room just now. Saw a wooden stake stabbed into his heart," Alex said, and just like that, my anger boiled over. "Who the hell is playing games with me?" I growled, already snapping the mind link shut as I stormed toward the pack hospital. It wasn’t enough that my pack was under a curse, with half of the members unconscious and barely clinging to life. It wasn’t enough that I had already lost nearly every damn fighter to Darius, and now, this vampire, Leo, is dead? With a wooden stake in his

