Damien’s POV I was ready to fight Jake to the death if need be, if he continued to stand in the way of me reaching my mate. Yet, just as he was about to throw a punch and I was about to shift to tear him to pieces, the door to Amelia’s examination room opened. Inside, both doctors looked at us, and Amelia did too. Healer Eve, presumably, as the only one in the room I didn’t recognize, had been the one to open the door. Behind her, in the back of the room, sitting on the edge of the examination table with her legs dangling over the side, I saw Amelia. She wasn’t harmed and didn’t seem to be in any state of terror. Instead, she appeared contemplative, her gaze dropping away from me and down to the hands in her lap. “Please do not draw blood in the hospital hallways,” Eve said. “I was

