I ran through the pack house. Wolves were falling everywhere. Some fighting the infection. Some already lost. Red eyes tracking me as I passed.
"Kade!" Dr. Chen appeared from the medical wing. "What's happening? Half my patients are having seizures!"
"The infection. It's spreading through the pack bond." I kept moving. "Where's the backup alpha?"
"There isn't one. You never appointed one after…"
"Shit." Right. I'd been so focused on Sera, on Ember, on survival that I'd never made a backup plan.
Stupid. So stupid.
"Can you perform a severing?" I asked Dr. Chen.
"In theory. But it requires alpha power. The ability to command the pack bond."
"What if we did it by force? Cut the bonds magically?"
"That's…" She stopped. Thought. "That's never been done. But theoretically, if we had eno
