Alvira's P.O.V. I didn't think that walking down the hall would leave me feeling winded. Then again, my body was far weaker than normal right now. I still felt the dull ache of my silvered restraints on my wrists and ankles and winced as the skin on my wrists flexed with my subtle movements. Nell walked beside me, her arm linked with mine for support. Sheena was a pace or two ahead of us, leading us down the corridor in the direction of the Alpha suite of the hospital. This floor of the hospital was reserved exclusively for rooms dedicated to the ranked members and their immediate families. According to Sheena, they had to keep me down the hall just in case something had gone wrong with Nikolai’s first procedure. Otherwise, we would have fallen into an echo chamber of pain through our b

