Chapter 49Sora's POV
The numbers on his chart tell me Ethan's wound is healing slow enough to look like he's waiting to die.
I almost miss it. I'm three patients into the morning chart review — standard procedure, once a day, every name on the ward, even the ones I'm not treating myself. His file sits in the middle of the stack like any other.
Blackwood, E. Silver penetration, left shoulder. Day nine.
I open it to log the morning's numbers, and the regeneration rate stops me.
An Alpha of his rank closes a wound like this in four days. Five at the outside. He's at day nine, and the healing rate is logged at under half of baseline.
I read it twice.
I know what this is.
Bond reflux. When a bonded Pack Alpha spends years clamping the mate bond down — fighting that pull, strangling that
