21.

SAGE

"She's going to be okay," Clause states, placing his hand on my left shoulder.

I growled in frustration. It's been three weeks now, and she hasn't moved a limb; her wounds are barely recovering.

"How? It's been fucking throw weeks now," I roared.

"You're an Alpha, for god's sake! What do you expect? She won't heal that fast; your claws did do some damage." The clause states as though it wasn't the most obvious thing.

I felt the guilt gnawing into me. Lyra shouldn't have been dragged into this mess in the first place; she deserves way better than this.

My jawline hardened.

"Mum has been inquisitive lately," the clause states, snapping me out of my train of thought.

My heart dropped. I knew that hiding such information from Mom was going to be a tough one, yet it didn't stop me.

No one aside from my siblings knows about this, not even my beta.

"You can keep hiding it from her. We have the doctors working on her, and I believe she'd be fine with time," Clause tries to say, but n