Chapter 41 – Awake and Expecting

LYRIC

Mike lay in the room next to us sleeping peacefully. Whatever he made happen, and however he made it happen, had wiped him out. His body and wolf had slipped into a deep slumber fully exhausted from exerting that amount of energy.

Other than needing rest, thankfully, he was unscathed.

Tobias had taken Twenty-Nine to the Golden Circles cells. Rhett was hovering outside the room Jonda was currently laying in, while doctors fussed around her taking her vitals and hooking her up to antibiotics and saline.

She was in a severe state. Dehydrated from loss of blood. Her skin was pale and the dark veins that covered her body were slowly receding. The energy or light Mike had produced was what brought her back to life. Rhett's bite is what stabilized her.

There was a theory surrounding Jonda’s curse, why she didn’t have her wolf. She was told her wolf would only emerge when she met her fated mate – a wolfless shifter. That was Rhett, so I was hoping that since he marked her, her wolf woul