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“How the Hell did she have access to the detox cells, anyway?” I hear Keller whisper, “Her key card shouldn’t have worked on that door.” “I-I don’t know, Keller. She should only have access to the lab and storage areas.” A woman’s voice responds on a speakerphone. “I’ll get it figured out right away.” “Not a word to my father until then. He’ll have all of our heads if he finds out.” He growls. I try to focus on the conversation, but my head feels like there is an elephant sitting on it. I groan and roll over to get relief from the sensation. “Lavender? Are you okay?” I search my mind for my wolf. “Who were those girls, Zara?” Lavender whines. “Why are they prisoners?” “Zara? Can you hear me?” Keller interrupts before I can respond, sounding closer now. He takes my hand and kisses it softly. The flow of our mate bond dulls the heavy sensation in my head, and I’m able to open my eyes slowly. Keller is sitting next to the gurney I’m lying on. It looks like we are in an examining ro
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Keller’s POV “Rocky, do you smell that?” I lift my nose to the air to assess a pungent odor. “Deer piss.” He sounds disgusted. “River and Canyon are supposed to chase them away so they don’t scare the sigmas.” “Lazy asses.” I move to the open area where there’s enough room for Rocky’s wolf form to shift. “Make it quick, Rocky. We need to make sure Zara and Lavender-” Before I can finish my thought, a heavy power tackles me from behind, throwing me to the ground. The wind gets knocked out of me, but when I try to get a breath in, the scent of deer piss assaults my nose, making me gag. I try to roll over, but my attacker is much heavier than me. A hard elbow to the back of my head lets me know it’s Skylar. It was his signature move when we were kids and I couldn’t defend myself. Now that we are adults, the blow makes me see spots. “Skylar, what the fuck are-” I try to roll over, but he presses hard on the back of my neck, smashing my face into the ground. He holds me down with a kn
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“Keller, can you hear me?” A familiar voice shines a light on a path and leads me from the infinite void I have been existing in. “Open your eyes, honey. Come on, it’s time to come back to us.” A rush of stimuli crashes into me all at once. Scents, sounds, emotions, gravity, lights, dizziness, nausea. I try to sit up, but something is holding me down. “Easy, my boy.” Dad’s voice permeates the darkness I’m emerging from. He sounds somber and restless. I wrestle with feeling everything at once inside me, but one thought prevails. “Zara Zhade.” My voice is hoarse, and my throat is scratchy. Maybe they didn’t hear me. Maybe I didn’t say it out loud. “I need Zara.” The words absorb into the crevices of my soul until the concept becomes tangible. I need her in my arms. I need to smell her and stroke her hair. She needs to hear me tell her I love her. She needs me to protect her. I force my eyes open in the bright room. I can barely make them squint. Mom’s silhouette comes into view,
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Ace sits on the edge of the bed and sighs heavily. He looks back up at me like he’s trying to figure out the best way to begin. “Okay. First, there are a couple of things you need to know. And please remember, I’m just the messenger here. Got it?” He holds his hands up in surrender. “Got it.” I also hold my hands up, mimicking his gesture. “I should preface by saying, Doctor Khe came before we could even get Zara here and we made sure only female staff members have attended to her. We are doing our best to keep her condition in perspective, so we haven’t pushed her too much.” He fidgets with his hands, then looks at me sympathetically. “She hasn’t been very cooperative, which is understandable, but she has spoken with the Doc and she’s speaking to your parents, so that’s a good sign.” Condition? Does he mean she’s a sigma or is it something else? My brother’s unforgiving dark eyes come to my mind. Jensen. “Did Jensen hurt her? I’m gonna fucking kill him.” I throw the blanket of
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“Wake up. NOW!” Rocky jolts me from a deep sleep. The shock makes me pull Zara tighter against me to protect her. She sighs with a whine, but doesn’t wake up. I rub circles on her back to lull her back to a deeper sleep. Dad is sitting beside the bed staring at Zara and me sleeping, but his eyes are pitch black. “Avalanche. What are you doing?” I rub my eyes in the dimly lit room. “I came to apologize.” His deep voice rumbles. “I shouldn’t have killed him. Now my mate is mad. So is Phil.” “Where is Dad now? Is he listening?” I don’t think Dad has ever let Avalanche have free rein in human form before. “I asked for privacy to talk to you.” He twists his mouth, looking uncomfortable. “You don’t need to apologize to me. My mate would be dead if it hadn’t been for you.” I give him a nod of appreciation. “Mom and Dad will come around. They just need time.” “He was your brother. Their son.” The wolf looks confused. “If he valued our relationship, he wouldn’t have acted the way he d
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“Zara, come on Pocket. Doctor Khe is here for your appointment and Estelle has a test she needs to run, so she’s here, too.” I sit on the side of the bed and brush her hair back. “Do you want me to have them come in here or meet with them in my office?” She hasn’t gotten out of bed except to go to the bathroom and to eat in almost a week and it is worrying me. She says she’s too tired and sleeps all day. Doctor Khe says it’s a normal reaction to what she went through and to keep encouraging her to do routine things and stick to her new medication schedule. Estelle warned me that all the chemicals could change her demeanor until they have regulated everything. What she didn’t tell me was that the mixture of chemicals would change Zara’s scent. Now hidden between the rose and chamomile, I can smell the ocean breeze. It’s pleasant, just different. Zara has nightmares that make her cry in her sleep. She hides herself against me with her arms over her head, shaking and fearful of her dre
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Once I’m able to convince Zara that I’m actually happy about the news, things seem to get better. She still has days where all she does is lay in bed and cry, but they are fewer and fewer. Doctor Khe has to change Zara’s medications, yet again, which makes things more challenging in caring for her. The time she spends whispering to herself or staring off with a very un-Zara-like scowl has become more frequent. If you ask her who she is talking to, or what she is thinking about, she gives you a suspicious look and turns away or tells you she does not know what you’re talking about. One night, Dad even stopped her from deleting all her data from the server. When he asked her why she was doing it, all she could say was ‘they told her she had to’. After that, Dad set up an auto back-up of the server that Zara couldn’t access to be safe. Mom, Dad, and Estelle take turns staying the night, so I can go to work from eleven p.m. until three a.m. with Jasper. We hand out warm clothes and food
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Zara seems in better spirits once school starts back up. Having a routine and figuring out how to balance school, homework, and working on the sigma cure seems to keep her mind off of other things. She also shows an interest in converting the guest room into a nursery and the nursery into a guest room so the baby will be closer to our room. Mom is happy to help have the guest room furniture moved and to have everything from the existing creepy nursery donated. One particularly rough night at work, Jasper and I find the body of a girl we had been speaking with under a bridge. The sickly sweet smell of ketamine is heavy in the air. “I think it’s time for me to take a page for your book, Kel.” Jasper puts his hands in his coat pockets and watches the ambulance with the girl’s corpse drive away. “I thought about the dark side of my bad habits. I’m done partying like that. Sticking to beer and liquor.” “It’s gonna change your life, Jas. You’ll see.” I clap him on the back and lead him
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