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The border flashes past beneath my feet. Pack members are already clearing the route. I hear voices. Wolves. Vehicles. None of it matters.

Hospital.

I see it ahead.

"We're home."

Arlene doesn't answer.

"Baby, we're home."

Her heartbeat flutters, and I give her more.

"Stay with me."

The hospital doors are open. Healers and doctors are waiting outside with two stretchers.

“Beta!”

I run straight toward them. Hands reach for Arlene, and a growl tears out of me as I turn away.

“No!”

“Darian.” Rylan is suddenly beside me, Selena still in his arms. “They need her.”

I stare at him.

“They can help her now.”

Arlene's heartbeat flutters through our bond. My wolf whines. Mate.

"They're going to help her."

I don't know if I'm talking to him, her, or myself.

Maybe all three.

I force my arms to loosen.

The doctors take Arlene from me.

“Watch the dagger!”

“We've got it.”

“She's been poisoned. Wolfsbane. The silver is doing something too. She isn't healing.”

“We know. Let us work.”

They lower her onto the stretcher. One doctor immediately braces the dagger while another checks her pulse. My arms are empty, and I reach for her through the bond.

She's there.

Weak.

So fucking weak.

Mate.