I paced around the tiny room of the pack clinic every now and then before my gaze drifted to Rowan, who lay on the bed, stiff as a board.

Only the steady rhythm of his heart convinced me that he hadn’t left me for the afterworld, but that didn’t calm my mind either, and not even the fact that the alpha was also here.

The first minute he had collapsed, I screamed my lungs out, confused, and I hated the way the fear had paralyzed me. It was like Micah all over, and I had completely shut down.

But the people immediately surrounding him, with the directions of the alpha,...