MALAKAI’S POV

I was unconscious but somehow, a part of me was conscious too. "Ever since what happened to his mother... he doesn't know how to stop. Every time he gets emotionally triggered, he pushes himself way past human limits until his body literally breaks under him." 

^How dare Kael tell her about this?! He would pay once I awoke!^

Deep inside my chest, the wolf sensed the hands of the healers, the sharp smell of medicinal herbs and iron triggering its primal survival instinct.

My fingers twitched against the floorboards. My nails began to lengthen, thick, dark claws extending unconsciously and scraping against the stone. 

My core temperature skyrocketed,...