"Kyla!" I cried the weight of her slight body in my arms. "Are you hurt?" Her green eyes looked like they were going to pop out of their sockets and her face was a rictus of fear. "Please tell me what's bothering you, Kyla. Is this about your conversation with Kurt that both of you wouldn't tell me?"

At first, she hesitated, but I was so eager to know the truth that I asked her again. "I won't stop asking you about it until—"

"The potion that was injected into Alpha Calle... and the very reason both of you are still paralyzed by it, it was me. I was the...