The Alpha Who Rejected Me Needs My Blood

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and Caelan swayed. It was a small movement at first, just a lean to the left.

in shirt, I could feel the black veins pulsing against my arm

ered. "Don't tell

shook. "You have three weeks to live, an

d weakly in my coat. "It's th

oesn't

I know that my anger did not leave. It only changed shape, the way water becomes ice, until it was something harder and much more painful. I t

es. Wren, in her red scarf, her face white. "Oh,

cold compress, and I sat beside his bed until his breathing slowed. Wren sto

said at last, i

s my

were red-rimmed. "I need to tell you some

ait

nd put fresh flowers on the workbench. Someone is coming, and I want her to feel at home.'" Wren laughed, short and unea

in go

her,'" I s

waiting for you, Dr. Calder. For six yea

out for your tea," Wren added. "

trust my voice, so I did not answer. It was past midnight when I got back to the clinic. I locked t

e home

come. The flowers, the dusted shelves, the card. And Caelan

hen I felt lost. I cleaned and started with the workbench, wiping every jar, every beaker, every d

s table. I had sat beside it for twelve years. That seam had never been th

ellowed at the edges. On the front, in l

o

the floor with the letter in my

rling

f love has been twisted into something terrible. Forgive me. I never

od in your veins is older than the pack, older than the Alphas, older than the border. It i

comes to you with kind eyes. Not even those who say they are fr

wn hands. Tr

more than a

a

d, the page was wet, and I did n

. It had always been me and the poison killing Duskwood had

as locked. There was no draft. The flame bent sideways, as if something ha

creaking behind me. I moved without thinking. I rolled sideways just as something whistled through the a

here?" I

and a gloved hand clamped over my mouth.

its eyes when I touched Caelan's blood, simply woke up. Heat burst through my ches

, and a cloud of white powder exploded in the air. I coughed, stumbled, and fell. The powder stung my eyes and burned my nose. Wolfsbane, I

en I saw it. Caught on the window latch, where the attacker had squeez