is

pavement of the Omega sector. Marcus, the Alpha's warrior, had dumped me here

My legs felt like lead, weighed down not just by exhau

lavender soap and dried herbs usually brough

apped up the moment I entered. Relief washed over her face, ins

Where have you been? I've been calling-" She stopped, her eyes widening as s

crushed mint and ice-was clinging to every pore of my skin, overpow

idn't know where to start. The wh

rose to a frantic pitch. "D

't remember!" I crie

rom the hallway bulb caug

the heavy silver band engraved with the Alph

he hissed, clawi

!" I pulled back, tears

Pack sees a wolfless Omega wearing the Alpha heir's ring... they won't just kill you, A

hattering my composure. I ripped my hand from her grasp

e ring pulsed on my finger, warm and heavy, a shackl

rice

beep of the heart monitor w

arrett. The man who had once commanded armies was

, smoothing a stray hair from his forehead. My voice was s

ear. "You thought you could give t

ncture I'd been slipping into his evening tea for the past year had don

special surprise for him. The Elders will never accept a wolfless Omega as Luna. Your precious Lycan's bon

tantly, my face falling into a mask of tra

itr

the threshold. It was a cloying, metallic stench

the

pha Grafton was convulsing, his body arching off the

" I roared at

doctor shouted, his hands glowing with healing m

her's hand. It w

focused. He looked at me, desperate to speak, but a violent cough tore

ne let out a long, singular tone

The silence in the

chest. My brother held her, his face twisted in sorr

r. The Alpha's Command rolled off me, shaking the glass

and on my shoulder. "Dimitri, stop.

eyes at him. "

ronic silver poisoning. Someone had been exposing him to it for months, maybe years. He forbade

r poi

in my head. Lie

oked back at the lifeless bo

from panic," Bryson said smooth

d. Silver poisoning wasn't an illn

t. I had woken up with no memory, mated to a wolfless n

g in. And I didn't kn