year

my eyes locked on t

" Sarah said, slapping th

" I exhaled, ripping off my surgical g

g off," Sarah groaned, stripping off her lab coat.

, I felt my inner wolf finally unwind. My clinic with Sarah was up and running, my life in New York was exactly wha

ore through the air, followed im

led, shoving Sara

going on?!" S

outed back and bo

oss the asphalt. The guy on the ground was rasping in agonizing pain, and then a s

elled, sprinting towar

e men growled, baring his cl

the black blood pooling from his chest? He's been shot with silver

hard. "She's right... He

the corner. Get him onto

we got him onto the surgical table, his veins were bulging black like a spiderw

t ruthless cl

ommanded, grab

ll tear this clinic to the groun

hut your fucking mouth and step outside, your buddy is leaving here in a body

guy muttered,

e'll be

g serum and two milligrams of ep

n of silver poison from his body. As the first light of dawn broke, I

he? Is h

out of my pocket and lighting up. "I flu

g guy said, slinging his buddy's arm over his shoulder to

, rolling my eyes. "Fine, do whatever you

and I went out for a quick grocery run. Walking down the avenue with a

said, pointing at a boutique wi

black luxury SUV with fully blacked-out win

"Which car? That SUV? So what? It's Ne

car outside the clinic yesterday morning. And when I left my apartment last night, it was parked

be it's a rich secret admirer, D

e last glance over my shoulder at the SUV as we kept wal

side. As I took off my lab coat and draped it over the back of a chair,

hair, tanned skin, and cold, razor-sharp gray eyes. But it was the faint, jagged scar cutting through his left eyebrow that caught my attention a brutal imperfection on an otherwise f

This was Cole the legendary H

His voice was as cold and

taking a confident step toward him. "And you are? Are you the gu

rward aggressively. "Doctor.Do you h

my hazel ones. "I'm Cole. Head Alpha of the Midnight Pack. My men told me what happened the othe

uy is breathing right now, it's thanks to that science you look down on. If you came

ing wolf energy rolled over me, but I didn't budge an inch. He stared into the dep

ame to offer you a job," Cole said, his

status, Alpha," I said firmly. "I have zero intention of goin

ds, completely unreadable. "You

this confidenc

eryone has

don

Children are dy

tional healers and shamans on pack land. But we need a doctor w

my eyes. "Are all your p

ic in our pack, Doctor. A mysterious biological toxin left behind by hunters is makin

lent for a

ot sick, everyone belie

but the exhaustion behind

hild collapsed.

ld my

ritual they knew. Ever

y fa

ence settled

dy buried t

me harder th

jaw tig

t bury

ked into my clinic, I wasn't look

a leader who hadn

cine can save e

yes never

put my pr

clinic door burs

d Al

, gasping for air, hi

head slowly. "

embling. "His fever spiked past 105 again.

unged into

e cracked for the very first

time doe

ered his gaze

nk he'll last unti

hest. They were talking ab

zing seconds. Then he turned thos

e why I need y

nd their never-ending power struggles. But I couldn't just stand

t a heav

as possible. "I stay out of your pack politics. And the

red a sin

ea

eavy, exhausted sense of relief, as if tons

rrow your brows any harder and you're gonna give yourself w

cking a smile, he said

when the puzzle pieces finall

black SUV. You weren't just creepi

door, glancing back

ives of my pack to j

e walk