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Bray rubs his chin. “My omega almost died.”

“PLEASE!” Wiley screams.

“I told you. I warned you,” I say coldly.

“You said we had a second chance!” Wiley shouts.

Bray looks at me and smiles. “She lied.”

He lights a match and looks back at the pack who tried to destroy Locke. In the firelight, I see his savage satisfaction, and it mirrors my own. “No one hurts our omega.”

I step back, watching him as he flicks the match at the car.

He wanders back to my side and takes my hand. “What a tragic accident.”

“Yes. So sad they died too young.”

I turn in his arms. “Let's go and look after our pack.”

Bray kisses my forehead. “I love you, Erin.”

I grab his palm, kiss his hand, and tug him back to the car.

“Love you, too. Let's go home.”

Through the night, wedoze off and on. Locke doesn’t wake, but at some point, Finn does. I carefully help him sit up and give him hot honey water to drink. Doctor James comes in and checks him and makes a sound of approval before slipping out again.

Finn looks at me in exhaustion and cups my cheek.

“I’m sorry for everything. All these years. Tell Bray and Shane. I should have come and looked for you.”

His incoherence alarms me more than anything else.

“Shh, Finn, it’s fine. You need to sleep.”

He coughs and then shivers, lays back down, and falls into a deep sleep.

By morning, they’re bothcoughing. Giant hacking, wet sounds that get more and more frequent.

By midday, they’re feverish, and the fight to keep them alive really begins.

We stay up, changingbedding, pouring medicines and fluids into them when they wake, and bathing their heads with cool clothes.

Seven days after that horrible night, Finn opens his eyes, coherent and present at last. He’s weak, but Doctor James says he’s past the danger zone.

I spoon feed him a cup of soup before he passes out in exhaustion. But when I look at Bray, he smiles. It’s a small bone of hope.

Finn’s okay. Now, we’re waiting for Locke.

I’d wait forever…but I hope it’s not too long.

Chapter forty

Erin

The guy is abig, heavily-muscled alpha with dark hair and an aura that is so aggressive it makes me shudder. And he’s asking for my omega.

Not a chance in hell.