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With that, I didn’t bother to fight, giving into the peaceful exhaustion pulling at me.
My eyes blinked open as a breeze blew past. Not a breeze, I was being wheeled briskly down the hallway.
“What’s going on?” I croaked, wincing at the fire burning in my chest.
“Don’t talk yet, we’ll explain in just a moment. Almost there,” a nurse reassured me. Something in the way she said it was both amused and exasperated. “Someone in your pack is quite insistent.”
My pack. The fire.
Oh god.
“Dani?”
“Alive, Jackson. They’re all alive,” she said diplomatically.
Alive, but not well. That much was obvious.
A shudder ran through me, part from pain and part from the reality of what happened. As my mind woke up, more of the memories were coming back.
Dani dropping.
Waking up to someone tying me up. She smelled like flowers and gasoline. When she saw I was awake she laughed, saying something before dropping something on the floor and rushing out.
Screams.
Smoke.
Pain.
Fear.
“Breathe, alpha. It’s alright. We’ve got you. You’re safe now,” the same nurse said. Her voice was loud and commanding, but edged in genuine kindness that had me wanting to listen.
A beta, but a strong one.
“In. Out. Your lungs took enough damage, let's not make it worse,” she urged as they finally rolled me to a stop.
“There you are,” Griff said. His voice was shredded and followed by a groan. But he was alive.
I glanced at him, before turning the other way to see Dani and Cy both in their own beds. Both asleep.
“Cy freaked out when he got here and had to be sedated. HIs alpha went into a rage to get to her,” the nurse explained. “She’s sedated to heal.”
“How bad?” I asked. Desperation had me reaching for her, fingers holding her scrub top before she could shut me out.
She patted my hand and held my gaze, giving me a rundown of her injuries.
Injuries that were only there because of us.
Henry was at fault, but we’d brought her to his attention.
Fuck.
“Pop took my statement to the cops. They’re running through all the info. Our cabin had cameras and they have footage of Henry and his sister entering,” Griff said.
I released the nurse who backed out of reach now, giving me a warning look. Then she was moving toward the others, checking their vitals.
The steady beeping from both monitors had me calming slightly.
