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“I... I... I can’t.” The man gulped, his hand trembling as he lifted his keycard toward the panel on the door while fighting the barked command. The man was a beta, but a strong one if he was resisting a bark as strong as Marcus’s.

The elevator doors slid shut but the elevator didn’t move.

Tate grabbed the man’s wrist and raised it to the electronic pad and pressed the button with a seven on it. The man made a strangled kind of whimpering noise, sweat breaking out on his forehead.

The elevator took off again, and I felt like I might vomit. She had to be okay. She just had to be. It was a good sign if Marcus knew she was on the seventh floor and not in surgery or the ICU.

As soon as the doors slid open, I caught a hint of her scent that hadn’t been scrubbed from the air yet and was out the door before someone could stop me.

But they weren’t running after me to stop me; they were running with me.

We passed a nurse’s station and then there it was. Her room. The door was shut, but the faint scent was a little stronger here.

I stopped outside the door and turned the handle.

Locked.

I tried again, and again.

“Code Gold. Code Gold,” a robotic voice said over the PA system.

I prowled toward the nurse’s station where the nurses were scrambling. “Open the door!”

“Sir, we’re going to have to ask you and your friends to leave,” an older nurse said calmly. “We have to protect them, and we won’t be letting you into any rooms under any circumstances.”

“She’s our omega!” I wanted to grab her by the front of her scrub top and drag her to the door.“Open it right now.”My voice was deadly, and she paled.

“Avery, let’s go.” I wasn’t entirely sure who grabbed my arm and tried to tug me away from the nurse.

“Open the fucking door!”My bark wasn’t as strong as Alvaro’s or even Tate’s, but at that moment it sure as fuck felt like it.

“Freeze!”

The nurse put her hands in the air and slowly backed away, her face a mixture of fear and sympathy. I didn’t want her sympathy, I wanted her to open the damn door so I could get to my omega.

“We’re just here to see their omega,” Marcus said to the footfalls quickly coming down the corridor. “There’s no need for weapons.”

I turned back to the door, ignoring my pack mates’ pleas from behind me to freeze. I wasn’t going to freeze. I needed her. I needed Kara.

“Tranquilize him,” I heard someone say.

“Is that really-” Marcus started before I felt a stab of pain in my arm.

I looked down to find a fucking dart sticking out of it. I yanked it out, throwing it to the ground as my vision started to swim. We weren’t animals; we were human fucking beings.

“Kara! Open the door!” My voice was already fading along with the sound of Alvaro telling someone not to hurt me. “Kara...”

I leaned against the door, my body feeling both heavy and like it was floating up, up, up.

My knees collapsed, and my hands squeaked as they dragged down the door. “Kara...” Her name died on my lips, just like the last thread of my sanity.

CHAPTERTWENTY-FOUR

Kara

Blood.

There was so much blood. Blood on my hands. My shirt.Gizmo.

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