Wolf at the Door by Hailey Edwards

Author:Hailey Edwards [Edwards, Hailey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BA
Published: 2017-01-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

“Open your eyes,” a firm, masculine voice ordered, and I obeyed without hesitation. A dark-haired man with a piercing hazel gaze had made me the center of his focus, and his raw power stung the hairs on my arms to attention. Cord, I wanted to cry. Alpha, the wolf howled. “Good girl.”

“How are you not dead yet?” Abram’s face appeared in my field of vision, too close and too large, distorted. “I’ll tell you. You’re damn lucky, and I’m damn good, and you’re damn lucky I’m good.” He forced my left eye open wide and swiped a light across that blinded me. “You should have been born a cat shifter, ’cause you sure as hell have eight more lives than the rest of us.”

“Abram,” Zed, my best friend in the whole world, rumbled. “Back up off her.”

“Stop crowding the healer. All of you.” Cam’s blonde head popped into view, and she shoved Zed back. “Give him room to work. You can chew him out later.”

“I’ll be right outside, Delly.” Zed lowered his forehead to mine. “Goddamn you for scaring me like that.”

“Sss,” I hissed, trying for sorry but failing.

“Sorry means you won’t do it again.” He huffed. “We both know better.”

Strong fingers flexed through mine, and I tilted my head to see who held my hand. Joy inflated my heart to overflowing as I whispered, “Isss.”

You’re okay, I wanted to say. You made it down in one piece. Thank God.

“I couldn’t hold on.” He brought my hand to his mouth and kissed my knuckles, unable to meet my eyes. “I tried to…but I was too late.”

I squeezed his fingers to let him know I understood. He wasn’t born to the skies, and he had been dead on his feet. Rilla was too great an aerial adversary. Weak as he had been, he had gotten me more than halfway down. I couldn’t have asked him for more.

“Time for the flip, people. We need her on her stomach for this.” Abram gripped my forearm. “What the hell? Are those silver burns? Guess we’ll be treating those too.” He barked out more orders, his position as healer overriding the alphas present. Gentle hands lifted me, too many for me to count, and I was turned to lie on my stomach on a cool metal tabletop. “Keep her occupied. Don’t let her fidget.”

A terrified awareness crept over me, an icy cold that might be temperature or fear encasing my spine. I registered Cord’s hand on one of my shoulders and Cam’s on the other. A flash of hurt slashed my palm, and then the strength of the pack bond flowed through them, sank into me and eased the worst of the pain. Their combined efforts lifted my consciousness away from my body and into a safe, dark space that pulsed with warmth and love from my pack.

“Sorry about that. We had to reinitiate the bond.” Cord’s voice rang clear in my head. “It must have severed when you crossed realms.”

I jerked at the

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