Erick
The moment the doctor finished speaking, the words lingered in the air like a death sentence already passed.
His wolf has left him. He will follow soon.
For a second, I didn’t breathe.
I simply stared at Alan’s pale face, at the faint rise and fall of his chest, at the wires and machines that were now doing the work his body no longer could.
The steady beeping that had once been reassuring now sounded like a countdown, each sound a reminder that time was slipping through my fingers.
I lifted my hand slowly.
“Leave us,” I said, my voice calm, eerily so.
The doctors hesitated.
Fear flickered in their eyes….they knew better than to test my patience.
With hurried bows and murmured apologies, they backed away, their footsteps quick as they disappeared from the room.
The doo
