Adrian's POV
I left the examination room. Silas appeared immediately.
"Alpha, this was my oversight."
My tone was ice. "Go to the Punishment Hall. Thirty lashes."
"Yes, Alpha."
He drove me back to the pack house first, then left.
I collapsed onto my bed, utterly drained.
My mind replayed every intimate moment I'd had with Lina since coming back from Africa.
She was a key.
But I was no longer the lock she fit.
My phone buzzed for what felt like forever before I finally gathered the strength to answer. "Speak."
"Adrian, my father managed to contact a healer in England. A pack doctor wolf from a pack that's been around for centuries. He's treated dying wolves before — even ones with wounds as bad as yours. If anyone can save you, it's him."
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