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Chapter 294

Max's POV:I don’t really know what’s happening.At first there’s only heat, steam, and the dull roar of water hitting tile, and for a few long, useless seconds I can’t work out why I’m wet, or why I’m upright, or why my skin feels raw. Then something moves over me again, brisk and impersonal, and the truth of it catches up slowly enough to make me want to laugh and die at the same time.I’m standing in a shower while someone washes me.Fuck.Maybe this is a new low. Maybe I’m already past lows and this is just where I live now.My head is still thick with drink, my thoughts sliding away from me as fast as they form. I’m vaguely aware of retching again, one hand braced against the wall while bright green bile burns its way up my throat and into the spray. The water beats over me while I’m sick, washing it away before I can really look at it, and for a second, I just stand there panting with my forehead against the tile, trying to remember how breathing works.Then the water shifts.Th

Chapter 295

Max's POVAs the car starts moving, nausea rolls through me again, slower this time but meaner, coiling low and hot in my gut before climbing. The world begins to spin with it, the motion outside the window smearing into long ribbons of light that don’t look real. I breathe hard through my nose and swallow the bile back down.I still don’t know where we’re going or why.I rest my head against the cool glass of the window, and it helps a little. The cold eases some of the pounding in my skull, and the hard, steady surface gives my body something to believe in while everything else slides in and out of focus.I close my eyes.For a second, with the glass against my temple and the engine humming under me, it almost feels like I could disappear back into the dark and let all of this happen without me.I blink and stare out at the blurred world beyond the glass, trying to make sense of the smeared lights and shifting shapes outside, but nothing settles long enough to become real. For a mom

Chapter 296

Max's POV:It’s so fucking bright in here. Why? Why is this place burning my retinas?!I stare around blindly, but I can’t make sense of my surroundings. Everything is white and blurry, though the smell hits me before anything else does. Disinfectant, with sickness and death lurking underneath it. I think hard, trying to force my brain to work through the haze, and the only place I know that smells like this is the hospital.But why are we at the hospital?“Alpha, Deltas, Gammas, second floor,” a voice says.I try to work out who it belongs to, but my eyes won’t focus and my head’s not helping by looking in the right direction. We’re moving again, and the brightness is making my head pound even harder. I hear a pinging sound, and the floor wobbles beneath me. I stumble, and hands steady me.Fuck.Why is the floor moving?The ping comes again, and I’m pushed forwards, lurching as my legs resist the movement.That’s when I catch it.The faint, tantalising whiff of jasmine.My whole body

Chapter 297

Max's POVBut she’s different.She’s not the Zahra I’ve kept alive in my head, not the untouched version of her I’ve been clinging to in dreams, memory, and desperation. She isn’t the girl I’ve been picturing every night just to survive the next morning. This Zahra is filthy and small. She’s skin and bone, and the sight of her hits me so hard it feels like someone’s driven a fist straight through my ribs.Fuck.Could this actually be her?Her lip trembles, and tears stream down her face, carving streaks through the dirt on her skin. When she smiles through it, and that small sob breaks out of her, I stop for half a second, because some part of me is terrified that if I touch her, she’ll vanish, that she’ll dissolve back into air and grief and I’ll be left standing here with nothing but the memory of almost having her.But a split second later I’m moving, before conscious thought, before anything in me has properly caught up to what’s happening. Because it’s not really a choice.I’m o

Chapter 298

Thor's POVDry mouth, I lick lips, jaw cracking. Face hurts. Body hurts. I try to move, but I can’t. I try again. My body is bound. I struggle, legs pulling, pain biting through them. I put strength into it, muscles surging, but the confining feeling is awful, frightening. I growl with effort and feel the slightest give, but nothing comes of it except more pain in my legs.I open senses.Head hurts, ache pounding inside skull. Bright white room. Bars, and a glass wall. I sniff. Sharp metallic smell, painful... silver. Antiseptic. Blood.A cell then.The light is bright and hurts my eyes. Red blinking light in the corner.I roll and manage to lie on my stomach. Legs are chained together, not silver, but strong... too strong for me. Throat dry. Mouth feels foul. Headache. Stomach rumbles.Hungry.How long have I been here? Where am I?Did I lose time again? Or something else?Memory feels blank. I close eyes and think.Something stirs where Tobias used to be.Is that him?I feel somethin

Chapter 299

Zahra's POVAfter the scans, the nurses wheel me back up to my room. Max, Xander, and Zach have all been holding some part of my body at all times when they’ve been allowed. I’m glad to be back and I’ve missed them, but at times I’ve needed their grounding presence. Especially after I allowed myself to remember the night, we escaped…When the door opens and I’m wheeled in, I recoil before I can stop myself. The room is packed. All the guys’ mates are here now, which means there are ten people already in the standard-size hospital room. The walls seem to close in the second they all turn to look at me, every face swinging my way at once, every emotion in the room rushing towards me like a wave I’m too tired to brace against. I feel like I’m being wheeled into a microscope as we enter, pinned in place and looked at from every side.Shit.I don’t like this.As the bed’s pushed back into place and the wheels locked, one nurse starts rehanging the bags hooked into my arms. Mara steps forwa

Chapter 300

Zahra's POVDr Jarvis clears his throat lightly, and I turn my attention back to him.“So, your scans show several injuries that are not fully healed. The most noticeable are your cheekbone and some ribs. Your ankle is almost fully repaired, but I’m not happy with the fracture line, and I think we need to keep an eye on it, or maybe pin it to stabilise it until it’s finished. Once your nutrition is back where it should be, I’d hope many of the injuries will be finished off by your wolf, but your cheek and ribs need intervention. You have a bone fragment floating near your eye cavity that’s too close for comfort, and your ribs are not fully connected on one side. With the movement from your breathing, they can’t fully heal. I’m surprised you’re not in agony, to be honest.”A low growl rumbles beside me before he’s even finished, and Max’s arm tightens around me carefully, drawing me a little closer against his side as if he can shield me from the words themselves. Xander goes very stil

Chapter 301

Zahra's POVOnce the soup is finished, Xander tidies the bowl and tray away, moving the table back to the side of the room on its rolling wheels. I settle back against the pillows, feeling a little nauseous. The soup was only a small amount, but for some reason my stomach seems to have shrunk in the last few days, and the richness of the broth has left me feeling sick.I breathe in, trying to relax, and catch a whiff of whisky.I turn towards the source and see Max.I look closer, taking him in properly this time. His beard is long and shaggy, unkempt. His eyes are red and puffy, but it looks like more than just the emotions of today. The whites are pinkish, like they’ve been bloodshot for a while. His skin has a yellow, sickly cast to it. His hair is long and tied up in a bun on the top of his head. The bags under his eyes look like bruises. And there’s a very strong smell of whisky and a faint whiff of vomit.He looks terrible.The realisation hits with a sharp twist of guilt low in

Chapter 302

Zahra's POVI’m also too tired to really process it.“Come on, baby, let’s get you in the bath,” Max says gently, stepping back slightly before dropping to the floor in front of me. His eyes stay on mine, and my breathing quickens as I watch him kneel there.I feel Xander move closer beside me, and he lifts my shirt over my head. With the IV lines I can’t get my arm free, so he shifts a claw and slices through the sleeve to release it.My eyes widen slightly at that, but the embarrassment I expect doesn’t come.Xander’s eyes stay on mine for a beat.Then I feel hands at my hips and glance down to see Max tugging at my shorts. I lift my hips slightly, warm arms coming around my back to steady me as Xander stops me from toppling backwards into the bath. Max slides my shorts down, his gaze never leaving my face.He doesn’t look at my body.For some reason, that feels more intense than if he had.I swallow, and something in Max’s eyes darkens. My pulse spikes, heat spreading through me in

Chapter 303

Zahra's POVXander grabs another washcloth, adds some body wash, and starts washing under my arm on his side. Almost in tandem, both cloths disappear under the water and begin moving over my sides, my stomach, my breasts, and lower.This should feel so wrong, but it doesn’t. Somehow, it feels right.They stop just above my pelvis, not going beyond my belly button, before shifting down again to my thighs and along my legs. A small pinch of disappointment registers, and I frown slightly, confused by it. Zanthe huffs in my mind, rolling back onto her stomach and grumbling about something I don’t quite catch.They continue down my legs to my feet, and I wriggle slightly as they wash the bottoms of them. Max lets out a soft, amused chuckle.I squint my eyes open at him, arching a brow. He grins back, something almost boyish and a little wicked in it.Once my body is clean, Max hands me the washcloth with fresh shower gel. I take it and wash between my legs. It isn’t pain exactly. Zanthe hea

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