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Meanwhile, Theo had just heard that Marcus was stable after his early shift, finally allowing himself to relax.
Sarah had worn herself out with worry and was now sleeping soundly.
Something felt off in his chest. An emptiness where the mate bond should be.
He instinctively reached for his phone, turning it on after two days of ignoring it during Marcus’s shift.
He’d expected to find dozens of missed calls from me, begging him to come back. That’s what always happened – I’d wait, I’d
plead, I’d forgive.
But there was nothing.
Confused, he opened our message thread. The last message was from two days ago.
My desperate plea: “Please answer. Alex is fighting an early shift. He needs the inhibitory potion!”
He had dismissed it then, assuming it was just another attempt to get his attention.
He hadn’t even bothered to reply.
Now, as the emptiness in his chest grew, Theo felt the first stirrings of real panic.
He tried calling my number. The line was dead.
He reached out through the mate bond. There was nothing but void.
“It’s not possible,” he muttered, with a strong sense of uneasiness in his heart.
Just as Theo was about to call my number for the third time, he overheard two pack healers hurrying down the corridor.
“Amazing how Alpha Ada herself came with the inhibitory potion. I’ve never seen an Alpha move so fast for another pack’s pup!”
“Poor little Alex was literally burning up. His bones were already starting to reshape…”
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