Selene, seeing that all attention was focused on me, took advantage of the chaos to flee. No one noticed her slipping away down the hall, one hand protectively on her stomach, the other already on her phone.The medical staff worked frantically around my body. After the third shock, a nurse gently pulled my brother away from the bedside."You need to let them work," she said softly, guiding him to the corner.He collapsed against the wall, sliding down until he sat on the floor, sobbing uncontrollably. All his Alpha pride and dignity were forgotten in the face of possibly losing me – his little sister, his only family, the one he had betrayed so completely.While the healers fought to save me, pumping my chest, injecting medications, shocking my heart, I floated above it all. I wanted to tell them to stop. I was so tired. The pain was gone up here, the betrayal distant, the suffering finally ended.But perhaps I still had unfinished business in the world of the living, because after th
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