What The Alpha Lost
I stared at the pity in her eyes, at the way she was already holding my hand the way you hold the hand of a patient you suspect is about to flatline gently, like bracing yourself for the machines to start screaming.
Two years. I'd been elbow-deep in a cadaver lab, dreaming about gold eyes over stale hospital coffee, and he'd been what, falling in love? Learning somebody else's laugh? Promising forever, in whatever quiet, imperfect way he knew how, to somebody who wasn't me?
"Who?" The word tore out of me raw, more animal than doctor.
Maya hesitated, just a beat too long.
"Valerie Cross."
Of course.
I turned my face toward the window. The rain had started falling harder, blurring the whole gr
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