The Alpha's Forbidden Omega
"She asked me to repeat it exactly. The well opens at midnight, with or without you. Bring the girl or don't. The song is already sung."
Cold crawls down my spine. Wren stiffens in my arms.
"Midnight," she says. "That's six hours."
"Five and a half," Kellan says.
I close my eyes. I reach through the link, tired and shaking, and count them. Four hundred and eleven lights. Warm. Awake. Alive.
Four hundred and eleven. I frown. "Ariana," I say slowly.
"Yes?"
"I count one less."
She goes very still.
I reach again. Careful this time. Slow. I sweep the orchard, the barracks, the kitchens, the staff cottages, the clinic wing, and there, in the clinic wing, small and cold and utterly silent, is the d