The Alpha’s Shattered Mate: Her Secret Triplets
I commanded, my voice snapping through his panic with the practiced, uncompromising authority of a trauma surgeon.
He froze, his chest heaving, his silver eyes brimming with hot, angry tears.
"You cannot outrun a ticking clock, Toby," I told him, walking slowly across the tarmac to take his trembling hands in mine. "This isn't an arrhythmia you can reset. This is the Hayflick limit. It is the natural, beautiful end of a very long, very miraculous shift. If you try to pull the quartz out of my heart, you will tear the muscle to shreds."