Chapter Four Hundred and Forty

Theo's POV

Lilith’s been out of it for more than a week, her temperature soaring as her body lays limp, white and sweaty.

Yet despite her illness, her mind has not rested.

Any moment I touch her I see the things she’s seeing, her mind obviously going back throughout the time she’s spent here with me in my pack.

At first I thought it was her dreaming, that she was randomly recalling these things but I noticed a pattern to them a few days after she fell into her sleep like state.

For example, right now she’s recalling that very night Khai pledged to me.

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The connection is instant, waking me from the slumber we had fallen into after having sex this afternoon.

Lilith is lying on my chest, her eyes closed and breathing even.

And Khai is sitting against the window on the bench as he looks out across the yard.

'What is it?' I ask.

'I'm ready,' he tells me whilst staring over at me.

His eyes are so sincere that they break my heart.

'For?' I ask because he could be ready for anything.

Ther