Chapter 11

Killian's point of view

I couldn't understand why I felt uneasy, my mind constantly going back to Sheila.

Ryker's restlessness kept intensifying, and it was driving me insane. I couldn't focus on my work properly, and I kept experiencing pain from the dark hole in my chest. It was unbearable.

I left my office and headed to Thea's chamber, where I've been for several hours now. Being near her was usually like medicine to my soul. Somehow, her presence always seemed to make the pain from the cursed hole in my soul bearable.

But these days, it was almost as if the dark hole had come alive, and nothing was working, not even Thea's presence. Not even the healer's potions. Nothing.

I was on the bed with Thea beside me when I was mind linked by Mason. His voice echoed within the walls of my mind in a frenzy.

"Alpha, the pack is under attack." He rushed in a sentence. I jolted from the bed immediately. Thea was up beside me.

"What?" I snatched my clothes from the floor, wearing them in a hurr