Chapter 73: Jab...

**~ Caspian’s POV ~**

What in the name of the Crescent is happening...?

I stood in the aftermath, heart pounding, eyes stuck on Hazel’s collapsed body like it had personally betrayed me. Lilith lay nearby unmoving. Not a sound. Not a single breath from her chest. I didn’t even know if she was dead or just passed out, but something inside me twisted at the thought that maybe she was gone.

But that wasn’t even the worst of it.

Hazel...,My mate. My everything. Cold. Unfeeling. Gone.

She wasn’t Hazel anymore. She was something else.

I turned toward Aurora, who was still steadying herself after stopping Hazel’s attack. She nodded. We didn’t need to speak. We knew what we had to do.

Cayden moved first, dropping to his knees beside Hazel, pressing his fingers to her neck. "Still breathing," he muttered. "She’s alive."

Alive—but barely holding on.

I reached down and scooped her up in my arms, her body limp like she’d been drained of everything. Her head lolled against my shoulder. For a moment, just one damn second, I thought I saw a flicker of recognition in her closed eyes...but no. Just more emptiness.

"She’s not gone," Cayden said.

"I know," I replied, tightening my grip. "Lily almost brought her back. That’s the only reason Hazel would’ve fought her. She was close. Too close. That means we’re getting somewhere."

Cayden didn’t argue. He just nodded, letting the idea become his own. I didn’t blame him. We didn’t have time for pride. We didn’t have time for anything but survival.

Aurora helped me steady Hazel as we moved fast, slipping through the High House halls, avoiding anyone who might question us. I chose our Her chamber Because if anything was going to wake her up, it was this room. The place where she spent most of her days in here in the high house.

She lived in this room. She loved in this room.

Maybe... maybe it could remind her of who she was.

We laid her down gently on the bed. I brushed a strand of hair from her face, just like I used to when she fell asleep in my arms. The softness was still there. Somewhere.

I just had to find it again.

"I brought some things," I said.

Cayden and Aurora turned to me. I pulled a small bag from the corner of the room and opened it carefully.

Inside—Ariel’s favorite toy.

doll with crooked button eyes and tangled red yarn hair. This is

doll had been

second too

said quietly. "Both Marcus and Ariel have

looked down, eyes

clenching his fingers in

continued. "So have the rest of them.

still smelling faintly like

these pieces of her life

whispered. "Come back to

across his chest. "We’ve

My jaw clenched.

know," I said.

the witches’ ambush and Hazel’s outburst, dozens of wolves had fallen. Dahlia’s traps. Hazel’s power spike. View the correct content

out... that Blue Moon was this vulnerable? That we didn’t have enough warriors left to

We’d be challenged.

it softly. "Other packs will come. They’ll

stood, turning

our mate was human

one still blackened with the blood

"We burned them. Tore them apart.

try

Aurora said. "But if they

looked at

So still. So quiet.

reached down and took her hand, curling it around the

to wake up," I told her. "You’re going to open those eyes, slap me across

the room, like he knew. Like he knew this

My last chance to pull her back

walked toward her with slow steps, lifting two gowns in my hands—one soft and small,

of her nose, then slammed her palm across her face in

said with a dark chuckle. "Really? Holding up these two dresses, and I’m supposed

darted to the smaller

she said

it when

saw something twitch in her face—something that looked like a crack. A shadow of pain. But it vanished just as

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