Chapter 411

Avery’s POV

The meeting was held in Sebastian’s office, which overlooked the pack grounds below. It was a bright, sunny day, just as it had been all week. In the gardens below, I could see Bjorn giving Colt the runaround, tiring the poor Beta out with a game of tag. Under different circumstances, I might have smiled at the sight.

Today, I couldn’t look at it.

Aldric sat in one of the armchairs in front of Sebastian’s desk, with Gideon seated next to him. Sebastian had offered me his desk chair, but I couldn’t sit, so he took it while I paced.

In the middle of the room stood a pack healer. She stared at the floor and wrung her hands, having just informed us of the bad news. The very same news that Aldric had arrived with this morning.

The children were not responding to the Lycan Root treatment.

In fact, their condition had worsened.

Thankfully, we knew one thing for certain: the healer said that the children’s conditions had worsened in typical pattern for their illness. It wasn’t the Lycan Root that was making them worse. But it wasn’t doing anything to help them, either. Not even a little.

Aldric was looking at me now like I had betrayed him.

your drug would work,” he

“I was.”

“Forgive me, Avery. Sebastian. But I think it might be in

my gaze

“After just one

am I supposed to do? Your medicine isn’t working. These children are getting sicker. I’m not

exactly. I might have done the same in his position. But it also pained me greatly to think about kids suffering when I had special DNA in my blood, abilities that could help therm heal more

was looking at

you thinking?” he

through my hair and looked at

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your medicine

it more potent, more catered to

a long moment, then looked at Gideon. Gideon hesitated. His eyes shot between me, Aldric, and Sebastian, although they

knew just how knowledgeable I was

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