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

“I was.”

Avery. Sebastian. But I think it might be in my

snapped my gaze up to

“After just one failed

wide. “What else am I supposed to do? Your medicine isn’t working. These children are getting sicker. I’m not blaming you, but

think about kids suffering when I had special DNA

racing. Sebastian was looking at

are you thinking?”

through my hair and looked at Aldric. “Please give me

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medicine is

work on the recipe. Make it more potent, more catered to the

at Gideon. Gideon hesitated. His eyes shot between me, Aldric, and Sebastian, although they lingered on

at Gideon imploringly. Despite everything, he knew just how knowledgeable I was with plants. He knew better

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