Chapter 277


    No.


    No-no-no-no-


    This can’t be happening.


    I can’t have found Aaron only to lose him for real this time.


    I finally get him free of the chair and the chains, ignoring how Karolina is thrashing from the power of


    three Alphas inundating her body, and Ryker eximing in rm about it.


    Iy Aaron out t, and then lean down to breathe into his mouth.


    I fill his lungs with air from my own body, and then sit back to pump hard on his chest, counting through


    thepressions with staunch determination to bring him back.


    As lean down to give him another few puffs of air, I realize I can somehow still sense him.


    His presence-his soul-it isn’t quite gone.


    I can feel him clinging on.


    Clinging on to me my wolf and our bond


    No!


    I will save him.


    I have to save him.


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    I keep up with thepressions, but then my wolf nudges me with the memory of how we’d broken the


    mating bond.


    She’s desperately trying to tell me something important.


    So it is done in blood, so it will be undone in blood.


    I’m not sure exactly what my wolf is trying to tell me, so I give over control to her, just a little.


    Next thing I know, I’ve stoppedpressions and I’m leaning down to sink my teeth into Aaron’s neck,


    iming him.


    His body jerks, but he’s still not breathing.


    However, I can sense something is happening.


    Like somehow, it just got a little easier for his soul to hang on.


    That he’s not just hanging on any longer.


    He’sing back.


    through my wrist, making blood


    well before I lean down and smear it across Aaron’s parted lips.


    Again, his body convulses, but it’s not quite enough.


    My wolf recedes and nudges me, so I get back to pumping on Aaron’s chest.


    “Come on, Aaron,” I mutter desperately.


    Aaron’s body jerks, and then suddenly he’s coughing, all the watering up to spill out of his mouth


    as he splutters.


    Relief storms through me so hard, it almost hurts.


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    I quickly roll him onto his side, letting the water clear until he’s gasping and blinking awake.


    “Oh my go d!” I cry, unable to believe I actually managed to bring him back.


    Aaron weakly reaches up and grabs my hand. “Leah, you


    saved me.”


    I pull him up into me, and his arms go around me like tight


    bands.


    He’s shaking, or maybe I’m shaking. Or probably we’re both shaking, panting and clinging onto each


    other like we’re the only salvation for each other in a world trying to drag us down


    From the corner of my eye, I see how Ryker is holding


    Karolina, looking pained, as if this is the worst thing that’s ever happened to him while she shakes with


    the power surging through her body.


    Just as I fully turn my attention to him, he suddenly loosens his hold a little, and now he’s looking


    resigned and determined.


    “I’m sorry, Karolina,” he says in a pained voice. “But I can’t let thise to pass. It would mean the


    final destruction of the Old Ways, and I refuse to stand by and let that happen.”


    I’m confused, no idea what Ryker is talking about, what he’s apologizing for.


    And then he reaches down and snaps Karolina’s neck.


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