Chapter 22. A New Sensation

Cassian POV

The guard opens the door for me as soon as I turn the corner. I’ll reward him later.

I don’t understand why I didn’t sense my mate was in danger before. But now, I feel it–an empty ache of confusion and despair. Is this what she’s feeling now?

When I get to her side, the lady’s maidens are there, holding Lyra’s hand, her body limp and sagging in the chair.

“Why isn’t the healer attending to my… to this woman?” I demand.

“She’s delivering a pup in the infirmary,” one of the women, Orla, I believe her name is, says. “An assistant is on her way.”

My wolf growls inside me. “And yet, I arrived first.”

The women, wisely, say nothing.

I reach around Lyra, and tingles of fire alight on