Chapter 56

Everything sounded wrong.

Loud, sharp voices cut through my head like broken glass. I couldn’t focus or catch a single word. My vision blurred as Liam and Marcus shouted at me. They were furious, and I knew it was all aimed at me.

“He can’t even hear us,” a voice drifted into my fog.

I forced myself to push through the dark haze. Suddenly, sharp pain exploded in my jaw. Liam had punched me right in the face.

I spat blood onto the floor.

“Have you lost your damn mind?” I roared. I lunged out of my chair, slamming my younger brother against the wall by his throat.

“Oh, look, he’s awake,” Marcus said from the side, his voice full of dark amusement.

“Alpha, please let him go,” Beta Blake’s calm voice cut through my anger. I felt his heavy hand drop onto my shoulder.

I released my brother. Liam choked, rubbing his bruised neck.

“You’ve completely lost your head, Nathan!” Liam wheezed.

“I lost my hea