Chapter 154

Nate's POV

The hospital room was awash with the sterile scent of disinfectant, a stark contrast to the tension thickening the air. I stood from the edge of the bed where Layla lay, her chest rising and falling in a steady rhythm. Tubes and wires snaked from her body, connecting her to various machines that blinked and hummed in the dim light.

Valerie stood by the window, her silhouette a shadow against the pale moonlight filtering through the curtains. I glanced at her, my mind still reeling from the revelation she had just dropped on me. Lisa, Marcus’s wife, was my long-lost sister. The sister I had never known I had until now.

I saw that she had finished treating Layla so I grabbed her right hand and dragged her outside.

“What do you think you are talking about?”

“You heard me. The only reason Marcus ever allowed you stay in the pack was because he knew all along and then he realized that it still would not get him what he wanted from