Chapter 17. Unspoken Bond

Third-Person POV

Taya was quickly settled into a room, given an IV and oxygen, and monitors were set up to keep an eye on her. It wasn’t until midnight that Taya’s high fever slowly subsided.

Harper sighed in relief, picked up her phone, and took two days off. Then she leaned against the bed and silently waited for Taya to wake.

They’d both been dropped off at the orphanage when they were about a year old, within days of each other. They had become each other’s everything, and the only other person they’d had any relationship with growing up had been the orphanage director.

Harper raised her hand, touched Taya’s pale face, and sighed. Taya was unlucky in every way. From the orphanage, to never getting her wolf, to her heart issues.

And the two men she had met and fallen for were both scumbags.

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Taya's POV

In a daze, I saw a young man reaching out his bloody hands to me. His face was full of pain. He