arrett’s face changed dramatically. The color drained from his skin as he saw his grandfather collapse.
He rushed the old Alpha to the hospital, his hands shaking as he carried the frail body.
“Help! Someone help!” he screamed as he burst through the emergency room doors.
The entire Blackwood household was thrown into chaos.
Pack members called each other frantically. Servants wept in the hallways. Béta wolves paced anxiously outside the intensive care unit.
After a night of emergency treatment, the old man was finally out of immediate danger.
The head doctor emerged from the operating room, exhaustion written on his face.
“We’ve stabilized him for now. But his heart is weak. The stress has taken a severe toll.”
But he had fallen into a coma. No one knew when he might wake up.
“Will he… will he make it?” Garrett asked, his voice barely a whisper.
“That depends on his will to fight. And what he has to live for.”
The doctor’s words hit Garrett like a physical blow.
Garrett stood at the hospital room door, irritably lighting a cigarette.
His hands trembled as he brought it to his lips. He’d been chain–smoking for hours.
A nearby healer quickly stepped forward to stop him.
“Sir, you can’t smoke in here. Hospital policy.”
But Garrett grabbed the healer by the collar instead.
His eyes were wild, desperate. He reeked of alcohol and desperation.
“You’re the one who was dating Aria?!”
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The healer’s eyes widened in shock. “What? I don’t—”
“You have some nerve showing your face in front of me. Where is Aria? Did she take the child and hide at your place? Make her come out and see me right now!”
Garrett’s grip tightened. His Alpha dominance leaked out, making nearby humans cower.
Hearing this, the usually mild–mannered healer couldn’t help but fight back.
Something in his expression shifted. Professional politeness gave way to raw anger.
He looked at Garrett with red–rimmed eyes.
“You bastard! Does being the Alpha heir make you so special?”
“Let go of me!” The healer shoved Garrett’s hands away.
“Do you know what I was doing with Miss Aria that day? I was accompanying her to the funeral home to collect her mother’s ashes!”
Garrett stumbled backward, his face going white.
“She had just suffered devastating trauma, lost and alone, having suddenly lost both her
That’s impossible,” Garrett whispered. “You’re lying.”
ild and mother in a single day.”
