Chapter 10 · Sebastian Feels Bond Agony, Arrives Hospital Too Late

Sebastian felt her fall.

One moment Zaia's presence in the bond was a steady burn—pain, fear, determination, the complex braid of emotions he'd been drowning in for months. The next, it spiked so violently that he collapsed in his office, knocking over a chair, his hand clawing at his chest as his wolf howled.

"Alpha!" Marcus burst through the door. "What's—"

"Her." Sebastian couldn't breathe. "Something's wrong. The babies—"

He was moving before Marcus finished asking questions. Down the elevator. Into the car. Marcus driving because Sebastian's hands wouldn't stop shaking. The bond pulled him like a compass needle—north, west, toward a hospital he didn't know, a city he hadn't traced her to yet.

"Marcus." His voice was raw. "Where is she?"

"I've had people looking. The bond—can you track—"

"I can feel her." Sebastian pressed his palm to the window. "She's in pain. She's alone. Move."

They drove through traffic that wouldn't yield. Sebastian called the hospital—every hospital in a fifty-mile radius—