Chapter <b>430 </b>
Third <b>Person’s </b>POV
<b>On </b><b>her </b><b>way </b>to the packhouse conference hall, she noticed Adide and everyone else staring <b>at </b><b>her </b><b>with </b>tearful eyes.
Her heart sank–she knew things weren’t as simple as they’d hoped.
Leonidas, already packed and ready, announced, “Lte’s here. We’re leaving now.”
His mate approached Lte, hugged her, and tearfully urged, “Be careful on the road and bring <b>Marsh </b>back.”
Lte’s lips trembled as she asked, “H–he’s not dead, is he?”
Adide took her hand and said, “We’ll talk as we
walk.”
Lte, tears streaming down her face, didn’t slow her pace, managing to keep up with Adide.
In the dead of night, Paisley knocked on the Digby Medical Center’s door, where Doctor Digby lived on the second floor.
He was a creature of habit, strictly adhering to an early–to–bed, early–to–rise routine.
By the time Paisley arrived, he had been fast asleep for hours. Even the best physicians have a bit of <i>a </i>temper upon waking. When informed it was Paisley from the ckthorn Pack, he threw on his clothes and descended the stairs..
ring at Paisley, he warned, “You better have a good reason, or I won’t treat you.”
Paisley exined, “Sorry to disturb you, Doctor Digby, but Alpha Lance sent an urgent message. He wants Adide to bring you to Frostbite Town to treat Marsh.”
“Marsh?”
Doctor Digby froze for a moment, recalling the supposed–to–be–martyred son of the Hornbeam Pack.
His wolf ears quivered with urgency, and his fingertips instinctively extended half–inch wolf ws as he mentioned the wound medicine. “Han, Mason, pack up ande with me. Bring the best wolf venom serum and…”
He paused, a sh of pain crossing his wolf eyes before being reced by determination. “Bring the moonlight grass too.”
Soon, the doctor’s cold fir and herbal pheromones had already settled in the ckthorn Pack’s courtyard.
He sat on a stone bench, and this seasoned doctor’s wait was never an anxious pace back and forth but rather like a dormant wolf, coiled and ready.
Before Adide set off, her cedar pheromones carried theposure unique to an Alpha.
Holding Lance’s message, she found Prisci and said, “Tomorrow, you’ll go to the pce and give this
<b>Chapter </b><b>430 </b>
<bmunicator </b><b>to </b><b>Lycan </b>Erasmus. Remember <b>to </b><b>tell </b>him that <b>our </b><b>signal’s </b>stable<b>, </b><b>and </b><b>given </b><b>the </b>emergency that’s <b>why </b>I <b>left </b>the capital in the dead of night.”
Is this really necessary<b>?</b>”
Prisci, as carefree as a wolf basking in the sun, questioned. “With the urgency, I could just <b>exin </b><bter </b>We’re talking about a rescue mission…”
Adide cut her off, her cedar pheromones suddenly condensing into an undeniable authority<b>, </b><b>her </b>vertical pupils shing a silver streak under the candlelight. “It’s necessary. Very necessary. Do <b>as </b><b>I </b><b>say</b>. <b>Go </b>to the pce first thing tomorrow. Don’t dy.”
She turned to Susan, the back of her neck warming slightly from the emphasis, “Make sure she does <b>it</b><b>. </b>Thanks.”
Susan’s chamomile pheromones shrank slightly under Adide’s aura, her ears twitching softly <b>as </b>she promised loudly, “Luna Adide, rest assured. Prisci will go to the pce tomorrow and report to <b>Lycan </b>Erasmus exactly as you said.”
“Good. I’m off.” Adide’s cedar pheromones sharpened like an unsheathed sword. She knew Susan’s promises under aura were always kept.
With that, she turned and left, her wolf boots making a steady sound on the stone pavement.
Prisci wanted to ask more. Looking at the Alpha’s sharpness in her back, she muttered, “She’s like a fighting male wolf, not hiding her ws at all.”
Susan defended Adide, “Prisci, that’s called being decisive. Besides, not just any male wolf canpare to our Luna Adide.”
“Hey!”
Prisci nced at her. “Back when Lance wanted to mate with her, you opposed it the most. Now you seem utterly charmed.”
Susan imitated Prisci’s prideful manner, “Now, whoever crosses Luna Adide is crossing me. I won’t let them off easily.”
<i>“</i>Oh, so you’ve grown some backbone?”
Susanughed. “How could I not? Luna Adide is so capable; I have to step up my game. Anyway, if I’m not up to par, I’ve still got you, Prisci, backing me up, right?”
Prisci snorted. “That Adide’s nothing but a little enchantress<b>, </b>captivating everyone–Lance, you, even
me.”
“She’s got you too,” Susan teased. “Alright, let’s get some rest. We’ve got to go to the pce early tomorrow.” Prisci insisted, “I’m not going, Whoever wants to can go. How dare she <i>try </i>to order me around?” Susan, unfazed, kept preparing the bedding and asked someone to turn on the air conditioning.
She shared a room with Prisci, which had her own small bed.
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<b>3:06 </b>Sat, <b>26 </b><b>Jul </b>
Prisci hated the heat but loved sleeping in a cool room with a nket.
45FIM COM
“Wear that new crimson dress tomorrow. It’s made this summer, brand–new. Show it off at the pce to Lycan rissa,” Prisci told Susan before bed.
“Yes, ma’am.” Susan took the dress out of the closet and ced it aside for easy ess tomorrow. Though she said she wouldn’t go, deep down, she treated this as her top priority.