Two days later, Jake was told that Delilah could go home. Normally, he’d have sent his beta to get her, but after avoiding her for two whole days, he wanted to see her.

His steps echoed against the hospital floors as he walked to her room, and his heart felt like it was being caged by his chest. It was beating out of control, inhumanely…he could even hear it.

Plucking his hand from his pocket when he made it in front of her room door, he grabbed onto the knob, twisting it ...