"Absolutely not." Darius blocked the cell door. His wolf was in his eyes, feral and desperate. "You're not doing this."

"We don't have a choice." I tried to move past him. He didn't budge. "Those students are our responsibility. If there's even a chance—"

"There's no chance. Only certainty that you'll die." His hands gripped my shoulders. "I felt what happened yesterday. The bond nearly killed us both with just thirty pairs. Hundreds? You won't survive it."

"Then I won't survive. But at ...