Noah POV

I lie still in the hospital bed, staring at the ceiling. My body aches, but that pain is nothing compared to the emptiness inside my chest.

Three days. I've been unconscious for three days.

And Finn is gone.

Not dead—I would know if he was dead. But he's not there. When I reach for him through our connection, there's only silence. A void where my wolf should be.

'Finn? Finn, please.'

Nothing.

The emptiness claws at me. I've never been ...