The Alpha's Call

POV: Elara.

The suffocating silence of my dorm room was heavy enough to crush my chest. Long after Beta Alessio had safely escorted me back from the clinic, leaving me alone in the quiet sanctuary of my own space, sleep fiercely eluded me. Every tiny shift of my weight, every shallow intake of breath, caused my battered body to ache violently. The pungent, medicinal scent of the dark salve Keldon