A Fighting Chance

Darius’s POV

I was ready to fight Bryce to the death if need be, if he continued to stand in the way of me reaching my mate. Yet, just as he was about to throw a punch and I was about to shift to tear him to pieces, the door to Valerie’s examination room opened.

Inside, both doctors looked at us, and Valerie did too. Healer Veda, presumably, as the only one in the room I didn’t recognize, had been