Voren's expression darkened in one fast, clean movement, like a light being switched off behind his eyes. 'You can't let it happen,' Bloodfang yelled in his mind. 'Not until the mate bond is restored.'
"It's, complicated-" Ravyn started, and then, "Rav."
Daisy's voice came in pitched with careful precision, her hand finding his arm with the ease of someone who had practiced the gesture enough times to make it look natural.
"Let them go. They've already apologized, and they're all contributing to the cost of the cure anyway."
The look Ravyn turned on her from the corner of his eye was the kind that asks a question very quietly and is not comfortable with the answer it's finding.
But he had his entire pack watching him. He had Bryan three feet away. He had things that still needed managing regardless of what was happening inside him right now.
His response came down over the gym like a drop in temperature.
