When I wake up I am in a hospital room and I have an IV in my arm. I attempt to reach for it with my other hand but something is holding it back. I look to see Hunter sleeping with his hand wrapped tightly around mine. I carefully pry my hand back and rip out the IV.

Hunter stirs and notices me and my now bleeding arm. "What the hell are you doing?" He reaches out to grad my arm.

"Don't touch me!" I growled.

"Roxie, I'm sorry. I regret everything. It's my fault you're like this. I said I loved you but turned my back you you when you needed me most." His voice cracks "Now I fear I may have lost you forever."

Moments later a nurse comes in with a peice of toast but I push it away. She then notices the pulled IV and comes over to put them back and in an instant it is like I'm back in the chair and I panic, slapping the needle from her hand and knocking the IV pole to the ground. I then leap from the hospital bed and start to limp from the room with all the speed I could muster but Hunter grabs me, pulling me into his arms.

"No, not again. Please." I beg, scratching and biting for him to let go but he just sits there and takes it.

"Roxie calm down. We're not going to hurt you, not anymore. I will not hurt you. Everything is going to be alright. Aiden is fine and he regained his memory and told us that is was Amber who did it. And we got her confession and even found Lilac. She's in the next room over, she's a little dehydrated but fine. The rest of the pack feels horrible over everything, especially Jasper,.....and me." His voice quivers as he rambles. "I felt empty when you were gone."

I can feel my anger build till I can't help but snap as the tears start to fall. " Enough, with what happened I would have rathered to starve then to come back here! You once said that I should listen to you when you said someone was innocent yet you didn't listen to me. You know what hurt more then the serum? The broken heart. I wished for the Moon Goddess to end the bond so that I could be free of the heartache. And what's more, I have severed my ties to the Goddess because she turned her back on me just like everyone else. And I wished for death to take my memories away. Of the pack and most importantly, you."

"Don't you dare think like that! " Hunter shouts sternly. I can feel his arms wrap tighter around me and voice now comes out as a low quiver. "Please don't ever give up like that. You are my world, even when you were in that cell it tore me up to have that done to you but I was scared. In that one day my whole life got flipped. I don't care if you don't forgive me or if you despise me for the rest of our lives, I don't want to hear you say that you would rather die. It breaks my heart more then it already is. I would be broken without you." By now I could feel his tears fall onto the back of my neck as I try to block the pain in my back.

"Hunter, her wound!" The nurse snapped but Hunter seemed to block her out.

"Now please, just get back in the bed and eat. You're so thin it looks like you break at any moment."

Crawling back onto the bed I begin to chew on the toast till is gone. I had almost forgotten what food was like. "I'm still hungry."

"I know but you can't eat too much or could hurt yourself and make your condition worse. You haven't eaten in a long time and it is best to take it slow."

I pout and he moves in to kiss my temple only for me to turn away from it. I can feel his disappointed sigh on my cheek before exiting the room.

"You know you are being very cold towards him. Since you have been here he hasn't stepped foot out of the hospital. We offered him an unoccupied room just down the hall but he refused, sleeping in that chair, waiting for you to wake up." The nurse points her finger to the chair just beside the bed where Hunter had been sitting moments before. "He never left your side."

Moments later Bentley and a carmel-haired woman come walking into the room.

"Hey Roxie, how are you feeling?" Bentley asks.

"I've been better. You must be Chloe, I just wish you could have met at you in some other way."

"It's great to meet you. If it wasn't for you Bentley never would have had the courage to bring my into the pack. I would still be out there somewhere." She gently shakes my hand.

"How could I have given him the courage if I'm the one who ran away from everything? He did it on his own."

"You came back and made a stand before the rest of the pack when they doubted you. You could have ran away then. I ran away from a bad situation, it took all my courage to do so. But it took more for you to stand before the pack and address them as the Luna dispite the accusations. Any other person would have ran away then. Plus, you advised him to bring me into the pack dispite his father's reputation and now I'm here."

"I understand the pain you must be feeling but it hasn't been that much easier for my brother. Since you ran off he has been a shell. He never left the office, just running his fingers over those damn groves in that stupid old desk. And when Amber's guilt came into light he.....he knew he had messed up and that you would likely never forgive him. But he would rather know you were safe even if you did." Bentley spoke up. "He's changed so much since you have been here. I can't tell you the last time I've seen him truly happy with someone, woman or not, but you have changed him for the better and your absence has left a hole in him."

Maybe he's right but I don't think I can ever forgive him. Not after the what happened in that cell. I find myself conflicted as I contemplate what I should do. My wolf sits in the corner of my mind glaring at me. "Run into your mate's arms. What more do you need to hear? He's your one and only."

Last thing I need is her clouding up my judgement and I push her farther into the void. Noticing my internal struggle Bentley once again spoke up, breaking the silence. "You know, maybe Lilac can help you decide wether or not you will forgive him."

With those words he left and he returned with lilac in toe. She looked into the room at me and her eyes were as big as she could make them. "You look like hell!" Her voice came out as a shocked gasp. "I heard that you were in rough shape but I didn't expect it to be this bad. I can't believe Amber was behind this. She was my friend."

"Where did she keep you?" I muttered. The nurse said she was only a little dehydrated but otherwise fine.

With a sigh she answered. "My mother's birthpack, Golden Moon, or at least what was left of it. Nobody goes there since the battle of Dark Moon. She was captured and held there after her pack was slaughtered. We lost many of our own in the fight. I was kept in a cell and amber would come to feed me. I wondered if I would ever see my home again."

"I'm sorry. But you're home safe now."

"Tell me, are you planning on leaving?" Her voice cracks with sorrow.

My gaze travels to the floor as I feel my uncertainty rise. My heart tells me to try to stay but at the same time I don't think I could take another heartbreak. "I don't know."

"If you do leave I want to be able to visit. I'm not going to try to force you to stay. And I'm sorry about Jasper."

The three of them leave and I'm left alone in the room. Hunter didn't even return and out of sheer boredom I peek through the cards. Many well wishes and apologies. Jessica comes and goes periodically, check on me and a nurse brings me food.