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Surprisingly, I wasn’t scared. The only thing I wished for was if I died, I wanted to make sure Phillip was okay. Call me crazy, but I was seriously worried about the other Hunter despite Nigel’s reassurance.

“Phillip...” I whispered.

Sloan made a sound in his throat. “He’s here.”

“I’ll take her,” a familiar and husk-deep voice called out.

Nigel growled low in his chest. “You didn’t protect her at all, you bastard. And how could you just fucking run off like that when she was injured?”

“I don’t need to explain myself to you,dog. If I let Eros get away—”

“But he did get away.”

Phillip grunted, obviously unhappy. “Only because your pack interrupted me.”

So, the Assassin’s Creed wannabe gave someone like Phillip and an entire pack of wolves the slip? Great.

“Right. My pack also saved your ungrateful ass.”

“I didn’t need saving,” Phillip retorted angrily. “It doesn’t matter. Give me V, Sloan.”

“She’s been poisoned,” Sloan said, handing me over like I were made of glass.

Phillip cursed under his breath and tenderly adjusted his hold on me, bringing my side impossibly close to his chest. His heart was a pound against my ear.

“What kind?”

“Sleeping Death,” Sloan responded quickly.

“Fucking shit,” Phillip groaned, brushing the hair away from my eyes. “I have the reverse serum. It’ll be faster if we get that to her than the antidote.”

Reverse serum?

I’d never heard about it. Then again, Phillip did mention he’d make sure he was a step ahead of our enemies with the serum. So, it made perfect sense he’d create a counter-acting agent to reactivate our abilities. Smart people would, and Phillip was annoyingly smart.

Thankfully, Nigel wouldn’t know what he was talking about. Which was made perfectly clear when the Shifter cut in a second later, “What serum are you even talking about?”

Phillip ignored him. “Go. I’d be faster, but I refuse to leave her with Eros still out there. I can’t run with her like this. You know where to look for it.”

It was interesting that Phil seemed to trust Sloan and Kris enough to tell them about the serum and where it was.

That was new.

I hadn’t expected Phillip to keep anyone close, but it was a good idea to trust someone with the information who could help when push came to shove.

Maybe they were also part of the revolution we intended to create. Maybe Phillip had already gotten other Hunters on our side before activating my blood. It didn’t seem farfetched that he’d have already been working in the background to get others on board, and it explained why he trusted them to work with us.

But if I thought about it carefully, Sloan and Kris seemed faster and stronger than most of the Hunters I’d been told about. It made me wonder about them. It made me curious about how much Phillip was keeping from me. But I didn’t really have time to worry about secrets when I was literally dying of poison.

Sloan sighed and I opened my eyes, finding Phillip’s intense gaze on me. If I was honest though, I was just so happy to see the other Hunter alive.

“Phillip, I’m so damn glad—” I rasped, but the thundering pound in my head doubled and I couldn’t finish. Then everything faded away and I sunk into a deep unconsciousness.