Claimed by My Bestie's Alpha Daddy novel Chapter 208

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“I need to finish this row.”

There were four more lined up along the opposite wall. A wolf boy brought from Vitus Hollow. A vampire girl who hadn’t spoken since the last toll. Two human children who had been frozen. One of them hadn’t blinked in over twenty minutes.

The pressure returned more quickly the second time. It dragged through my limbs and coiled up my spine. I didn’t fight it, and then I released it.

One child let out a scream. Another began sobbing without warning. One of the girls coughed so violently she doubled over. Simon caught her and administered the serum quickly. When they were all stable, I was lying on my back, staring up at the lights that didn’t seem to move.

Simon worked quickly. He adjusted the dampeners, recalibrated the filters, and reset the nodes. He didn’t tell me to stop. But when Richard asked if we were still in the safe range, Simon hesitated.

“She’s not recovering,” he said finally. “She’s adapting. Her body is building resistance to the harmonic interference.

She’s forming internal shielding, and while it’s remarkable, it’s draining her faster than we can measure.”

Richard didn’t say anything. He just reached for my hand and held it while the ringing in my ears faded.The sessions stretched longer. I learned to breathe through the frequency rather than force it. The signal carried farther that way, but it also burned more. I lost my voice. I lost track of time.

The walls sometimes flickered like I was watching them through a pane of water. Once, something echoed back at me, and I recognized it hadn’t come from me.

“If I can keep one more kid from freezing,” I told Richard, ” then I’m not stopping.”

He didn’t try to change my mind. But he did have grounding panels installed in the halls. He rerouted ventilation through soundproof dampeners. He set up a private isolation wing that no one else had clearance to enter.