Pulse of the Sovereign

My night shift at Marrowkeep Infirmary was supposed to end with a quiet deathbed vigil for a mauled John Doe. I didn't expect the blood-drenched Alpha of the Strygori Vanguard - the royal pack governing all werewolf law - to rip my ward doors off their hinges in a murderous frenzy. When I shoved Morvan Drahoslav away from my dying patient, I expected to be torn apart. Instead, my bare hands instantly silenced his savage bloodlust. Now, I am the unwilling obsession of a ruthless beast who views humanity as fragile prey. We clash over everything: my reliance on medicine, his brutal pack laws, and my absolute refusal to cower. As the Ashen Brethren - human hunters who realize I am harboring a monster - circle my clinic, Morvan’s terrifying, overprotective instincts turn my hospital into a barricaded prison. Beneath his feral brutality lies a suffocating, desperate gentleness reserved only for me. But my arrogant rival is hiding a lethal secret. The bond that calms his frenzy is a parasite, and nobody mentioned the ticking clock. With my human heart failing under the supernatural strain, can we bridge our bitter divide before my time runs out?