The senior night guard, who was a beta, had realized what was happening as soon as he stepped foot in the library. He tackled the other guard at once.
He had much difficulty keeping him restrained, however, but one of the quick-thinking paramedics was right on his heels. She had produced an alpha inhibitor seemingly out of thin air and injected the younger guard with it.
Meanwhile, the rest of the paramedics lost no time getting to where Rhys and Ren were. After quickly assessing that Rhys had gone into shock and had a weak pulse, they went to work reviving him.
It had been less than a minute since Rhys had stopped breathing, but though the paramedics had succeeded in getting his chest to start moving again, he didn’t regain consciousness.
As Ren watched on while in a near-catatonic
