IA'S
ad with th
aw tight and my eyes forward. I signed the final con
to reconsider, but I silenced her with a single, p
erward, I felt an
al. It was emotional too. E
se. a strange kind of calm. This was my choi
ide me, looking a
ngth isn't about doing everything alone. That pup. you
t the window, watching the m
I won't bring a child into a home where their existence is used as leverage." I felt my throat
Your wolf will mourn for a
ly. "But mourning isn'
half, I stayed in the
around me protectively. I allowed myself to fee
carefully. I rested. I ate. I healed slowly, inside and out. But e
o the Stonewall Villa to fo
scent markers. I could still feel Damien's alpha aura aroun
e villa,
hour. I was exhausted but I was a
ked toward me with an apologetic l
y. He said." She hesitated. It was either she w
" I said
the two of you should
mply. stopped. My wolf wen
in next
n't shattered. As if he owned my womb. As if I were a
"He told me to giv
e was delivered
the coffee table. "Tell him this is the
walke
the sound of appr
in the air - a
ment, I could feel every m
Tiffany, and Ashley. It w
iling with a warm, maternal glow that used to belong to me. Damien stood beside them. He had his hand
ed. Something i
ice finally giving way aft
and Ashley laughed. She didn't even not
like a per
oment the last
and trul
one b
e shelter I sometimes worked at wh
ace quickly
ns came back excellent. If you want, we can fast-trac
" My voice
about the training I h
dren's health-screening program. It's demanding, but. I thought you
hat felt like ages, som
"I want it. Ple
der it
stood there for a long
sensed a road that belonged to us-not Damien, not Tiffany,
y car without
ot at Tiffany. N
d. Some bonds die before you
earn to survive by shedding every p
ove
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