Hendri
k to my office, locked the door, and slumped agai
d. I shut my eyes and pressed both palms over my fac
is body in front of Chelsie without a second thought.
d open my encrypted laptop. A flashing message po
your past across three territorie
eath, my fingers fl
them the forged file of the wid
his whole city down before I let Dale di
sk over my nose, and walked out to pick m
Hoo
fice of the Hood Pack tower, staring out the floor-to-ceiling glass
Brien had just delivered, stam
e. It stated she came from a small overseas pack and t
cleanly-so clean it read lik
ed my tie loose around my collar as my inn
mail from the secret operative I had sent to re-investigate t
urned medical ledger recovered from the old archive baseme
ked onto the diagnosis line at the bottom o
rst trimester, no visible bump..." I whispered, the
ed her into the snow, she hadn't been barren or
eather chair crashed backward o
that made it impossible to breathe. I had driven my pregnant m
the bourbon. I re
snow where the scouts said the fire had taken her, in only my shirt, until dawn, and my Dire Wolf had howl
ng ceremony indefinitely and left the Luna's seat empty-a pen
he letter I had written the night before the banishment and never found the courage to give her. For more than five years I had kept them li
nctuary courtyard flashed before my eyes-his defiant golden pupil
pha could resist a Pack leader's genetic
nst the brick wall. Glass shattered across th
k, I stormed out of the office and
nd! Back to the Hea
the shadows across the street from the sanctuar
t toward a black sedan, holding Jamir's hand o
eetlight, revealing soft golden curls and big
as my heart hammered against my ribs. I needed their DNA, an
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