lott

uld have been too kind. Instead,

top floor. Cold glass, cold steel, o

as bleeding. But I sat stra

ad calmed down, but his aura was suff

king a sip. "The investors were w

ice hoarse. "I am pregnant, Ga

. Cold. Calculating. "A

e. The Sullivan Pack is mid-tier. We're bleeding cash. The Nicholsons h

ll yoursel

y-one and haven't shifted. You are a genetic dead end. If I m

mate," I

wrong person," he said dismissiv

art c

have a solution. Harper... there are complicat

im. "What are

the Omega quarters. You will carry the child to ter

od drain from

timing works out," Gabe mused. "Harper needs a backup heir. And since the

embling. "I am not an incubator

d to th

IT

blow to my nervous sys

led, and I fell back into the chair.

aid, walking closer. "You belong

, looking radiant. Behind her were my f

d?" I ch

k at me. They l

ed, Alpha?" Robert a

being difficul

ntment. "Why must you always be so selfish? Alpha Gabe is

sped. "He wants

, Charlotte, we have debts. Significant ones. The Alpha has been g

turned. T

e's mother, agrees. She says your weak genes might taint the baby, but..

d, paralyzed

upsets me," Harper smiled. "A

things to the Omega quarters. The basement room n

g at the man I had loved

look out the windo

They escorted me down into the darkness, leaving me with nothing but the g