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expected to see

spital, with two pu

She looks really different. Fierce. And more beautifu

and fury. She doesn't look

, my voice low and rough

s the two children behind her

s somethin

she snaps, her voice laced with ve

eply but she doesn't

.. I don't car

anger, like she's finally relea

vy with tension. Then my eyes drop to

he boy glares like he's trying to protect h

s on my way out after checking on one of my pack elders, Elder Johnson, who h

ays have, but I owed

n... I

lway, right near the elevator. Just kids being kids. But somet

in

e kept growlin

ren who they were here wit

cted "mommy"

nt of a woman whose hatred f

a whisper as I bring myse

re ask me that. You lost the right to ask anything when you

ond, and the memory crashes in

Megan to abort

s back or because I didn't want the child. Goddess

om my pack seer, Hy

ll die. Her body cannot handle it. Make sure she doesn't g

r. Even if it meant destro

around my thro

n, bu

me and crouches down to her chi

t Grandpa's card? We haven't given it to him yet

Megan says gently, brushin

tep forward. "Please, just give me f

her eyes. "About what? How you tre

s, just a bit,

om the hospital bed behind her. "Maybe

im with a fierce voice. "Don't defend him. Y

at her

kids' hands and starts

er her. "M

oesn'

nurses who glance at us with curiosity, and

V is alrea

uldered wolf, nods as Megan a

nto the backseat and

bbing her wrist bef

palm, but the look she g

per. "Don't shut me out

u chose Danielle over me? Why you treated me like trash? Why you

't br

way from me, Xarion. From them. From everything. T

ee a golden flare pulse, but it dies. Just

ause this could on

ess. She must've lied back

and slides inside, sl

ay, the tires crunching over gravel. Th

s meet mine just for a seco

s at my sides as

in every bone in my body. The boy's ey

aising them alon

lt hits

ain. I can't lose t

th, shutting out the roaring in

ew,"

ha?" My beta's r

pounding as I order, "I need y