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me My nose crinkled involuntarily.
Something about her was off.
I shook my head. ‘I still don’t quite understand what all this is.”
“I know you must have a lot of questions,” Adele said sympathetically. “But that’s all they’ve really told I bit my lip.
Something inside me stirred, an alarm bell going off telling me she was lying.
Zane
We didn’t know what to do with ourselves.
Right now we were standing by the pond in the woods behind the Constantine mansion, sk ipping stones mindlessly, sniffing the cold wind for any signs of Lanie.
The first sn wflakes were starting to fall, which meant tracking her would only get harder and harder. Neither of us really believed she was gone, but the rest of our family was treating us like we were crazy for thinking so We couldn’t talk to her, but her presence, that piece of her that felt like it was always there in mys that hadn’t gone away.
“Boys.” Gabriela’s voice called to us from the edge of the forest. “You need to eat something.” Xander glanced over at me before chucking a stone into the water so hard it plopped straight down to the bottom.
And then he stomped back up to the house.
I followed, sitting down at the table next to him.
But I had no appetite at all.
“At least drink some Moonshade tea,” Gabriela encouraged us. “You’ll be too weak to lead this pack if you nut mathina in narr hedina ”
We both sighed and took a sip from the steaming mugs Info Of US.
Gabriela eyed us intently as we did so.
Twished she would just leave us alone.
The tea tasted off, but no surprises there.
Everything seemed sour since Lanie had left.
Suddenly, I found myself jerking awake, still in the same place I’d been seconds before.
I shook my head and looked over at Xander.
His eyes were unfocused, his expression confused.
I could vaguely recall that I’d been worried about something, something important.
But I couldn’t remember what it was now.
TWO MONTHS LATER….
Katie I spotted Quinn at a back table of the cafe.
Her blonde pixie cut was hard to miss.
She waved me over, and I waddled toward the table, squeezing into the booth with some difficulty.
By now I was very pregnant and the anxiety that I had woken with every day since arriving here had started to morph into excitement for my pup’s arrival.
Adele had been so patient with me in getting me acclimated to my new home.
And as it turned out, her weird scent had meant something after all.
She was a rogue shifter, banished from traditional Packlands for some infraction or another.
Specific crimes weren’t usually discussed, but it was widely recognized that for most rogues, especially she-wolves, the punishment did not fit the crime.
But the Council took any chance they could get to flex their power.
“Go ds, you’re about to pop!” Quinn exclaimed.
I’d met her only a few weeks ago, once I’d started venturing out into the town.
Her bubbly personality and infectious smile felt comfortingly familiar, and I was drawn to her instantly.
We’d been meeting here a couple of times a week ever since.
“I know, I’m f ucking huge.”
She laughed.
“l only have a few weeks left,” I said, rubbing my belly out of habit.
“How do you feel about raising the pup in Stillwood?”
That was the name of the rogue town I was living in.
I still didn’t know exactly how I’d ended up there, but once I realized how laid back the lifestyle was and how kind the people were, it kind of stopped mattering They all asked after me and my baby, chattering excitedly about the little one’s arrival.
It felt like one big family “Honestly?” I shrugged. “I’m happy I can’t think of a better place to do it, since..”
I trailed off, and Quinn reached out her hand for mine I took it gratefully.
“Since you still don’t know who the father is?”
Inodded, swallowing hard.
Adele had sworn up and down she didn’t know, either, that I’d come to them pregnant at the clinic, but I’d never quite shaken off the feeling that she knew more than she let on.
By now I had a little cottage of my own, and I didn’t see her as much.
We spoke in passing here and there, but I got the feeling she was happy to be free of all my incessant questions about who I was and where I came from.
“I’m still lucky, all things considered.” I squeezed Quinn’s hand. “I’ve got all of you here to support me, and my pregnancy’s been smooth sailing so far.”
“Thank the go ds for that,” she said, taking a big gulp of coffee.
“Oh!” she suddenly cried. “Have you given any more thought to my mom’s job offer?”
Quinn’s mother was the head teacher of the school in Stillwood.
Just like her daughter, she was vivacious, curious, and incredibly kind.
The first time we met, she told me she could just tell I’d be a wonderful mother and probably a kick-as s teacher, too.
It made me feel seen in a way I hadn’t since… Well, since I could ever remember.
I felt like a real person with a real place in the world, instead of some random character plopped down in the middle of gods knew where for go ds knew what reason.
“I have considered it,” I told Quinn. “Once the baby is here, I’ll probably take her up on the offer. I could even bring my pup to work with me.”
“It would be so perfect. We could even…”
But Quinn trailed off as she looked over her shoulder at someone.
Her eyes went wide and she wiggled her eyebrows.
“Your man is over there,” she said slyly.
I turned around as inconspicuously as I could with my giant belly.
My face went hot the second I saw him.
“So..” There was a teasing lilt to Quinn’s voice. “Are you gonna go on that date with my brother yet or what?”
labor.
Zane
Xander and I paced around the great room like zombies, waiting for Gabriela to tell us that Alice was in She’d been ill through most of the pregnancy, which as terrible as it was to say, had made things easi We could go visit her at her bedside on the rare moments she felt like seeing us, and just squeeze her hand until another wave of nausea came over her and she screamed at us to go away.
I was plagued by an emptiness deep in the pit of my stomach, made worse by the near-constant despair that rolled off Xander in deep, depressing waves.
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