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