Leah hurries toward me, and I can see she’s pale and confused about all the carnage she’s found on this mountain.

The place where I brought her for a romantic getaway when things between us were beginning to change.

The place where she almost died on me the first time, because I had no idea her fragile human body was dying from cancer,

At this point, I’m not even surprised James brought her here, though I do shoot him an angry look, which he shrugs off as if to say it’s my own fault.

He’s probably not wrong.

And maybe this is better.

Maybe by Leah seeing the lengths our enemies are willing to go to in order to strike against me, she’ll better understand why I did what I needed to do.

“Aaron,” she whispers as she stops in front of me. “What happened here?”

“Our enemies attacked,” I said. “Maybe Tobin, because he knew I wouldn’t be here, and wouldn’t be able to stop this from happening”

“Stop what from happening?” Leah asks me in confusion.

step aside so she can walk into

look of

the sight

And Lillian

is the Rathborn pack nanny doing here?” she asks, shaking her

answer, the words

to save

deeply bewildered, but then something catches

Lillian put up of me holding Ethan on the day he was

tears stream down her

beautiful,” I reply, and she looks up sharply.

then she notices the door to

follow her at a slower pace, stopping in the doorway as she stands in the middle of the room and spins in a slow

taken it all in, she reaches into the crib and

her face, and scents her son

love

the truth dawning on her features. “This scent

because what else is there

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