LEAH

For a second I think I’m going to pass out.

I get dizzy and I can’t seem to draw a full breath.

This is too much.

It’s too big, too life altering, too shocking.

All these weeks since I woke up and started grieving my son, my baby-has been alive this whole time, and Aaron has been hiding him.

I think I should have an opinion about that.

I think I’m so angry about that, my fury has become this huge, incomprehensible thing, so that I can’t even deal with it right now.

The one fact my brain latches onto is the last thing Aaron said.

Someone had kidnapped my son

I lift the blanket one more time and draw in the soft, new scent of my baby into my lungs and into my very essence.

My wolf recognizes him on a primal level, and it sends her into a frenzy

We have to find him.

Now.

to Aaron, I drop the

newly familiar

to me in confusion as I streak past

the mountain, but when I reach the gate, that’s where the scent

was where my son was put into some

scent

determined to do anything in

to coalesce into something palpable sends me back up the mountain to

near the SUV, talking to James about taking

relieved when I come bounding back

“Did

find anything?” he asks me, a

stalk forward

Hard

I scream at him,

both resigned and devastated, not even fighting back, and

you should ask them what they want, or

tears are streaming

all I want

you!” I scream even louder. “You

temper snaps as he

losing him that day when there was an attack on the hospital. I did what I had to in order to protect him. And protect you. I had to spend months thinking you were never going to wake up. And then when you did, our enemies

I lied.

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