"Are you okay?" She asked me. "How was your talk with Alpha Landry?" Her pink lips were turned down into a frown.

"We didn't do much talking," I admitted, my cheeks flushing.

Her eyes grew impossibly large.

"Oh!" She gasped. "Well, I mean... that's good, right? That means you two are okay?"

I sighed as we walked together towards Sampson's office.

"I don't know, Lucy," I told her, worrying my bottom lip. "It's complicated, I guess." "Complicated how?"

"It's just that..." I paused, trying to gather my thoughts. "So much had happened between us in the past. So much left unsaid... a lot to talk about, and we didn't really get to talk at all. Now we have this baby growing inside me, and things are even more complicated. I'm a little whiplashed, too. Hours ago, I thought he was engaged to someone else and expecting her baby, but now I'm finding out it's not true. I don't know what's real and what's not..."

he's my mate because that

it's obvious, don't you think?" She asked, raising her

"What's obvious?" I asked.

go be with him and raise your baby together. Your baby needs their father; it's not like you can keep him from his own kid to begin with. He's not engaged to anyone else, and from that

Tears filled my eyes.

herĭ didn't tell her about Ethan or anything about my past. But she could tell that something had happened

my shoulders and pulled me into a hug as we stopped outside

to take a leap of faith,” she told me softly.

before," I muttered. "It left me heartbroken at the end. I don't know if Gavin is someone

ounce of being unwanted... I didn't want Gavin to doubt me or our baby. I put my hands on my belly as if I could provide some kind of comfort to this fetus.

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