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Dylan's POVI stared at the lab results until the words blurred together. Drugged. I was drugged that night. The paper shook in my hands and I read it again just to make sure I had not imagined it. A powerful sedative combined with a memory-altering drug. Which means I could not have consented to anything. My stomach turned over and my chest tightened with a realization that made my blood run cold.But if I was unconscious from the sedative, how did Cassandra get pregnant?I grabbed my phone and called the specialist back. My fingers fumbled over the buttons and I nearly dropped it twice before the call connected. "If someone was drugged with this combination, could they have been physically active?""Absolutely not. This dosage would render someone completely unconscious within minutes. They would be non-responsive for six to eight hours.""So there is no way..""No way they could have engaged in any physical activity, let alone sexual intercourse. They would be completely incapacita

Dylan's POVOver the next two weeks, I watched helplessly as Roman pursued Nadia relentlessly. Fresh flowers arrived at her doorstep every single morning. Roses, lilies, peonies, each bouquet more extravagant than the last. The delivery driver practically had a reserved parking spot outside her house.Lunch dates became their routine. I heard about every single one through pack gossip that found me no matter how hard I tried to avoid it. Monday at the Italian restaurant where we celebrated our anniversary. Wednesday at the French bistro she always wanted to try but I was too busy to take her. Friday at the waterfront cafe where Roman held her hand across the table for everyone to see.Roman was doing everything I should have done months ago. Everything I was too proud or too stupid or too consumed with being Alpha to do. He showed up with her favorite coffee. He remembered she preferred tulips to roses. He listened when she talked instead of thinking about pack business. He made her f

Nadia's POVI was shaking as Roman drove away from my house. The kiss. God, that kiss. I felt everything in those few seconds. Love, desire, connection. The mate bond screaming for its other half, begging me to turn around and run back to Dylan.But I could not go back to him. I could not."Are you okay?" Roman asked gently. His voice was soft and concerned and completely unlike the desperation I had just left behind."No but I will be." I wrapped my arms around myself and tried to stop trembling. My lips still tingled from Dylan's kiss and my cheek hurt from where I had slapped him. Everything hurts.Roman did not push. He just drove and let me sit in silence until my breathing slowed and the shaking stopped. When we pulled up to the restaurant, he came around to open my door like a gentleman. The simple courtesy made my chest ache because Dylan used to do things like that before everything fell apart.The restaurant overlooked the lake and the sunset painted the water in shades of o

Dylan's POVI found out about Nadia's date with Roman through pack gossip. Someone saw them talking on the phone and word spread like wildfire through the pack. When James confirmed it, I lost my mind."She is going on a DATE?!" I slammed my fist on the table hard enough to crack the wood. The sound echoed through James's office but I did not care. Nothing mattered except the fact that my mate was going out with another man."Can you blame her?" James leaned back in his chair and studied me with something that looked like pity. "You have a baby with another woman. She is moving on.""She is not moving on. She is trying to hurt me." I paced the room like a caged animal. My wolf was going crazy inside me, howling for our mate, demanding we go claim what was ours."Or she is trying to find happiness. Let her go, Dylan." James's voice was calm and reasonable and it made me want to punch him."No. I cannot. I will not." The words came out as a growl. My wolf was too close to the surface no

Nadia's POVI was reeling from Dylan's sacrifice. He gave up being Alpha. For me. It was insane and romantic and terrifying and I did not know how to feel about any of it. A part of me wanted to run to him and part of me wanted to run away from him and I was stuck somewhere in the middle, frozen.Then Cassandra showed up at my door.I opened it and there she stood with her hand resting on her barely showing belly like she was already playing the devoted mother. "We need to talk. Woman to woman.""I have nothing to say to you." I started to close the door but she put her hand out to stop it."But I have things to say to you. About Dylan. About the baby. About us." Her voice was calm and reasonable like we were old friends catching up over tea instead of enemies fighting over the same man.Against my better judgment, I let her in. Luna would kill me if she knew

Dylan's POVThe separation papers arrived in a plain manila envelope. I stared at them for an hour before I could make myself open them. When I finally did, the words blurred together but the meaning was crystal clear. Nadia meant it. She was actually ending our bond.I sat on the floor of my empty apartment with the papers spread around me like evidence of my failure. This was real. My marriage was over. The woman I loved more than breathing had decided she was better off without me and I had no one to blame but myself.James found me there three hours later. He took one look at the papers and the empty whiskey bottle and shook his head. "You need to fight for her.""She does not want me to fight. She wants me to let her go." My voice sounded dead even to my own ears."Since when do you give up?""Since I destroyed the best thing that ever happened to me." I