MasukADELINE“Are you feeling okay?”I turned to the left, startled. I’d been so caught up in my thoughts that I forgot where I was. Alpha Dominic was watching me carefully as he drove, waiting for a response.“Yes,” I lied.I was far from it. I felt nauseous just thinking about it. What was going to happen to me now? What if somehow I got exposed? I was torn between never wanting to cross paths with her again and wanting to rush back there and explain everything to her. “Why were you at the clinic?” His voice cut through my thoughts again.I couldn’t look him in the eyes. If I told him I’d gone to see Lisa, he would make a big deal out of it. So I shrugged and tried to keep a straight face. “No reason. I just went to check out a few things.”He narrowed his eyes. “You’re a terrible liar, Adeline.”The way he said my name sent a shiver through me. “Tell me what you really went there for.”“I told you already.”“Adeline.” My jaw clenched. All I could hear right now was his voice in my h
ADELINE“It’s so unfair. We’re the ones left to be single mothers, struggling to take care of ourselves and the child. Meanwhile there’s a man out there who is supposed to be a father,” the nurse was saying.We had been talking for a few minutes. Well she was doing most of the talking, but that suited me just fine. I’d come to learn that her name was Bessie. She’d been a nurse for six years and she was a mom of two pups despite being just two years older than me. Her story was sad, and although thoughts of Hilton flashed through my mind, I shared nothing about my story. I appreciated her help more than I could ever say, but she was still a stranger, and it wasn’t the best idea to spill secrets about my past to her when I still trying to hard to protect myself and keep my pregnancy from getting exposed.I felt horrible for keeping the whole truth from her, but I didn’t have much of a choice.Finally, Bessie sighed and rose to her feet. “Well, your baby is safe, which is great. How di
ADELINEI let out a strangled gasp as the sight of the blood, my heart sinking at the realization that something was terribly wrong.My baby was in danger. No. No, this couldn’t possibly be happening to me.Panicked tears filled my eyes as I thought of what to do. I had to act fast if I was going to prevent anything from happening. I couldn’t lose my baby, no.The sensible thing to do was to find my way out and ask for help. After all, I was in a hospital. But that would mean exposing my pregnancy. I couldn’t take that risk. If anyone found out I was pregnant, it would not end well, nor would my goal of protecting my baby until I successfully left this place. My heart clenched as I thought of what to do. I shut my eyes tightly, trying to absorb the next wave of pain spreading through my body. It was getting worse, and so was the bleeding. “Please, moon goddess, help me,” I whimpered, tears gathering in my eyes. I couldn't lose my baby and I couldn’t ask for help. I was completel
ADELINEAs I hurried away from the lobby, I released a sharp breath and found myself frozen in the middle of the hall. I couldn’t decide whether to leave or go ahead with what I’d come here for.The receptionist’s voice echoed in my head repeatedly, and I realized they mirrored the exact thing Alpha Dominic had said to me the day of the hunt. I remember feeling offended and hurt that he would even suggest something like that. But now I was hearing it from someone else and it made me wonder…Was I really a monster? Did I enjoy beating Lisa to a pulp? Was there truly a blood hungry beast inside of me that enjoyed it? I wasn’t that kind of person, I’d never been. But what if I was turning into a different person?‘You were just defending yourself,’ Tara jumped in. ‘Stop painting yourself out to be the bad person when you were only defending yourself. We talked about this already. She would have killed you first, which is why I don’t understand why you’re here at all.’“I just want to mak
ADELINEAs soon as we arrived at the estate and Alpha Dominic headed out for a meeting, I exhaled in relief and quickly made my way inside.Finally, we had returned to the pack, but I wasn’t sure how to feel about it. I’d been nervous the entire ride home because different thoughts and scenarios of how the dynamic between us would change were playing out continuously in my mind. And they scared me. It shouldn’t have, but it did.Somehow, it felt like I was falling into a period of mourning, grieving for something I would never have again. For the first time, I found myself wishing that the trip lasted longer, just a few more days of this blissful daydream, this sweet paradise where maybe, just maybe, something good could happen between Alpha Dominic and I. My mate and I. My mate. The word seemed so strange to think about. But these past few days had shown me a glimpse of a reality I could never have because someone like me could never be with someone like him. My insides twisted in
DOMINIC“NO!!” Adeline’s broken scream reached my ears as I clutched my abdomen in pain.I turned to see her standing by the door, held in a tight grip by another man. Despite the exhaustion seeping into my bones, my anger flared. At the same time, she broke out of the bastard’s grip, swinging her hand back and then forward in a motion so sharp he did not see it coming. As soon as her fist connected with his nose and a splash of blood spluttered over his white shirt, I looked away.She could definitely handle him.“You really thought you could fuck us up and get away with it, didn’t you?” The thick, potbellied man from last night snarled, his gaze falling to the dagger with delight. “You’ll be dead in a matter of seconds.”My fingers wrapped around the hilt of the dagger and I pulled it out with ease. The pain nearly sent me sprawling but I held steady.When I woke up today with unexplainable weakness and an inability to communicate with my Lycan because he too was weak, I didn’t unde







