Chapter 45: Thank You Theodore

The next few years weren't easy. I was Alpha of not one but two united packs and I didn't have my Brother and Rose, who the pain of losing still crippled me, beside me to help.

But perhaps even more shockingly, a few weeks after Theodore Rivers' death, I discovered I was pregnant. 

At first, it nearly destroyed me to be carrying his child after everything he did.

But eight months later, when I gave birth to my son, I couldn't have felt more the opposite. When he first opened his eyes, I couldn't help recognise their hazel-brown colour and when chocolate brown curls began to sprout from his head, they felt all too familiar but he was my little bundle of joy and when I looked at his sweet little face I didn't feel any of the pain of the past. Only happiness and motivation to carry on even when things got tough. He filled the hole that Theodore had left and without him, things could have been very different.

Lou was there for me and my son, who we named