A Pre-War Confession & Heart-to-Heart

It took three days to come up with a battle plan.

Three days to find some way to tell my mates that I was pregnant. I sat in the tent alone, knowing my mates were out with the pack, planning out the details for the battle. And that's exactly what this was going to be.

A battle.

I couldn't wrap my head around it. A few weeks ago, I was a normal eighteen-year-old. Plans to go to college. Plans for a family. And now I was a werewolf and a witch. I still didn't know much about my abilities, aside from a few minor healing spells that I barely had any control over. I moved my hand to my stomach, imagining the life growing inside me. Part of me was terrified to know I was pregnant, the other part of me elated at the idea.

While I hated the idea of this war, I knew there would be no safety for my baby if we didn't stop Eluna now. Especially knowing she had joined forces with the witches. With Taliyah. My stomach clenched at the reminder of her kiss with Greyson. Her control over him had t