登入ETHANI would never forget the sight of Freya mid shift, fur catching the emergency lights, claws out, every inch of her built around one single purpose: protecting our pups. It was breathtaking. It was also the most terrifying thing I’d ever watched, because I knew exactly what it cost her body to force herself to shift that fast after everything she’d already survived.She fought like hell. I fought beside her, and together we got the twins and our oldest clear of the smoke and into the hands of guards I trusted with my life. By the time the chaos settled and the building was declared clear of any actual device, Freya had shifted back, and then she broke down completely in my arms.“I almost lost him,” she kept saying over and over, shaking against me. “I almost lost him.”“You didn’t. You didn’t lose any of them. You were incredible.”I meant every word of it. I’d fought in real battles against real armies, and I had never once seen anything as fierce as Freya standing over our pu
FREYAI woke up in a hospital bed with Ethan’s hand wrapped around mine and the sound of a baby crying somewhere close by. The voice sounded weak. Too weak.I sat up so fast my head spun. “Which one?”“Our boy,” Ethan said quietly. “He’s holding on. But the doctors say he needs more care than we can give him here.”They let me hold him for a few minutes before the doctors took him back for more tests. He was so small, smaller than his brothers, his little chest working too hard for every breath. I held him against my chest, heart shattering with every weak cry, and I would have promised him anything in that moment to make it stop.“We need to move quickly,” the head doctor said. “There’s a neutral clinic two hours from here. They’ve got equipment and specialists that can actually treat this.”“I’ll arrange transport,” Ethan said immediately. “I can have a secure convoy ready in an hour.”My phone buzzed before he’d even finished the sentence. It was Brian.I almost didn’t answer. I an
ETHANI told her not to go. She went anyway, which honestly, I should have expected because Freya Morgan had never once in her life done what someone told her to do.It was almost funny, in a way that wasn’t funny at all. Even half a year ago, when she was still tangled up in Brian’s world, she’d fought for every inch of ground she stood on. Now she had three sons and a war on her hands and she still wouldn’t back down from a single thing.I followed at a distance, far back enough that neither of them would catch my scent on the wind, and close enough that I could be there in seconds if something went wrong. I told myself that was the only reason and it had nothing to do with the fact that I couldn’t stand the idea of her meeting him without me there.They met at a park near the edge of the city, a neutral spot with plenty of people around so neither pack could pull anything. I watched from behind a row of trees as Brian walked up to her, hands in his pockets, looking calm in that ea
FREYAOur three babies slept between us in the reinforced safe house, all wrapped up in soft blankets, tiny chests rising and falling. I watched them for a long time before I let myself look at Ethan who was already looking at me.“You should sleep,” he said, his voice low so he wouldn’t wake them.“I can’t.”“I know.”My whole body still ached from the birth and from the fight at the hospital before that, but it was the kind of ache that reminded me I was alive, that we were all still alive, and right then I wasn’t sure which feeling was louder.He moved closer, careful not to jostle the bassinet, and pulled me against his chest. His body was warm and solid, and his presence made my shoulders drop even when my brain wouldn’t stop spinning. We hadn’t been close like this since before the hospital attack. Before Brian started showing up with his folders, proof, and sad eyes.I cried first. I didn’t plan to. It just happened, quiet at first, then not quiet at all. Everything came out: t
ETHANI fought my way through the hallway like my whole life was on fire because it was. My mate was in there. My pups were in there. And a pack of rogues who wanted them dead was trying to reach them.Blood splattered across the white walls. I heard the sound of fangs and claws as bones broke and flesh tore. I didn't think about it. I just moved, fighting and doing what needed to be done.The fear coming through the bond was electric. I could feel Freya's terror and the babies' distress, all of it flooding through me like I was drowning.I burst into her room just as a rogue lunged at her bed.Everything in me went cold with rage. I snatched the wolf off her, tearing it apart with my bare hands, my claws, and my teeth. The other rogue scrambled backward, but I was already moving toward it to finish what needed to be finished.When I turned back to her, Freya was clutching both babies to her chest, her blue eyes wide and terrified, fixed on me like she couldn't believe I was standing
FREYAThe first one came fast, like he couldn't wait to meet us. One moment I was pushing with everything I had, and the next, there he was, looking tiny and perfect, covered in blood and vernix."It's a boy," the doctor said, and they placed him on my chest.I fell apart instantly.It wasn't graceful or beautiful or anything like the way they showed it in movies. It was ugly and desperate and full of a love so fierce that it terrified me. His tiny face was scrunched and red. His dark curls were exactly the same as Ethan's dark curls. His little fists were already clenched like he was ready to fight the world.My son. Our son."Hi, baby," I sobbed, pressing my face against his head, breathing him in like I could keep him inside me if I just held on tight enough. "Oh my God, hi."But I didn't get to hold onto that moment for long. The second twin was still fighting, and the monitor started beeping faster, a sound that made every nerve in my body go rigid."The second one's in distress,
FREYAI was already running before I'd even fully thought about it.One second I was reading that text over Ethan's shoulder, and the next I was pulling my arms from around his neck, sliding down from the tree, and grabbing my keys off the ground where they'd fallen. My hands were shaking so bad I
ETHANI walked into that room and every single person in it looked at me like I'd just kicked the door off its hinges.I hadn't. I'd actually opened it quite calmly. But I understood the reaction."Morven." Brian's voice came out sounding harsh. He was already on his feet. "You have no standing her
ETHANFreya stepped back the second I answered the call. She moved fast, like she'd been burned. But her scent still filled my nostrils. She smelled warm, sweet, and undeniably her. And underneath the panic she was trying to keep off her face, there was something else. Something that had absolutely
FREYAMy fingers were shaking when I picked up the scroll.I didn’t even know why. My hands had been steady all night. I'd talked to Gemma for hours without flinching. I'd eaten a full meal, held a real conversation, and even laughed. But the moment my fingers touched the edge of that scroll, they







