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Lachlan POV

“Where is she?!” I demanded, running through the castle after being called back from town. “Where’s Lira?”

“Alpha,” Meldec was waiting for me, and was rushing to keep up as I stormed through the halls. “Ced and Cherum took her to the ocean.”

“THE OCEAN?!” I roared. Killian was growling in my head, “This is not the fucking time to take a bloody swim.”

“She kept demanding to be taken to the ocean, Alpha. She commanded it.”

“Of course she did, that infuriating woman.”

She goes into fucking labor the day she insists I pick Westley up to surprise Mel and Cedric. She was too excited about sending me away with their adoption papers they applied for last week. Because Westley had living relatives from another pack, we had to ensure they wanted no claim on the boy before we granted my gamma and Lira’s knight’s request. They didn’t want to take him in years ago, and they didn’t want the boy now. When we got the message back this morning, Lira insisted I handle it right away, but I