Epilogue, Part 2: A New Beginning

Jane’s POV

“Hunter?” I frowned at his back as he marched me up the stairs to our bedroom. “What’s going on?”

He shot me a reassuring smile over his shoulder, but didn’t slow his pace. “I just need to talk to you.”

We’d moved out of the pack house. It held too many memories for us both. Now, we lived in what was basically a small mansion on the edge of the forest, not far from Rose and S’s house.

It was light and airy, all warm wood and draping ivy paired with gleaming, modern appliances and crisp, cream-painted walls. The kids had a room each: Owen’s filled with state-of-the-art tech gadgets, Ares’s with workout equipment, and Ava’s with easels and canvases and a drawing tablet. They had everything they needed, and more space than Owen and Ares had ever had, but most nights they dragged their mattresses into each other’s rooms and slept huddled together.

We were safe now, but we’d all been through so much. Too much. I hoped my kids were young enough that they’d recover from the t