LOGINThe doctor moved to my father’s bag first and showed the rest of us how to open it fully. Then we all split off and ran around the room to every wolf and opened their infusion. The last one was a frail-looking woman, and I felt bad. “I’m sorry I have to do this.” I opened her I.V. and watched as she paled, and shook.She gasped but just closed her eyes. “It’s okay. We all understand.” I patted her hand and stood. Her arm snapped out and grabbed me. “We are going to make it through this, right?” Her eyes were fully of pain and worry. “I don’t know.” I wouldn’t lie. “But I know we will do everything we can to keep you all safe.” She nodded once before releasing me.I was on the other side of the room when another call came in. This time it was Ronnie. “Trey. Good. Have they questioned anything yet?” He was quiet for a few more seconds. “Bring the car to the opposite side of the airport and wait until they decide to run instead.” He waited a few more seconds. “Exactly.” Ronnie sighed.
Alannah gaped at me. “No.” She did one slow blink before she turned to Ternen. “Baby?”His smile as he leaned over to kiss her lips was heart-wrenching. He pulled back to cup her face. “You did it, baby. You have done the one thing that most Omegas have dreamed about.” A tear escaped his eye. “I’m so proud of you, baby. Now I can rest easy knowing that you have the rank to protect our pups, all on your own.” He looked to me. “I know you would have helped, but this way…” He looked back to his mate. “This way it’s better.” Alannah took a shuddering breath before she nodded once. She turned to face me. “I know you have to go.” She was putting on a brave face. “But thank you for staying and making me see sense.” She looked down at her pups in her arms and she kissed both on their heads. “I almost ruined the best thing we have ever done for my own selfishness. But I have Taryn and Talia now to worry about.” She looked back up. “Just like you have packs to worry about. So go.” I nodded on
My mom took the baby straight to the bathroom to get cleaned up as I handed Alannah her son. She cooed over her son, and Ternen huddled over her shoulder. They were exactly as a couple should be. Totally and irrevocably in love with their pup. My mind flashed to my pup, and the scent I had memorized, before he was ripped from me. I felt the burn behind my eyes as I looked away from the trio. Wendy was there with her hand outstretched. I smiled sadly as I took it. “Was it that obvious?”She shook her head. “To others? No, to me? Yeah.” She pulled me into her arms, and hugged me. “You are allowed to miss your pup.”I sighed. “I know. But I have other things to worry about right now.”She shook her head. “Nothing will ever be more important than our pups.” She hugged me closer as my mom came out. We both turned to see the new baby. And like her brother, she was perfect. But her blessing was on the right side, instead of the left like Taryn. “Here is your daughter.” My mother handed the
Alannah shook, the exhaustion catching up with her. “Is he okay?” Her eyes were half closed as she panted, but it didn’t stop her from opening her arms. My mom handed the baby boy to Wendy, who took him into the bathroom to clean him up. “Wendy will be right back with him, but we aren’t finished here, Alannah.” She waited until Alannah nodded before she went back under the blanket. “We might have a little wait while the next baby gets ready to come out. You let me know when you feel the need to push again, okay?” Alannah breathed out, and nodded, still too tired to say anything. “Ainsley?” Wendy called from the bathroom. “Can you come here?”My mom pulled back and stood up, cleaning her hands as she went. She caught my eye, and I nodded once, letting her know I would watch over the woman in my arms as she took care of her baby. Alannah pushed up weakly. “What’s wrong with my baby?”My mom patted her knee. “I’ll check on him. Worry about the little girl in your stomach.” Then she wal
“My story can be for another night. I came here to tell you my truth. I have lived through fifty lifetimes. Some short, some long, with years in-between as more souls turned to the Moon Goddess for a second chance. But the most important fact that you need to know is that I never forgot my first mate. I have had the pleasure of meeting him again in another life, but I never forgot him.”Alannah struggled to catch her breath after the latest contraction. “But you have had others?”Carly nodded. “Over my lifetimes I have had a handful that the Goddess paired me with.”“Doesn’t that hurt your other mates?”Carly smiled as she shook her head. “I love them all, differently. Love is not a finite resource that you have, pup.” She climbed onto the bed and shuffled over to the pair on the bed. I watched as my pup mothered two wolves way older than her current form. “You will love so many souls in so many ways; one love doesn’t eclipse another. You will always love Ternen, and he you. And wheth
I saw everyone in the room release the breath that they were holding. My mom ducked back under the blanket as Alannah’s legs dropped to the sides. She sobbed as another contraction hit. Ternen shuffled over to her left side as I settled next to her on her right. Her hands reached for both of us, and she leaned back into us. “I’m here, my love.” Ternen leaned over and kissed her sweaty brow. His soft words were meant to comfort her, but I think everyone in the room heard the last part of Alannah’s heart shatter when she let out her next sob. She turned her head into his shoulder and released everything she had held on to. Her scream ripped through the cabin, and I heard soft, tiny steps coming up the stairs. The door opened, and a wide-eyed Carly stood there for a second. I could still see how tired she was. “Baby girl, you shouldn’t be here.” I nodded to Wendy, who turned to bring her back downstairs, but she shook her head and came over to the edge of the bed. Her eyes misted over







