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7. I Was Wrong.
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Too Late To Claim Me 10. What the Bitter Medicine Costs
"You need to tell me everything," Mara said, settling onto the couch, cup of tea steaming in her hands. "How did you end up here. Alone. Pregnant."Her eyes dropped to my belly and stayed there.I didn't answer fast enough."That's Remus's child, isn't it?"The name hit me like a slap. My hand moved to cover my stomach before I could stop it. "How did you…""You have her look." Mara's voice didn't rise, didn't soften either. "Your mother had that same look, right before she understood your father would never choose her over his position.""Don't." I wrapped my arms around myself, suddenly cold despite the radiator hissing in the corner. "Don't compare me to her. You don't even know me.""I know that look, Aurora. It's the look of someone who's been thrown away by a man who was supposed to protect her.""He didn't throw me away." The words came out before I could stop them, an old reflex, worn smooth from months of use.Mara set down her cup, slow and deliberate, like she was giving me
Too Late To Claim Me 9. Help
Mae didn't flinch. She just looked at me with those sharp eyes, and arms crossed over her chest, waiting."I...no. I'm not.""You're lying. But that's your business." She handed me a broom."Clean that up. And for god's sake, eat something. You're feeding two now."I wanted to argue. Deny it. But the look on her face told me it wouldn't matter. Mae had probably seen a hundred girls like me over the years. Young, desperate girls, carrying secrets they were too scared to speak out loud."I can't afford to see a doctor," I whispered."I don't have insurance. I don't have... anything."Mae was quiet for a long moment. Then she reached into her pocket and pulled out a business card."My niece is a midwife. Doesn't work at a hospital, she works out of her home. She takes patients who can't pay much. Tell her I sent you."I stared at the card. At the name printed on it. And at the kindness I didn't deserve and couldn't repay."Why are you helping me?"Mae shrugged. "Everyone's running fro
Too Late To Claim Me 8. A New Name
Three weeks laterMy baby was already the size of a kidney bean.I knew, because I'd read that in a pamphlet I'd stolen from a clinic three towns back and folded it into my sleeve while the receptionist wasn't looking, I was too ashamed to ask for it outright. Too terrified to give my real name. And I'm too broke to pay for an actual appointment.A kidney bean. Something so small shouldn't have been the only motivation that's keeping me alive right now.I pressed my palm against my still-flat stomach and stared at the ceiling of the shelter. It was the fourth one I'd stayed in since leaving the pack territory. The first had kicked me out after three days, some rule about maximum stays. The second had been full. The third had smelled like rot and despair, and I'd left voluntarily after a woman two cots over tried to steal my shoes while I was sleeping.This one was cleaner. Not clean, but cleaner. Small mercies."New girl."I looked up.A woman stood over my cot, she looks older tha
Too Late To Claim Me 7. I Was Wrong.
RemusThe engagement celebration lasted three days.Three days of smiling until my jaw ached. Three days of accepting congratulations from wolves who’d whispered behind my back a year ago, questioning whether I was strong enough to lead. Three days of watching Selene glow beside me, perfect and poised and everything a future Luna should be.And three days of pretending I didn’t notice the empty space where Aria would have been.I hadn’t expected her to stay. I’d made sure of that. But some small, irrational part of me had assumed she’d linger anyway...linger the way she always had, hovering on the edges of rooms, watching me with those wide eyes that seemed to hold an entire ocean of sadness. Or maybe beg. Cruel, I know.But she was gone.Her room in the servants’ quarters was empty. The few belongings she’d had were vanished. Even the faint trace of her scent was already fading from the hallways.Efficient. I hadn’t thought she had it in her.“You’re brooding again,” Selene said on
Too Late To Claim Me 6. Not Fit.
The door wasn’t locked. It never had been, because nobody in this pack ever bothered to visit me.But now Remus was standing on the other side of the door and my body knew it before my mind even caught up. The wolf in me stirred weakly, that pathetic, traitorous part that still recognized him as mine even after he’d made it painfully clear I was nothing to him.Another knock. It's harder this time.“Aria. Open the door.”It's not a request. I know that, because I’d learned to recognize that tone, the one he used when he’d already decided how something would end and just needed everyone else to catch up.I looked at the suitcase that's half-packed on my bed. At my mother’s photograph still lying beside it. And then at my hand, which had somehow found its way to my stomach again since I found out about my pregnancy.I can’t protect him yet, I told the life growing inside me. But you can survive this. You can survive anything.I opened the door.Remus stepped inside without waiting for a
Too Late To Claim Me 5. Decision
I spent the entire walk back staring at my hands not because there was anything unusual about them but because they knew something I didn’t.There was a life growing inside me.My steps slowed as my hand moved slowly to my stomach.The healer’s words repeated in my mind.You’re having a child, I still couldn’t understand it.How could something so small exist inside me when my entire world had already fallen apart?My hand drifted to my stomach again. I hadn't meant to do that but it kept happeningI reached my room and closed the door behind me, the small space felt different not because anything had changed but because I had.I sat on the bed and stared at the wall and the thought of having a child scared me.I didn’t know how to be a mother.I didn’t know how to raise someone when I had spent my entire life wondering why my own parents couldn’t love me.A bitter laugh escaped me.What kind of person was I?Rejected by my mate, abandoned by my family and now carrying a child into th
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