LOGINAnnalisa Greenwood spent four years being invisible in her own marriage. She was the orphan girl her Alpha husband never wanted, the Luna he tolerated, the wife he looked through rather than at. When she fell pregnant with his child, he called her a liar. When she lay bleeding on the floor of his estate, he walked away. So she disappeared. Three years later, she has built something from the wreckage — a career, a home, a life. And a son with his father's eyes and a heart that has fought to beat since the day it was formed. But the world has a way of closing distances that were never meant to stay open. A medical crisis spreading across the major pack territories has only one solution, and Annalisa is the one who found it. The summit that could save hundreds of pregnancies requires one thing she has spent three years avoiding. A room with Antonio Greenwood in it. He has been searching for her since the night he came home and found her gone. He has been living in the ruin of what he did and what he failed to understand until it was too late. He does not yet know about the boy with amber eyes who builds puzzles and argues about wolf genetics and has a heart that needs his father's presence to fully heal. Some debts cannot be paid with an apology. Some doors, once closed, open onto something entirely different on the other side.
View MoreChapter 59ANNALISAEli went to bed at half past seven with the exhaustion of a child who had run hrough the entire garden and then had eaten dinner quickly, refueling what he had lost.I sat beside him until his breathing deepened and his hands went slack and the tension of the past three days began to release its grip on me properly for the first time.I pulled his blanket up and turned the lamp down and left the door slightly open the way he preferred.Dominic was at the table in the main room with his laptop open and two cups of tea already made, which was the domestic version of him that I found used to after long hours of the day, when he knew all I wanted to do was decompress for he night before sleeping.I sat down and wrapped my hands around the cup, as I took a big sip from it, as I said,"Thank you, I needed this." I said as he nodded his head."Of course Annalisa, you are welcome.""The compound," I said."Yes," he said.We had come back to it earlier in the evening, brief
Chapter 58ANNALISAWe pulled through the gates of the Vael estate at half past two in the afternoon.I saw Eli before the car had fully stopped.He was in Cora's arms on the front steps, which meant he had been watching for the car long enough that Cora had brought him outside to wait, and when the car came into view he began doing the thing he did when he was too excited for his body to contain it, a full-body movement that was not quite bouncing and not quite wriggling but was something in between that I had never seen any other child do and was entirely his own.The car stopped.I had the door open before Dominic had fully applied the handbrake, which he accepted without comment because he knew better than to comment on it.Eli was already reaching for me from Cora's arms.He came across the distance between us with the complete commitment of a child who had assessed the gap and decided that falling was an acceptable risk compared to the alternative of waiting another half second,
Chapter 57ANNALISAI answered immediately and the way she said my name in the first half second told me everything I needed to know before she said the next part."She was seen again," Cora said. "Forty minutes ago. The outer edge of the south perimeter this time, not the north. Different position from yesterday." A pause. "The guard moved toward her and she was gone before he covered half the distance. Same description. Dark clothing, adult female, no identifying markers."I was already looking at Dominic."Same person," I said to Cora. "Almost certainly.""The security lead thinks so too," she said. "He has changed the patrol pattern and added a third guard on overnight rotation and he wanted me to tell you that the estate is secure. But Dr. Voss." She stopped. "Eli asked to go into the garden this morning. I told him not yet and he accepted it but he is going to ask again.""Tell him not yet," I said. "Tell him we will be home today and he can go into the garden when we are there.
Chapter 57ANNALISAThe summons arrived at seven fourteen in the morning.I know the exact time because I was looking at my phone when it came through, waiting for Cora's morning update on Eli, and the council notification appeared in the same minute as her message so I read both of them at the same time which was not the ideal way to receive either.Cora first.Eli had slept through the night. He had eaten breakfast already, which she described as enthusiastically, his word apparently having been that the eggs were excellent which was high praise from a child who had opinions about eggs. He had asked about us four times before eight in the morning which Cora said with the warmth of someone who found this charming rather than exhausting.I held onto that for exactly thirty seconds before I read the council notification.Formal summons. My name, Dominic's name, Dr. Henare's name listed as the substantiating medical witness. The submission had been received, reviewed at the emergency in
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