“From now on. Let it be just me and you. I want to take this journey with you, to build a family together and give this child the love and support it deserves. I want to marry you, Keirah. If you let me. I am going to protect you and the baby with every breath I will take from now on.” Keirah breaks into tears. She weeps nonstop and her tears are washed away with the rain on her face. “Is that a, yes?” “No....it’s a no. I am a married woman, Luciano. Although it was just a marriage on paper, I knew what I was getting myself into. I feel so sad that I left. I feel so sad that I thought running away from you was a solution. “I now know what I missed out on and what I will miss out on…I wanted to protect my baby from all this. I should have stayed with you to help you get us out. Instead, I left. I ran away. “There is no one out there. That will protect our baby, who I would trust with this task other than you. Please promise to take care of yourself and that baby.. promise me, Lucia

“WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?” “I am talking about this …this…” She touches the dead werewolf’s body, which is in its human form and takes a step back with fear. “This is a human being, right? I am not hallucinating. He is a human being.” I nod to assure her he is real. “I thought these…. these were not humans. He bled…. He had a heart. He is a human. There is no metal in him. He is human.” “Keirah ... speak clearly. I don’t understand you.” “This human is among the many humans that your uncle has developed as his weapons… his army. He is among the thousands of the same-colored type of human that your uncle used as test subjects for the side effects of my biochips. “I swear. I thought they were robots that he had manufactured by how alike they all looked.” It registers in my head that my uncle did not just make friends out of the ground clan. What Keirah is just telling me is that he made an army out of the Ground clan! “Did you also meet people who looked like him but with diffe

When the doctors start to move. Maria shouts at them. “NO ONE IS GOING ANYWHERE!” Shouting at the top of her lungs. Halting everyone’s movements.Then she forcefully pulls me out of the room and shouts angrily at me. “YOU CAN’T TAKE HER THERE RIGHT NOW. IT IS NOT SAFE. “FIRST BECAUSE AS OF RIGHT NOW EVERYONE KNOWS HER CONDITION AND TWO BECAUSE WE HAVE A FEW HOURS UNTIL THE CRESCENT FULL MOON APPEARS. “WHAT WILL HAPPEN THEN WHEN YOU ARE STRIPPED OF YOUR POWERS TODAY ON THE FULL MOON…. WHEN YOU BECOME COMPLETELY POWERLESS… “YOU WILL BE ALL ALONE WITH NO ONE BESIDE YOU AND VULNERABLE WITH HER IN HER CURRENT CONDITION INSIDE THE PACK…I AM SCARED… WHAT IF THEY SUCCEED AT AN ATTEMPT ON YOUR LIFE? “YOU ARE PUTTING BOTH OF YOU IN DANGER. I WOULD RATHER WE TERMINATE THE PREGNANCY IF IT COMES TO THAT… THAN SEE YOU GO TO THE PACK TODAY.” James walks out, brings Maria into a hug, and comforts her as he speaks in a very low voice to me. “Although I don’t like this for you from the bottom of my

Erede turns, ready to leave. His last words to me somewhat hit a soft spot in my heart. Looking at Erede’s sad back while he tries to leave. I feel sorry for him. And I halt his movement by speaking to him in a low voice. “Keirah will not be happy to hear about you leaving like this when you came here to see her... when she wakes up. She will be mad at me if I don’t let you see her and baby Lana when you come all the way here to see them...So wait here….” I walk inside Keirah’s emergency room. And approach James and I quickly pull him out of the room to where Erede is standing, waiting for me. James and Erede exchange wary glances, and there is a lot of tension between them. I stand in between them, holding James in place with anger fueling in each pore of his body. “Erede…. tell him what you wanted me to tell him on your behalf.” Erede hesitates for a moment before he speaks. “I am so sorry, James. There are no words I can say that can repair the damage of what I did, but I am tr

“Yes…He knew everything from the very beginning.” Erede telling me this makes me feel stupid. I feel betrayed. I remember all the times I did not know what my uncle’s angle was and now it all makes sense. He knew everything that was going to happen. That is why he was always ten steps ahead of me. “My father knew everything about werewolves when I met him for the first time. Even though my father killed your father, they used to be close. “My father was your father’s confidant and your father had told him every detail about werewolves. My father already knew about mates and mating when I met him. “ He knew from the start who your mother was and who you were going to be. He knew about shifting into a wolf and all the powers your kind possess. “Your father hid nothing from him from the start since meeting your mother. He had told him about everything he had learned when he was in the pack. “My father had stood by your father through a lot even when your family threatened your fath