JENNAThe event was successful.All the gourmet critics that were present seemed impressed by the ambience. The food and the service.When I decided to turn the small diner in Lakeville into a fine dining restaurant. I’d been scared. No, I was petrified.It was something I didn't think I would ever do in my life.All I had was my passion and the belief Nana had in me. I did a six month course on fine dining. Checked restaurants in other places. Had Lisa help me scout places in New york.My success is very much hers because none of this could’ve happened without her.I didn’t think she would make it, because when we spoke last night, he said Liam was down with a fever.As much as I wanted her to be present, I knew how worried she must be.He was feeling much better and safe to travel, so they made the trip. She decided it would be great if they spent a few weeks in town.She missed her mum.We went up there on holidays, and special occasions but it still wasn’t enough.Having been with

JENNAAfter learning the person that lied and took my kids was probably a werewolf. I felt a cold dread in my chest.I thought of multiple scenarios.Did Jason somehow find out I had kids? Was he looking for me? Did he find me? Was this a way to punish me for keeping his kids away from him?That last question always made my pain turn into anger. Because how dare he?! He’d been the one to reject me.Sherif Allister came down to the house. He has the footage they’d gotten from one of the surveillance cameras right after the school.They had successfully avoided all the other ones. He assumed they didn’t know of that one since it was on the opposite side of the street. It was by a store that has been closed for years.It had the perfect angle to show where they were heading, into the woods.They have already sent out multiple searching troops, along with their hound dogs. I was told to bring the kids’ clothes so they could use it as a guide.They tracked down a few hunters. They decided

JENNAI forced myself to not think of anything while I packed.I didn’t want to think of Jason, what he represented in my life. How he was. If he was with someone else. If he’d gotten married or chosen a mate and luna.I didn’t want to intrude if he has a family. I only need his help to figure out who took my kids and that is the end.Once they are safely back home, I’ll leave and he can go back to living the way he has and I’ll go back to my life.Even as I told myself this, I couldn’t help thinking. Did he miss me? Did he try to look for me?And the biggest and scariest question. Did he ever regret rejecting me?“Don’t be a fool. It has been seven years. He has probably forgotten all about your existence.”Scratch what I said first. This is my scariest thought.I think I’m being delusional if I believe I’m still on his mind. Maybe I cross it once in a while.I couldn’t say the same. Seeing my kids—our kids, is always a reminder of what could have been, but didn’t be, because he didn

JENNAStanding with Jason now, all the things I wanted to ask him. All the questions I thought I wanted the answers to disappeared from my brain.I’m left gaping at him, like a fish out of water. Totally no thoughts in my brain that feels absent.“Come on.” He motions to the couch.Moving ahead of me, he waits until I get there before sitting.I force myself to not look around the place. Right from the door, you could see that a lot of things have been changed.It didn’t look like the office we used to spend time in.How many times have I imagined coming here? Not as the daughter looking for the alpha, but the wife and luna, coming to see my husband.I’d imagined and day dreamed about the kids we would have, the way we would run the pack. All the new activities my young brain thought would make sense for the entire pack to do.Jason doesn’t make a move to start a conversation as much as did. The tension in the room could be cut with a knife. It was sufficing, taking and filling every

JENNAI thought Kristina would leave me hanging the moment she got rid of Elizabeth. Cause there is no way she was actually being nice to me because she was nice.Yes, it has been seven years. But she bullied me for more than ten years. Forgive me if I don’t easily believe she has had a change of heart.She took me to her room. We didn’t really have a conversation. But she told me about all the good things the old luna used to say about me before she died.That even the morning of the accident. She’d assured them that I would be back, and they should always remember her words when I do.Weirdly, I didn’t feel anything when I felt the emotions take over me. I let the grief take hold and I cried. We cried together and it was the most we’ve ever bonded.My suitcases were already in the room when we went there. She’d jokingly asked if I could still remember the way.How could I forget? I had the best memories there.And it was opposite Jason’s bedroom. I know he is in the alpha’s room now