141: Family of three

WREN’S POVWe settled on splitting our time which sounded complicated in theory and turned out to be surprisingly simple in practice.Six months at Darknight, six months at Black Diamond. Victor and Ronan working out the logistics between them with less trouble than I expected from two alphas who started this entire journey as cautious near strangers.“You’re building an entire treaty around a custody schedule for a toddler” Camille had observed one evening, watching them hash out border patrol coordination like it was the most natural thing in the world.“She’s not a toddler yet” I said. “She’s barely six months old.”“She’ll get there. And apparently by the time she does, she’ll have two entire packs fighting over who gets her for the holidays.”That had turned out to be more accurate than either of us expected.Darknight had surprised me most. I braced myself for lingering resistance, for the same cold judgment I’d grown up absorbing my entire childhood, whispered comments about th

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Epilogue I

WREN’S POV Three Years Later…Camille waddled into the nursery looking like she might genuinely combust from happiness.“She kicked again,” she announced, both hands pressed against her enormous belly glowing in that particular way pregnant women did when everything about their life had finally clicked into place. “William felt it too, he nearly cried, it was actually embarrassing how emotional he got over one tiny kick.”“You cried harder than he did,” I reminded her, not looking up from where I sat braiding Violet’s dark hair.“That’s completely irrelevant.” She settled carefully into the chair across from us, radiant despite the exhaustion that came with carrying twins this far along. “Auntie Camille needs to see her favorite niece before Auntie Camille collapses from sheer pregnancy fatigue.”“Auntie Camille,” Violet corrected primly, at three years old already possessing her mother’s exact insistence on precision, “you’re not tired. You’re just being dramatic.”Camille gasped, c

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Epilogue II

RONAN’S POVThree Years Later…I stood on that same stretch of sand and let myself remember everything I’d almost thrown away. The cabin behind us looked smaller now, exactly the way Wren had said though I understood the feeling differently than she probably meant it. I remembered standing at that window years ago, watching her sleep, terrified of a future I couldn’t picture without her in it and still too much of a coward to say so out loud. Remembered calling her temporary in front of Mason, watching the words land like a blade across her face telling myself afterward that it had been necessary. It had been none of those things. It had been fear wearing the shape of wisdom that had cost me seven months of searching. Cost Wren an entire pregnancy and birth she’d faced completely alone. Cost us both time we’d never fully get back no matter how much healing came after.I watched her now, walking ahead of me along the same coastal path witj Violet’s small hand wrapped in hers. They we

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Bonus chapter

RONANThe silk was a cool, firm pressure against my wrists. I tested the bonds, not to escape but to feel their strength. Wren knew her knots. They held fast, securing my arms to the ornate headboard of our bed. The stress of the last week (a border dispute with the Silver Creek pack, a failed harvest along with endless weight of leadership) had settled deep in my shoulders, a knot I couldn't untangle. Then Wren had proposed this. Her request. Her game.I lay on my back, naked watching her. She stood at the foot of the bed, a vision in soft black lace and sheer stockings that ended in delicate garters. But it was the ears perched in her hair and the fluffy tail swaying gently behind her that completed the look. My kitten. She wanted to play but tonight, she held the power. I was here for it. I needed to let go, to let her take control.She crawled onto the bed, her movements fluid, predatory. The mattress dipped with her weight. She didn't touch me yet. She just looked, her eyes dar

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141: Family of three

Epilogue I

Epilogue II

Bonus chapter