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Chapter 1

Ivy's PovDr. Hayes walked in with his clipboard and that look on his face which made my stomach drop before a single word was spoken, and he sat down in front of me and said, "Mrs. Caldwell, I'm so sorry. The baby could not be saved. We need to perform the induction as soon as possible." He gave me a file and then added quietly, "He was a boy….almost fully developed."I heard him but I just couldn't feel it yet. My wolf left me the moment I fell. It was like my body had already shut down the part of me that was allowed to feel things, because if I felt this right now, in this room, alone, I would not survive it."We need Alpha Noah to sign the consent forms before we proceed," Dr. Hayes said. "Has he arrived? Is he on his way?"My hands started shaking in my lap. I pressed them flat against my thighs. "He won't come," I said hoarsely.Dr. Hayes frowned. "Mrs. Caldwell, Pack protocol requires the Alpha's signature on procedures of this nature. If you could just reach out to him—""He

Chapter 2

Ivy's PovThe door clicked shut behind him and I sat there at that kitchen table staring at the divorce papers still unsigned under my hands, and I thought about how five years of my life had just walked out to go check on another woman without even waiting to hear what I had to say.My phone buzzed on the table. I looked down at it.Noah: If you still want pheromones, stop making unnecessary trouble and just be good.I read it twice then I smiled, I deleted the entire conversation thread. Every message. Every one-word reply he had bothered to send me in the last three days.He had been using pheromones against me for years. An Alpha's pheromones are not just a comfort to a pregnant omega — they are a necessity. They help the fetus develop properly or without them, a werewolf baby struggles. Noah knew that and he used it the same way someone uses a leash, releasing it just enough to keep me grateful, pulling it back the moment I stopped being convenient. Every time I tried to stand up

Chapter 3

Ivy's PovAmy's eyes filled with tears so fast it almost looked rehearsed. Her bottom lip trembled and she pressed one hand to her chest like my words had physically wounded her. Every person in that shop was looking at me like I had just kicked a puppy.Noah turned to me with that cold, flat look he reserved for people who had disappointed him beyond repair. "It's just a music box, Ivy. Why are you being so aggressive?" He said it slowly, like he was explaining something to someone who couldn't keep up. "If you want one that badly, I'll buy you another."I looked at him for a long moment. "Yes," I said pleasantly. "It's just a music box. So if she wants one, buy her another one. Why does it have to be mine?"His jaw tightened.Amy stepped forward then, her eyes still glistening, hands clasped together in that way she had that made her look permanently gentle. "Ivy, please. I'll do anything. Name any condition and I'll meet it. I just, this means so much to me, you have no idea—"Any

Chapter 4

Chapter FourIvy's Pov I should have walked away. He was a stranger, bleeding out between two trees at the edge of pack territory, and every sensible thought in my head was telling me that a man this badly injured at the border could be a rogue or a criminal trying to flee but my feet wouldn't move in the other direction.My wolf was restless inside me, pacing low and quiet, a soft continuous growl that wasn't aggression. I pulled the small medical kit from my bag. I always carried one when I came here. The path to my mother's grave was uneven and overgrown and I had twisted my ankle on it more than once. I crouched a few feet away from him first, just watching, trying to get a read on how conscious he actually was.Even with his face half in shadow and with that much blood soaked into his clothes, I could see the shift happen the moment I got close. His body stiffened. One hand pressed harder into the dirt. His head turned toward me slowly, and through whatever haze of pain and bl

Chapter 5

Liam's POVI had been in worse situations than bleeding out at a pack border with no guards and three broken ribs. At least that was what I kept telling myself as I lay face down in the dirt of Ironveil's territory, the cold ground pressing against my cheek and my blood soaking steadily into the soil beneath me.Twenty-six packs answered to my name. I commanded the most feared lycan army on the continent. I had walked into war rooms and walked back out while men twice my size didn't. And yet here I was, disguised as a filthy rogue, ambushed at a border I should never have crossed alone, because I had decided that traveling without guards was the intelligent thing to do for a covert investigation.But it wasn't.The pain was manageable. No one who knew where I was. I had made sure of that myself, which meant if I died in this particular patch of dirt, it would be entirely my own fault, and I found that more irritating than the three broken ribs.Then I heard footsteps.Soft and careful

Chapter 6

Ivy's POVThe knock came at eight in the morning.I was still in my oversized grey sleep shirt, hair pulled up in a messy bun, holding a half-empty mug of tea I hadn't actually tasted yet. I pulled the door open without thinking and immediately wished I hadn't.Amy stood in the hallway looking like she had been styled for a magazine. Cream silk blouse, tailored tan trousers, her honey-blonde hair falling in soft waves over her shoulders. She smelled like Noah's cologne. She always did.I moved to close the door.Her foot shot out and blocked it."Really, Ivy?" She tilted her head with that soft smile she had perfected over years of use. "That's how we're doing this?""Move your foot, Amy.""I just want to talk.""I don't." I pushed against the door. She pushed back, and for someone who performed fragility as a full-time career, she held the frame surprisingly well."Noah was with me last night," she said pleasantly, like she was commenting on the weather. "All night and he didn't even

Chapter 7

Ivy's POVI was not expecting anyone to defend me, especially not a tall, dark-haired stranger stepping out of the shadows of the hallway like he belonged there, his grey eyes sharp and completely unbothered by the scene in front of him. My heart did something strange and annoying when I saw him, a flicker of recognition that I couldn't place fast enough to do anything useful with.Noah went stiff beside me. I felt it more than I saw it."Who is this," Noah asked feeling agitated."I don't know him," I said honestly though my wolf claimed to know him.Amy's laugh came from behind Noah, so soft and perfectly fake the way her laughs always were. "You don't know him," she repeated, letting each word sit. "Ivy, he walked in like he knows exactly where you live, what does that tell anyone here.""I said I don't know him." I half groaned and I watched Amy walk closer to Noah."Noah." Amy touched his arm lightly, her voice dropping to that soft concerned tone she used like a weapon. "Think

Chapter 8

Ivy's PovWe had no choice but to follow his orders and the pack mansion was already full when we arrived.I don't know how they found out so fast. Half the pack was gathered in the main hall by the time the guards walked us through the front doors, and the murmuring started the moment I stepped inside. I kept my chin up and my eyes forward and told myself it didn't matter.It mattered….It always mattered no matter how many times I told myself it didn't.Noah was already pacing when we walked in. He had removed his jacket and his sleeves were pushed up and he had that look on his face, jaw tight, eyes dark, the one that used to make me want to fix whatever was wrong before it got worse. I had spent five years learning to read his moods and adjusting myself accordingly. I was done adjusting.The moment he saw me, he stopped pacing."What happened to my heir?"His voice carried across the entire hall. Every conversa

Chapter 9

Liam's POVNoah stared at me like I had lost my mind."Who the fuck are you," he said quietly.I almost told him. The words sat at the back of my throat, heavy and ready, and part of me wanted badly to say them and just watch his face cave in on itself. But my cover wasn't something I could afford to blow in a moment of anger, no matter how much the moment deserved it."I said what I said," I told him. "I don't repeat myself.""You're protecting her," he said, and his voice lifted enough for the hall to hear every word. "A rogue in my territory. Protecting my Luna." He tilted his head and the fury in his eyes settled into something colder and more deliberate. "No….This isn't protection. Amy's right. You're the father, aren't you? She removed my heir to cover what she did with you and now you're here playing the hero."The hall exploded not all at once but in that rolling wave of whispers that spreads through a crowd when

Chapter 10

Ivy's POVMy hands wouldn't stop shaking.I stood in the middle of that hall and watched Noah announce the punishment like he was reading a grocery list, and something inside me — the last small piece that had still, stupidly, been hoping he would come back to himself l, just quietly died.Five years. I had loved this man for five years."No." I stepped forward before the guards could move towards Liam. "No, you are not doing this. You said you'd take my punishment, that wasn't — I'm not letting you do this for me."The stranger looked at me and his grey eyes were completely steady. "I said what I said.""You don't even know me.""I know enough.""You'll be flogged," I said and my voice cracked on the word. "Fifty strokes. That's what pack law says, fifty, and then the dungeon and you don't even — you're not even from this pack, you don't have to do this, please—""Ivy." He said my n

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