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ETHANI fought my way through the hallway like my whole life was on fire because it was. My mate was in there. My pups were in there. And a pack of rogues who wanted them dead was trying to reach them.Blood splattered across the white walls. I heard the sound of fangs and claws as bones broke and flesh tore. I didn't think about it. I just moved, fighting and doing what needed to be done.The fear coming through the bond was electric. I could feel Freya's terror and the babies' distress, all of it flooding through me like I was drowning.I burst into her room just as a rogue lunged at her bed.Everything in me went cold with rage. I snatched the wolf off her, tearing it apart with my bare hands, my claws, and my teeth. The other rogue scrambled backward, but I was already moving toward it to finish what needed to be finished.When I turned back to her, Freya was clutching both babies to her chest, her blue eyes wide and terrified, fixed on me like she couldn't believe I was standing

ETHANI told her not to go. She went anyway, which honestly, I should have expected because Freya Morgan had never once in her life done what someone told her to do.It was almost funny, in a way that wasn’t funny at all. Even half a year ago, when she was still tangled up in Brian’s world, she’d fought for every inch of ground she stood on. Now she had three sons and a war on her hands and she still wouldn’t back down from a single thing.I followed at a distance, far back enough that neither of them would catch my scent on the wind, and close enough that I could be there in seconds if something went wrong. I told myself that was the only reason and it had nothing to do with the fact that I couldn’t stand the idea of her meeting him without me there.They met at a park near the edge of the city, a neutral spot with plenty of people around so neither pack could pull anything. I watched from behind a row of trees as Brian walked up to her, hands in his pockets, looking calm in that ea

ETHANI would never forget the sight of Freya mid shift, fur catching the emergency lights, claws out, every inch of her built around one single purpose: protecting our pups. It was breathtaking. It was also the most terrifying thing I’d ever watched, because I knew exactly what it cost her body to force herself to shift that fast after everything she’d already survived.She fought like hell. I fought beside her, and together we got the twins and our oldest clear of the smoke and into the hands of guards I trusted with my life. By the time the chaos settled and the building was declared clear of any actual device, Freya had shifted back, and then she broke down completely in my arms.“I almost lost him,” she kept saying over and over, shaking against me. “I almost lost him.”“You didn’t. You didn’t lose any of them. You were incredible.”I meant every word of it. I’d fought in real battles against real armies, and I had never once seen anything as fierce as Freya standing over our pu