The proposal-b

We told Lena the next morning, though at not quite a year old she understood nothing of the words, only the joy in our voices, and she responded by grabbing at my new ring with fierce, delighted curiosity, trying immediately to put it in her mouth the way she tried to put everything else in her mouth these days."She approves," Kael said, laughing, gently redirecting her small hand.We told Ada next, and she cried harder than I'd ever seen her cry, pulling us both into an embrace that smelled like herbs and years of steady, unwavering care."I watched you both survive things no one should have to survive," she said, wiping at her eyes. "I am so glad I get to watch you build something beautiful on the other side of it too."Word spread through the pack house fast, the way news always did in a place this size, and by midday, warmth and congratulations followed us everywhere we went, pack members who'd once watched me be discarded now genuinely, unreservedly delighted at the prospect of

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Returning To Millhaven

The road into Millhaven looked exactly the same as it had the night I first walked it alone, terrified and eight months pregnant, except this time I sat beside Kael on a wagon seat with Lena asleep between us, and the fear that used to live in my chest at the sight of that fading gray sign had settled into something else entirely — a kind of tender ache, grateful rather than afraid."There," I said, pointing as the sign came into view. Millhaven — 12 miles.** "That's it. That's the sign."Kael's hand found mine. "How does it feel? Seeing it again."I thought about the question honestly before answering. "Different than I expected," I said. "I thought I'd feel the fear first. Instead I just feel — proud, I think. Of who I was when I first read that sign. She didn't know any of this was waiting for her. She just knew she had to survive one more mile, and then one more after that.""She did more than survive," Kael said quietly. "She built an entire life out of nothing but grit and a lit

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Shadows of the past

Rowan found the man within the hour, sitting alone at a corner table in a diner three streets over, and when Kael and I arrived with him, my stomach was already knotted so tight I could barely breathe.The man looked up as we approached, and something in his face — tired, older than I'd first thought, with none of the cold calculation I remembered from every enemy this past month had thrown at us — made me hesitate before assuming the worst."You've been asking questions about me," I said, my voice steadier than I felt. "About the wedding."He set down his coffee cup slowly, his hands not quite steady. "I have," he admitted. "I'm sorry if that frightened you. I didn't mean to be so obvious about it. I'm not very good at this sort of thing.""What sort of thing," Kael said, his voice hard, protective.The man's eyes moved between us, and something in his expression carried a nervousness that didn't match the threat I'd braced for. "My name is Harlan," he said. "I served under Torvin. Y

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All Chapters of Pregnant And Rejected Mate : Chapter 141 - Chapter 143

The proposal-b

Returning To Millhaven

Shadows of the past