All Chapters of Rejected and Pregnant I Fled The Pack: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

"I know that's what you want to offer," she said gently. "But Damon, you can't actually guarantee his behavior from four hours away, any more than the council's ruling guarantees it. I trust that you'd try. I don't trust that trying alone is enough, not with someone like him." I didn't have a clea

He didn't have an easy answer for that, and I appreciated, somehow, that he didn't try to manufacture false reassurance instead of simply sitting with the difficult truth of it. "What about your father," I asked, after a long stretch of silence, the question I'd been avoiding since we left Millbro

Damon pov Evelyn sat in the armchair by the window, Willow nursing quietly against her, and I found myself simply watching them both, some quiet, unguarded contentment settling into my chest that felt strange after two days of nothing but tension and confrontation. "You're staring," Evelyn said,

"I imagine not." A ghost of something that might have been a tired, sad smile crossed his face. "I've spent thirty years being exactly the kind of man who never says things like this. I don't know if it means much, coming this late, after everything's already happened. But I needed to say it anyway.

I nodded slowly, some of the panic finally settling into something calmer, more measured, though the underlying unease didn't fully dissipate. "I should have been here," I said quietly. "I shouldn't have left you alone, even with Sarah nearby." "You can't be everywhere at once, Damon," Evelyn said