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CHAPTER 61

Armida's POVSomething felt off by midafternoon, and I couldn't put a name to it.It wasn't sick, exactly. No chills, no ache, nothing my body recognized as illness. It was more like being too aware of my own skin, restless in a way that made sitting still feel like a chore. I had already changed clothes twice, convinced each time that the fabric was the problem, before admitting to myself that the fabric wasn't the problem.Lilith noticed before I said anything, which shouldn't have surprised me. She noticed everything, pregnant or not."You're flushed," she said, setting a stack of tiny folded onesies on the table between us, the spoils from our shopping trip finally getting sorted. "Have been all day.""It's warm.""Armida, there's frost on the grass every morning." She gave me a look that was equal parts amused and knowing, the kind that made me want to change the subject immediately. "How are you feeling? Really.""Restless. Hot, but not fever hot." I pressed the back of my hand

Last Updated : 2026-09-21

CHAPTER 62

Armida's POVBy the time we reached the house, the heat had stopped being a feeling and become a kind of weather.It lived under my skin and behind my eyes, pressing at me from the inside. Demetrius didn't ask before he swept me up somewhere near the porch steps, and I didn't argue. Everywhere his arms held me, the burning eased. Everywhere they didn't, it flared, so I turned my face into his chest and breathed him in, pine and sweat and something darker underneath, and for a few stairs I forgot how to be embarrassed about it.In the bathroom, he set me down on the cold tile and turned the tap on full. Water thundered into the tub. "Stay here," he said, and the second his hands left me I understood exactly how much they had been holding back."Demetrius." It came out cracked."Thirty seconds. Ice." His eyes met mine, gold shot through the brown, his jaw locked so hard a muscle jumped in it. "I'm not going anywhere. I swear it."He was back in less than that, with a bucket of ice from

Last Updated : 2026-09-21

CHAPTER 63

Armida's POVHe didn't move at first, not right away. His hand stayed flat against my stomach, and I felt the fight still happening inside him, felt it in the coiled tension of his arms, in the way his breath came shallow and uneven against my shoulder. For a long moment I thought he might actually find the strength to pull back.Then his mouth found the curve of my neck, and every thought in my head went white and silent."Armida." My name, broken in half. "If I kiss you, I don't think I stop at kissing.""I'm not asking you to stop."He made a sound low in his throat, something between a groan and a growl, and turned me in the circle of his arms until I was facing him, water sloshing over the edge of the tub, ice cubes bumping against our skin and forgotten. His eyes had gone entirely gold, no brown left in them at all, and for the first time since I'd known him, I saw his control simply give way, like something long dammed finally breaking loose.His mouth came down on mine, and it

Last Updated : 2026-09-22

CHAPTER 64

Demetrius' POVShe slept most of the day.I stayed exactly where I had promised I would, propped against the headboard with her tucked into my side, watching the fever finally let go of her one shallow breath at a time. Sometime past noon her color came back properly, the flush fading into something closer to normal, and I let myself breathe for the first time in what felt like a full day.I barely moved. Couldn't, really, not without risking waking her, and some stubborn, possessive part of me wasn't ready to give this up yet, the simple fact of her weight against my ribs, her hand curled loosely into my shirt as though she had reached for me even in her sleep. I had spent most of my life being careful not to want things too openly. It was harder than it should have been, lying there reminding myself that this, at least, I was allowed to want.My wolf had finally gone quiet. Not gone, but settled, the way a fire settles after a storm, low and warm and content just to be near her. All

Last Updated : 2026-09-24

CHAPTER 65

Armida's POVI woke to an empty bed and the quiet of a house that had finally stopped holding its breath.For a moment I just lay there, listening. No pacing footsteps below, no murmur of pack business carried faintly through the walls. Just morning light easing through the curtains, and beside me, the cool press of sheets where Demetrius should have been.I reached out anyway, palm flat against the empty space.Gone.I wasn't surprised, not really. He'd sat with me through the worst of it, through the ice and the fever and the hours after when I could do nothing but rest against him and let him hold the cup steady when my hands wouldn't. He'd stayed the whole day, and long into the night after that, when neither of us said much of anything and it hadn't mattered. A pack didn't run itself. Sooner or later he'd have had to go back to being Alpha instead of just being his.I sat up slowly, testing my body the way I'd learned to over the past few days — rolling my shoulders, flexing my f

Last Updated : 2026-09-25

CHAPTER 66

Armida's POVThe trees swallowed the moonlight almost as soon as I stepped past the tree line, and I told myself that was the only reason my heart was hammering the way it was.I'd taken this path before, once, months ago, when I'd tried to run and Demetrius had caught me at the edge of it before I got far. It felt different tonight. Quieter. Like the forest itself was waiting for something and had decided I would do.I kept my steps soft out of habit more than any real skill, picking my way between roots and fallen branches, one hand trailing along the rough bark of the trees as I went deeper. Somewhere behind me, faint and getting fainter, I could still make out the shape of the house against the sky. I made myself stop looking back at it.The letter hadn't said how far. I walked until the ordinary sounds of the pack — a dog barking somewhere near the training yard, the distant murmur of voices — thinned into nothing but wind through branches and my own breathing, too loud in my ea

Last Updated : 2026-09-26

CHAPTER 67

Armida's POV The walk back felt longer than the walk out, though I knew it couldn't have been.I kept close to the treeline, retracing my own path more by feel than sight, my mind snagging over and over on the same handful of words until they'd worn smooth from repetition. They aren't your parents. Not the ones who made you.I wanted it to sound impossible. It didn't. That was the worst part — some small, quiet corner of me that had never quite fit anywhere, not in my parents' house, not among the pack I'd grown up in, sat up and paid attention the second she said it, like it had been waiting years for someone to finally say the thing out loud.By the time the lights of the house came into view through the trees, my legs ached and my thoughts hadn't settled into anything close to order.I slowed at the edge of the yard, scanning the windows. Dark, mostly. No sign of Demetrius. No shift in the air that would have told me he was back, watching, waiting up for me with that particular st

Last Updated : 2026-09-27

CHAPTER 68

Demetrius' POVShe fell asleep before I could decide whether to ask.It happened slowly, the way it does when someone is trying not to. Her breathing evened out against my chest, her fingers loosened in my shirt, and eventually the small, restless movements of her body went quiet. Only then did I let myself look at her properly.She was wearing my shirt. It hung off one shoulder, the collar stretched wide, and she had curled into my side as though she'd been doing it for a long time instead of recently. Something in my chest turned over at the sight, and I didn't examine it. I had learned not to.I should have been asleep myself. The night had been long, and the pack business that dragged me out of the house had taken more from me than it gave back. Patrol reports, a rumor of rogues near the tree line, a border that felt wrong in a way nobody could put a name to. Every wolf on watch swore they had seen nothing, smelled nothing. That was what bothered me. Nothing was not a report.So

Last Updated : 2026-09-28

CHAPTER 69

Armida's POVI woke to an empty bed and the smell of him still on the sheets.For a moment I didn't move, caught in that strange blur between sleep and memory, my hand curling against a pillow that wasn't mine. Then it came back all at once: the walk from the border, the shirt I still had on, the careful lie I'd told him with a straight face. My stomach dropped before I was even fully awake.I sat up too fast. Sunlight was already cutting thin lines through the curtains, higher in the sky than it should have been if he'd only just left. He was gone. Of course he was gone. Alpha duties didn't wait for either of us to sort out whatever this was.My hand went under the pillow before I'd decided to check.The letter was still there, folded exactly as I'd left it. I let out a breath I didn't know I'd been holding, and then immediately hated myself for the relief. He'd been right beside it all night. He could have taken it in a second, read it while I slept, and I would never have known unt

Last Updated : 2026-09-30

CHAPTER 70

Armida's POVLilith left a little after noon, taking the rest of the bread with her and a promise to come back before Jackson worked himself into a panic. The house went quiet in the way houses do, all creaks and hum and the faint sense of being listened to.I was upstairs, pretending to fold laundry that was already folded, when the phone lit up on the bed.Demetrius had handed it to me after my parent’s visit here, sleek and new and still in its box, with a gruff "In case you want to reach your parents" that he'd clearly practiced. He hadn't made a big deal of it. He never did. He'd just put it in my hand and walked away before I could thank him. I'd spent the entire evening stupidly touched by it.Mom.I smiled before I could stop myself. It was the first real smile all day."Hey, Mom.""There she is! Do you know how long it takes you to answer a phone? I was about to send a search party." Her voice was warm and a little too bright, the way it got when she'd rehearsed what she wan

Last Updated : 2026-10-01

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