Marked By My Best Friend's Dad
“Stay, please. Don’t leave me, not now.”
Her lips curved faintly,not a smile, not joy,but something sad, resigned.
“I… still loved him,” she murmured, voice weak but steady enough for me to hear. “Even at the end…” Her gaze flicked briefly toward Duncan, who knelt nearby, clutching the wound in his chest, the Alpha’s usual composure shattered, face pale, pain and terror mirrored in his eyes. “Even in the… afterlife…”
I felt a sob rise in my throat that I could not swallow. My whole body trembled as I tried to keep her close, tried to anchor her to this life, to me, to Duncan, to everything.
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