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I stared at her, amused. Not everyone had the bravery to hit the Alpha King. She hated me, and I knew making amends would be so damn hard almost impossible, but I would have to keep trying… for Riley.
“I guess I deserved that?”
“Stay away from him; stay away from me and my family too!” She cried out, the pain in her eyes deep.
I wondered if she would protect this Nick if she knew what he did to her daughter.
“I am trying to help here.”
“How? By beating up the Alpha?, that is not helping. If you really want to help, then you could let go of my daughter.”
“No, I can’t, Kate. The thing is, I really love her.”
“You don’t; if you loved her, you would never have hurt her; goddamn you, she only started healing; if you had stayed away for a while, she would have been married and happy.”
“And how do you know that? How do you know she would have been happy?”
“You’ve never deserved my daughter.‘
“That I know, Kate. Please let me make it up to you,” I say. She lifted her hands to hit me… again. She was furious; it wouldn’t be easy for her to forgive me. I caught her hand midair, avoiding the hit. “I am sorry, and I want you to know that I am ready to do just anything to take care of her, and that is the exact reason I am here.”
“You let her go young man.‘
“I can’t do that, but you are welcome to my pack anytime you would like to visit,” I assured her.
“Go to hell, son of the devil!” she says, spitting at my face, before shoving past me to aid Nick.
I let her.
Well, it’s clear who she preferred, and I couldn’t blame her.
“I didn’t touch her; I am not saying this because I am afraid, but I love her; I would never do that.” Nick says to me, as a healer from his pack cracked his arm back to place.
“When you were alone with her in the dungeons, what did you do in there?” I asked, and his brow furrowed.
“Could that…” he trailed off. “I need to go get the sorceress.”
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“What sorceress?”
“She only can explain what is going on with Riley. I will meet you at your pack.” He promised. Clearly he cared about her, I couldn’t kill him yet he had to be alive because he only knew the secrets Riley kept hidden.
“Don’t keep me waiting,” I warned.
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Arriving back out of my pack, the first place I headed to was the healing room.
Riley lay there, asleep.
I looked down at her stomach.
Was this baby growing each minute?
Her stomach was significantly larger than it was a day ago, and I wasn’t mistaken.
Just then a healer walked in. It was Daisy, one of the Chief Healers.
“Is this normal?” I asked, referring to her stomach.
“No. It’s not. There is something I want to show you,” she said, and I followed her to the ultrasound machine. “You see that?”
No, I didn’t.
“What am I looking at?”
“This is an inner view of her stomach.”
“Okay,” I say, giving her my full attention.
“The child is over here,” she said, pointing to something shapeless on the screen, and I nodded again. “The child seems alive… but it’s not.”
What?
“What does that mean?”
“We can’t detect it’s heartbeat, and yet it still lives. It’s growing ten times the speed any usual
child should.”
“If you can’t detect a heartbeat, then it’s dead.” I stated, gazing back at Riley; she was still fast asleep. She didn’t need to hear any of this.
“That’s right, yet it is still moving; I have not seen anything like it,” she says.“But more to
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that, it seems to be feeding off her at the rate of its growth,” she paused, shaking her head.
“What happens?” I urged her to complete her sentence.
“I have doubts; she might not make it.“.
