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Pull Alaric's arm over my shoulder and hobble him over to the bed for some rest. I sit down with him, trying to position his body, but he rolls over, laying his head on my thigh. It's such a small, intimate gesture and my breath catches. He's never laid on me like this.

Gently, I adjust his body until he's under the covers. I bring him some medicine and tell him to sit up

I'm measuring the medicine into a cup, and he surprises me by jeaning forward and kissing me. I nearly drop the cup. I'm so shocked.

"Shh.. lay back and rest," I say, trying to soothe him.

He's probably just delirious from the sickness. But I can't deny that my body clenched when he kissed me.

These physical reactions to him were so frustrating. My mind was made up, I didn't love him. Now I just needed my body to get over him, too, "Cara. I need you... Alaric whispers, stroking any hand.

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His eyes are barels

open, he looks desperate for sleep.

shh shhh. "I beckon him to surrender to sleep, rubbing his ha

of all the emotional whiplash he's caused me over the last

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ever even love me?" I whisper once he's

me, the question was just my own mental musing. I think I hear his breathing shift to soft

startled when he

my answer, once and for

all just physical to him. He doesn't love me. He's

body's he'll move on and find a new mistress. He'll go

just about

child

Our child

I have to leave Alaric, and Pack DarkWood.

Chapter 15

my pregnancy

office as a leta. My reward for being such

all of my mal Beta

day, Alaric and I were reviewing details of some pack business when I saw a list of names on top of a stack of

this?" I asked the

the papers. "Oh that." He sighed. "That was a failed attempt to

I had been doing my best to hide my true

planning to leave the pack after all and start a new life. If he found out, I'm certain he