Chapter 753

Judy’s POV

The halls stretched long and dark; moonlight slanted through high windows. Selene moved with grace, her hand trailing along the walls, but I slowed when a door creaked faintly open on our left.

“Esme used to spend a lot of time in here,” she told me, stepping into the room.

easy

The air was stale, and my heart squeezed in my chest as I realized where we were. It was a nursery.

It was heavy with dust, but the crib still stood, delicate lace draped over its frame. Toys lay scattered across the rug–a stuffed wolf, a carved rattle, a tiny silver cup. It looked as though someone had simply walked out and shut the door years ago.

“We never understood why,” Selene went on to say. “It took years for us to get her to leave this room. Once we shut the door, we never opened it again.”

“Whose room was this?” I asked, my voice coming out unfamiliar and hollow.

“Lila’s,” she replied, turning to look at me. “We had it built when she was a baby.”

I looked around the room again, my chest tight. The scent… it was odd. There was something to this scent that put my wolf in distress.

“Judy,” I heard his voice through our bond, and suddenly my heart had skipped a beat. “Where are you?”

warp with the walls closing in around me. My breathing, which flowed so easily only a moment ago, felt constricted. I stepped back, a wave of

room… this scent… this


I feeling

okay?” Selene asked, her voice laced

I doubted any words left my

brows pinched together, but just as she reached her hand out,

side, wrapping me in

in this manor. I rested my head against his chest, breathing in his calming and familiar scent. “I’ve

was okay… I was okay. I had my mate… he would take care of me.

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us to leave,” Gavin said, and I wasn’t sure if he was talking to me or to Zachary

us until Selene softly spoke to him, explaining that I had

panic attack.

what that was?

been said for this evening,” Zachary said, his


talk more in the near future. Just think about

body was tense, but

to him. My wolf immediately felt calmer, and

me, thick and wrong. Even in Gavin’s arms, my chest still ached,

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