Shifted Fate by Alicia S.Rivers

Is a mistake from the Moon Goddess 261

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Chapter 261

Seventy-two. The floor fell out from under my feet. "How could you face that alone for seventy-two times?"

She sighed. "I didn't have a choice."

"That doesn't make sense." I was grasping at straws. "That's like..."

"Once a month from your eighteenth birthday, when you met Brandon, until we became pregnant. It would have been more, but we made our pup on your birthday. So that year I only have the one." She answered softly. "We were almost twenty-five when we died."

The truth hit me like a punch in the gut. She survived so many times, all alone in the forest. "I am so, so sorry."

She took a deep breath and stood. "They get easier. And I had my mates touch to temper the burn. You both just went through you first without any help other than me. I took the heat, so you had those few breaks to collect yourself."

I wrapped my arms around her. "You are the strongest wolf I have ever met."

laughed. "You're only saying that because

"She is right. You are strong, stronger than the both of us. You spent six years dealing with this, and we both failed our first

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where your anger is coming from. You're acting like this is something to win or lose at. And pining for a male is losing to

minute before she sighed. "You're right." She laid her head down. "I was so focused on you begging Rowan, and ashamed of how I was

ashamed of both

is right. I was projecting my anger onto you. And you didn't deserve it." She stood and shook her fur out. "The heat took so much out of me, I

are the alpha. And vulnerability would be hard. But we are supposed to work together, we balance each other. When you fall short, I can step up. When I fall short, you do. When

then she turned to me. "I'm sorry.

winced. "It's okay. I

both of us is to distance ourselves from both of them. Instead of looking for him, I should just focus on running with the girls. I think we could learn a lot from running as a small pack in the woods. And you, I think we should focus solely on the

with Nix. We are putting ourself in harm's way the longer we drag this out. Look at this last week. We let our guard down and Brandon forced a heat. If we were alone, we would be mated to that scumbag." She snarled. "So distancing ourselves from the

laughed. She said it so seriously. "Fine."

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tilted their heads to