Ethan

Yes.” Jane confirms, looking me in the eye for the first time. I’m pregnant, Ethan.”

The room is spinning. Everything has turned upside down and inside out, and I can’t make sense of any of it. This isn’t real. It can’t be real. Jane can’t be pregnant.

History is repeating itself right before my eyes, only this time my mate hasn’t hidden her condition from me out of fear, she’s done it because I didn’t give her any other choice. The first time was a misunderstanding, but that’s not the case now. It isn’t possible. I think again. I would have known – there would be signs, symptoms. Even as I ponder this possibility, I realize there have been signs and symptoms. She never went back into heat again after the first time, she was so sick in the Southern Isles even after we disembarked from the ship, and her emotions have been so raw since she returned.

What?” I say inanely, not able to wrap my mind around this. “What are you talking about?”

“I’m pregnant.” Jane repeats, tears shining in her eyes. “I wasn’t going to tell you after you rejected us, but I can’t hide it any longer.”

“How long have you known?” I ask, my voice like gravel. I have no right, but I can’t help feeling disgruntled that she kept this secret. Another baby.

Another child I’ll be endangering if I let her stay. But another baby. I missed her first pregnancy – I never got to watch her body grow and change with the pups, I didn’t get to help her bring them into the world, to see the miracle with my own eyes. This could be my second chance, the opportunity to do it right this time around.

I suspected when we were still on the ship,” She confesses, “and I was fairly convinced by the time we tracked the pups down. I just couldn’t think about anything but getting them back.

“You kept it from me all that time?” I hiss, outraged that she was coping with this on top of everything else that happened on our trip.

“You had enough to worry about.” She shrugs, tears spilling over her lashes. And I didn’t think you’d let me help if you knew. You already didn’t want me there. Then the doctors in the hospital confirmed it…

to tell you when.. when you sent me

on new meaning. I devastated Jane at the moment she should have been happiest, I placed the burden of raising another fatherless child

d*mn right I wouldn’t have let you help.”I say, before I can stop myself. You had no business putting yourself at that kind of

to do anything possible to rescue them.”

child in your belly?” I demand, “you didn’t think anything

didn’t even know if it

you think I waited so long to find out?I couldn’t do what was necessary to save the pups if

“You should have come to me

I’m going

care about you, I care about the baby. I want to shout. Instead, I scoff. “And you wonder why I don’t trust

the first trimester. I thought it would be hard enough explaining where babies come from.. I didn’t want to risk having to

I didn’t think I could possibly feel worse than when Jane offered to sacrifice her freedom to me, but it seems I hadn’t yet learned the true depth of my despair. What kind of Alpha does this to his mate? I shouldn’t be allowed to be anywhere near her or the pups. If Jane is pregnant then she’s even more vulnerable than I knew. She won’t be in

– and this is exactly why we can’t. My wolf insists. She shouldn’t have to do it all alone – not

like this. we’re no good for her, and one day we might be able to be near her again without being a

course we do, when we’re well there’s no stronger Alpha. My wolf

she’s perpetually heartbroken, Just look at what my protection has done to

just how right my Beta was – though for very different reasons. I have to do whatever I can to get better, but not so that I can bring my family home. My initial instincts were right, as much as I abhor the idea, I have to find Jane a new mate, someone she’ll be safe and happy with

doing the same now. The difference is that I’m protecting her from me now, and this

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