Chapter 51

"No! No, no come on...please!" My hysterical screams echo as agony grips my chest.

Hands fumbling to help them, to fix their broken, twisted body's. Unmoving, completely still in time. It shatters something within me that I didn't know could be broken, such grief, such loss, that I could barely breath.

The third faint heartbeat, the sound of it stopping all together is enough to have my entire soul freeze over. Every emotion jumbling together into one giant ball of suffering, and anger. Deep down my anger is towards only myself, because I'd made the mistake of choosing this birth, because I thought they'd be strong enough.

I was so sure they'd survive.

"Kalli..." She didn't say anything more, she had no words to possibly comfort me right now.

Still, the urge to protect my babies hits me, as if they're still alive and healthy. I cradle my pups into my arms, barely holding my sobs in, trembling like a leaf as I exit the den for the first time.

Everyone waits, expecting to see the arriv