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Chapter 43 – Return

Diesel’s POV

I was seated in the back of the Escalade, looking down at Lucy’s beautiful sleeping face. Her head was resting on my chest and my hand was rubbing circles on her belly. She was always at ease listening to my heart drumming.

Dawn was breaking on the horizon. We had about two hours left, and our caravan of black SUV’s made its way towards Dark Moon territory. Max was driving and Payton was sleeping in the front passenger’s seat. My mother was Luna of Dark Moon and was buried there. We held a funeral at Crescent Moon for my father yesterday and he would be buried this afternoon next to my mother at Dark Moon.

It’s been three days since the war. Lucy spent the first two days sleeping. Tapping into her full power was exhausting and grief weighed heavy on all of us. Looking down at her face and those full cherry lips, I’m reminded of the first time she took my breath away. The first day I pulled her out of that river after she had escaped from Dark Moon. Now