Chapter 241: "Mommy things."

Roman stares at me a bit flabbergasted when I tell him.

His expression is surprised, then unbelieving, and then he releases a really low scoff. Something so insignificant, yet something that shows me he’s not happy with what is happening, or happy with it at all.

“Is that really necessary?”

I nod slowly and watch the conflicted look that crosses Roman’s face.

I get a tight chest whenever I think of it too so I don’t.

I just ignore whatever feeling plants itself in my chest when I imagine having to do that.

“Hunter said my absence has cast a shadow of death around the pack. They’ve… they’ve had nine wolves die in the past four months.

One of them was a young boy. Barely ten years old.”

The distraught scream of a mother rings in my mind, lifelike and almost real. The need to bury my face in my palm and cry overcomes me.

“No, Hey Scarlett look at me?”

My eyes sting with tears but I direct my gaze to Roman all the same, trying to keep a tough front. He stares deep into my eyes as he cr