#Chapter197'"Ethan, we need to talk."'******It all happened so fast, I barely had any time to blink. I stood stunned in the backyard, while everyone started getting up from their bowed positions. Murmurs and whispers started in the crowd and I couldn't help but roll my eyes. I tried to make way
#Chapter198---I thought he would crowd me so I went away to live with my sister. But now, he is giving me the space to think and sort out my thoughts but even then, I have never been so confused." I groaned at the end of my rant and put my head in my hands."You need to stop over thinking one of th
#Chapter199'"I'm not going anywhere, Zara."'******I closed the door behind me and turned around to face Ethan. He made my room look small, his overbearing and muscular physique looked out of place in my room. "I know what you're going to say, Zara." He said and sat down on my bed. "You do?" I
My eyes stung at his words and I clenched them shut to ward off the tears. "I don't deserve you." I whispered, my voice cracking."I know you don't." He laughed and I hit him with my pillow. "After what happened during the training session, I'm sure Harper must be anxious right now. It's not that la
#Chapter200'I immediately collapsed and pain burst in my head.'******My brain wasn't working fast enough to understand what had happened here. My eyes grew wide and kept flitting from one point to another. Honestly, with all the mess around me it was hard to focus on one point. I took a few ste
The floor felt so cold against my body that I didn't realise that I was shivering. I could hear the two rogues whispering in the room. I barely realised that they were cleaning the mess that they had made so that no one would know that someone had searched this room. My brains seemed so fuzzy that
#Chapter201'HIS VEXATION'******I knew that I was the one who told Zara that I was going to wait for her. I remembered how close I was to kissing her when I had said that she could take some time away from me, even be with that rogue Ethan, if that's what she wanted. If that's what she needed. I
And now here I was standing with my son in my arms, with my mate by my side. As I looked down at Mason, I felt a sense of protectiveness wash over me. At times, I still had difficulty in believing that he was mine. Two of the most important people in my life were in the same room and I felt elated
#Chapter254BONUS IIEverything turned chaotic the moment Zara left to be away from Harper, me, and all the rest of us who could possibly remind her of our betrayal. Did it count as a betrayal though when we hardly understood it ourselves? My heart hurt and my wolf whimpered at the possibility of n
#Chapter253BONUS IIWhen all the tests came back negative, I felt I was going mad or my brain was cooking up some insane story and I couldn't make head or tails about my life. I felt I was being crazy because there was no possible way that this was happening to me. If I was indeed pregnant with Ha
#Chapter252BONUS II'Natalie's POV'******I knew something was wrong when I didn't get my period for two months. I never had a smooth cycle so I wasn't really troubled when they didn't happen the first time but their absence in the second consecutive month got me worried. My body had undergone c
#Chapter251BONUS ISomething about her made my protective instincts stand on end. My wolf didn't understand what was happening but I found myself giving an evil eye to anyone who looked at her the wrong way. I could feel that she was attracted to me and it brought a sort of satisfaction to my ego
#Chapter250BONUS IMy father didn't want to see me go, I was his heir. I was supposed to succeed him and impart all the knowledge he had given me to my own son but he could see how darkly I grieved, how she feared I would choose to take my own life than choosing to live on without my mate. So, wit
#Chapter249BONUS I'Ethan's POV'******When you grow up as a werewolf, all you ever hear is the word 'mate', because people around you can't stop talking about them. Some elders talk about mates with a dazed but happy look in their eyes and you can easily tell how much they love their mates. Whe
#Chapter248EPILOGUE 6"God, I sure hope not," Zara whispered in my ear, and I caress her knee and she squeals and tries to get off me but I stop her by holding her tightly against me. She makes a show of it but settles again beside me. "When are Nat and Addison coming back?" Natalie and Addison h
#Chapter247EPILOGUE 5'HARPER'S POV (TEN YEARS LATER)'******It was three years ago when Mason was first teased by a fellow classmate about the unusual arrangement of his parents. I had always known that as he was growing up, he became especially attuned to the fact that the way his family lived
"Everything ok?" Harper's voice breaks my reverie my eyes snap up to look at him. In a daze, I show my healed palm to him and his eyes shine with pride as he recognizes what this means. As a human, seeing my palm heal so quickly is a stunning surprise in itself and I watch as Harper pulls my hand to