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Chapter 8

Night

Because she was in the final stages of pregnancy, Bryn was usually the one who had trouble getting to sleep, but tonight she was snoozing peacefully beside me while I lay awake. I watched a moth flutter around our window, hoping it might put me to sleep, but it just increased my anxiety.

Slowly, I sat up and slipped out of bed. It turned out I didn’t need to be so cautious—Bryn was dead to the world, thanks to yours truly. A late-night run might help me sleep as deeply as she was.

As I dressed, I reached out to Dom. “Hey. Up for a run?”

He responded in seconds. “Yeah, sounds nice.”

We decided to meet near the training grounds since it wasn’t far from the alpha cabin. I got there before Dom, and when I saw him jogging toward me, I noticed something was different about him. It wasn’t until he got closer that I caught Tavi’s scent on him. That wasn’t new; these last couple of months, I’d noticed they were hanging out together more.

No, this was different. Intimate.

I made