Chapter Fifty Seven - Battle of the sexes

Kari's POV

A month later, I was fully healed. Hela was back to her domineering self. I had a bump where I was already finding it hard to bend down to tie my own shoes and I was on my way to spend the day with my grandparents, just the three of us so we could bond better. Grant helped me carry out the box of photo albums to the car. He had become super protective of me, not only for the pups I was carrying, but also because of everything that had happened. After he had marked me the second time, which had been at the insistence of his wolf Zeus, I had passed out in his arms in the middle of the maze. When I woke the next morning, all cosy and wrapped in his arms, I had felt like none of the pain had been there. I was no longer tired, Hela was prancing in my head like a cat that has got the cream, and Grant was well and truly at full mast as he slept. I found out later that the second mark helped Hela to heal herself faster so she could heal me faster, and like always, it had come from