He Marked Another, Then He Came Crawling Back To Me

The pregnancy test was warm in my palm, two stubborn lines promising a future I’d already rehearsed, mornings with a child, mansion keys in my hand, Alpha Alex Thornclaw’s arms closing around me. I almost knocked. Then I froze.

Voices spilled out.

“Sofia doesn’t need to know, Gideon,” Alex, my mate, Alpha of the Thornclaw Pack, said, cold and measured.

“You used her mother’s blood to save Ashley Bane’s sister,” Gideon snapped. “Her mother died because of it. What will Sofia do if she finds out?”

The name hit like a stone, Ashley, his first love, the ghost who still haunted the pack.