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Decision made

Author: Ann michael
last update publish date: 2026-06-26 08:40:39

Making the decision to leave was one of the hardest things I had ever done.

Harder than waking up in the hospital.

Harder than learning I was pregnant.

Harder than accepting that I might never know who the father of my child truly was.

Because this wasn't just a decision to leave a place.

It was a decision to leave my entire life behind.

My home.

My friends.

My future.

Every dream I had carefully built over the last eighteen years.

I would never again walk through these halls without wondering
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    Back at the Pack House...Lyall's POV"You know her better than anyone. Where would she go?" my dad asks, breaking the heavy silence hanging over the room.I rake both hands through my hair for what has to be the hundredth time today."How am I supposed to know?" I snap."She has never wanted to leave the pack before. We've never talked about it. Not once. She has always loved it here."Or...At least I thought she did.The thought twists like a knife in my chest.Apparently I never knew Rowan as well as I believed."Apparently she wasn't happy here," my mother says quietly. "There has to be a reason she left."I let out a bitter laugh."You think I don't know that?"She reaches toward me, trying to rub my back like she did when I was little.I step away before she can touch me.Right now, comfort feels wrong.Rowan is out there somewhere.Alone.Pregnant.Probably terrified.While I'm standing here doing absolutely nothing.I continue pacing.Every few steps I stop, trying to force m

  • The Heir's Child   Little Peanut

    First, we traveled east for a full day. We only stopped to eat, use the restroom, and fuel up. Other than that, Raven drove almost nonstop.Every mile that put more distance between me and the pack made my chest ache a little more.I tried not to think about what Lyall was doing right now.Whether River had started crying yet.Whether Mel was angry.Whether Troy blamed himself again.Most of all, I tried not to imagine Lyall walking into the room I was supposed to be sleeping in and finding nothing but an empty wheelchair.The thought alone made my eyes sting.I turned my face toward the passenger window before Raven could notice."I told you not to think too much," Raven said quietly, never taking her eyes off the road."I wasn't."She gave me a knowing look."You were."I sighed."I miss them already.""I know."Neither of us spoke again until we pulled into a small gas station nearly two hundred miles from home.As soon as I tried climbing out of the car, my legs trembled violently

  • The Heir's Child   Revelations

    "So, where are we going then?" I ask after a while.Raven smirks at me before holding up a coin for me to see."I thought that we would let fate decide." She says."Are you serious right now? We are going to choose where we are going based on a coin flip?" I ask incredulously."Of course. You wanted to be untraceable. This is going to be the trick. Once we get farther away we can start making our own decisions again." She tells me with that same smirk. She does have a fair point there. With Lyall knowing me as well as he does, it would be too easy for him to find me this close to the pack. I will just have to let her do her thing and hope that it works out for us."Can you promise me, no snow though?" I ask with a shudder.Personally, I have never seen snow before but I know that as a wolf, we love the sunshine. Laying in the sun is one of the most relaxing feelings ever. If I have to go somewhere cold, I do not know how well I will adapt."Hey, fate is deciding. If you have a proble

  • The Heir's Child   Drive

    We drive in silence for the first hour.Neither of us seems to know what to say.Every few miles I glance in the side mirror, half expecting to see a familiar truck barreling down the highway after us.Lyall's truck.Even though I know he cannot possibly have found me this quickly, I still cannot stop looking.My heart jumps every time another vehicle appears behind us before slowly settling again as it passes.Somewhere behind us, my pack is beginning to realize I am gone.I wonder who found my empty room first.Was it Lyall?Did he rush back after dropping Raven off at the hospital?Did he knock on the bedroom door before letting himself inside?Did he smile, expecting to wake me...Only to find an empty bed?The thought twists painfully inside my chest.I'm sorry, Lyall.I hope someday you'll understand why I had to leave.Honestly, we probably would have kept going if the car hadn't desperately needed gas. The farther away we get from the pack, the easier it is to breathe. Every m

  • The Heir's Child   Breaking Ties

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  • The Heir's Child   Leaving

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  • The Heir's Child   Last Night Out

    Knowing I wouldn't be allowed to leave until I promised to be careful, I gave my parents the reassurance they wanted before retreating to my room to finish getting ready.Most of my friends were guys, and I usually blended right in with them. Every now and then, though, I enjoyed reminding them tha

  • The Heir's Child   Fears

    For a few moments, neither of us says anything.The only sound is the quiet ticking of the turn signal and the occasional vehicle passing by on the road beside us. I keep my face turned toward the window, watching trees and storefronts blur together through watery eyes.I hate this.I hate feeling

  • The Heir's Child   One Week

    "Rowan, how are you feeling today?" the doctor asked as she entered the exam room for my one-week checkup.One week.I had somehow survived an entire week trapped in my bedroom.I wasn't entirely sure how.There had been moments when I thought I might lose my mind from the boredom alone. Other mome

  • The Heir's Child   Drugs?

    "What kind of drug could affect us that way?" I asked my mother.Tonight was supposed to be a celebration. It was my birthday, Lyall's birthday, and our entire friend group had plans to spend the night partying before our lives changed forever.Instead, my parents were warning me about a dangerous

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