LOGIN“Seriously, Erina?” a sigh slipped past my lips, and it was more resigned than frustrated. My mate’s cousin eyed me seriously. “You either let me come with you, or you stay home here. With me. I am not letting you out of my sight either way.”I shook my head as I plopped back down on the couch. The fact that I thought Elias had been protective of me before was laughable. Whatever that was in the past was a very watered down version. The side of him that I was seeing now was way more intense. It was as though a switch had been switched in his brain since I told him about the pregnancy. “You guys are going to drive me crazy,” I muttered under my breath, but loud enough for Erina to hear. She plopped down beside me, offering me a plate of crackers. “I know it sounds like we are making this a big deal, but you need to understand things from our perspective. It is a very lucky occurrence, the fact that you are pregnant.”I raised my eyebrows at her words, popping a cracker into my mout
“Are you sure you are going to be okay?” Isadora asked, her brows furrowed into a frown. I smiled as I leaned down to kiss her.“Stop fussing, little wolf. I will be okay. This should not take long,” I responded. But the frown on her face only got deeper. “What if he has created another bunch of those creatures again? What if you get in contact with that awful poison again? You just got out of the hospital. Elias, you know I don't want you to go on this mission. It's too dangerous.” I sighed and sat back down on the bed, tugging her to sit beside me. “Isadora. I am going to be perfectly okay. I have already cut off all the sources of that man, and he cannot have access to enough people to create monsters again. I am going to be fine, I promise. Please stop worrying about me.”She sighed and took my hands in hers. “Let me go with you.”I shook my head. “Absolutely not. You are in a very fragile position. I would never risk your life like that. Just stay here and wait for me, okay? Er
My heart stopped in my chest. Isadora was pregnant. The dream I had was not just a dream. It was the truth. Isadora was pregnant for me. I was going to be a father. I was going to have a son. Happiness slammed into me so hard that it made me dizzy, my vision blurring for one glorious second. I was going to be a father!Someone let out a whoop so loud that it shook me out of my head, only to find out that the sound came from me. I made a noise. The whoop escaped from my lips. I grabbed Isadora and pulled her into a tight hug, then remembered that she was pregnant. I pulled back instantly, and when I met her gaze, the relief in them was so visible that it made me pause for a moment. Then something she said earlier finally made sense to me. The bit about ‘And I think it's important for you to know now so that if you do not want it, then we can make arrangements here to take it away.’“Wait a minute. You thought I was not going to be happy about the baby?’I asked. She held my gaze as
“We have to keep him here for a little while. Just enough to know that there is no poison left in his bloodstream. His nerves and muscles are also not back in their full shape yet, so we will keep him on his usual medication a little longer. But the danger has passed now, and you have absolutely nothing to worry about, Ms Isadora.”The doctor had a kind smile on his face as he spoke, his gaze trained on my mate. Isadora shook his hand. “Thank you. Thank you so much. I appreciate everything you did,” her voice dripped with gratitude, her shoulders slightly hunched as she watched him leave. When the door closed behind the doctor, Isadora turned to face me. I held out my hands.“Come here,” I said softly. She hesitated for a second. “You are not fully recovered. The doctor said your muscles are still weak from the effect of that poison.”I raised my eyebrows at her. “It's just a hug, Little wolf. Also, did you not throw your arms around me the minute you saw that I was awake?”Her ch
“Elias!” Isadora yelled from somewhere behind me. I turned towards the direction of her voice, my heart pattering in my chest when I found her. She was standing several feet away from me, and I immediately started to move towards her. The moment I took a step though, the ground shook violently, and the floor splitted open between us. Isadora remained where she was, but the ground I was standing on kept moving farther and farther away from her, until a large chasm separated me from my mate.“Find your way back to me. I am waiting for you,” she yelled, then looked down at her stomach before looking back up at me. A small, hopeful smile grew on her lips. “We are waiting for you.”My brows furrowed into a frown. We? I wanted to speak, but my lips refused to move. I looked at her stomach instead, and to my surprise, she was pregnant. The realisation hit me in the chest like a truck. I blinked, and right before my eyes, she transformed. Her pregnancy faded away, and now she was holding a
“Isa. Are you okay?” Carlos asked. I could feel his gaze intensely trained on me, but I didn't turn to look at him. Instead, I continued to gently dab at Elias's forehead with a hand towel. “Isadora…” he called again. Erina was out getting food for me, since she said I was too gaunt for her liking. I wish she was here to deflect Carlos's question. But she wasn't, so I turned to face him. “I am. I mean, minus the fact that my mate has been unconscious for about two weeks now and does not seem to be responding to treatment, I think I'm pretty chill.”He sighed and took a step away from the window, closer to me. “That's not what I meant, Isa. We are all worried about Elias. But you look pale. Extremely so. And you've rushed over to the restroom like three times to throw up since we got here. What is going on? Are you not sleeping enough? Do you want a doctor to take a look at you?”His voice remained gentle as always, but for some reason, his words rankled me. I glared at him as I
Ashton left with the children shortly after that, and it wasn’t until Elias walked back into the room that I suddenly found it hard to speak.I hadn’t cried since the incident, mostly because I didn’t think there was anything to cry about, but after seeing that boy, after holding him in my hands, t
Elias made good on his words over the next few days.We practically existed in our own little bubble for five whole days, and each day was a thousand times better than the last.I feared that each day would be the last, that someone would interrupt our solemn bubble, but it never came, and I’d fina
I wasn’t sure how long I was out.As I slowly came to, I couldn’t help but feel a wave of irritation at the crickets chirping outside and the discomfort of the couch.It took me a long minute to realize that I couldn’t hear any crickets, and I wasn’t on an uncomfortable couch.My eyes flew open imm
The people stared as we drove past. They didn’t even try to hide the fact that they were.I didn’t want to step out of the car at all, and I honestly wouldn’t have if it weren’t for Carlos practically dragging me out of the car.“Carlos,” I hissed as we walked through the throngs of soldiers. “I wa







