All Chapters of Her Second Chance Alpha: Chapter 61 - Chapter 69

ETHANI fought my way through the hallway like my whole life was on fire because it was. My mate was in there. My pups were in there. And a pack of rogues who wanted them dead was trying to reach them.Blood splattered across the white walls. I heard the sound of fangs and claws as bones broke and flesh tore. I didn't think about it. I just moved, fighting and doing what needed to be done.The fear coming through the bond was electric. I could feel Freya's terror and the babies' distress, all of it flooding through me like I was drowning.I burst into her room just as a rogue lunged at her bed.Everything in me went cold with rage. I snatched the wolf off her, tearing it apart with my bare hands, my claws, and my teeth. The other rogue scrambled backward, but I was already moving toward it to finish what needed to be finished.When I turned back to her, Freya was clutching both babies to her chest, her blue eyes wide and terrified, fixed on me like she couldn't believe I was standing

ETHANI told her not to go. She went anyway, which honestly, I should have expected because Freya Morgan had never once in her life done what someone told her to do.It was almost funny, in a way that wasn’t funny at all. Even half a year ago, when she was still tangled up in Brian’s world, she’d fought for every inch of ground she stood on. Now she had three sons and a war on her hands and she still wouldn’t back down from a single thing.I followed at a distance, far back enough that neither of them would catch my scent on the wind, and close enough that I could be there in seconds if something went wrong. I told myself that was the only reason and it had nothing to do with the fact that I couldn’t stand the idea of her meeting him without me there.They met at a park near the edge of the city, a neutral spot with plenty of people around so neither pack could pull anything. I watched from behind a row of trees as Brian walked up to her, hands in his pockets, looking calm in that ea

ETHANI would never forget the sight of Freya mid shift, fur catching the emergency lights, claws out, every inch of her built around one single purpose: protecting our pups. It was breathtaking. It was also the most terrifying thing I’d ever watched, because I knew exactly what it cost her body to force herself to shift that fast after everything she’d already survived.She fought like hell. I fought beside her, and together we got the twins and our oldest clear of the smoke and into the hands of guards I trusted with my life. By the time the chaos settled and the building was declared clear of any actual device, Freya had shifted back, and then she broke down completely in my arms.“I almost lost him,” she kept saying over and over, shaking against me. “I almost lost him.”“You didn’t. You didn’t lose any of them. You were incredible.”I meant every word of it. I’d fought in real battles against real armies, and I had never once seen anything as fierce as Freya standing over our pu

ETHANFreya didn’t sleep much that night, and neither did I. I watched her toss for an hour before she finally gave up and just lay there staring at the ceiling, one hand resting on her belly like she could somehow guard the last twin through sheer will alone.“We still have the ceremony tomorrow,” she said quietly, not looking at me.“Do you want to push it back?”“No.” She finally turned her head. “I want one good thing to happen this week, Ethan. Just one.”So the next afternoon, despite everything, the pack gathered for the naming ceremony for the twins. Gemma had insisted we still hold it, saying the Moon Goddess didn’t wait for convenient timing, and nobody argued with her.It should have been simple. Lanterns, a circle of pack members, the twins wrapped in soft blankets while the elders sang the old chants over them. But the air was thick with tension nobody bothered hiding anymore. Half the families who came stood at the edges instead of the center, watching me like they were

ETHANThe bullet caught me across the upper arm, the pain so intense that it spun me half around before I even understood what happened. I quickly ducked behind an overturned chair, blood already soaking through my sleeve, ears ringing from the gunfire still coming through the hall that the hearing had taken place.Then I saw Freya running straight toward me, completely unprotected, and the pain in my arm became nothing at all compared to the fear slamming through the bond.“Get down!” I shouted, dragging her behind the chair with my good arm the second she reached me.“You’ve been hit,” she said, hands already pressed against the wound, eyes wide and terrified.“It’s just a graze. Freya, look at me, it’s just a graze.”She didn’t move at first, just kept pressing her palm against the wound like she could stop the bleeding through sheer stubbornness alone. Around us, people were still scrambling for cover, and voices were shouting orders, but for a second it felt like the only two pe