“What you're feeling now, Jason, I felt a hundred times over when I rejected you and this pack. I felt it while running for my life. I felt it while Lila curled herself around my pup and used whatever strength she had left to protect the baby.”
Jason looked down at Julia's stomach again.
“And I couldn't stop. I couldn't collapse.”
Her voice cracked.
“I couldn't lie down and wait for the pain to disappear.”
Ryker's jaw tightened beside her.
“I had to keep running because I believed that if Silver Fang caught me and brought me back, my pup and I wouldn't be safe.”
The Silver Fang wolves stood frozen. Some looked ashamed. Others appeared stunned.
Perhaps for the first time, they were hearing what Julia's departure had truly been like. Not simply an Omega leaving the territory. Not an
