“Kitten,” he said slowly, his voice calm in a way that made my stomach twist because I already knew he was going to leave no matter what I said. “You know who your Alpha is, right? You know no one can hurt me.”
I wanted to shake him. I wanted to scream that my wolf was still pacing inside me, that my heart was beating so hard it hurt, that there was something wrong and he was acting like this was just another normal day when it clearly wasn’t.
“It’s just your pregnancy hormones,” he continued, his voice softening as his eyes warmed in a way that made my throat close up.
“Please don’t cry, okay? I will be back before you even have time to miss me. I just want this to be over so we can leave this place behind for good.
“We will go home, and you will not have to think about any of this
