My jaw tightened, and I forced myself not to overthink and to be the mature person instead.
‘Do we have news from Winter Pack?’ I asked.
Because that was the only thing that mattered to me right now. To know if he had news about my pack and my family.
The women.
The babies.
The pregnant one.
Penny.
Mom.
Dads.
Everyone who had gone through the portal while Eden and I stayed behind with fire in our hands and hell under our feet.
‘Yes’, he said. ‘The rescued women are stable. The woman in labor delivered. Mother and baby survived.’
My throat closed.
For a second, everything else disappeared, even the sleeping bodies around me.
All I saw was them, alive and taken care of.
Mother and baby survived.
Eden pressed warmth under my ribs.
I exhaled slowly.
‘Good,’ I thought.
It was
