Alek cupped my face, his thumb brushing away a stray tear. “That’s what mates are for, love. To cherish, to support, to stand by you no matter what.”
“We are your family,” Aaron added softly. “And you—you’re our entire world.”
A sharp ache bloomed in my chest, squeezing the air from my lungs. They meant it. They would give up everything—their birthright, their responsibilities, their futures as Alphas—just to be with me.
Guilt twisted deep inside me.
Because I couldn’t ask them to do that.
After everything that had happened, after all the damage that had been done, they were needed here.
And so was I.
The my had suffered, the pack had suffered. We all had endured too much, been torn apart by Jennifer and her dark ways.
And now, for the first time in years, there was hope. A chance
