Her head snapped toward me. “Don’t dismiss him because of me. You need him. You need people you can trust in these times. Please, Alpha Lucian, don’t dismiss my husband.”
I met Denis’s gaze. “But you can’t be left alone.”
“I’ll take my meds,” she insisted, her voice steady this time.
Mara stepped in. “She won’t be alone, Lucian. She’ll be with me at the Mansion until this is over and we have peace again. I won’t let her out of my sight when Denis is away. Whenever there’s a need for him to leave, he can bring her to the Mansion. I’d love to have her around. Besides”, her hand brushed her belly, “we have a lot to do together.”
She was trying to lighten the air, but I doubted Denis would want his wife anywhere near the Mansion right now. Not with the way things were.
“Do you like that a
