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I leaned into him, finding comfort in the hard line of his chest and the strength of the arms that encircled
For a moment, as broken as things were, I felt a fleeting sense of peace with our small family together. But then, that moment passed, and I just felt sad.
Like this, Alice soon cried herself to sleep. As she rested in my arms, I shifted a little so that I was sitting on the ground with her in my lap. Julian shifted too, sitting beside me but no longer touching. He was still close enough to feel though, the warmth of his body keeping the chill of the forest at bay.
Julian and I both watched our daughter sleep, before his gaze lifted up to me.
“How long as she been suffering from this?” he asked.
A brief thought passed through my mind, something a little wild, about keeping the full truth from him. But, with things as they were, that didn’t seem fair to anyone. Not to Alice or to me or to him.
“When that plane came down,” I said, “both our wolves manifested to keep us safe p>
“She wasn’t even born yet,” he whispered.
“ No …” I said. “Our wolves kept us safe in that crash. We would have surely died without them. Yet, for Alice, manifesting a wolf so young did not come without consequence. I cannot wish it undone, because she would be dead without her wolf, but… To see her in such pain… ”
I bit back a sob.
Julian wrapped his arm around me, tugging me closer against him. He rested his chin atop my head, tucking my face into the crux of his shoulder and neck.
“It’s not your fault, ” he said.
“ Isn’t it?” I asked. “ If I wouldn’t have gotten on that plane p>
“Then it’s my fault,” he replied. “Because I am the one that pushed you into leaving p>
That didn’t sit right with me. Julian wasn’t the one who had forced the plane down. Though, neither was I.
I supposed I could see his point then, that neither of us were to blame.
“ I just wish there was more I could do,” I said. “All my healing abilities, and I am no closer to a cure than I’ve ever been p>
“I’ll help you, ” Julian said. “You aren’t going to be alone in this anymore. ”
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I’m already making a mental list of who to reach out to. I’d get a whole medical board together to research
Alice’s illness. I’d pump every last dollar I owned into finding a cure. There was no lead I wouldn’t
exhausted, nothing I wouldn’t do to help.
Yet, even as I was making those plans, part of my mind was still piecing things together.
Amber must have been too, because she said, “I have no idea why Chase would want to hurt Alice p>
I didn’t either. The rumors of him spoke of a playboy, someone who was careless with women’s hearts
and wallets. It said nothing about him being callous or malicious, especially toward children.
He could have just been hiding it. There could be more to Chase than any of them know.
Or… he could have been put up to it.
I couldn’t stop thinking about Chase and Olivia arguing in the restaurant. I wished now, that I had gotten
closer so that I could have overheard what they’d been saying.
Olivia didn’t have premonitions, yet she’d issued me a warning something could happen.
Had she been speaking of this?
Had she known this was going to happen?
Had she planned it?
I needed answers, and though I’d threatened to tear his throat out, there was only one person who could
tell me what was going on.
Chase.
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