Pregnant for The Hollow Alpha

anger's name on my lips and my bo

ime thi

mming. On my right palm, four thin lines of dried b

the i

he I had no right to fee

. The sound of something enormous moving through trees. And eyes: am

my fingers over

. I was al

ready awake when

ng fire, waiting. One eye clea

dre

m f

he'd been making my whole life

to the

ttage. Tonight the forest wasn't breathing. Still.

omething o

hing out there. That'

fferent

dn't

oved at the

r a person. A figure standing where

t look

yes. Amber. Glowing. Catching

eyes from

d the door open befo

ia.

ened

Behind me, my fath

closer now. Muc

itchen knife

oing to do mu

. Male. It slid unde

p ba

ead, looking at me like he

u to go ba

to explain w

said, urgent

e fores

more... surrounding the clearing in

ed toward th

jaw. Young: mid-twenties. Dressed in black. And on the i

ist b

ed blood, something pulsed. Warm.

ling go

like the dream. Urgent. Calm. And underneath that,

he open." He stepped toward me. I raised the kni

in my garden at t

s." His voice dropped, intimate despite the danger. "And tonight my cover is bl

wling

we

fast and silent, but every few strides he looked

h him in it. Alive. Like the

against the stone. His body blocked mine. Close. Too close. I could

breathed aga

wling

ce. W

His thumb traced the mark

asp

e corner of his mouth moved

behi

N

hing shifted in his express

take your

etween me and the dark. But

vy. Deliberate

Walking o

rigid. "

ho

ver his shoulder.

her. Th

tsteps

Commanding. Familiar in a way that made m

her. Bring he

l. No movement. Just

hed. His hand ti

wled again, farthe

He's calling th

hy

m again. "Because he doesn't need wolves

minutes later. Kael checked the clear

ith an iron poker. His expressio

ow him,

dn't

know

ia.

w l

k the iron key from around his neck. The one that o

t d

't wan

eas

my eyes off Kael. And h

the cellar door. Pu

told you the night you were bo

m wh

door swung open. Col

clear, one clouded, both full of eighteen y

il

h," he said. "

it doesn't change what's between us." Then my father descended into the dark, and I followed. The last th

nal