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"Do you see how ently

She nodded against his chest Costin rolled onto his side and pulled her with hi his hand up under the back of her shirt His fingers traced the ’s that hter against him when she shivered

"Costin?"

"Yes?"

"I love you" Sally clung to his shirt as she pressed her face against hian to calainst him

"I love you, Sally ently pried one of her hands from his shirt She whimpered and tried to hold on

"Shh, Sally," Costin crooned to her, as he took the now free hand and slipped it under his shirt so that her hand was on his skin Sally let out a sigh, as her hand slid up his stoainst his skin and she didn’t realize how much she’d craved the siainst him and her touch soothed him and his wolf he was finally able to process all that had happened He had co her, maybe not physically, but ile and if he wasn’t careful he could hurt her even worse than she had already suffered

He felt her breathing slow and realized she had fallen asleep He buried his face in her hair as tears he had fought for so long slipped frohtly he feared he h It was then, when she was unaware, that Costin fell apart

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"Decebel," Cynthia’s voice caently pushed her back down

"Hey, just cause I said you could touch et to push me around," Jen snapped at him

"Yes, it does," he told her as he walked towards the door He pulled it open to see a very tired Cynthia Steele standing before hiuys want to be alone, but I really need to check on Jen and the baby"

Decebel opened the door wider and stepped aside so that she could walk through She walked over to the bed where Jen lay

"How you feeling?" Cynthia asked, with a syed "Well if you would like me to be honest, I feel like soiven herself to the wrong man, lost her baby, screas that hadn’t really happened"

"Jennifer," Decebel growled from the other side of the bed

"Basically, I feel like crap doc," Jen finished, without acknowledging her mate He sat down on the bed next to her and took her hand He brought it to his lips and kissed it gently

Jen refused to look at him, she knew that if she did she would lose it and she wasn’t ready to lose it just yet

"I need to listen to the baby for a minute and check your vitals okay?" Cynthia asked

Jen nodded

Cynthia pulled Jen’s shirt up to expose her abdo to show

"When did this happen?" She asked

Jen looked down at her stoo," Jen told her