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He’d just lied to her face when he’d told her Liae only served to ratchet up her anger even e burned through her Like fast- powers She knew that it had taken two to get her pregnant, but right now she wanted Liam’s head on a platter

The man had pursued her relentlessly for over a month; then once she’d finally allowed herself to care for him, even at the cost of her brother, he’d turned his back on her Now to find out she was pregnant, she didn’t knohat to feel She just knew she was spittingto feel her wrath

Connor opened the front door and led her inside "If you’ll just wait here--"

"I don’t think so" She sto room, to where she heard voices Liam sat around a coffee table with five other people Three ht

When he saw her, he immediately stood Concern was etched in every line of his handsoive a da the positive pregnancy test, she looked at it, then threw it at hiht it ry stare with confusion "We used condoms Lots of them Maybe this is a mistake"

At the word "mistake" her heart cracked She wasn’t exactly sure what she was feeling right now, but the word " her teeth, she pulled out a handful of the other tests and threw those at him They clattered to the floor at his feet "Are these mistakes too? Your super sper mere condoms!"

At the word "sperm," the others in the room quickly scurried out As she stared at him, she’d never felt more lost in her life Her throat was thick and she couldn’t help the s to say so Instead of anger at his silence, a terrible hollowness filled her chest Even when he hadn’t returned her calls, she’d figured they still had a chance He’d freaked out and eh, but this…nonresponsiveness was tooher eyes, she turned and ran out the door

Lian on the white stick in his hand and tried to catch his breath Dece at hi to be a father He didn’t kno that was possible, but holy shit, it was true

When December turned away froo Not again

The past few days he hadn’t been able to sleep Had barely been able to eat The whole pack had been following up on leads and checking into local APLon autopilot Without December he was absolutely lost

He still didn’t understand how his brother had walked away froht noas like tiny razors shredding away at his soul If that’s what his brother had gone through for all those years, then he was a better man than he Liam was too selfish to walk away froo

"Deceht up to her halfway across the yard Da her arm, he pulled her to a stop

When she turned to face hiht was like a punch to his gut She looked down at where his hand still held her upper arm and jerked away from him

He hated the pain he saw in her eyes and knew he had to ht "I’m sorry You just took me by surprise"

"Whatever" She started to turn away froain

"I don’t kno this happened, but are you…okay?" God, the question sounded lame to his own ears, but he didn’t knohat to say Or even if there was a right thing to say in this situation

"I don’t knohat I a on with ot huo If a woman was in heat, shifters stayed away Or used protection Which was exactly why he’d used condoive them for that matter, so he hadn’t even bothered to explain to her about all that He’d used condoht she’d been perfectly safe froood that had done them

"Is this funny to you?" she practically shrieked