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"How does everything look? Is she all right? Is the balas well?"

Dr Leza Franz reloves as she walked away from the bed and deposited them in the trash "Easy, Alexander They are both very healthy"

"You&039;re sure?" Alex pressed, following the veana as she collected her bag "I knowthis child, so if you are trying to spare ave him a very stern look "Sara is in far better health, both mentally and physically, than you Especially rowled playfully at her

"Now back up and let , Sara"

"I will Thank you, Leza"

When the doctor left the rooave his mate, her brother, and Celestine a rare smile They all huddled around Sara in the bed He had been a terrified paven-so worried he&039;d be a failure as a father, he hadn&039;t even wanted to try But now, as his ferew and he felt his balas move within her, he couldn&039;t wait Lucian&039;s child and his would grow up together, a chance he and his brothers hadn&039;t had the luck to experience

"Alex?"

Cellie atching hiht to talk with her daughter, tell both Sara and Gray the truth The co on?" Sara asked warily "Are you planning soet into surprises They freak me out"

"Whatever it is would be a surprise to me too," Gray chimed in, seated beside his sister on the bed "I have no idea what&039;s up between them"

Sara and Gray both turned to look at Cellie, who appeared pale and worried but resolute in her desire to come clean

"Do you both recall the conversation we had outside this house?" she began, her gazefrom one to the other "The conversation about your father, your true bloodline?"

"Yes," Gray said, looking slightly uncomfortable "Not one of my all-time favoriteup against her pillows, Sara coaxed the veana along "Mo happen?"

"Oh, my dears" Her voice cracked, and she quickly cleared her throat "Soht I would ever have to tell you Shouldn&039;t have had to tell you"

Gray cursed "There&039;s more Isn&039;t there?"

"Gray" she started

"I knew it I knew that wasn&039;t everything"

Stop acting like a whiny child You&039;re the leader of Impure Resistance, for fuck&039;s sake

Alexander had said the words in his ht his gaze and snarled at hi with any of theht I&039;d lose my mind I couldn&039;t function, I missed hiet to him Used every resource" She shook her head "But I couldn&039;t help him He was my partner, my friend, the love of my life" When she finally looked up, looked at each one of them in turn, her eyes ild and desperate "Ask yourselves: What would I do, how far would I go, to save lanced at Alexander, who hated the panic he saw in her eyes but reo, Moh she wanted to ods," Sara breathed, put a hand over her ave him what he wanted"-her breath hitched-"and yet Jeremy still returned to ain?" Gray asked, though the pained look in his eyes said he had a pretty good idea "What did you give him?"

"Myself," Cellie said in a small voice

Before another as spoken, Luca burst through the door, his gaze frantic and pissed off He found Alex and cursed "The veana&039;s gone"

"What?" Alex darted a look at Cellie "When?"

"Bron went to check on her, bring her soone We searched everywhere"

"Shit!"

"Oh, gods," Cellie said

"Why do veanas always run froone?" Sara deaze on Alex "Damn it, Alexander! What do you know that I don&039;t? Who was here in my house?"

Alexander hated the stain of his betrayal in her eyes He had kept so froive him in time

"Who, Alex?" she repeated tersely

"Your sister," he rasped

Everyone within the room turned to Celestine She looked small and ashamed, and she whimpered as she put her face in her hands "It was a mistake She wasn&039;t supposed to have lived" A sob wrenched from her throat "Cruen and I made a child"

Hellen stared at him, drank hih she hadn&039;t seen him in a year Dressed in black jeans and a black T-shirt, his dark hair falling to his jaw, his dia just below the surface of his skin, he looked dangerous and sexy

And Hellen wanted to consume hiarden, bragging about his stellar projecting talents while chasing the puppies one of the fe properly spoiled, he had stated that he was in Heaven in Hell and didn&039;t want to go anywhere else until bedti Erion and Hellen the chance to talk

But looking at hi beside the mirror in her bedroo in his eyes, she wanted to do so much more than talk

Erion, however, was insistent

"We are back here once again," he said, his tone a perfect key to his mood

Pissed off

Hellen stood beside the bed She hadn&039;t found herself a larger suite, so their ti herself toin her bed at night, she had reveled in the fact that she could still scent hiaze and juer doesn&039;t coht fro hie shadow "You have to understand why I did it"

"I understand, Hellen I understand that you made a decision for us-for me-without my approval"

She reacted instantly "I couldn&039;t have you choosing me over Ladd"

His eyes softened just a hair "There was yourI would"

The shock of his words asp They were harsh, pointed, and she wanted to run froone anyway? Is that what he was saying? He would&039;ve chosen his son over her

Her shoulders fell Yes, of course, she thought inanely That is exactly what he would&039;ve done That is what a good father, a loving father, would do