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The next couple of weeks pass quickly. Eli takes care of the herbs and has wildlife cameras set up with the council’s help, who supplies the shipment to catch the hunters. They are doing their investigations into the hunters’ organization and gathering more evidence.

I manage to finally get a hold of my mother and warn her of Pete. She makes sure to call me every day so I know she’s okay. I also train each day with the pack kids, which is growing increasingly more difficult. I’m getting bigger and bigger and am unable to stand for long periods of time.

I need to take breaks and have been napping heaps. I’m always so winded, having trouble breathing. The council sent a doctor out to check on me, and I will soon have no choice but to head back to the city. It’s too risky for me to give birth here, being that I’m a human, and they said I didn’t have long left.

I dread returning to the city. Emery is also back but leaves every few days to go back to her pack. She and her father are planning to merge the packs after this business with Sam is over.

Rolling out of bed, I sit up from my nap. Cyrus is lying beside me, playing Solitaire with a deck of cards.

“Are you feeling alright?” he asks, scooping the cards up.

“Yes, just hungry.”

“I’ll go make you something,” he says.

I shake my head. “Not for food.”

He looks at me worriedly. “The amount of blood you are consuming is starting to worry me,” he says, looking at my belly. “It means you are getting closer and closer. This baby is growing alarmingly fast.”

“Aren’t they supposed to?”

“Yes, Lycan pregnancies are only three months, but this baby is growing too fast, being a hybrid, and I worry it is taking too much of a toll on your body. Humans aren’t meant to consume blood,” he says, brushing his thumb over my cheek and under my eye where a huge bag has formed. No matter how much I sleep I’m always exhausted.

Chapter 19

• Adeline •

Eli comes in the room and sits on the bed.

“How was your run?” Cyrus asks him.

“Good, but some people reported picking up odd scents again. By the time I got there, the scent was gone, though,” Eli says, pressing his lips in a line.

“Supernatural council, maybe?” Cyrus says.

“Yeah, probably collecting the data from the wildlife cameras,” Eli says with a shrug before rolling on his belly. He presses his lips to my round belly and I lie back down as he rubs the side I am not lying on.

“You look tired, you get enough sleep?” he asks.

I nod and yawn.

“Maybe no more training with the kids. Just rest until we get back to the city,” Eli says.

I like training to kill the boredom, but I’m always left way more exhausted afterward.

“We’ll be leaving for the city next week. You’re getting too far along now. You’ll be more comfortable there,” Eli says.

“Can I go see my mom?”

“Not yet. Soon. I’ve organized a place with the supernatural council. We will be staying at the compound till you give birth and Sam is caught. A chopper will pick us up.”

“And also because Cyrus is going to change me.”

He smiles sadly.

“You promised, Addie. You said, after you had him, you would let him change you,” Eli says.

“I know, but I won’t be able to see my mom once he does. I want to see her beforehand,” I tell him.