P E Y T O N One week later I had been home a week now and I wasn’t managing as well as I thought I could. My emotions were all over the place thanks to my hormones and my body was finally starting to heal, slowly. I stand looking down at my growing belly which is now twice the size is was when Eli came to Kade’s hideout to save me. Everyday our pup was getting bigger and I couldn’t help but feel guilty that I wasn’t excited about it. I couldn’t get excited. I was exhausted. Eli was always busy either trying to track down Kade again or be at different meetings every other day with the high council trying to get them to approve the battle between him and Kade once he’s located, that was another stress I couldn’t stop thinking about. I know Eli’s strong, I know he’s fast, I know he’s a for

