BEAST [flashback- Cont'd] I took out most of the Vampires with my stealthy brothers hiding in the shadows before they crossed the tree line. I tore throats, snapped spines, and left bodies burned where no one could trace them to me. The Carver clan called it luck. Someone even called it divine protection. They thought it showed their Alpha female’s true strength. They never saw the Beast watching from the shadows. Lucy may not have been carrying my pup. But I watched the soft smile on her face while she lay under her favourite tree. Her hand was rubbing circles over her belly as she talked to her baby. Making promises of a life she never got to explore because of duty and obligations to the Clan. She would always be mine, even if she didn’t know it. So I protected that baby in her wo

