Alessia:
Branches whipped against my arms as I ran.
My lungs burned.
My legs shook.
My heart slammed inside my chest so violently it drowned out everything else, the wind, the birds, even Sage’s frantic voice.
Alessia, stop, you’re going to fall…
“I can’t,” I gasped aloud. “I can’t be locked up again, I can’t allow us to live through that again, Sage.”
My feet hit a patch of uneven ground, I stumbled, barely catching myself on a tree trunk. My stomach twisted painfully.
The baby.
I pressed a hand to my belly, panting, needing a moment, just one moment,
A branch snapped behind me.
My blood froze.
I turned…
And collided with a hard chest.
Alexander.
His scent hit me first, cedar, frost, storm. My wolf surged forward so fast I almost collapsed.
He caught my wrists instinctiv
