Ethan’s POV
I showed Sumy every corner of the house—every hallway, every locked door, every hidden staircase— I reminded her not to step foot outside, not even into the garden, because if anyone saw her—pregnant, alive—it would ruin everything. No one knows she is still alive, only me, beta Aaron, mama and some other she wolfs and I have warned them not to inform Anyone.
Sumy do gave me attitude, that sharp edge of defiance in her every glance. In my own home, she moved as if she owned the walls. Maybe it was because I had tried—twice—to mark her. I couldn’t deny it. And she couldn’t forget.
It had been two weeks since she arrived, and I noticed the bump of her pregnancy grew larger, somehow strange.
“Hey, Sumy,” I asked, catching her in the kitchen with a plate of donuts she didn’t e
