Thoughts flood my mind like a tidal wave. Keagen, Noah, and Sophie’s first day at school… Their first kisses… Starting big school… Keagen meeting her mate… All the birthdays I’ll miss… The hugs I won’t give after nightmares… The way they make me laugh with their wild, spunky little personalities… Watching them graduate… One of them becoming Alpha… another becoming Luna… Their wedding days… The list spirals endlessly—until one thought slams into me so hard it jolts me back into the present. And I laugh. Loud, unfiltered laughter bursts from my chest, raw and unexpected. Relief washes through me, so pure it makes my body tremble. The room falls still. Every gaze snaps to me, wide-eyed and confused, like I’ve lost my mind. I look at them—my family, my reason for everything—and g

