“Winnifryd is in Labour,” I said uneasily as my voice cracked. It was at that moment that I knew that I hadn’t fully made myself mentally prepared to be a father. Five months seemed to flash before me at an unsteady rate. It was true that Lycans carried their pups for a shorter amount of time than humans, but it was something to get used to when you were about to become a parent. “Do you want me to go and find Karen?” Alex said as he reluctantly allowed me to pull away from him. I could barely hear him now as my thoughts were on a rampage, I nodded my head absentmindedly as my feet began to make their way towards the direction of the cottage. I had spent weeks mulling over mass amounts of paperwork and in training sessions in search of a potential Beta. In those weeks I discovered that

