Rider and I weren't speaking. I don't think either of us knew what to say. I knew he was hurt, that I had planned to leave him this entire time, and angry that I would take our child with us. He knew that I didn't have a choice. The fate of all of us, the Humans and the Werewolves, and whatever else lived on this planet, was controlled by the Gods. There were many werewolf packs that worshipped the Moon Goddess, who is the mother of werewolf kind, and supposedly pairs mates, but I don't think I could do that with the Goddess who did this to me.
I didn't want this fate. I didn't want to have the weight of the world on my shoulders at nineteen, and I certainly didn't want to be jerked around by the Gods. To give me a mate, and then force me to leave him. I didn't want to die, and I didn't w
