Evelyn POV The next week goes by quickly; I start to feel more like myself. Amara's herbs help, but so does drinking both Orion’s and Ryland’s blood. Though Ryland’s, I crave, and I sometimes need help to stop. Ryland doesn’t seem to mind, but I can tell everyone is worried about what will happen when the baby arrives. Honestly, I am terrified of dying, too, yet more petrified of coming back as a Lycan. They have explained numerous times what will happen if I do, and each time, it scares me more, to the point I have now stopped asking. Amara seems to think I don’t have long left, so today, Thaddeus and Orion are heading into the city to get some things. Ryland made the baby a crib by hand and it took him three days until he would even allow me into the shed to see it. Imogen brought

