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[Fenrick]
"It's Lucien's."
I felt the colour drain from my face the moment she said those words.
Why?
I should've been relieved. I should have thanked the gods. The child Hilary was carrying belonged to her husband, not to me—not her side piece.
But I wasn't.
My jaw clenched and I nodded like it didn't matter. Like it hadn't just crushed me.
Hilary kept her eyes down. She didn't need to say more. I already knew what this meant.
It was over.
She couldn't run away with me because Lucien would hunt down the stragglers from her pack if she did. Then he'd come after us next.
She didn't believe I could protect her from him and had no intention of living on the run—even if it was with the man she claimed to love.
She was choosing survival—and wi
