The scene inside Exam Room 1 froze like a photograph.

Elara Vance was lying back on the examination table, her shirt pulled up to expose her slightly rounded stomach, which was covered in clear ultrasound gel. Sitting on a stool right beside her, holding her hand with both of his, was Alpha Kaelen

Kaelen pressed himself against the counter, his chest heaving as he tried to draw breath beneath the suffocating weight of the stranger’s aura. Elara was still on the floor, whimpering softly, her arms wrapped protectively around her gel-covered stomach.

"Who... what are you?" Kaelen forced the wo

The drive back to the Obsidian packhouse was a silent affair, but the air inside Caspian’s SUV hummed with an electric anticipation. Seraphina watched the sprawling territory of the pack roll by her window. The paved roads, the state-of-the-art security fences, the massive, modern packhouse looming