Chapter 143

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• The pain is excruciating, but the joy I feel is real as I hear the words, “she’s in labor.” It means my babies are almost here, in my arms, my little miracles created the moment I opened my heart to my mate, and he opened his heart to me on the day he saved my life by tying our lives together forever. At that moment of transformation, as he sunk his canines into my neck and claimed me as his, healing my heart as well as my body, neither one of us knew it would lead to this moment.
• “I’m here with you,” Sly kisses my hand as my bed is wheeled to the larger birthing room. “It’s going to be okay.”