Chapter 223

• John’s POV
• Frame her? Grace would use the life of the child she protects like her own heartbeat to frame Lily? The thought is so absurd it almost makes me laugh—and then makes me want to kill. No one knows better than I do how obsessively Grace cherishes this baby. For this child, she has fought through bone-crushing pain and refuses to take anything that might harm the fetus.
• When the pack’s council told her to abort to save herself, this proud, untouchable woman—the ice-cold Rose who never bows to anyone—fell to her knees before me and begged. She begged for a single chance. A single chance to risk her shattered body for the baby’s glimmer of hope. And she would use this baby’s life to set a trap for Lily? No way.