*1 year later* *Ciara's pov* A year had passed since Patrick and I united as one. We had been running Golden Moon together for the last year, and everything was running smoothly. A lot had changed for us, all of us. The changes were for the best, and now I couldn't picture my life any differently. Patrick and I got married 6 months after we marked each other. It would have been sooner if Patrick had had it his way. But, I refused to get married while I looked like a beached whale. The night we marked each other I ended up pregnant, and our son Jackson Conners was born five months later. He was all I ever wanted in a child, and the minute I laid eyes on our future Alpha my heart belonged to him. He had my deep sapphire blue eyes and Patrick's white-blonde hair. He was perfect. It looked