Hope POV "Now for the finale, the event we've all been waiting for. Alpha Liam against Alpha Nickolas. Gentlemen, if you'll both please, enter the ring for the final showdown." Cheers amongst the crowd. I peered anxiously through them, biting my lip. I knew that Liam was capable of this,, but after everything I had just gone through, I still had a small voice inside my head telling me to be worried for the father of our unborn pup. I had yet to inform him properly. I suspected he knew already. I tried to put a hand on my stomach, feeling the life of the child, imagining what I would be like as a mother. I had no notion of what kind of mother I would make, but then I hadn't exactly had a stepmother who was the perfect role model. Unlike Evelyn, I would love this child wholeheartedly. "H