5. The Ache
LORELAI
I spent the entire next two days with Zale and Enzi. I kept them with me at all times, refusing to leave even to eat. I couldn’t. Every time I thought I could handle it, my anxiety crept back in; the panic set in, and now even just using the bathroom was becoming an issue.
I wanted to be okay; I wanted to believe we were safe, but we weren’t. The vampires were silent—not attacking, not doing anything. That was worse than attacking because it meant we were in this strange limbo where we were almost happy but too scared to enjoy it.
I didn’t let anyone but the alphas be alone with the baby. The close inner circle, like my mom and Galen, Cain, and Beenie, were allowed supervised visits, but that was it. I had no idea what minds the vampires could twist, and I wasn’t
