Chapter 25: The Ghost in the Sheets
The rusted truck died a mile from the main gates.
It ran out of fuel and sputtered to a halt in the ditch. I didn't care. I pushed the door open and fell out into the mud.
My body was screaming.
The walk to the estate was a blur of agony. Every step was a battle against the potion raging in my blood. Kaelen’s father had taken my husband and my son but he had left me with this curse. The fertility drug was designed to make me pliable. To make me desperate. To make me a slave to the Alpha’s touch.
But the Alpha was gone.
I reached the perimeter of the Blackwood Estate. The iron gates were closed. The guard booth was empty. The old man had taken his elite security with him to the airfield. He had left the house to rot. He assumed I was dead in the woo
