“Is there a reason you’re sneaking around the grounds instead of just coming in?” At her mate’s exasperated tone, Maxine turned, the hood to her cloak shielding her face from the light flurry of snow starting again. “I was just checking on Camille. But I just saw her, so-.” It was a lie. It burned her tongue and his gut making his anger swell as he hissed, “Or maybe it was the nightmares you’re being plagued with.” Nightmares? More like terrors. “I’m pregnant, with Delta Evan’s child.” A she-wolf she couldn’t see was announcing it as Evan stood beside her proud and happy. Seeing the woman, swollen with his child and beaming ear to ear, Maxine hated her. Hated her to the point of, “AHHH!” Watching the woman die with her eyes bleeding as she then exploded and her body crumbled with a w

