CULLEN
I took a deep breath and held it. One, two, three. Exhaling sharply through my nose, I opened my eyes. Remi’s eyes stared up at me, round and worried. “I’m okay,” I whispered.
It was true for today. Every day was different. Having my mate close and my pups around helped. Guilt threatened to consume me when I least expected it. It was the perfect punishment that the thing that grounded me the most was also the source of my guilt.
“Aedreal and Aebellae will be reasonable. They helped us, remember?” she said, not understanding that it was the least of my worries.
Two weeks since she managed to kill Tyr. In all that time, she hadn’t removed her clothes in front of either of us once. In the first few days, when she kept a large bandage over her midsection, she wouldn’t even allow
