Nikolai laid in bed, watching Roxanne sleep beside him. After reading the scrolls he had quickly taken them away and picked Roxanne up, carrying her back to the Alpha’s apartment and to their bed. She was holding in her tears all the way there, he could feel how much her throat and chest were aching. She was not blocking her thoughts, probably too distraught to do so. She felt so guilty that she would be leaving him and their child behind, that she could never love both of them as they deserved. By the time he got her curled up beside her in bed the dam finally broke and she began to sob. Nikolai held her closely, tears falling down his face as well.
Roxanne had warned him, she had done her best to keep him at arm’s length but in the end, he had still fallen for her and he would not have
