Chapter 78. Soon, Baby, Soon

TARA

Considering the duration of my pregnancy and Nadia’s eight and a half years, I hadn’t seen my mother in close to a decade, and I hadn’t heard one word about her or anything relating to Attica pack except Adian.

My father too, but from the memory of a loaded shotgun pointed at my head and the fury I’d seen in his eyes, I doubted if my father still wanted anything to do with me even after all this time.

Back then, one of the reasons why I’d contemplated not keeping my baby—an unthinkable thing to me now— was the fact that my mom was constantly sick, and my father was barely making enough to take care of us and her medical needs, talk more of a kid.

It started with muscle problems, before morphing into high blood pressure, and eventually, symptoms of something more dreadful. I had no idea how bad things had gotten… if Mom was better, or if she was…

I shook the thought off my mind. I believed in the power of the mind, so I didn’t want to conjure