Chapter 87

June's POV

“I’m here!” Del crowed from the front door, panting a bit. “Shit, shit, ow!” she screeched, nearly toppling right the hell over.

“Dammit, Mads,” Rocco growled at her, his arms weaving under her pits to catch her and hold her up. “You’re having a damned baby, you need to get to the hospital!”

“It’s just—” she inhaled sharply, and remained silent for a minute, her face strained. “Braxton Hicks. I told you.”

“Like hell it is,” he snarled.

Something inside me started to writhe and fight. My eyes went wide, and panic flooded me. It had to be the wolf—she was trying to rip her way out again, and—

“Calm down or get out,” Elliot warned them, sitting down in front of me with an utterly-zen expression on his face. “Everything’s fine, June. Del is in denial, and Rocco is overprotective. Everyone is alright. Now, I need you to drink this.”

My eyes flicked to the label on the protein shake.

I’d tried every kind on the damned market; I al