Chapter 45. Silverthistle

Rae POV

We walked across the yard to the clinic at six-thirty in the morning. Wade on one side of me, Judge on the other, in his bathrobe and boots.

The whole pack was awake. I don't know how they knew. Nobody said anything. But Birdie was standing on the kitchen porch with her hands on her belly. Brick was in the doorway of the shop with Toby beside him. Eli was sitting on the steps of the clubhouse with a cup of coffee he wasn't drinking. Hook and Tasha were by the gate. Gus had driven up the mountain before dawn and was leaning on his truck with his arms folded.

They just watched me walk past. Every one of them. The way you'd watch somebody walk into a hospital.

I'd spent twenty-seven years walking into rooms alone.

I didn't, that morning.

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