Chapter 56. Ashe The First

KELLEN

When Lamia fell to the ground, holding Zane in her arms, her heart-wrenching sobs met my ears, I felt her bond to Zane snap. I gasped at the dreaded reality of what had just happened.

"No, no, no, no. Zane! Zane baby, hang in there, you are OK, Zane baby, stay awake," she cried out.

I wanted to go to her, to hold her, to take her pain away. But I couldn't. I was fighting bear shifters and couldn't turn my back on them. I could hear her sobs and turned in shock when I heard her cry her confession.

"Baby please don't leave me, not like this, we were going to have a pup, please don't let them take you from me too!" She sobbed, pounding on her dead mate's chest. Her body was strewn across his as she desperately tried to wake him.

But it was no use. I could no longer hear his heartbeat. No longer hear his lungs expand. He was gone.

Pup? She was pregnant! Was? Or, is she still now? With more determinat