Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Tessa’s POV

Blood. Too much of it.

No. No, not again. This was the third time. Oh, Moon Goddess… I couldn’t lose this child too.

I pressed my hand against my lower abdomen, forcing myself to stay calm even as panic clawed up my throat. I had felt this before. Twice. And each time, I had lain there and prayed with everything I had that it would be different. I had counted the weeks in my head, whispered promises to a belly that barely showed, let myself dream of names I was too afraid to say out loud.

My body had no wolf to call on. I had no inner healing. I was an Omega – the lowest rank in the werewolf world.

Except I wasn’t even that, not fully. I had never awakened a wolf at all. I was just a woman, bleeding, with nothing inside me but the very human terror of losing a child I had been quietly loving for weeks without telling anyone.