CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE: MAKE UP

Her hands pulled him closer to her as she drowned in the ecstasy of their kiss.

His own hands locked her close to him, feeling an emptiness he had carried around become filled up, and he regretted ever leaving. It had done nothing but hurt them both, and keep them far from each other.

And now, their child had brought them back together.

"I will never leave you again, Alisa, not even under the pain of death. I'd rather die than be away from you." Jayden confessed once they had broken their kiss.

She said nothing in reply for a while and only rested her head on his chest and listened to his heartbeat, thinking about how funny it was that she should still love this werewolf and not think of him as strange.

"You were hiding a lot from me, Jayden."

"The things I just told you are the pack's most guarded secrets, and I wouldn't tell them to anyone for the world. From the moment we morph for the very first time, we are taught to keep these secrets, as they are the very basis for our existenc