CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE: I NEVER STOPPED LOVING YOU

Alisa's basic instinct was to turn and run, but she was in the water, and this majestic wolf was looking at her.

Nothing had changed about it. It was still the same one that she saw the day she was in the pond. The same one that had watched her and filled her with fear before turning around and going into those bushes.

The wolf let out a gust of air through its nostrils, and put its paw into the water as if to let Alisa know it was harmless. She blinked and let her curiosity overshadow every other feeling: her anger at Jayden, her want to abort the child she was carrying, her sadness and heartbreak.

She put all of that aside and touched the paw.

It was large in her hand, but the underside felt soft and the rest of it was furry. She looked at the wolf once again and it blinked.

"Can you talk to me?" Alisa asked after a while, the time the pause lasted spent her thinking of what question to ask.

The wolf shook its head rapidly, and its ears flapped against the sides of its head, makin