Lost Wolf: part one of a second chance, rejected mates, secret baby romance by Kelsey Soliz

Author:Kelsey Soliz [Soliz, Kelsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-11T16:00:00+00:00

Eleven

Aspen

It's nerve wracking to be walking down these halls with everything I own in tow. Of course, Easton wouldn’t even let me think about carrying a single bag, so he’s got all of them, much to Willa’s amusement.

I stop by the director’s office, hoping it’s the last time I’ll ever see the walls here. There’re some water stains near the ceiling from an old leak that took too long to get patched up. The walls are yellowed and slightly crumbling, but we’ve been assured that the mold has been kept to a minimum.

I knock quietly on the open door, knots in my stomach about this conversation. “Hi, Caroline.”

Her head looks up, cataloging in an instant who’s in her office. She sees the man behind me, then does a double take to me and I watch as her eyes fall to my neck and the still healing bite marks, then her hand flies to her mouth as it drops open in shock. “What?”

I look back at Easton, needing to shift from foot to foot because I’m so nervous. This is the first public announcement we’ve had to make, the first time I’ve had to introduce him to someone as mine, and it’s all happening so damn fast. “So something sort of happened last night…”

She jumps out of her chair and strides up to Easton, tears falling from her eyes. He looks at me like he’s terrified, then stands there stiffly as Caroline throws her arms around him and hugs him. “You brilliant man,” she says. “I don’t need to know details; I just need to know that one of my shelter girls are getting a happy ending.”

I may have only met him last night, but the way he looks at me in that instant has me thinking that her wish just might come true. “That’s the plan ma'am,” he says with a goofy smile.

“Ms. Caroline, Ms. Caroline!” Willa exclaims tugging at her hand. “I got me a daddy!”

Willa has been holding on to Easton’s hand since she woke up and found him, not even bothering to ask questions. In fact, she’s convinced that she manifested him, because apparently she drew a picture of her and me and a daddy or two a few days ago and snuck it under her pillow to sleep on it. She said she shoved it into the pillowcase deep so nobody would see it, and that she knew if she slept on it just right, it would come true.

Caroline weeps some more tears, bending down to be on the same level as Willa. “I’m so happy for you, beautiful girl. Wherever you ladies are off too, don’t you get off thinking you’re not gonna be writing to me, you hear? I expect to get letters from you at least once a month, with pictures of something fun you get to do together. Hand drawn is the only method I’ll accept, of course.”

“Yes ma’am,” Willa replies, voice all serious. And then she beckons Caroline closer with her tiny little finger.

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