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Their baby. Would it experience the same risks?
Sara didn’t respond, not even in her mind, for she knew the answer.
Of course, their small little family would face perils. To be at the head of any pack would invite rivals. Jealousy, blind ambition, an unquenchable thirst for power.
Sadness, helplessness, fear, and complete exhaustion hit Sara.
No more thinking. No more feeling, sensing anything.
“You okay, sweet pea?” Xavier looked down at his charge.
“Yes. Don’t leave me. Don’t leave me ever again. Not for any reason. Any reason in the world. Our baby, it needs you. I need you to be okay. I know you said you are, but Xavier, I’m scared you won’t be.”
Xavier rocked Sara like a babe in arms to quiet her fears. She was grateful for the love and attention he showed her.
But there were too many unanswered questions. And too many fears. Too many rival shifters were waiting in the shadows to attack again.
Blood was shed. And if Sara was right, more would be.
She remembered those warm drops. She felt for her cheek. They were still there, dried and caked on. Some flaked off with her nails.
Blood was indeed shed, and blood lust enlivened friend and foe.
The harrowing night was surely over, but what would the morning bring?
SEVENTEEN
XAVIER
There really were no words. There was rage and more rage. It was very, very difficult to even see straight and focus. What he heard when his thoughts weren’t racing were the bare facts.
The bare facts were that someone ran him off the road into a tree. He had been inches from losing Sara and the baby. He got her back, and some bad actors were taken out during the process. Hopefully, the perpetrating group lost their alpha, and they had a whole lot more hell to pay.
When he rescued Sara and the baby and carried her from the trunk of the abductor’s vehicle to the SUV, she had asked him one question. “Are you okay?” And he had been sincere when he answered in the affirmative, now that he had her and the baby back.
But that wasn’t the truth. That was the biggest lie, though it took him a few minutes to realize it. Still, long before they arrived home, he knew he was in trouble. His rage was rising uncontrollably. He would find who did this and paint the Earth red with their blood if he had any hope of ever feeling normal again.
The first thing he did once Sara was in the SUV and they were racing home was call Annie, the healer.
“I need you,” Xavier said to Annie once she answered.
“Just you? Or Sara too?” Annie asked. “You guys had an ultrasound today. I know it went well. Did you get to see the heart beating?”
“Sara. Sara and the baby need you. I just need you to see Sara. Look at her. I’ll catch you up on the other stuff later. I have no doubt Sara will fill you in on everything from the ultrasound.”
“This sounds and feels urgent,” Annie remarked calmly. “If you need emergency services, go. I can find you at the hospital.”
“No. No,” Xavier snapped. “We are headed home, and I want you there.”
“I will get there as fast as I can,” Annie confirmed.
“How fast is that?”
“Top priority.”
“Thank you, I know you will hurry,” he told Annie and hung up.
The SUV was navigating the drive home quickly, and they were just about there.
