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“Yes. Yes, she is. And I’m going to fucking laugh at you when she does.”
“I love you, you know.”
Tears fell from my eyes. “I love you too.”
He nodded. “It’s good. To be with someone who feels the same way. At the end. I always…. I never wanted to be alone. It was my biggest fear. And look.” He smiled. “I’m not alone.”
“Rico. Rico.”
His chest rose and fell. Rose and fell. Rose and fell.
I waited for it to rise again.
It didn’t.
He stared at me, unseeing.
I howled. As loud as I ever had before.
The house shifted above me.
I—
I can’t wait to meet you.
But I hope you understand that I’ll be fine with waiting on that meeting for as long as possible. Because when he gives you his heart, it will no longer be mine to hold. And I want to hold on to it for as long as I’m able.
Whoever you are, you are loved.
Never doubt that.
You are loved.
A white wolf was with us. Not pure white, though. He had a smattering of black on his chest. His back. He lay down next to me, his massive head near my face. His eyes were red, and when he pressed his nose against my forehead, I said, “Oh.”
The pack bonds within me stretched tight, and I searched through all of them, finding Jessie and Chris and Kelly and Carter and Gavin and Tanner and Gordo and Mark and Joe and Ox, and there, there there there, faint and breaking, was Rico.
I grasped on to it, holding it tight, pulling it into my chest, wrapping it around my heart.
The Alpha huffed in my face.
And he said, packpackpack pack is hope pack is family pack is love you are my pack you are my hope you are my family and i love you i love you i love—
I screamed as I pushed on the beam with the last of my strength. It shifted easily, almost torn from my grasp.
The white wolf was gone.
Above me, the sun shining behind him, was Oxnard Matheson, eyes blazing red and violet.
He said, “I’ve got you.”
I believed him.
He lifted the beam above his head and threw it off behind him. I heard it crash on the ground somewhere in the distance. I took in a gasping breath, the bonds of the pack shining brightly.
I rolled to my side, spitting out a thick wad of blood. “Rico,” I managed to say. “You gotta help Rico.”
He nodded, moving toward our brother.
