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“Boys? Or girls?”
Not that it really mattered, but I had to ask given our pack’s history.
She shrugged. “I don’t know. I couldn’t tell.”
I looked at Xander. Was it possible that we’d broken the curse by finding our fated mate? Could she birth the first of the daughters our pack so desperately needed?
“There’s something else,” Monique said, grabbing a blanket off the back of the chair and wrapping it around her shoulders. “Something bad.”
“Like what?” I asked, my pulse thrumming in my throat.
She’d said we were together, and happy. I couldn’t imagine anything being bad after the knowledge that we would end up together, and we’d have children.
“I saw darkness, and death,” she said. “I don’t know what it meant, but it scared me.”
I didn’t know what made me do it, but I dropped to my knees and shuffled over to where she sat on the edge of her chair. I reached for her hands that were clasped in her lap and covered them with mine. “Sweetheart, look at me.”
She lifted her gaze and stared straight at me, and my heart ached at the sight of her beautiful, tortured features.
“Monique, I’ve been half-dead for years. Xander likely has been, too.
I flicked a glance over my shoulder at him, and he nodded slowly.
“Yes,” he said. “That’s exactly what it felt like for me, too.”
“What do you mean?” She squeezed my hands.
I sighed heavily, wanting the words to flow properly, but since I hadn’t planned to expose my heart in this moment, I wasn’t sure how it would go.
“I mean, Xander and I have known for years now that we would never have a wife or mate. Or if we did find someone, we’d never have a child. But you’ve changed everything. For both of us.”
A smile quirked at the edges of her lush lips. “Well, technically, you two changed everything, sinceyoufoundme.”
I managed to smile, then cupped her face and brought her to me for a single kiss. A kiss that melted any remaining doubts around my heart and made my soul sing for joy.
“No,” I corrected her, “it was all you. And now that you’ve told us how you see the future, I can tell you how happy I am that we found you. I can’t wait to marry you, if you’ll have us. Give you children, whatever you want. I’ll do anything to make you happy.”
She blinked rapidly at me, her lips parting on a gasp. “You want tomarryme?”
“Of course, we do,” I said, without bothering to check with Xander. I knew how he felt about her—the exact same way I did. “If you’ll have us, of course. We can get married here, or at the pack, or anywhere that will accept the three of us in the same ceremony.”
She forced away tears. “But what about the darkness? The death I saw. There are bad things in the future. For all of us. I saw that, too.”
“How accurate do you think that part of the future was? Is it absolutely certain?”
I didn’t want to ask who died, or how. That wasn’t something I wanted to know about, at this point in time.
“Well, all glimpses of the future are, to a certain extent, subjective. They’re based on everything as it is set at this moment.”
I frowned, then stood up, pulling on her hand. She let me drag her back to the sofa and place her down on the cushion next to me.
“Explain.”
She glanced across at Xander, her eyes filling with tears, but she didn’t speak.
She saw my Alpha die.
My heart pounded at the prospect and nausea roiled in my gut, but I forced the fear away and took a deep breath.
