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Wendy and Harvey load back into the limo, I confer briefly with the driver—directing him to park several blocks from the tower in the garage of another office building I own—and then turn back to Willow.
“Anything you want to tell me before we get in?” I ask, holding her tortured gaze.
“The good news is, no matter what happens, our son is born healthy,” she says. “And he’s…beautiful. He looks just like you.”
I put my arms around her, the need to hold her a visceral thing I can’t resist. “And the bad news?”
“The other good news is that the ritual is going to fail,” she says, tears slipping from her eyes to stream quietly down her cheeks. “There’s something wrong with it. Something…twisted. I don’t know what it is exactly, but no matter how hard they try, they won’t be able to make Kelley queen. One way or another, this ends with a Thorn on the throne, leading the united packs of Human side.”
I cup her face in one hand, gently wiping the tears away as I insist, “And the bad news. It’s okay. I can take it, little wolf. You don’t have to protect me from the truth. In fact, I would prefer you didn’t.”
She swallows hard, more tears gliding along the paths traced by the others as she whispers, “If we don’t stop Kelley tonight, you don’t live to see our son, Maxim. You don’t live to see morning.”
