chapter 37

Everly My hands tremble as we pull up in front of the hotel. Officer Richards drove me to Alpha Valen’s penthouse apartment. The whole ride, I racked my brain trying to figure out how he had Valarian here. Did he spot him at the school and take him? Did Valarian look for him? Or did someone notice the uncanny resemblance between them? I have many questions, but nothing terrifies me more than what happens now that Valen knows he fathered a son. He’ll have to kill me before I ever let him take my son. My nerves are shot, and my eyes burn from spending all afternoon and night bawling like a baby. My mind instantly went to the thought that he was kidnapped, or one of the forsaken had killed him. The relief I felt when I found out he was alive and ok was as crushing as the thought of losing him. There’s nothing worse than thinking you lost a child; the what-ifs, the sheer panic, and frantic places your mind takes you are a pure nightmare. My mind had been zooming in and out of the worst-cas