Chapter 188

** Paige’s POV ** They’re all looking at me. My mates, Jake and Poppy, Ronnie still clutching his book like it’s going to answer every question we haven’t even thought of yet, and Jaxon. My sweet Jax, he looks at me like I’ve just told him I’ve bought the entire Lego shop. Outside, nine wolves stand in a perfect circle, eyes glowing faintly gold and silver, their bodies unmoving, their attention fixed outward. Protecting me as if I’m something sacred. I need to find a way to send them away, not because I don’t want them, but because there has to be more to their second chance than me. They have people who love them waiting for them. I swallow, but it does nothing to loosen the tight knot forming in my chest. It’s not fear I feel, not anymore. I still feel like the girl who used to cry doing her tax returns, who once burned instant noodles, who spent years trying to figure out how to protect herself and her son, and who only recently learned she wasn’t human. A goddess?… A reincarnation