NICOLE’S POV
The moment I drove into the Lycan King’s land, the Shadow Fang territory, all the heart-wrenching memories came flooding back. My best friend sleeping with my mate, prison, losing my mother, all the pain I had ever endured crawled up my skin and threatened to squeeze the life out of my racing heart.
I didn’t want to be here, not anymore. I wanted, so desperately, to turn the car around and head back home. But the image of Mary’s dead body in my hallway reappeared in my mind, sending goosebumps up my skin.
I couldn’t go back home, not to that house. And I certainly will not be leaving here either, not until I get the money I need to rescue my kids from their father, Nathan.
My contract with his mother be damned.
I still wasn’t sure what to say to Nathan when I finally s
