CHAPTER 20
AURORAAres wasn’t on pack grounds.
I checked the training field, the forest, and even the town.
Desperate to ensure he was okay, I hurried through the forest and toward the lake, where I’d met him that midsummer night. Taking my secret path around the mountain and through a cave, lugging around my pregnant-a*s belly, I walked into the clearing right before the sparkling lagoon and found him sitting on a patch of grass, tossing rocks into the lake and tugging on the ends of his hair so hard that I thought he’d rip them out of his head.
A harsh wind whipped through the forest, sending tree branches scraping against one another and rustling wildly above us. I sucked in a breath and walked toward him, watching his shirt ripple against his broad frame.
“Ares,” I whispered, crouc
