Grayson POV:
I regretted my decision the second we had left. I’d returned home with a sureness in my bones that she
was alive and would find a way to get to me but the idea of having left our trail based on a gut instinct
made me second guess. What if I was wrong? There was only circumstantial evidence that Anna had
survived whatever had gone down at thatpound. I held my son tighter to my chest as he drank
from his bottle as the piles of bullet casings on the forest floor shed into my mind. It was a densely
forested area i reminded myself she could have survived that and if there was one person to do it it was
Netta. She was the strongest woman out there, she was my soulmate, and she woulde home to
me.
My mother–inw had refreshed her utter disdain for me charging me to p me across the face her
sons holding her back as she spewed venom at me tears streaming down her red face. “You finally find
a scrap of evidence and you leave her to rot! You BASTARD! I should have let James kill you when he
wanted to! YOU are determined to take everything from us!” she growled her ws extending as I
walked passed her with a cold expression, ignoring her newest outburst.
1 was far too tired of her and wondered once more for the thousandth time how my beautiful wife had
come from such an unintelligible woman. She was far too emotional I did not me her 1 was in a fog
when I did not know where my son was I’d have killed everyone in the world to get him back, but I had
to take this jump of faith to believe that Ate was still alive and she was following her instincts to
return to us.
Out of confusion and want for istion I had wandered past the squabbling of my inws the stares of
my people and thefort of my mother to the moon pool. Where she had bathed before our binding I
remember herying there bare to the world it wasn’t right for me to watch but how could I have
resisted, I smirked to myself as I ran a thumb over my son’s eyebrows as he softly breathed in his
sleep.
**This could all be punishment for my impertinence to look at my wife before our binding
She had popped her head out of its waters tempting Enzo to pounce right there but they hade and
covered her but she looked over her shoulder right at me, her face still red from catching me in my
impatience.
**She’ll be home soon
The sureness came back to me and I looked up to the sky as the sun was setting. The goddess surely
had her hand in this, even if I was a reckless beast my wife was not and no god could set aside a
woman like that.
I walked back to my house set my son down on his stomach and poured myself a drink to quench any
last remaining
fears.
*e home, Ate
The next few days I spent barely holding it together if I wasn’t attending to pressing matters of trade
and winter supplies I was training and when I was holding my son I made sure to have something going
on to keep my mind on anything else besides the desperate’scramble in my head for time to hurry up
and prove me right.
“Grayson?” Matt sat across from me as we went over thetest inventory for winter. “Do you know a
Maxwell Crag?” He looked up at me his eyebrows creased together.
The name stuck in my mind for a second. “It does sound familiar why?”
“He’s asking to treaty with us, out of the blue, he’s in Montana,” He came over and showed me the
official document and invitation of treaty, we may still follow protocol but it was done in email now.
“The name is bugging me I feel like we know him somehow,” Matt pursed his lips as he typed in the
man’s name into a search engine.
“Perhaps he’s an ally of Ate’s family?” I looked over at James who shrugged at mc.
He wouldn’t know anyway I sent a text to my father–inw asking him if he knew who this Maxwell was
and he came back in a hesitant he was one of the suitors at the tourney for Ate.
A young and solid man came into my mind a kiss on the hand of my wife.
**that fucker.
“He was one of the menpeting for Anna, but why is he reaching out now?” My brain struggled to
think back after all that had happened to our first meeting.
“My pack and I are leaving today. I know the tournament did not go as many thought but I wanted you
to know I’m d you’re happy and if there’s anything you ever need you should just ask,” he reached
out to shake my hand.”
“Ate stood there smiling and slightly cringing at his formality, I crossed the room clenching my
hands at his proximity to her, her honey, her smile it was all mine.
***Thank you Max it was really truly nice to get to know you and I hope you find a Luna who’s worth
you,”
“This could be it,” I pped Matt on the back.
“What?” James stood up and walked over reading over the standard treaty request. “How are you so
sure?”
“Max was one of the front runners” I grimaced “During the tourney he was fond of your sister and was
the only one to see her before he left he told her if there was anything she ever needed he’d help,” I
grunted he better not get any ideas if Ate is there.
I took a breath and pulled myself together there was a very serious chance Ate was safe and with
this man, I should choose to be grateful. I went and responded with an eptance of treaty.
The email came back instantly. He wanted to sign this as soon as possible, he asked me to leave as
quickly as I could. I felt my heart start jumping in my chest.
“This could be it,” James whispered beside me.
“Go tell your parents, Matt start up the helicopter, we’re leaving in an hour,” I grabbed my coat and went
off to the house I grabbed bags my hands shaking, we needed a diaper bag for Christian and she’ll
want her clothes what clothes would she want, what should I grab?
“Grayson,” My mother’s voice called from down the stairs and carried until she came up beside me in
the closet and I sat there still shivering with hope.
“Is it true?” She sat beside me.
I nodded and I was doing the best I could to keep the tears inside me.
“She’s there,” My mother ced a sure hand on my shoulder. “She’ll be there,”
I couldn’t fully ept it all the time we’d spent apart I needed her so badly and my whole body craved
her by its side. 1 had to have faith but I was terrified she wouldn’t be there.
or her?
“What should I pack for her?”
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“Somethingfortable, I’ll pack Christian’s things.” SHe told me and went and grabbed his diaper
bag.
I pulled out some of her nightgowns out but the image of her in the forest running in her nightgown
made me put them back. I found a sweater and some legging and I grabbed a jacket to just in case she
was cold. I put them in a bag and I grabbed her hairbrush.
**are you safe?
1 strained to find her to reach out across the distance I felt something just beyond my fingertips but still
not enough.
My mother met me at the door my son in her hands I grabbed him, he was six months now far too old
to have never seen his mother. Her parents were waiting beside the helicopter James with them Theo
and Charlie had decided to stay there, I entered the helicopter with Christian in my arms.
The short ride to Montana felt like a century my mind shed back to when I got my son back how
small he was, how small she was, I remember how thin she was in the photograph. I couldn’t breathe
when we startednding this wasn’t happening, before I knew it I saw here and there the curly brown
locks her mother mmed her palms up against the ss.
“I see her, I see her,” she cried. She started sobbing as wended the wind swirling around us second
dragging by as waited for ti to be safe to exit.
Eventually, we opened up the doors and there she was a few feet from me her eyes misty, her hair
wild, our eyes locked for the first time in forever and the world was right again.
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