Theo laid it all out for me, piece by piece. Jeffrey and Carl had been working quietly in the background, building a case against Sera, tracing the threads of her network and the people propping her up from the shadows. They knew she wasn't operating alone, and they had every intention of dragging those connections into the light.
What surprised me was learning how calculated Sera had been about the pregnancy. She'd been holding on, trying to reach six months, the point where medical intervention could actually give the baby a fighting chance. She was barely two weeks away from that mark, spending most of her time locked in her room, protecting what little hope she had left. But Jeffrey made a decision that was cold, even by pack standards. He slipped something into her late-night food, a drug that ensured the pregnancy wouldn't continue. It was brutal, but he refused to let a child born from that kind of poison grow up to threaten the pack's future.
