Alpha King Threw Away His Mate For Being Infertile—Then She Returned With Four Powerful Alpha Heirs

Chapter 2

Her name was Mara, and she was a hedge-witch of the borderlands, and she took one look at the wreck of a woman the winter had delivered to her door and decided, with the stubbornness of a woman who had buried three husbands, that this one would live.

She built Elena a shelter in the lee of a great pine. She fed her broth made from mountain herbs and the last of her store. And every night, she pressed her ear to Elena’s belly and counted, whispering the numbers like a prayer.

“Four,” she would say. “Still four. Steady as a heartbeat, that lot. They’ve been waiting in there like wolves at a door, and I’d wager my good knife they’re not planning to knock.”