Fifty-two

-Jenna-

"Are you afraid?" I asked while my hands clamped around his and my other on his arm. Our feet crushed dried leaves while the wind blew ice cold air. "I mean-are you nervous?"

"Why would I be? It's our pup, their next Alpha. Why should I be nervous? Nervous they won't accept him?" I look up to him and see him looking ahead while he holds Valdus closer to his side. "Yeah-"

"Jenna." He looks down at me, "if my pack is ever second thinking about their new Alpha, our child, why should they even be in a pack?" I stare into his eyes and he sighs. He...