TARA

Considering the duration of my pregnancy and Nadia’s eight and a half years, I hadn’t seen my mother in close to a decade, and I hadn’t heard one word about her or anything relating to Attica pack except Adian.

My father too, but from the memory of a loaded shotgun pointed at my head and the fury I’d seen in his eyes, I doubted if my father still wanted anything to do with me even after all this time.

Back then, one of the reasons why I’d contemplated not keeping my baby—an unthinkable thing to me now— was the fact that my mom was constantly sick, and my father...