RYKER’S POV

My heart hammered heavily in my chest again for the umpteenth time when I replayed her words in my head.

Ryder had whined inside me. He was as sad as I was when she said those words. But it wasn’t in the way she said them.

It was in the way the sparkle left her eyes when she looked at me—

The way her face turned cold and her body stiffened in my arms—

Alvin had cleared his throat and called her name softly. She stirred in my arms and blinked.

“Do you remember your ...