Knightly We drive down to the clinic my mom uses for her clients . There's a black Urus parked near the entrance . There are three stickers on the window . Mommy , Aizen , and Ayrie . That first year , I couldn't stop thinking about her . It took me a while to push my wolf back . I almost gave in to him more than once and I found comfort in the thought of her not being within reach . I don't deserve her forgiveness . I've always known that , but this isn't about her anymore . They're going to need me . Phoebe tenses up tightly when she sees me walk into the clinic , but she doesn't move when I take a seat next to her . She clears her throat and looks down at the paper in her hand . I take it from her and ball it up . " You don't have to do this , Angel . We can go somewhere and we can talk about this like adults . That's all I'm asking , I hate that she's trembling , that I'm someone she's afraid of . I wait for her response and she finally gives me a small nod . The two of us walk out together . I wave Peter off and walk to her car with her . She's so close I can feel the heat coming off her skin . " You drive , " she unlocks the car when she sees Pete get into mine . I have to keep my hands to myself . One touch and my wolf will wake up . Just having her within proximity is stirring him . Easing into this is what's best for the two right now . I take her out of the city . Away from anyone who would jump at the opportunity to corner us into something we're not ready to handle . There's an old beach house just outside the city with a private beach . It's quiet and there's no one around for miles . She sits back and smiles as it comes into view . " Have you been here before ? " I ask . " Hmm ? " she turns to look at me . " No , " " It looked like you recognized it ," " Ayrie , " she says gently . " When we were on the plane , she asked me if we were going to live in a regular house instead of an apartment . She said she wanted a Beach house better than Barbie's , " " This is where my mom and I lived before she met my dad , " I smile . " What ? " " Fredrick Blake is my stepfather . He adopted me when he married my mom . I thought we could use some privacy , " " Thank you ," she nods . " Let me show you around , " " I think I just want to sit down ," she declines . We walk around the house to get to the gazebo that leads down to the beach . She sits on the steps facing the water . Her shoulders shake as she starts to cry . I know nothing about this girl , but a part of me doesn't like seeing her this way . It makes it worse because I'm the reason why she's crying . At the very least , my wolf and I can agree on me being an idiot . " Phoebe , the last thing I want is to hurt you or our pu - kids , " I sit next to her . " They're mine , " she glares at me . Her eyes are red . There's makeup running down her cheeks . She's as beautiful as the day we met . How do I miss someone that only existed for a few hours this much ? " They're ours . They stopped being just yours when I saw them , " " Please , don't do this , " she shakes her head . " What is it you think I'm going to do ? " I ask . " I don't know , " she tries to fight her tears . " But I know that whatever it is , it's going to hurt them . You can do whatever you want with me . Not them . Knightly , we were kids . It was a crazy decision . It's not their fault . I made the choice . If you're going to punish me , don't involve them , " " I don't know what makes you think that I would do anything to you or them , Phoebe , " I sigh . " I know we were kids and I'm not denying that the choice you made was right . I fucking hate that I've lost so much time with them , but there's nothing I can do about that anymore , Angel . All I want is to see them . I want them to know me . I want to know them . That's all I want for now , " " What does that mean , for now ? " " One step at a time , Angel . You have blindsided me for a second time and I don't have all the answers at the moment , " " I blindsided you ? " she scoffs . " I was twenty - four and alone when I found out . You're not the victim here , " " Don't I fucking know that ," I laugh . " You promise ? " she looks up at me . " You promise this is about them and not us ? " " Yes , " I nod . " I don't really know anything about you , Angel . Up until the other night , all I knew was that I met a really pretty girl one night and that was all we got . Now she's back and I don't know what to fucking do , " " Do you want to see pictures ? " she asks after a few minutes of silence . She reaches into her bag for a tablet . The saving screen is a picture of the three of them laughing . She unlocks it and opens up the pictures . She scrolls down through thousands of pictures until she gets to the beginning . " This is when I found out I was pregnant , " she wipes her eyes . " Here , " 10 I take the tablet to see a black picture with white shading . There are two little beans at the bottom . My blood runs cold as I stare down at it . It takes me a moment to get my shit together because holy shit . This is real . " How did you find out ?" I ask needing to know anything about her . " I had gone back to work , " she laughs wiping away her tears . " I was a junior designer and it's not exactly light work . I had to make sure everything was perfect before the models stepped out onto that runway . I fainted ," she smiles . " I freaked out . I mean holy shit . It was the most terrifying thing . And then the ultrasound tech showed me two I little beans on the screen and their little heartbeats . I didn't know what to do , bur wasn't exactly helpless . I was deciding if I was going to tell you and looking for a way to get a hold of you , " " What made you decide ? " I ask . " This , " she laughs and flips through the pictures until she gets to a screenshot of a I headline . It was the night I met.Hailey . Some ass Couldn't take no for an answer and I pulled him off her . It started a riot in the club we were in . " Yeah , " Subscribe Do Likes No network available now . Please check y