?


    "Cleo, you really should give your parents more credit."


    "Sophia please." I plead with her, my voice desperate.


    "You''ll need the night to sleep on it. I have an appointment first thing, be here at 8am. If you still


    feel the same as you do right now, then I will put measures in ce..."


    "Thank you."


    "Be on time, I can clear out my diary for the first hour to stop witnesses...any thing after that and


    you''ll have to wait another day."


    "I understand." I move from the chair, stepping towards the office door.


    "Cleo.." Sophia calls out, I spin around to find her investigating the PH strip again.


    "I advise you to really think carefully about this, once done...it cannot be taken back."


    Yes, that was the whole point.


    I keep to myself, not wanting anyone to question this fiery mood spreading through out me.


    Because if I really stopped and ask myself, was I really acting in the best interest of my family...or from anger.


    Jace had already moved on.


    I''m not saying we were anything in the first ce, that it wasn''tpletely one sided on my part but a word of warning from him, even a message when I have tried him so many times since the hotel stay. He would have read every message, listened to


    every voice note...only to ignore it and then send me a message to let me witness his lover in her


    lingerie in his bedroom.


    Almost as if he wanted me to see her. Wanted me to know there was no hope of a future between us, that I was nothing to him. Now, not even a friend.


    I refused to sleep, between my spiralling mind and not wanting to wake up with a new mindset, I wouldn''t have been able to rest even if I tried. So as I wait outside Sophia''s Doctor office at 7.50am, a sad smile escapes her as she opens her


    office door.


    Perhaps she expecting me to change my mind overnight. But the visible dark circles under my eyes must inform her that I''ve not had any sleep. "Come inside, I need to prepare some things and you need to fill this out." She states as she hands me a document and a pen. "What is this?"


    "Your authorisation...and a few questions just to make sure you are certain.”


    "Yes I am certain."


    "I''ll be back momentarily, don''t move. When you are done with the form, justy it on the desk."


    I nod in confirmation of her orders before reading the first question on the document. I feel as if she has printed this off fresh for me, some of the questions were set to make me change my mind...or were checking I was in the right frame of mind to make such a decision for myself.


    I am left in the stillness of her office, the only sounding from the frantic scribbling of the ck pen in my hand as Iplete the form, and sign on the dotted line before I can think clearly.


    I need to do this, before I have doubts...second thoughts.


    I ce thepleted document back down on her desk, just as she opens her door and steps back in. I hold my breath as the overwhelming sensation of nausea grips my stomach...morning sickness.


    In my peripheral vision I can see her fingers check through the paperwork, my eyes turn to the opposite side as I try to ride out the urge to vomit. Her finger slowly moves across my signature on the dotted line, followed by a sigh that was far too masculine for her.


    My eyes shoot up, Dad peering down at me.


    "Cleo?"


    "Dad?"


    "What is this?"


    "What are you doing here?"


    "Any medical decisions that would endanger the life of pack member...born or not...as the alpha


    I have the final authority. I just never thought I would be called for my own daughter."


    I''m stunned, silence by his disappointing look...I never wanted him to know about this.


    I had no idea he would have the final say.


    That being alpha he is above even a pack member''s medical right.


    "Talk to me, we always say a problem shared is a problem halved."


    Hot wet tears prim in my eyes, emotions for the first time in a day threatening to break me.