Chapter 178
[ALPHA DOMINIC’s Point of View]
Warmth.
It was the first thing I felt.
I was spiraling into somewhere warm. I saw a light from above me, but it was too bright, slightly blinding me with it. I had to squint my eyes, but the warmth reminded me of home—of Samantha and the twins—and so I forced them open, wanting so badly to come back and have them in my arms again.
My eyes fluttered as my blurry vision turned gradually clearer, and I grunted from so much pain that I collapsed to the hard ground I was lying on after my failed attempt to get up.
“Dominic—”
I froze when I heard her voice. That voice I had been longing to hear since I started having those nightmares that brought me back to my most awful memories—the memories that revealed the kind of monster I had been to Samantha. Deep in my heart, I swear I regretted everything I did and tried my best to be someone worthy of my mated she-wolf. But I couldn’t hide the fact that I, too, felt scared of my feelings for her. This uncertainty. This pain. The uncomfortable and aggravating feeling when she gets out of control—this was all new to me as well. I was so used to always having a plan. Calculating things and seeing the outcome. But with Samantha, it was as if I were steering a boat in the middle of a raging storm without a compass. Without a map. It was alarming and daunting, yet I craved it. I craved her. She was like the danger that I had been avoiding, but my feet kept on following her to the edge of the precipice.
“Dominic, it’s me.” Her voice was so soft as she helped me sit up. Her face was etched with worry as she cupped the side of my face. “How are you feeling?”
My brows automatically deepened into a frown as soon as I felt that sharp stabbing pain that felt like my brain was going to split in two. I answered hoarsely, “What happened?”
The first thing that my eyes did was look for the twins. There, across the bonfire, were Diana and Devon peacefully sleeping on top of the leaves that Samantha must have gathered for them as a bed. I winced, hating that I had been unconscious the whole time and didn’t know or couldn’t even remember the rest of what happened after I saved my wife from the rubble that collapsed from the ceiling of the ancient library.