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I knew your real purpose.” She squeezed Bennett’s hand. “I won’t apologize for my talents, but I didn’t realize you had no idea. It’s a great honor to carry a wolf’s child, especially a son. There are so few of his kind left. I thought you’d be pleased it’s a boy.”
    Linc sighed and shoved a hand through his hair. “I am.” His voice was gruff with emotion.
    Then he looked at Bennett with an expression she couldn’t read. It was as if he were trying to tell her something, and though she didn’t completely understand, she sensed the weight of his gaze, and it stole her breath.
    “And I’m most grateful to her,” he said. “But I came here to help her understand her heritage, and to get a protection amulet.”
    Amulet? Like woo-woo magical crap?
    “Something that’ll cause no harm to her or the babe but will keep her safe. One that has a tracking spell attached would be helpful.” He glanced away as if he were surveying the park. “I’ve never been so proud in all my life, and I want to protect them both in any way I can.”
    “You’re proud?” Bennett whispered. “I thought all of this was more about duty than anything else. A responsibility.”
    “You thought you were a burden?”
    She shrugged. “Well, yeah.”
    He hugged her. “I am proud, no matter what the sex. And I’m grateful to you for carrying my child.”
    “ Our child.”
    “Our child,” he repeated. “I’ll admit I was surprised and perhaps a bit flustered by the news, but I’m excited. I haven’t had family around in a very long time.”
    Wait, no family? “But you said you were from royalty?”
    “Aye, I am. But I meant family in the way you might think. My mother died when I was born and my father went off to war when I was a lad.” He paused and looked away. “He never came home. It was a few years later when Nick found me and took me in. He became my brother. An annoying pain in my arse, but a brother who would die for me. He kept me from self-destructing when I was cast out from my clan. When my father didn’t come home, there was an all-out war for power—one I had no hope of winning.”
    “Not for lacking of trying.” Mikala gave him a weak smile. “He had many opponents. He fought them. All of them. And he won. But it was a political game, and there was little he could do when the clan decided they wanted a new ruler.”
    “I—I didn’t know,” she stammered. Her voice came out more as a croak.
    They’d both grown up feeling alone. Her mother had tried, but she was always at work, and they’d had no other family around. She understood that kind of isolation, and her heart went out to him. Hurt for him.
    No wonder he felt so compelled to be the leader. The protector. The one who looked after everyone else.
    He didn’t trust people any more than she did.
    That way, he never had to worry about opening up to anyone.
    More than ever, she wanted to know about her father. She cleared her throat and turned to the witch. “Do you know what I am?”
    …
    Crap. Linc took a deep breath. It was one thing to come there looking for answers, but to actually find them was something else entirely. He placed his palm against the small of Bennett’s back.
    “I can tell you what you are,” Mikala said. “If you truly want to know.”
    Bennett swallowed and nodded. “It’s important to me. I just found out a few hours ago that I may not even be human. And I…” She put a hand to her head. “It’s a lot. And now I’m not making any sense, and I’m kind of—can I sit down?”
    Linc hated seeing her overwhelmed again. He scooped her into his arms and held her close.
    “Let go of me, you big oaf. I don’t feel that bad. Just a little dizzy. Probably the sugar from the cotton candy I shouldn’t have eaten.”
    “Why didn’t you tell me you weren’t feeling well? I can take you home.”
    “Because I was fine until a few seconds ago. Now lay off.” She looked again at Mikala. “Can you tell