by Alice Gaines
“What?” Gray said.
“I’m a healer. Tommy was dead,” Ruth repeated.
“That isn’t possible,” Cara said. “You don’t know. You didn’t touch him.”
“I did before you got there,” Ruth replied.
Joe got an arm around Ruth and pulled her against him. “You’re overwrought.”
Ruth looked toward Bess. “You have to believe me. I’m not just a healer. I’m Tommy’s mother.”
Bess searched Cara’s face. “Is this true?”
“It can’t be,” she answered.
“Ruth’s right,” Ilse said. “I could barely detect Tommy when we all started out. I lost him completely just before Cara took off.”
“You’re all out of your minds if you believe that.” Cara glanced around. They all had to be nuts because they were all staring at her as if they’d never seen her before. Except for Gray. His smile was full of pride and love. “Come on. I can’t give people life.”
“You did for me,” her mate said.
“That was a fluke,” she answered.
“Nope.” He got up, went to her, and pulled her into his arms. “Once is a fluke. Twice is proof.”
She rested against her mate’s chest and listened to his heartbeat. Different from the way she’d sensed Tommy’s and much the same. Could what he said be true?
Her mother’s hand stroked her back as it had done so many countless times in her life. “Love gave you the power, Cara. First loving Gray and now Tommy and the baby inside you.”
“Yeah, I guess. Maybe.” She burrowed her nose into Gray’s chest and felt rather than saw the whole pack gather around her. Maybe they’d been right all along. The greatest gifts took the longest to appear.
Alice Gaines
Award winning author Alice Gaines has published several sensuous and erotic works. She prefers stories that stretch the imagination, highlighting the power of love and sex. Alice has a Ph.D. in psychology from U. C. Berkeley and lives in Oakland, California, with her collection of orchids and two pet corn snakes, Casper and Sheikh Yerbouti. Alice loves to get mail at [email protected]. Visit her website at http://home.pacbell.net/halice/. She also sometimes updates her Twitter account (AliceGaines at Twitter) and you can find her on www.goodreads.com.