CHAPTER 317 GONE REGRETS

Hudson watched Claire as they slept peacefully on the bed. The mystic healer was gone now, and her words stuck to him more than anything he’d heard in the past weeks. He was having a healer child, a born leader, one whose power would shape the fate of the pack and perhaps beyond. This was who his child was going to be. But none of it brought him comfort. He gazed down at Claire, his heart twisted with guilt and regret. His stare at her face, so pale and fragile, reminded him of the moments that led to this. When he washed the blood clean from her and changed her into neater clothes, he saw the purple bruise he left on her neck, a reflection of his actions, his anger, and his possessiveness. The way he had grabbed her during that argument flashed vividly in his mind. He could still feel the sensation of his hands around her throat, the fury that had blinded him at that moment. Hudson had wanted to exert control over her just because he wanted her to submit and be by his side fo