"Good friends are rare," Margaret continued. "Don't let this one go," she said to Eve, who nodded wordlessly. "Whatever changes come, whatever new world she's living in now....don't let distance or circumstances or different lives pull you apart. Promise me."
"I promise," both women said simultaneously, then looked at each other and managed watery smiles.
Margaret nodded with satisfaction. Then she turned to Damian, who straightened slightly under her gaze. Despite being an alpha werewolf with decades of pack authority, he looked, Eve thought, slightly like a man being assessed by a strict teacher.
"You," Margaret said to him. "I've met you before. You came to the hospital with Eve."
"I did," Damian confirmed.
"You love her," Margaret said, and it wasn't a question.
Damian met her gaze steadily. "More than anything."
