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eyes settled on the bonfire where Holly, Fenix, Beka, and Quinn were eating breakfast.
     
    Holly was in the middle of one of her long-winded complaints as Taylor sat down. Quinn gave Taylor a quick smile and passed her a bowl of fresh spinach. Since Taylor had been indisposed, Quinn had taken over the task of managing her garden and feeding the quail. She was a lot nicer than Taylor had thought she’d be and she was damn good at gardening.
     
    “I washed them already. Would you like me to get a pot so you can boil them?” Quinn asked.
     
    Taylor glanced at the bonfire. The others already had meat portions of varying sizes roasting over the fire. She recognized the smell of turkey and her mouth watered.
     
    This wasn’t the first time. When her appetite had returned, it had brought with it a whole host of new cravings. Many of them were things that were impossible for her to get, like mint chocolate chip ice cream, potato chips, and anything with cheese. Although it pained her to do so, she could ultimately ignore those, but her cravings for meat were entirely different.
     
    Until she’d been pregnant, she never realized just how much meat the pack ate. Every night her nose was assaulted with a rich array of smells. Turkey, venison, rabbit, and a few equally delicious-smelling things that she didn’t recognize. Her meat craving had become so bad that she actually had vivid dreams about devouring raw meat on a daily basis. Only one thing stopped her from giving in and partaking of animal flesh—her pride.
     
    “Doesn’t matter if you cook it or not,” Fenix said. “Tastes like shit either way.”
     
    Taylor narrowed her eyes. “It tastes just fine, and unlike your dinner, nothing had to die to make it.”
     
    She shoved a spinach leaf in her mouth.
     
    “The plant had to die,” Beka pointed out.
     
    “Spare me, Pocahontas,” Taylor grumbled.
     
    Holly was still ranting, but Taylor now had the others’ full attention. Fenix grabbed one of the wooden skewers and reached over to wave it in front of Taylor.
     
    “You really don’t want to eat this?”
     
    For whatever reason, Fenix in particular seemed fascinated by her vegetarianism. It had annoyed her when she hadn’t been pregnant. Now, it drove her insane.
     
    Taylor swatted at the skewer. Fenix pulled it back, but not before a few drops of turkey juice fell into her spinach bowl. She hastily picked up the affected pieces of spinach and ate them, hoping no one would notice.
     
    As she savored the scant taste of meat, Fenix continued to needle her.
     
    “What if you were starving and the only thing you had to eat was turkey?”
     
    “Then I’d eat it,” Taylor said. “But this isn’t a life or death situation so there’s no reason for me to eat a dead animal.”
     
    She wasn’t sure if she was trying to convince him, or herself.
     
    “I admire your self-control,” Holly said, finally giving up on her tirade and joining their conversation.
     
    Surprised, Taylor said, “Wow, thanks.”
     
    “Yeah, I sure couldn’t eat that nasty spinach shit for a day, let alone a whole month.”
     
    Taylor’s shoulders slumped. She had been so excited when her spinach crop was finally ready, but after several weeks of eat nothing but the bitter plant and the occasional quail egg, she wouldn’t mind if she never ate another piece of spinach again.
     
    The others became silent as she stared down at her bowl, trying not to look forlorn. Her stomach roiled at the sight of it.
     
    As if sent from the heavens, a hand appeared above Taylor. It scooped the bowl up from in front of her.
     
    “What did I tell you about eating this shit?”
     
    Taylor tilted her head up to see Hale glaring down at her.
     
    “Huh?”
     
    He scowled. “I told you, as long as you’re carrying my pups, you’re eating meat.”
     
    Her brow furrowed with her confusion. Hale never mentioned the pups and had never interfered with her diet. Alder had expressed