Her Scheme

Chapter 131:

(Asher's POV)

The envelope sat on my desk like a bomb with a gun. Silent. Still. But pulsating with the power to lay waste to all the things I'd been working to reassemble.

I'd stood there a good while. No name. No note. Just a plump, white envelope come through the front of the packhouse with my name written on it in shaky handwriting. My wolf stirred as soon as I'd picked it up.

Don't touch it, he growled.

But I couldn't resist.

With cautious fingers, I tore it open. The contents scattered all over my desk—medical documents, a sonogram, blood test results, all stamped and signed with an official stamp of a doctor I had ever heard of once. Dr. Milena. A real name. A real clinic. Everything was okay on the surface.

But my gut constricted.

I sat down in my chair, papers trembling slightly in my hand.

Pregnant.

Cara is pregnant.

The words echoed, over and over, like a ticking bomb.

My palms on my head, I leaned forward, panting through the mayhem spouting forth in my brain