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Chapter 31
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2026-06-08 00:04:18
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Lana's POV. I stood there, letting him talk. That’s the honest truth, the version I’d only ever confess to myself, right here in the quiet of my own thoughts, while the fluorescent lights buzzed their indifferent tune above us and Asher’s voice filled the lab with a warmth I hadn’t heard from him before. He was generous with it, expansive in a way that felt a bit outside the usual framework of the man I’d come to know over these weeks, the man who measured his words as carefully as I measured compounds, with precision and full awareness of their impact. “The best doctor in the world.” He said calmly. He didn't just call me the best doctor in the pack or the most capable physician he’d met in the world. He said it with the kind of conviction you only see in someone who’s just witnessed a miracle and needs to put a human face and name to it, something to be thankful for. I smiled. I felt the slight lift at the corners of my mouth, the careful warmth spreading across my face, my e
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Lana's POV.The door swung shut behind him, and the lab fell into a silence so complete it felt manufactured.I stood in the space where Asher had been standing seconds before, still warm with the particular atmospheric charge he always left behind, and tried to remember how to breathe without thinking about it. He had moved quickly, phone already pressed to his ear before he'd cleared the threshold, the pale corridor light swallowing him whole. I had tried. I had angled my gaze just enough, that old clinical instinct reaching for information the way it always did but the screen had caught the light wrong, or the moment had been too brief, and all I'd registered was a white flash before the door closed and he was gone.I exhaled slowly. The fluorescent lights hadn't softened. The lab still carried its permanent smell of antiseptic and the faint metallic undertone of the compound I'd been breaking down for the past three hours. Everything was exactly as it had been before he walked in
PREGNANT AND BANISHED Chapter 34
Lana's POV. The words hung in the air between us, heavy and unyielding. I watched Asher as he absorbed them not with the dramatic unraveling that a lesser man might have displayed, but with that unique stillness of his. It wasn’t a void; it was more like a gathering storm. He was processing it all, sorting through the information in that meticulous mind behind those careful eyes. Over the weeks since I’d joined this pack, I’d come to realize that Asher’s silences were anything but empty. They were the most bustling spaces in any room he entered. “Can you explain that?” he finally asked. So, I did. I laid it all out for him as if I were presenting to a medical board devoid of emotion, without any embellishments, just the stark facts illuminated under the harsh fluorescent lights. The compound that had been mixed into Jacob's water wasn’t your run-of-the-mill formula. It couldn’t be pieced together from general knowledge or pulled from a standard medical textbook. Its makeup was p
PREGNANT AND BANISHED Chapter 33
Lana's POV.The note was written in red, not ink because I could tell the difference. After fourteen years in the medical field, I was all too familiar with that rusty brown color that red ink pretended to be but never quite achieved. This was something else entirely. It had been pressed into the paper with intention, something that required a deliberate touch, and the letters were careful, unhurried, which somehow felt worse than if they had been scrawled in a panic.“You cannot save what was already chosen.”Seven words. I read them twice, my eyes tracing each letter with a clinical detachment I reached for like others might reach for prayer. The paper had been folded once and pinned through the center, indicating that whoever had placed it there had lingered at this door long enough to find a pin, to fold the paper thoughtfully, to smooth it out before pressing it into place.A shiver coursed through me in one smooth wave, starting at the base of my skull and traveling down my spi
PREGNANT AND BANISHED Chapter 32
Lana's POV. The medicine was already in my hands by the time the second nurse came back with it. I had seen this coming. Deep down, a part of me that had been quietly calculating since the first confirmed case two weeks ago — had prepared the suppressant compound three days before I ever thought I’d need it for my own child. I told myself it was just being professional. But now, as I uncapped the vial with trembling fingers, I realized it was more about dread. A mother’s instinct, working several steps ahead of my conscious thoughts. "Jacob." I gently touched his cheek. "I need you to swallow this for me." He stirred slightly. His heavy lashes lifted, and those eyes, as everyone always pointed out, found mine with an effort that seemed to cost him. The glassy look was still there, but beneath it, he was present. He was fighting. That steadied me more than anything else could. "Is it bitter?" he croaked. "Probably." I managed a smile that was almost real. "But you’ve handled wor
PREGNANT AND BANISHED Chapter 31
Lana's POV.Time behaves oddly when your child is unwell.It stretches and compresses all at once every second in that room feels both endless and terrifyingly fleeting. I made my way to Jacob's bedside in just four strides, pressing the back of my hand against his forehead before I even realized I was moving. The heat radiating from his skin sent a chilling jolt straight through my chest. It was too high, way too high."Jacob." I cradled his face in my hands. His eyelids fluttered. "Sweetheart, look at me."He turned toward my voice just like he always had, even as a tiny baby, and for a brief moment, something inside me relaxed. But then his eyes opened, and I noticed the glassy look in them — that particular unfocused gaze I had seen creep into the eyes of three confirmed patients over the past two weeks and the tension inside me tightened once more."Mummy." His voice was hoarse. Smaller than usual."I'm here." I gently brushed his hair back from his forehead, giving myself a coup
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