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"She is asleep," Bastien says.

He says it from the doorway of Lyra's room at nine in the evening, the night of the wedding, and his voice has the particular quality it gets when he has been watching her for a few minutes before coming to find me.

"In her room," I say.

"In her room," he says. In the chair by the window. Ivy put her there after the guests left. He pauses. Ivy is also asleep. In the reading chair.

I look at him.

"Both of them," I say.

"Both of them," he says. Ivy is holding Lyra's
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  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    What she is

    "She said it," Ivy says.She says it from the doorway of the library on a morning in July, four months after the wedding, eight months after Lyra was born, and her voice is doing the specific thing it does when something has happened that she is still processing.Lyra is eight months old.She is on the library floor, which is her preferred location in this room, in the specific position she uses when she has decided to be stationary, sitting upright with her back against the base of the bookshelf, silver eyes moving between the people in the room."What did she say," Bastien says."She said dada," Ivy says. I was holding her by the window in her room and she looked at the photograph on the shelf and she said it. She pauses. Not in the photograph. She said it once, very clearly, and then she looked at the photograph. She looks at Bastien. I think she was practicing.Bastien is very still.Then he looks at Lyra on the floor.Lyra looks back at him with the silver eyes that have been tra

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    After

    "She is asleep," Bastien says.He says it from the doorway of Lyra's room at nine in the evening, the night of the wedding, and his voice has the particular quality it gets when he has been watching her for a few minutes before coming to find me."In her room," I say."In her room," he says. In the chair by the window. Ivy put her there after the guests left. He pauses. Ivy is also asleep. In the reading chair.I look at him."Both of them," I say."Both of them," he says. Ivy is holding Lyra's hand. They have been asleep for forty minutes.I could go in and look.I do not. I let them sleep. It is the right call and I know it.The building is quiet in the way it is after a day that has been full of people and is now just itself. Marta went home at six. Neve and Wolfe and Eli left together, which is a sentence I could not have predicted a year ago and which now seems entirely natural. Reva left last, at seven thirty, with the leather document case that I gave her to carry for safekeepi

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    Spring

    "The trees have leaves," Bastien says.He says it from the doorway of Lyra's room on a Saturday morning in April, where he has been for the last four minutes watching her watch the window, and his voice has the specific quiet of a man noting that a condition has been met.Lyra is four months old.She is on her back in the middle of the room floor, which is where she prefers to be when she is not being carried, because the floor gives her a complete view of the ceiling, the walls, and whatever else presents itself. She is conducting her investigation into a patch of morning light that has moved since yesterday and she is taking notes, in whatever language four-month-old wolves take notes.I look at the window.He is right.The two trees in the courtyard below have leaves. They have been coming in for two weeks, small and certain, exactly the way spring always arrives, before you are ready but exactly on schedule."Spring," I say."Spring," he says.Lyra hears his voice and orients towa

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    Two months

    "She laughed," Ivy says.She says it from the kitchen doorway, slightly breathless, with the expression of someone who has witnessed something they were not prepared for and is delighted by it.Lyra is two months old today.I am at the kitchen table with her on my lap and the morning light coming in at the low winter angle that has been here since her birth and which she has been studying with the focused attention of a person conducting an ongoing investigation into the nature of light."What made her laugh," I say."Soren made a face," Ivy says. I don't know which face. He was trying to get her to look at him and he made a face and she laughed. She pauses. She has very good taste.From the hall Soren says: It was an excellent face. I have been practicing.I look down at Lyra.She is looking at the doorway in the direction of Soren's voice. Her silver eyes track sound with the focused efficiency that Nadia says is the wolf bond operating at a level she has only read about in texts.S

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    The shelf

    "She is looking at the photograph," Bastien says.He says it the following morning, standing in the doorway of the room on the eleventh floor, watching Lyra in my arms as I carry her toward the shelf for the first time.She is one day old.Nadia cleared the move this morning with the specific efficient satisfaction of someone whose prediction has been accurate. Lyra's readings overnight were excellent. Her wolf bond field has stabilized at the specific ambient level Nadia expected, directed and warm rather than the broad continental broadcast of my own emergence. She is, in Nadia's words, exactly what she was always going to be.She is also awake and has opinions about the direction of travel, which she communicates through the specific orientation of her head. She wants to see where we are going. She has wanted this since the first hour.I carry her to the shelf.She sees it the way she has been seeing everything since birth, with the complete attention of someone who has been waitin

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    The first morning

    "She is watching you," Bastien says.He says it at eight in the morning, two hours after Lyra arrived, standing beside the bed where I am sitting with her against my chest. He says it the way he says things that cost him something, quietly and without armor, and his eyes are on her face.She is watching him.Her silver eyes, which Nadia confirmed are fully active wolf bond markers and not simply unusual coloring, track toward his voice every time he speaks. She has been doing this since the first hour. Not randomly. Specifically. She finds the voice and she stays on it.She is two hours old and she already knows who is in the room."She hears you," I say."I know," he says.He has been sitting in the chair beside the bed since Nadia finished the initial assessments and left us in the room with the specific instructions to rest and eat and not make any significant decisions for at least the next twelve hours. He has not moved from the chair except to take her once, briefly, when Nadia

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    The wrong floor

    It's a council representative," Bastien says.He is looking at his phone, at the security feed thumbnail, and his face has done that particular rearrangement where something unexpected has arrived and he is deciding in real time what it means."Pack council?" Soren is already at the door."Inter-pa

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    What he got

    "Ask him what he got."I say it out loud in the elevator on the way back up and the words taste exactly as bitter as I expected.Bastien is standing beside me, not touching me, watching the floor numbers rise. He has the card in his hand. He has been holding it since the stairwell and I have not as

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    The man in the corridor

    "Stay behind me."I almost laugh. Not because it's funny but because this morning I was a contract mate with a packed suitcase and a car booked for ten and now Bastien Rourke is pulling me into a stairwell with his hand flat against the door and his entire body tuned to something I can't hear yet.

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    What the baby is

    "She knew," I say. "She knew the whole time."Nobody argues with me. That is how I know it's true.We are back in Nadia's office, all four of us this time, and Nadia is standing behind her desk with her hands flat on the surface and her eyes on me and the expression on her face is the specific expr

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