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Twenty weeks

Author: I.O PIETRO
last update publish date: 2026-04-26 00:42:59

It's a girl, Nadia says.

She says it the same way she says everything, plainly and without ceremony, but the particular quality of her stillness after she says it tells me she has been holding that information for the last thirty seconds while she made sure the reading was clear.

I'm on the examination table. Twenty weeks today. The scan is running on the portable equipment she brought up to the ninth floor because I have not left the building in four days and she stopped suggesting that I shou
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  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    The pack decides

    "Three members asked him to leave," Bastien says.He is reading Ivy's messages at the kitchen table and his voice has the particular quality it gets when something has confirmed a calculation he was running."Pack members," I say. Not the interim council. Not Marta. Individual pack members who decided his presence in the room was a problem and said so. I put my coffee down. He has lost the informal authority.The informal authority is the only kind he had left, Bastien says."Yes," I say. His formal standing is suspended. His legal mechanisms are exhausted. The heritage registration is frozen. The Alpha selection is running without his candidate. I pause. All of those things could theoretically be rebuilt from the outside over time. But pack members asking you to leave their meeting room, that is the community itself deciding.Soren comes in and reads the messages over Bastien's shoulder."He went," Soren says. He did not argue.He went because arguing would have made it worse, I say.

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    Twenty-Six weeks

    "The Crest Pack vote is in twelve days," Soren says.He says it at breakfast, not as an urgent report, more as a calendar note, the kind he offers at the start of days that have multiple things running simultaneously and need the landscape stated clearly before the first coffee is finished.Twelve days.The submission to the committee is in. The companion document is filed. Eli's statement is filed. We are in the waiting portion of that track and there is nothing more to do with it until the committee responds.The Alpha selection vote is not waiting. It is moving.How is Neve, I say.Marta's messages have been consistent, Soren says. Neve is conducting herself exactly as she has been for three years. Working. Showing up. Not performing candidacy. He pours coffee. She met with the compound's eastern boundary families yesterday. Not for votes. For the seasonal planning meeting that happens every six weeks regardless.She did not reschedule it, I say.She did not reschedule it, he says.

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    What emergence feels like

    "Eli said yes," Bastien says.He comes into the library at noon and sets his phone on the desk and I look up from the four pages I have been writing for the last three hours.Wolfe asked him this morning, Bastien says. Eli wants to give testimony. He asked if he could write it himself.Of course he can write it himself, I say.He is sixteen, Bastien says. He writes the way sixteen-year-olds write, which is honest and not polished.Good, I say. The committee does not need polish. It needs the real account of what happened to a boy whose wolf had been stuck at a threshold for four years and what it felt like when it was completed.Bastien sits down and reads what I have been writing for three hours.I watch him read.He reads slowly. He reads the way he reads everything that matters, not skimming, not performing. At the section about the suppression releasing he pauses. At the section about what it felt like in the room when Eli's wolf completed, the specific account of the field, what

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    The garden

    "He is standing at the window," Ivy says.She says it quietly, not a whisper, the specific volume of someone who is speaking at a normal register while not wanting the sound to carry in a particular direction.Which window, I say.His study. It looks out over the courtyard. She pauses. He has been there for about ten minutes. He can see me. He knows I know he is there. Another pause. He has not come out.I look at Bastien across the library.He mouths: stay on the call.I nod.You do not have to stay in the garden, I say to Ivy.I know, she says. I am choosing to. She pauses. He has been monitoring our communications. He heard the name. He gave it to Vane. A brief silence. I want him to look at me standing in our mother's garden and understand that I know he was listening.My twenty-year-old sister is standing in an herb garden that her mother grew in before the sun came up, looking at a window where her father stands, and she is choosing not to move.She is so much braver than she kn

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    Vane's testimony

    "He argues the committee had incomplete data," Holt says.She calls at eight thirty and she is in full work mode, which means she has been awake since before the submission and has already read the full document and is delivering the analysis in the precise order of what matters most.I am at the library desk. Bastien is beside me. Soren has his laptop open at the end of the table.What data does he claim was incomplete, Bastien says.His testimony presents three arguments, Holt says. First, that the committee's repeal was based primarily on ethical grounds, specifically the personhood argument, without adequate assessment of the practical implications of removing the statute entirely. She pauses. Second, that a Prime's capabilities in terms of pack influence radius and Volana field potency were not fully documented for the committee before the vote. She pauses again. Third, that the absence of the statute creates a regulatory gap in how pack communities manage unprecedented supernatu

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    The withdrawal

    "Dorian's nomination has been withdrawn," Soren says.He says it at seven in the morning, standing in the kitchen doorway with his coffee and the specific expression of someone reporting something they did not quite predict and are recalibrating around.I look up from the table.When, I say.Six forty-three AM, he says. Filed by Dorian himself through the interim council system. Not by a staff proxy. His own credentials. He pauses. No statement attached. Just withdrawal.Bastien comes in from the hall. He has been on a morning call. He reads Soren's face and then looks at me.Dorian withdrew himself, I say.He sits down.My father told him to, I say. Or Dorian read the same article my father read and drew his own conclusions about the value of the association. I look at the table. Either way, it happened before seven in the morning. Before anyone in the compound would have expected it.Neve's nomination is now unopposed, Soren says.Not technically. There is still a formal vote in twe

  • 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 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

  • 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.

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