Chapter 54

Lillian Pov

It has been another month since the party, and it is definitely showing I am pregnant. My bump is not that big, but it’s there. I have been to the doctor just once, and everything is perfect, but the elders don’t seem to be happy with my pregnancy. He will glare at my stomach all day, like the idea of having a child is very irritating to him. Alma is also another person who doesn’t seem happy; anytime she sees me, she gives me mean looks, especially at my stomach, and that makes me feel uncomfortable. It’s like she is planning 100 ways in her head that she could kill my pup and also get away with it.

I told Ophelia and Asher about it and how I am not comfortable with the looks they are both giving me, and they said I have nothing to worry about. My morning sickness kicked in a few days after the party, and Asher and I have fallen into a routine of me puking my guts out in the morning and him holding my hair up. This pregnancy is so different from Zira’s own that I feel so