LOGINMy heart shakes and for the second time today it feels like the rug has been pulled out from under my feet.I don't... I don't know what to do for a moment. Breathing heavily, I quietly reach for my medical tablet and pull up the digital records of Elena's prenatal notes. The doctor's report of the conception will have the truth and something in me hopes against hope that Elena's lying. Something in me hopes Hudson didn't betray me in this one final way.The marriage contract between me and Hudson prohibits us from having sex with anyone else outside the marriage. That's a condition none of us can break until the end of the contract period and it's still... It's still nine months until the end of our contract.We're bound by the terms stated in our agreement till then, but I guess those terms don't mean anything to Hudson. The truth stares at me from under a neat section labeled Conception details: No IVF, Natural conception. The date matches... The night of my last miscarriage.Th
Sophia doesn't flinch as she walks over to the table and picks the divorce papers up again. She shoves them into my chest, each action, provoking and infuriating. Very unlike the woman I know.That's how I know this is real.I stare at her quietly, and most people break when I go quiet. My silence is usually a sgnal for them to start giving explanations nobody asked for, or twitchig in fear and stuttering like fools. Sophia just stands there, her spine straight and her eyes... Empty, like she's using the last of the strength left in her to stage this fight./It irritates me more than if she were crying."You're serious about this," i say at last, my voice even, controlled."Yes."She only responds with one word. No termors and no pleas attached.I walk back to my table and lean back in my chair to study her the same way I would any problem that's landed on my desk univited. Five years of marriage and this is the first time I've ever seen Sophia look like this.It makes me want to ben
Sophia doesn't flinch as she walks over to the table and picks the divorce papers up again. She shoves them into my chest, each action, provoking and infuriating. Very unlike the woman I know.That's how I know this is real.I stare at her quietly, and most people break when I go quiet. My silence is usually a sgnal for them to start giving explanations nobody asked for, or twitchig in fear and stuttering like fools. Sophia just stands there, her spine straight and her eyes... Empty, like she's using the last of the strength left in her to stage this fight./It irritates me more than if she were crying."You're serious about this," i say at last, my voice even, controlled."Yes."She only responds with one word. No termors and no pleas attached.I walk back to my table and lean back in my chair to study her the same way I would any problem that's landed on my desk univited. Five years of marriage and this is the first time I've ever seen Sophia look like this.It makes me want to ben
Sophia doesn't flinch as she walks over to the table and picks the divorce papers up again. She shoves them into my chest, each action, provoking and infuriating. Very unlike the woman I know.That's how I know this is real.I stare at her quietly, and most people break when I go quiet. My silence is usually a sgnal for them to start giving explanations nobody asked for, or twitchig in fear and stuttering like fools. Sophia just stands there, her spine straight and her eyes... Empty, like she's using the last of the strength left in her to stage this fight./It irritates me more than if she were crying."You're serious about this," i say at last, my voice even, controlled."Yes."She only responds with one word. No termors and no pleas attached.I walk back to my table and lean back in my chair to study her the same way I would any problem that's landed on my desk univited. Five years of marriage and this is the first time I've ever seen Sophia look like this.It makes me want to ben
My heart shakes and for the second time today it feels like the rug has been pulled out from under my feet.I don't... I don't know what to do for a moment. Breathing heavily, I quietly reach for my medical tablet and pull up the digital records of Elena's prenatal notes. The doctor's report of the conception will have the truth and something in me hopes against hope that Elena's lying. Something in me hopes Hudson didn't betray me in this one final way.The marriage contract between me and Hudson prohibits us from having sex with anyone else outside the marriage. That's a condition none of us can break until the end of the contract period and it's still... It's still nine months until the end of our contract.We're bound by the terms stated in our agreement till then, but I guess those terms don't mean anything to Hudson. The truth stares at me from under a neat section labeled Conception details: No IVF, Natural conception. The date matches... The night of my last miscarriage.Th
Dawn comes with the morning light filtering through the curtains of our sprawling bedroom, but It does nothing to warm the cold that's settled in my bones. I wake up alone. Again.Hudson's side of the bed is empty as usual, so that means he's probably in his office, or worse, checking in on Elena.I force myself out of bed and reach for my scrubs for work, but today is my day off so I have to put it back down. I know what's waiting for me downstairs and I dread it.Elena's high pitched laughter floats up from the kitchen as I go down the grand staircase. She's perched on a stool at the island, a mug of herbal tea in her hand and her silk robe barely covering the slight swell of her belly.Hudson leans on the marble countertop, his hand resting possessively on her shoulder as he murmurs something that makes her giggle some more. I want to sneak in, get a cup of coffee and slink back out but the moment Elena sees me, she chimes out."Morning Sophia!"Her tone is sweet, as always. Her m
Tracy's pov.I'm standing in the pack kitchens when I feel it.My wolf, Selina whimpers in my mind and a feeling of wrongness passes through me. All of a sudden it feels like I'm going to be sick and I wait."Lucy, can you hand me the plates there?”I wait for the feeling to pass, but it doesn't, “
“What are we gathered to discuss?” Coren asks coolly.“She’s pregnant.” Bob wheezes weakly from the floor.I can’t help but watch as Maria helps Bob up and into a seat. He has a hand firmly clutched to his chest and such a look of pain on his face that I almost feel bad.Bob Woods may have been a wa
"That's absurd!"An elder's voice erupts, thundering in fury.The other elders join in, each of them whispering or shouting something about how disrespectful this is, but my focus isn't on any of them. It's on the two people who have made my life a hellhole in this pack since the disappearance of t
One of the elders clears his throat, drawing the attention of everyone at the table to him as he speaks, "Luna Destiny, the accusation here is serious.While it isn't a crime to get pregnant in the pack, the pact the Alpha made with the council was clear. As retribution for killing Tracy Woods, you







