FAZER 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
Tristan's POV.The last time I saw my sister alive, she was laughing.My last memory of Tracy is both of us at the edge of the northern border of the pack. Tracy is barefoot, wind in her hair and her eyes bright with a reckless determination to get all she wants in life."Honestly, you think too mu
The face in front of me flickers.It shifts.I recognize the blue eyes as Tracy's but I also see the way the curve of her lips resembles someone else's. The locks of hair melt between black and brown and for a moment, I can't understand what I'm seeing.It fries my brain.I'm seeing Tracy, but her
Tristan doesn't leave immediately even when I go into the room and lock the door behind me.I know it because for a while there are no footsteps. For a while, I can hear him breathing on the other side of the door.Again, I wish that didn't grate against my nerves as much as it did, but it seems th
"I wouldn't have called if it wasn't urgent," I say.I feel the eyes of shadow look me over for a moment before Merlin responds in her all-knowing way, "You were reckless tonight. You're losing control, Tracy."My hands tighten into fists, but I nod. There's no point denying it."I know. That's why







