EMILIA POV“We’re being attacked!” was the last thing I heard someone announce to the rogues who were still in the kitchen before all hell broke loose.Someone pushed me to the back, standing in front of me.“You’re already injured. You can’t fight right now,” she said to me as they clashed with the rogues.I couldn’t stand there and watch just because I had an injury. I ran into the kitchen to grab a sharp knife, getting back into the living room as the Omegas had all shifted and we’re pushing the rogues back so that they would all be outside the house.I found a rogue on top of one of the Omegas, snapping its teeth and trying to find something to bite. I took its distraction as an opportunity to lunge for it and stab it right in the neck.Blood squirted out of its neck, but it didn’t relent immediately. It thrashed around wildly, running for me and trying to attack me as well, but I used my feet to kick it back until it got weak enough that it fell to the ground with shallow breaths

EMILIA POV“Gwen?!” I yelled, avoiding the broken glasses on the floor and bending beside her body, trying to hold her down so that she wouldn’t move and get injured from the broken glass on the floor.“What’s happening? What…” I looked around, heaving. I didn’t know what to do.She grabbed me by the arm, squeezing so tightly that I winced in pain. Her eyes were wide, and her throat gurgled as if she was trying to tell me something.I picked her up so that she would sit up, patting her on the back to try and get all the liquids in her throat to get out.“Should I go get help? If there’s something around here that can help, point at it!” I instructed her, but her eyes were already rolling back into her head, and her body was jerking even more aggressively.I settled for going to get help, so I pulled her body away from the broken glass on the floor and ran out of the house, heading for the pack to get Maya.By the time I got into the Omega quarters, I was heaving and gasping for air.“

EMILIA POV“You’re in heat,” Marcel’s words played on loop in my head as I felt an electric jolt go through my entire body.“Oh, my goodness,” I grunted as my stomach tightened and exploded with something hot and oddly blissful, filling me with pleasure but making me want more, like I was being fed an addictive nectar of sorts.“You haven’t experienced it before, have you?” Marcel inquired.Before I could answer, a sweet scent wafted across my nostrils, causing me to crawl desperately on the bare ground towards the other side of the cell, leaving one wall separating me from Marcel.He smelled so good, and it would have made me ashamed to even think about him in that manner, but I couldn’t help it. He couldn’t possibly fault me for something I couldn’t control.“I can smell how close you are, Emilia,” he whispered huskily, and my heart dropped.A part of me felt like I was doing something abominable, stabbing Lucas in the back. The other part of me couldn’t care less. Lucas had rejecte

EMILIA POVI would have laughed if the situation had been different; if I had not been strapped to a chair by one of the most dangerous creatures I had come across.“You want me – a werewolf – to carry your child; the heir of a vampire?” I questioned, my face most likely holding the amusement I felt at his boldness.“Exactly.” He nodded, not seeming to see a problem with it even though I had just laid it out in front of him so bluntly.“I don’t think you understand this, Daemon.” I shook my head, attempting to get it into his head once more. “I am a werewolf, and you are a vampire. We both should not be seeing eye to eye, even, and you’re talking about having a child with me?”“Now, I didn’t say anything about having a child with you directly, Emilia. Try to keep up,” he told me, walking to the other side of this sick laboratory and picking up a huge syringe that made my heart plop to my stomach in terror.“What are you… what are you doing?” I stuttered, watching him stick the needle

EMILIA POVI looked at Katarina for a long time, and she looked back at me. I shifted my gaze to Daemon, expecting him to say anything that could assure me that this was all one big joke and maybe even a part of the training that Katarina had wanted to put me through.“What do you mean by the child I’m carrying?” I asked as my hands instinctively wrapped around my stomach in my attempt to find out if she was telling the truth.“You’re pregnant, Emilia. We couldn’t wait until you woke up anymore. You’ve been waning in and out of consciousness for four days now.”“It’s been four days?” I gasped, getting off the bed and looking at them in disbelief.“What is wrong with you two? What happened to you, Katarina? Why would you want me to have a child so that you can use the child to kill your brother? Coercing with a vampire against your blood and your pack is treachery!” I shouted, as if the sister of an Alpha wouldn’t already know what treachery was, along with the punishment for it.lL“I’