Todos os capítulos de PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR : Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 5

"Congratulations, Miss Crest. You're eight weeks along."I've been saying it to myself the whole drive home. Practicing it like a speech. "Bastien, I'm pregnant." Four words. I even tried different versions. Casual. Nervous. Smiling. I settled on smiling.I'm still smiling when I push through the lobby doors of Rourke Tower. The security guard at the front desk says good morning and I say it back without stopping because I cannot stand still right now. The elevator feels too slow so I take the stairs, one hand skimming the rail, the other pressed flat against my stomach over my coat.Eight weeks. There's something in there that is half me and half him and I don't know what to do with how much that means to me.Third floor landing. I can hear my own heartbeat.Fourth floor. I'm already thinking about his face. Bastien doesn't do surprised. He does controlled. He does measured. But maybe, just maybe, this will be the one thing that cracks that wall open a little. Maybe he'll reach for m

"Your eyes."That is all he says. Two words. But the way he says them makes my stomach drop straight to the floor.I turn around slowly because there is no version of this where running helps me.Bastien is standing two steps above me on the landing, and he is looking at me the way I have never seen him look at anything. Not calculating. Not controlled. Just raw, like something underneath all that careful composure has come loose and he hasn't figured out how to put it back yet."They were silver," he says. "For a second. Your eyes were silver.""Trick of the light," I say.He looks at the stairwell window. There is no direct light in this part of the building. We both know it."Lena.""I have a car coming at ten." I keep my voice even. "I should finish packing."I turn back toward the stairs and I get exactly two steps before his hand closes around my wrist. Not hard. Not a grab. Just a stop, firm and warm, and I hate how familiar it feels because he has touched me exactly four times

"You knew," Bastien says. "This whole time."It is not a question. He is looking at me the way he looks at contracts with hidden clauses, like he is already three steps past the surprise and deep into the calculation of what it costs him.We are in Nadia's office. She has moved to stand beside her desk with her hands clasped in front of her, the body language of someone waiting for a verdict. Bastien is in the doorway and I am between them and the space feels very small for three people carrying this much."I found out eight weeks ago," Nadia says. "When I confirmed the pregnancy."The word lands.I watch it hit him. His face doesn't change the way most people's faces change. There is no gasp, no visible crack. Just a stillness that gets a degree colder, and his eyes move from Nadia to me, slow and deliberate, and stay there.I don't look away. I decided years ago that I would not be the person who looks away first in this building and I am not starting now."How far along," he says.