The gas station bathroom smelled like Pine-Sol and old cigarettes.Nova stood at the sink for a long time after she was done, not moving, not breathing. The test sat on the back of the toilet like a small, world-ending fact. She didn't need to look at it again. She already knew. She'd known before she bought the test, before she walked in here, before she'd knocked on Jax's dorm room door three nights ago.Her wolf had known from the morning she woke up in his bed.Two pink lines.Twins, the second test confirmed — the one the campus pharmacy sold with the early detection add-on. Two heartbeats, faint and rapid and impossibly synchronized, already visible in the small readout window. She'd bought the fancy one because she needed to be completely certain before she did anything that couldn't be undone.She was completely certain.She sat down on the bathroom floor — because her legs stopped working, and the floor was there, and no one was watching — and she let herself have exactly fou
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