All Chapters of PREGNANT AND BANISHED : Chapter 61 - Chapter 64

Lana’s POV.Asher's eyes stayed fixed on the doorway long after Greta had spoken, his jaw working the way it did whenever his mind moved faster than his mouth would allow. I watched him war with himself, some careful calculation running behind that unreadable expression, weighing whether whatever Greta had to show him was worth abandoning the fragile tenderness of the last few minutes.For a moment I thought he wouldn't move at all.Then, slowly, he rose from beside me, the duvet slipping from where he'd tucked it so carefully against my shoulders. He didn't ask what it was. He never did with Greta; the two of them had an understanding built over decades, a shorthand that didn't need questions to know something was serious.I was on my feet before he'd taken two steps.He glanced back at me, something like protest forming behind his eyes, some instinct to shield me from whatever waited beyond that door. But he knew me well enough by now, or thought he did, to understand that telling m

Lana's POVThe moment I turned from Jacob's bed, his brothers crashed into me like a wave breaking against rock. Small arms wrapped around my waist, my legs, anywhere they could reach, all three of them holding on as though I had been gone for years instead of standing three feet away the entire time. I felt their fear in the way their fingers dug into my nightgown, in the way none of them said a word, only held tighter.I gently pried their arms from around me, murmuring that I needed to see to Jacob, that I would come back, that everything would be fine even though I did not believe it myself. My second son let go, reluctant, his eyes wet and enormous in the dark. But my youngest, barely five, would not release me. He clung harder, and when I tried again to loosen his grip, he began to cry, a thin, rising wail that cut straight through the fragile quiet of the room.Asher moved before I could. He crossed to my son and crouched, saying nothing at all, simply resting a hand against th