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Lara's POVI didn't waste a single second after that call.I threw on the first decent outfit I could find, grabbed my bag, and was out the door before the thought of breakfast even crossed my mind. Whatever was in that hospital report wasn't something I was going to sit at home and stare at the ceiling over. I needed to hear it properly. From Dr. Asher's mouth, in his office, with the actual paperwork in my hands. That was the only way any of it was going to feel real to me.So that was exactly where I went.The hospital corridors were already busy by the time I arrived — the usual morning movement of clan members coming and going, nurses cutting from one wing to the next with their arms full. I kept my head down and walked straight to Dr. Asher's office, knocked once, and let myself in when he called out.I sat down across from his desk. Folded my hands in my lap as I tried to look like a woman who had everything under control. If Dr. Asher believed it, he was being very polite abou

Lara's POVBy the time the nurse was satisfied that I was steady enough to be left alone, I had pulled myself together enough to look like a functioning person. Breathing was even and my hands had stopped shaking. The face in the small mirror above the sink looked tired but held together.That was good enough.I thanked her, waited until she had gone back to whatever round she had been doing before I derailed it, and then sat there for another minute in the quiet of that room.You know, I only felt tense seeing that sight — Lucien crouched beside Raina in that corridor, smiling at her like I was something he had already mentally moved out of — and that was why I needed to leave the space at that moment. My body just reacted before my pride could object. But the tense had passed now, and with it the dizziness, and I was not going to let one moment in a corridor undo the one genuinely good thing that had happened to me today.I had a baby. I had a whole life growing inside me.Raina cou