جميع فصول : الفصل -الفصل 3

Rivenna's POV * * * "Push, my lady!" the midwife screamed. Heat flooded my veins. My body burned. Hours of pushing had leeched the color from my skin, and now my vision blurred at the edges. "The baby is breech, Luna," the midwife said quietly. She didn't meet my eyes. "You're losing too much blood." She whispered as I was bleeding out on a fur-covered bed while my mate is nowhere to be found. "I can't." My voice broke. "Please make it stop." "One more push. Just one." I gripped the sheets until my knuckles went white. Gritted my teeth so hard I tasted copper. Then I pushed with everything I had left—every scrap of hope, every desperate prayer that this child would be the thing that finally made Wren look at me the way he used to. And then— "The baby is out!" Joy. Pure, blinding joy flooded my chest. Then silence. No cry. No coo. No breath. I looked at the midwife's face. No smile. No warmth. Only dread, raw and poorly hidden. "What?" My stomach

Rivenna's POV *** All eyes were on me when I stepped in. Most of them were probably wondering how I would embarrass myself trying to earn Beta Wren's attention. But I would do no such thing in this life. I didn't wander after him like a lost pup. Instead, I drew the room's attention to me as bodies began to swarm in my direction, greeting and bowing. "You look exquisite, Rivenna," one of the deltas said, and I gave him a polite smile — just as the crowd parted and Wren came into view. The love of my life. The man I would have given everything for, would have sacrificed my own wellbeing for him without a second thought. His brown hair and brown eyes, that fitting yet curt smile paired with his arrogant air — I could see it plainly now. He prided himself on being the man my affections had fallen upon. "Hello, little birdie," he said with a smile, taking my hand in his. Before, I would have found it endearing. Now, knowing the truth, it was a quiet insult — a remin