All Chapters of Pregnant, I Vanished With the Alpha's Hidden Heir: Chapter 1 - Chapter 6

[Sera's POV]I'm not listening to Mira. Not really.She's complaining about Kai forcing Liri to stay in the hospital for more tests when she barely has a scratch on her. "It's ridiculous," Mira says. "She's fine. But he won't hear it. I've been running around like crazy because he wants every possible scan done twice."She pauses. Her voice drops. "The Elders met last night." She doesn't look at me when she says it. "They're backing him. They think he should dissolve the bond. For the pack's future."My chest tightens. I nod at Mira without really listening, and she eventually drifts away.Later, alone in the archive room, I try to focus on inventory logs. I can't.I haven't seen Kai since Liri came back. Three days now.The pack won't stop talking. When will he dissolve the bond with Sera? When will he make Liri Luna? How long until the prophesied heir is born?I force myself not to listen. I think about the baby instead.Maybe I did steal the Luna title. Maybe I stole Kai too, for a

[Sera's POV]The bond tears loose the instant his words land.It rips through my chest like something inside me is being torn out by the roots. I fold over the archive table, my nails scraping across old wood, a scream caught somewhere in my throat that won't come out. My knees hit the floor. Every breath hurts.This is what dying feels like.The bond that tied me to him for three years snap one by one, and each one burns. I press my hand to my chest as if I could hold my own soul together. I can't.Kai's footsteps move away. He left immediately after saying that. He doesn't stay to watch.I don't want him to.-------------------------I don't know how long I stay curled on that floor.The pain dulls into a hollow ache, and my mind drifts to the day everything began. Three years ago. Liri vanished, and the whole pack tore itself apart searching for her. Then rogues came for Kai in the eastern woods, and I threw myself in front of the blade meant for his throat.He named me Luna after

[Sera's POV]Liri is curled into Kai's chest by the hearth, small and trembling.I stand in the doorway and I can't move. The sight before me breaks my heart and kills the small hope that had just begun to grow, but I force myself to hold back my tears.I can't let myself cry in front of them."I'm sorry," she whispers, her voice catching on every word. "I didn't, I didn't mean to fall asleep against you last night. I just, three years, Kai. Two years in a room with no windows. I close my eyes and I'm back there. I only sleep when I can hear someone breathing next to me."Kai's hand moves down her spine, slow and certain. "Shh. No one's putting you anywhere near a dark room again. Not while I breathe.""I don't want to be a burden.""You're not." He says, "You'll move into the house. Tomorrow. I want you where I can watch over you myself."Liri lifts her tear-streaked face and something passes over it, then it dissolves back into gratitude. She turns her head just enough to find me in