Kael had barely slept again, though the shape of his sleeplessness had changed overnight.He’d already decided he wouldn’t investigate me behind my back. But the question sitting in him now was different from suspicion. He didn’t want information pulled from servants, physicians, or palace records.He wanted to hear it from me directly.He thought through everything he’d gathered — my fatigue, the medical supervision, the reduced schedule, the careful movements, Silverfang’s protection, the physician’s guarded answers, the way I flinched, however slightly, whenever health entered a conversation.He still had no certainty. He knew, regardless, that he needed to ask.-----“Did you find anything?” his beta asked that morning.“No,” Kael said. He made it clear he had no intention of asking anyone else. “If she’s pregnant, I won’t find out through someone else’s betrayal.”“Do you think the child could be yours?” his beta asked.Kael didn’t answer right away. The possibility already sat t
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