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Elena's eyes stung. She hadn't cried in front of her aunt in years—had made a private point of not doing it, ever since she was old enough to understand what it cost Rosalind to raise a grieving nine-year-old alone, ever since she'd decided some version of strength meant never adding her own tears to her aunt's already overfull plate. But sitting in this kitchen, with cinnamon still faint in the air and her aunt's hands warm against her face, something in her gave way."I don't know what I'm supposed to do," Elena whispered."First," Rosalind said, firm now, the fear in her voice folding itself back down under something more practical, more useful, "you're going to get properly examined. Not by anyone pack-side, not yet—somewhere outside territory, somewhere Reyes won't hear about it before you're ready for him to. We need to actually know what we're dealing with before we can plan around it.""And if it is twins?"Rosalind's jaw tightened. "Then we find out exactly what the old law s

Dr. Okafor wiped the gel from Elena's stomach with a soft cloth, helped her sit up, and pulled her chair a little closer, setting the wand aside entirely now, her full attention on Elena's face rather than the screen."I want to ask you something," she said, "and I want you to know there's no wrong answer. Sometimes these conversations are complicated, and I've learned not to assume anything about a patient's situation.""Okay," Elena said again, bracing without knowing exactly what she was bracing for."Does the father know you're pregnant?"The question landed softer than Elena expected, delivered with none of the weight it carried for her, and for a moment she just sat there on the edge of the exam table, the paper crinkling faintly beneath her, trying to find an answer that was both true and safe to say out loud in a room that, for all its careful anonymity, still felt somehow too exposed for the whole truth."No," Elena said finally. "He doesn't know."Dr. Okafor nodded slowly, n

He still hadn't found another way out. That was the part that ate at him most, walking this fence line alone in the gray afternoon light. Three weeks, and he was no closer to understanding what Reyes and the council actually wanted, no closer to finding whatever loophole might let him undo the damage without triggering whatever "forced separation" would have meant if he'd refused to do it himself.He'd asked around, carefully, the way you ask questions when you don't want anyone to know you're asking them. He'd gone through what pack records he had access to, looking for precedent, for anything that might explain why the council had suddenly, four nights before the ceremony, decided his bond with Elena was untenable. He hadn't found anything solid. Only a strange, persistent silence around certain old records, an unwillingness among the older council members to discuss anything from more than thirty years back, a discomfort he couldn't quite name but recognized instinctively as signif