All Chapters of Carrying His Secret Baby; My Stepbrother's Forbidden Claim: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

Wren's POV. My mother's voice saved us both, and I hated her for it even as I thanked every star in the sky that she'd walked in when she did. The moment she disappeared down the hall with her folder, I shoved past Dante and bolted for the stairs, taking them two at a time like the house itself was on fire behind me. I slammed my door and pressed my back against it, chest heaving, and I could still feel the ghost of his thumb tracing my jaw like it had branded me there. Three years of pretending I didn't notice him, and all it took was one cornered moment in the kitchen to burn that pretending straight to the ground. I told myself to breathe. I told myself this was Dante, my stepbrother, the boy who was supposed to inherit an entire pack and marry someone worthy of standing beside an Alpha, not the lowly Omega girl who happened to share his last name by marriage. None of it helped. His voice kept looping in my head, low and rough, asking if I'd thought about it too, and don't lie t

Wren's POV"Sit down, Wren."Dante's voice was the first thing I heard once the door clicked shut behind us, low and controlled, nothing like the man who had begged me to stop him five weeks ago. I made it three steps into my room before the tears started, and by the time he shut that door, I could barely see him through the blur of them.He had pulled me down that hallway like the words waiting in his chest could not stand to wait another second, and now that we were alone, he seemed to have lost all of them at once. I stood by my window with my arms wrapped around myself, waiting, the soft click of the latch behind me final in a way that made my stomach twist.Downstairs, I had caught one last glimpse of Seraphina before Dante pulled me away. She had not looked upset at all. If anything, she looked pleased, waving a graceful hand toward the hallway as if granting us a gift, telling Alistair something about giving the siblings a moment to catch up.I remembered thinking, even through